How to discount shipping costs over a certain spend
Offering free shipping is the best way to encourage shoppers to spend more money in your store, but some products just don’t have enough profit margin to make that possible. Nevertheless, you might still want to offer a shipping cost discount to high-spending customers. There are, of course, table rate…
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5 creative ways to capture email addresses
Email marketing still remains one of the most effective ways to generate sales on an eCommerce website. In this post, we look at some creative ways to capture email addresses from potential customers in order to grow your mailing list. While reading these suggestions, please keep in mind that you…
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Set minimum order quantity on a per-product basis in WooCommerce
We ran into a problem recently with a new product that could only be sold in boxes of 8 units, but were tracked in the supplier’s inventory as single units. We couldn’t create a new SKU, because our stock levels would quickly go out of sync. The best solution was…
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Disallow shipping to Parcel Lockers & P.O. Boxes in WooCommerce
P.O. Boxes and Parcel Lockers are typically operated by a country’s national mail service, making them inaccessible to stores that use private couriers to deliver goods. Fortunately, WooCommerce makes is easy to reject P.O. Box or Parcel Locker numbers entered into the checkout. To block Parcel Locker and P.O. boxes…
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Add a “Sold Out” badge to out of stock products
Customers will become frustrated or disappointed if they click on a product in your catalog, only to find it’s unavailable. A small “sold out” badge provides a quick visual indicator to your customers to let them know that the product is out of stock, before they waste time clicking on…
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Find WooCommerce products without a shipping class
Shipping classes are used to group similar products together to provide different flat-rate shipping costs to each group. In a recent project, we grouped about a thousand products into three shipping classes; 500g satchel, 1kg satchel, or bulky parcel. The size of the inventory practically guaranteed that a few products…
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WooCommerce Plugin: SKU Price Update tool
SKU Price Update is a little WooCommerce plugin requested by a client to make price updates faster and easier. It’s very straightforward; just enter the product (or variation) SKU, and the desired price, then click Change Price. When installed, the SKU Price Update tool is added to the WordPress Dashboard…
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List Category-Specific Product Tags in WooCommerce
It’s very easy to produce a list of WooCommerce product tags, but limiting that list to just the tags in a specific product category is quite a bit more challenging. In order to achieve this, we need to do three things: 1. Loop through all of the products in the…
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