Exploring the Ups and Downs of Custom Solutions for WooCommerce

Custom solutions and custom development for WooCommerce comes with both blessings and curses. Before we dive into the difference, let’s define what a custom WooCommerce solution is: Anywhere on a website where custom code has been written in place of downloading or purchasing software to achieve a desired function is technically a custom solution. Custom…

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How to Scale Your Online Store with WooCommerce

One of the reasons eCommerce businesses turn to WooCommerce is because it is widely recognized as “scalable,” meaning functions can expand alongside the business. Of course, as Chris Lema pointed out earlier this year, “scaling” is relative to what a business uses to measure success. And within a business different people will have different opinions…

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Creating a Shipping Method for WooCommerce

If you run an eCommerce business, you know that fast, secure shipping is an essential part of each sale and can make or break a loyal customer.  eCommerce customers expect orders to process quickly and accurately, can be traced, and are easy to return via mail if necessary. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has sent more…

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Using the WooCommerce Conversion Tracking Plugin to Drive Sales

Using WooCommerce conversion tracking plugin

As an eCommerce seller, you rely on tracking your customers’ shopping habits to know the best-sellers, how well coupons are performing, what items resonate among customers in certain demographics and so on.    Most of all, you’re interested in what drives your repeat customers to keep coming back and replicating that success across the board.…

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Exploring eCommerce Options: WooCommerce vs. Shopify

In today’s world of e-commerce, setting up an online store is no longer a daunting task. Thanks to the availability of e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce and Shopify, businesses of all sizes can easily create and manage their online stores with ease. While both WooCommerce and Shopify have become household names in the e-commerce industry, they…

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How to Set Up a New WooCommerce Store

This post was originally posted at WooCommerce.com as a 5-part boot camp series for store owners considering using WooCommerce. If you are starting from scratch, head to WooCommerce.com/start to get a basic site in place. If you already have a self-hosted WordPress site or a WordPress.com site with a Business plan, head to the Plugins section of your…

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Using WooCommerce for Wholesale eCommerce Sites

E-commerce has been incredibly successful for retail or business to consumer (B2C) sales. Online holiday shopping continued to grow last year, hitting an all-time high of $108 billion according to CNBC, nearly 15% higher than 2016 statistics. Outside the holidays, more people than ever continue to shop online for everything from clothing to groceries. Forty-three…

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Re-Platforming to WooCommerce

Here at Mode Effect, we get a lot of inquiries from eCommerce site owners who have outgrown the one-size-fits-all platform they entered early in their online commerce ventures.   These folks have often outgrown their first platform and want their websites to help them compete more effectively in the virtual marketplace. They want to offer…

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Ecommerce Analytics 101

Like any business, e-commerce stores will be most successful when proprietors take time to analyze what’s working and what isn’t working to boost sales and maintain a satisfied customer base.   Obviously, ecommerce site owners don’t have insights they can use in brick and mortar stores, such as greeting customers and making eye contact, reading…

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