The online demand for products is increasing, surpassing an earlier peak of eCommerce businesses worldwide. The impact of the corona crisis has changed consumer behavior and has also created challenges to online selling which no one has imagined before.
If your products frequently go out of stock then you should also maintain a waitlist for customers to keep them connected with your online shopping website.
WordPress Ecommerce provides you everything you need to start selling online. By installing and activating a plugin called Waitlist Woocommerce ( Back in stock notifier ) you can easily track demand for out-of-stock items, ensuring your customers feel informed, and therefore more likely to buy from your website. Once the plugin is activated you can select options from its settings page on your website’s admin panel.
The plugin enables your customers to add their email and product demand using a simple popup form visible on out of stock product pages so that they can be notified when the items they were looking for are back in stock. It sends an email to specific customers as soon as the product arrives back in your stock.
The overall value of a subscriber is much more than a general shopper. Selling subscriptions helps you to build a reliable source of income with recurring value. Subscription is not just limited to digital services but now you can use it on your eCommerce website for physical products also.
The consumer needs essential items on a regular basis so by offering a discounted or un-discounted product subscription you will help your customer to get his products delivered on first priority, without making him select and checkout the same products every month. This will help you to engage your customers and you will make money every month.
Screenshot showing the Quick Start Wizard of Ecommerce
You can offer subscriptions on individual products as well as bundled products. Simply navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Extensions page to enable and set up a subscription option on your WordPress Ecommerce website.
You may also offer a discount to your prospects as an inducement for subscribing. To automatically charge subscription amount from your customers every month, you will need an online payment method, this can be enabled from WooCommerce -> Settings -> Payments (Tab). You can also use the free payment gateway such as PayPal or other payment options such as Pay On Delivery or Direct Bank Transfer if in case you don’t want to use other payment gateway services.
The businesses that rely on salesmen and network marketing may enable their salespersons to manually place orders for their clients directly on your WordPress Ecommerce website and then ask clients to complete the payment.
For enabling your salesmen to manually add orders, first, add them to your website from the admin panel Users -> Add New page and then they would be able to place orders by following these steps.
Login to the admin panel and navigate to WooCommerce -> Orders
Click Add New, and the Single Order page will appear
Input customer details, add line items, apply coupons, fees, then calculate totals
Set a status for the new order. For Example – If the order needs to be paid, use “Pending payment” status
Click the ‘Save’ button
Next, use order actions dropdown to email order details to the customer with payment instructions. Orders having a “Pending payment” status can be paid through the payment link, direct bank transfer, or whatever payment method you are using.
If the customer is new and unregistered on your website, he can proceed as a guest, as anyone with the link will be able to view the payment page and pay for his order. Whereas if the customer is already registered, then he can view the order by logging into your website.
In case your salesman has already received the payment and delivered it to you then you may change the order status to processing and start with your shipping process.
Let your customers choose between home delivery or store pickup or a curbside pickup. As some of your customers may be unable to leave their house at all or would prefer to have their parcel home delivered. Others might be already out for some essential work and want to pick up their order themselves.
But at the same time, it is important to remember and follow all rules of social-distancing. WordPress Ecommerce allows you to provide a no-contact pickup and make scheduling easy by allowing your customers to select a pick-up date and time that is convenient for them. This will help you to meet all reasonable product delivery requirements of most online shoppers.
To keep yourself, your family, and your customers safe you may create a sign on your shop or home front (wherever you are providing store pickup) directing your customers to the specific spot where their bags are kept with their name on it. So that they can simply collect their baggage and leave.
For customers selecting home delivery, you can offer a leave at door option to provide a contactless home-delivery of products with necessary social distancing.
Anybody from anywhere can start selling anything online simply by registering his domain name and subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce, it works for grocery shops, departmental stores, restaurants, electrical & electronics, boutiques, service providers, and any other business that is not yet selling online.
You can use it as a people’s personal outlet and help other businesses to come online. Thus, generating a new source of income for yourself.
