E-commerce
How to Avoid Payment Gateway Fees
Accept cash. Sorry for the clickbait title, but it’s also the only completely accurate answer. If you truly want to avoid payment gateway fees altogether, you have to avoid using...
Turning Abandoned Carts Into Found Revenue
Every time a potential customer visits your online store, adds an item to their basket, and then vanishes without paying, you are essentially watching money walk out the door. I...
WooCommerce FAQs
When I talk with clients about launching an online store, one platform comes up more than almost any other: WooCommerce. It’s powerful, flexible, and widely used, but it also comes...
Ways to accept donations on your WordPress site
Whether you run a nonprofit, a faith-based organization, or a cause-driven community group, accepting donations directly through your WordPress site is one of the best ways to keep donors engaged...
Carding Attacks: What they are and how to prevent them
If you run an e-commerce site, you probably worry about things like SEO or abandoned carts. However, there is a quieter, more technical threat that can ruin your day and...
Connecting your website to your newsletter manager or CRM
If you want to offer newsletter signups on your website, you may be wondering how that can be done. And there are a lot of ways. A LOT. And there...
Email Deliverability Expert Advice: Common Issues and Fixes for your Form Submissions
I get a lot of emails about email. One of the most common issues people have is with email deliverability of their website form submissions. Why are they not coming...
Must-Have WooCommerce Plugins for Streamlining Your Business
Running a successful online store takes more than just a beautiful website and amazing products. It requires efficiency, automation, and a seamless customer experience. Thankfully, the world of WooCommerce plugins...
Best WooCommerce SEO Deep Dive: Optimizing Your Store
Having an online store is great, but it won't matter if nobody finds it. You need to get people to visit your site and look at your products if you...
WooCommerce Myths Debunked: What You Need to Know in 2024
If you've ever researched having en e-commerce store, you've probably heard about WooCommerce. WooCommerce is an open-source ecommerce plugin for WordPress. It allows you to easily turn your WordPress website...
How to Accept Online Payments with Gravity Forms
There are tons of ways to accept payments on your website, and the one I use most often is with Gravity Forms. So I thought today I'd do a step-by-step...
How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 5: Adding Products
At this point, your shopping cart should be mostly ready to go. You've been through setting up WooCommerce, configuring taxes, setting up shipping, and configuring how you want to get...
How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 4: Payments
Now that you have your WooCommerce installed, taxes and shipping configured, it's time to get paid. And that means, unless you are sending items as COD, you need to choose...
How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 3: Shipping
If you have an e-commerce store, then there's a really good chance that you are going to have to deal with shipping in one form or another. And this is,...
How to Set Up WooCommerce – Part 2: Taxes
How to Set up WooCommerce SeriesHave you missed a previous post in this series? Go ahead and see the whole series.Setting up Woo If anyone has told you that selling...
How to Set Up WooCommerce on WordPress – Part 1
Thinking of starting an e-commerce store on WordPress? There's a lot to it, so I want to do a series on it to provide some details on all the different...
How to Sell Books Online
We do a lot of author website design, and one question I get asked on the regular is how do authors sell their books on their website? There's a lot...
Accepting Credit Cards online is not as hard as you may think
When someone comes to me with a website that needs e-commerce, one of the first few questions I ask them is, "How would you like to accept payments?" One of...
Tips for maximizing your WooCommerce site
Having an e-commerce site is hard. You have to compete with a lot of other sites selling similar products. You have to compete for price, for the best shipping deals,...
