Learn about WooCommerce from the team at CommerceGurus, creators of the Shoptimizer WooCommerce theme. We have tutorials, hints, and tips on building your eCommerce store with the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress.
With the right WooCommerce badge management plugin, you can enhance the visual appearance of your online store and attract customer attention to specific products. This is particularly useful if some products are on sale if you want to offer discounts (e.g., 30% off) on certain products, or if you want to mark your bestsellers.
In this WooCommerce web hosting review, we’ll test out the Fully Managed WooCommerce Hosting delivered by Nexcess, Liquid Web’s Digital Commerce Cloud Platform. We’ll be testing their Starter plan on a WooCommerce-powered store to evaluate overall website performance.
In this WooCommerce hosting review, we’ll test out Kinsta’s Starter plan on a WooCommerce store to gauge website performance.
Kinsta is a Cloud hosting platform that offers premium managed WordPress hosting provider that offers web hosting services to small and medium-size businesses to enterprises businesses and agencies. It offers SSD storage, free SSL certificates, and free CDN. Users also have the option to pre-install WordPress and WooCommerce.
A warehouse management system (WMS) is made up of software and processes that enable businesses to manage and control warehouse operations from the moment materials or products arrive at a warehouse to the time they are shipped out to the customer.
WooCommerce can be integrated with a WMS which eliminates manual and repetitive tasks by automating warehouse processes. This helps businesses increase productivity and deliver a seamless logistics experience to their customers.
Shopping cart abandonment happens when a prospective customer adds products to their online shopping cart, but changes their mind and leaves the website without placing an order.
The main reason why users abandon carts is that they are unsure or aren’t ready to make a purchase. They may be using their shopping cart to create a wishlist for possible later purchases or for comparing product prices.
According to a Baymard Institute report on cart abandonment, 68.9% is the average documented shopping cart abandonment rate. That means you’re missing out on over two-thirds of your potential sales revenue!
If you’re selling products with varying features and attributes, displaying product filters is essential. They help customers drill down to find what they’re looking for quicker, which is particularly important on catalogs with a lot of items.
Not being able to filter results restricts the ability of users to browse your store the way they need and will affect conversions.
I’m going to explain how to include product filters to WooCommerce. This will first cover WooCommerce’s default filter widgets but I’ll also show you how to add more sophisticated filter controls, including color swatches, and filters which dynamically update the results set without a page refresh.
Plus, I’ll describe how to include horizontal filters on your catalog which negate the need for a separate sidebar. This can be ideal for certain kinds of stores which prefer having products front and center. As we’ve seen from Baymard’s research on the topic, a horizontal filter can outperform the traditional sidebar layout. This is a relatively new UX pattern but it’s a great choice if you only need to display a small number of filters.
Let’s get started!