You can create a package of essential products and sell them as a bundle in your WordPress Ecommerce website. This way you can sell both individual product items separately or combine similar products offering deals with an unmissable mix of items to your customers online on your website.
There are various free plugins which you can install in your WordPress based WooCommerce website or WordPress Ecommerce system to create a bundle and assign as many simple products you want.
On your WordPress Ecommerce website, you can accept online payments without subscribing to any third party payment gateway service. In addition to Pay on Delivery, and PayPal, Direct Bank Transfer, or Bank Account Clearing System (BACS), is another free payment option that allows you to accept payments of your orders directly in your bank account.
You can easily enable it by logging-in to your WordPress Ecommerce admin panel, navigating to WooCommerce -> Settings page, and turning-on BACS option listed in the ‘Payments’ section.
Once the option is enabled, you can set it up from the same page by clicking the ‘Set Up’ button and entering your Direct Bank Transfer details with instructions (optional) for your customers.
When your customers will attempt to buy products on your website, they will be asked to send the payment directly from their bank account to your bank account. They can do this either by using their internet banking account or the smartphone app of their bank.
The gateway requires no payment to be made online from your website which makes it more secure. Your bank account details show up during the checkout process, on order received page as well as an email is also sent to your customer.
The orders placed using Direct Bank Transfer are automatically set on hold until your customer clears the payment, you acknowledge it and process their orders from the admin panel of your WordPress Ecommerce website.
So all you have to do is, whenever a new order comes in, simply verify that you are paid before shipping that particular order and marking it as under process or complete.
WordPress Ecommerce lets you start a fully functional eCommerce website yourself in minutes, to sell your products online. To enable store pickup you simply need to login to the admin panel of your website and follow the given steps.
Navigate to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Shipping
Select a Shipping Zone, and click the + icon to add a shipping method
Select Local Pickup, and click Add Shipping Method
Here, you can click Local Pickup again to change the way it displays during checkout
Select tax options, choose a price, and save your changes.
That’s it. Your customers can now place their orders online and pick it up from your home or store when the package is ready.
WordPress Ecommerce is your one-stop solution for all types of online selling through your website. To start, you simply need to register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce, and then start adding products by following the given steps.
How To Add A New Product In Your Ecommerce Website?
Simply log in to admin panel of your website by typing yourdomain.com/wp-admin in a web browser and then –
Navigate to Products -> Add New page
Enter your product Title and Description.
Go to the Product Data panel, and select the product type such as a physical good or a downloadable product (for a downloadable product you will be prompted to upload the file you want to sell).
You should know that your online store allows you to sell multiple types of products. Most shop owners just need to sell their physical goods, that is easy, you can simply select product data as ‘Simple Product’ without checking the ‘Virtual’ or ‘Downloadable’ product option, as shown in the given screenshot.
The above-given image shows you the product data section which you can easily find on your new product page, just below the product title and description box.
On the right side, there is a Featured Image box that lets you upload your product image.
That’s All. You Are Ready To Go
Now as you have entered product title, description, and pricing so simply click the ‘Publish’ button and your product will go live on your website. In case you like to know about more options then continue reading the post.
Sales Option (Optional)
The section allows you to enter product price and sale price as well, the sale price is the one which offers your customers the discounted price of your product. For instance – When you put a regular price plus a sales price lower than your regular price, the customer will know the discount you are offering on the product. The discounted price can be scheduled for specific dates and times.
Tax Details (Optional)
For those who are not using the simple flat-rate on products – The section also allows you to enter tax details, so you can make use of it if you are charging tax separately or simply ignore it if you are using flat rates i.e. MRP on your products.
WordPress Ecommerce is not just limited to physical goods but you can sell anything such as services, downloadable products such as files, images, and digital books, etc. Everything is in there, simply start exploring to learn about new things and when you face any problem, use the following comment form.
You can easily bring your business online and start selling your products from your smartphone. The things you will need is a domain name plus a subscription to WordPress Ecommerce and the products to sell.
The automated process of WordPress Ecommerce will take you to the admin panel of your dashboard from where you can manage your online store – From payments and shipping to product displays and categories, you can very easily customize every aspect of your online store.
WordPress Ecommerce is a bundled solution for businesses that want to sell their products online – wholesale or retail everything can be managed with the power of WordPress, WooCommerce, plus a variety of premium extensions and industry-specific themes to give a great look to your website. The security, uptime, and backups of your website can be automatically managed from your SANGKRIT.net account page so that you can just focus on selling your products online.
How To Build Your Online Store?
Simply register your domain name i.e. yourbusinessname.com or anything you prefer and the subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce. Complete the payment, then navigate to My Products page on SANGKRIT.net and follow the given steps:
Click WordPress Ecommerce from the Products list
Click Manage Button and follow the on-screen process
The on-screen process will add your domain name to your eCommerce website, help you enter your business name, payment details, select store type, set a good theme for your website and you will be taken to your admin panel dashboard from where you can start adding your products. Here also the page will assist you virtually on the go in helping you to know about the admin functions of your website.
How To Go Mobile?
The complete functionality of WordPress Ecommerce is mobile-friendly, so simply open your website on your mobile, login as admin, and start managing your online store website. Moreover, you may install the application on your Android or iPhone for managing orders, tracking sales, and monitoring store activity with real-time statistics.
Utilise Your Skills To Help Other Businesses
Now you know how to start up and manage your online store, so utilize your skills as a people’s personal outet and help other businesses come online.
WordPress Ecommerce is a complete online solution packed with WooCommerce and every important extension you need to start selling your products online. It allows you to refund orders in two ways: Automatic Refund & Manual Refund.
On an automatic refund, the amount is automatically reversed to your customer’s payment option. It works for online payment methods whereas, on a manual refund, you have to manually return the money to your customer. Both of these refund options automatically updates the order status, the only difference is that the first one automatically does the reversal whereas the second one asks you to transfer the money to your customer.
How To Refund An Order On Your Ecommerce Store?
The steps are the same both for automatic and manual refund options, the working of refund options depends on what payment gateways you are using on your website.
To refund an order, simply login to your WordPress Ecommerce website and follow the given steps:
Navigate to WooCommerce -> Orders page and select the order to refund.
Open order summary, and select the ‘Refund’ option.
Specify the quantity of the products to be refunded in the given text boxes, use each line for an item.
The refund amount will be automatically adjusted on the basis of the products refunded. If in case inventory levels are not managed, you can also enter the Refund amount, without adjusting the product quantity.
If the quantities of items are not set when issuing a refund then the order is not marked as refunded and the email that is sent will say “partial refund.”
You may optionally add refund notes.
Finally, select “Refund $XX.XX manually” (For Manual Refund) OR “Refund $XX.XX via [your gateway]” (For Automatic Refund).
If you are using a digital payment option that supports automatic refunding option then the automatic refund will work on your website. Else, you may use the manual refund option.
Instead of first receiving and then refunding the amount on orders which you cannot fulfill, you can follow a policy of first approving or disapproving the orders and then allowing your customers to complete the payment process on your WordPress Ecommerce website.
The feature is very useful for small business owners such as local grocery and departmental stores, especially during this time of pandemic when they quickly run out of stock and new stock takes more than usual time to come.
How To Approve or Reject Orders?
Simply install and activate the new WooCommerce plugin, Order Approval for WooCommerce on your WordPress site. Once the plugin is activated, move to your admin area dashboard WooCommerce -> Settings -> Payments Tab and turn on WooCommerce Order Approval.
This will enable you to manually approve orders made by customers on your eCommerce website.
How WooCommerce Order Approval Works?
The customer places an order on your website
The order is taken as a request and no payment is processed.
Shop owner manually approves or rejects the order and the customer is automatically notified via email
On approved orders payment link is sent to the customer whereas, on rejected orders, a cancellation mail is sent
Hence, your customer would be able to preorder things on your website and when their orders are approved, they will receive a payment link to complete their purchase. Currently, the plugin works with all default payment gateways of WooCommerce, there are no complex settings.
You can set a minimum and maximum order amount in your WordPress Ecommerce website to make each order achieve a set amount before it gets placed on your WooCommerce based WordPress website.
“If you don’t have a mobile-friendly eCommerce website, you can make it now, with WordPress Ecommerce. You may also help others in doing the same by starting up as People’s Personal Outlet to build another income stream for yourself”
The new WordPress plugin Set Minimum Order Amount for WooCommerce enables you to quickly set a minimum order amount. Simply install and activate the plugin then navigate to the WooCommerce Settings page and set your minimum order amount.
If in case you need to set both minimum and maximum order amounts then you may use another plugin called Order Minimum/Maximum Amount for WooCommerce (instead of the above-mentioned plugin) to set required minimum and maximum sum with quantity for orders in your website. This plugin provides you more options such as:
You can set the minimum & maximum sum for orders
You can set the minimum & maximum quantity for orders
You can set different order amounts on a per-user role basis
You can exclude shipping and discounts while calculating the total sum of the order
You can display customizable user messages on cart and checkout pages
You can optionally disable customer from reaching the checkout page if in-case requirements are not met
Just as the first plugin, Order Minimum/Maximum Amount for WooCommerce settings can also be managed from the WooCommerce Settings page on your admin area dashboard. This way you can easily define the minimum and maximum order quantities for general and sales orders on your website.
Store pickup and home delivery are essential options for eCommerce websites selling products at this time of the pandemic. You can make use of the home-delivery option if you have someone for delivering your products, or courier services are working in your area. Else you can enable your customers to place their order and then pick it up from your store without crowding the place.
WooODT Lite is a free WooCommerce plugin that can be installed on your WordPress eCommerce website. It allows your customers to select their order type as home delivery or self-pickup on a desired date and time. Optionally, they may also select a pickup location.
The plugin provides you a wide range of options such as you can limit each slot with a maximum number of deliveries or pickups, turn store as delivery only or pickup only or offer both services at the same time. These options can be managed from your admin area dashboard, simply install and activate the plugin then navigate to its settings page from the left side menu in the admin panel of your WordPress eCommerce website.
An online store is easier and cheaper to run than other ways of selling and it also provides you with built-in inventory management features.
So if your inventory management needs are not overly complex then instead of using a separate ERP, it is better to make use of e-commerce to reduce dependencies and make things easier for yourself.
As now an e-commerce store can effectively keep all records and statistics of selling goods and services. It can manage its own inventory and it is much cheaper and easier than ERP applications out there.
Netizens who sell on third-party e-commerce marketplaces undoubtedly notice many limitations on their selling platform. For instance:
Your profit is shared
You follow their conditions than making your own
You are forced to upload images and content meeting their specific guidelines.
People who buy from these third-party marketplaces think they are buying products from that specific service, your name becomes too small to be noticed
You never build up your name as nobody cares whom they are buying from as long as they find the product they are looking for
They get all credit for your sales and product qualities
And when you have your own store website –
You get the freedom to sell what you want and how you want
You can also make additional money from advertising programs such as Google Adsense
You get complete data and statistics of your sales to grow your business online and do better each time
You get connected to your customers directly, you have their contact information and emails with their permission
You know what your customers like and what their shopping patterns are
You can create promotions, send alerts, start and stop sales when you want
You get all power to run your online store the way you want
You can also open registration for other sellers to take part
So selling your products and services on your own e-commerce store is far better than using third-party marketplaces because on your webstore you will not meet any limitations and get more flexibility over your products.
You can start your online store without affecting your sales on other e-commerce marketplaces
You can also add affiliate products which you are selling on other marketplaces to promote only your domain as the center of all your online sales.
WooCommerce is a free WordPress plugin that empowers everyone to start an e-commerce store on own without hiring any developer. You can yourself start your new e-commerce website or transform your existing WordPress website into an online store in minutes.
The basic building blocks for a WooCommerce store are:
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