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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.
Asynchronous communication, also known as async communication is a communication that doesn’t require people to be present on any side at the time of carrying out discussions which can be customer support, inquiry, or any other type of online conversation.
An email is an old example of async communication whereas video calls and phone calls are not asynchronous, they are called synchronous as they require both parties to be present on phone at the same time.
Async communication is better as it can work across numerous timezones and it promotes writing which is open for anyone searching for it to read, plus it empowers people to continue any discussion by adding anything useful or posting a new question.
Async Communication For Consumer Support
When you register your domain name, subscribe to Managed WordPress to start blogging your business, the readers i.e. your prospects may start a conversation simply by commenting on your blog post. You can resolve their queries by replying to them, and others may also add their value to it. Such conversations always remain visible online after your blog posts (until you delete them) and are helpful for others facing similar issues or having the same queries.
An screenshot showing WPDiscuz comment form
It helps you to establish a system and rely less on people as you don’t need a 24hour working helping or subscribe to a customer support service. There are many startups that don’t provide phone-based customer support. Instead, they use a mechanism of async communication and they are successful.
Async Communication Remains AvailableFor Others To Read
The comments on your blog posts remain available for others to read. Suppose you have shared a blog post on a new project, product or service, and carried out all your important discussions on your post itself. The good thing is, it will always remain available on your website and when someone new joins your team, he can easily know all your thoughts and decisions regarding that project simply by reading your post and the discussion after it.
An screenshot showing an example of WPDiscuz on-site conversations
And the best thing is it can be edited from the admin panel of your WordPress site, you can update post, your thoughts on comments and everything else as per your present time requirement.
Blogging Is Best Form Of Async Communication
Other systems such as email, document sharing, and social media posts can also be called asynchronous but their biggest limitation is that they are not open to the public, anyone searching for similar issues on Google will not be able to see the conversations which you are running on some other website. As a blogger, your main objective is to bring people on your website so that they can view your services and products. So that you can make offers. So that you can earn money by using some cost per click program such as Google Adsense.
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.
Managed WordPress is best for making and selling websites. It empowers people (including the non-technical ones, who don’t know anything about making a website) to make most types of websites such as informative business websites, blogs, and online stores for selling products or services. So anybody can make use of it to start up from home and help other businesses come online.
Managed WordPress is seamlessly connected to the latest version of WordPress, and all essential services you need such as hosting, security, and backups.
WordPress Basic, Deluxe or Ultimate, depending upon your ambition and budget
WordPress Ecommerce, if you want an easy way of selling your products or services online
WordPress Developer or WordPress Pro, if you want to make and sell multiple WordPress sites from one interface
Once you are subscribed to Managed WordPress, simply visit your Account section, and click ‘Manage’ next to WordPress on your products page. This will take you to a step-by-step tour to finally showing you your WordPress admin panel from where you can add products or content to your website.
This is called your WordPress admin area dashboard. Here, you can add posts, pages, or products (if you are using WordPress Ecommerce) to your website, install an industry-specific theme, and control every aspect of your website.
With Managed WordPress you can build websites for yourself, your clients, no code required, simply by using the admin panel of WordPress and the online support, accessible from your SANGKRIT.net account.
Post-crisis time is the beginning of a new era. Just as the end of world-war-2 had given birth to new norms and ideals, the coronavirus crisis is also putting an end to old ways of doing things. So in order to thrive survive in your business you must study the new demand of consumers, and new ways of doing business. The new consumer is online, the individuals find it safer to work from home so you must establish a new way of doing business and that is bringing your business online and operating it on the remote.
The new way is actually an old way of the internet age, invented years ago, the difference is that most businesses (online or offline) were still using the norms of the industrial age until the coronavirus crisis put an end to their way of doing business. Whereas the norms of internet age which were invented years ago, are already in use by many businesses of the internet and they are not only successful but are unaffected from this time of global crisis. For example – Automattic, the team behind WordPress is completely online, they all work from home and they are operating their business like this since it’s inception.
If you think you cannot work hundred percent remotely because of the nature of your business or whatever then you are still living in the industrial age, and you have very little time left to transition to a distributed online business environment in the wake of the evolving coronavirus crisis.
Many, if not most businesses are not able to work hundred percent online, remotely and this is because they are still living in the industrial age and waiting for the things to get back to normal, things will certainly get back to normal but the new normal will be different. The world is changed, the consumer is changed and who knows tomorrow might be another kind of emergency so it would be better for you to change your way of doing business and bring it online.
You might need to pivot in business and think about other opportunities, the additional services, and products which you can offer to your existing customers to overcome the loss in your business and build another safer stream of income that can work today and tomorrow without making you poor in any time of crisis. For this you should startup as people’s personal outlet and help other businesses to come online by offering them internet essentials such as domain name, making their business website or online store, or simply home-employing them as your outlet and share profit from each order they bring.
Start by following Sangkrit’s four fundamentals of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business as this sufficiently prepares you for staying at home and stay unaffected from this crisis or any such thing in future. Its consistent course won’t let you become poor or dependent during any future emergency as well.
Start selling online, it is the only way left to keep yourself, your family, and your customers safe. It is the only way left to overcome the losses you are facing in your business. If you are in the selling business, it is important for you to bring your business online, accept orders from your website, and deliver them in a safe and healthy way to your customers.
eCommerce shipments have increased by the time and now more people are shopping online to keep themselves and their families safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. WordPress Ecommerce provides you an easy way to start your online store, add products, and get them delivered safely into buyers’ hands. So start selling online, it only takes a few minutes to start up your online store website. Simply register your domain name, subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce, and you are ready to sell your products online.
Not all small businesses and local stores are capable of delivering products at doorstep, subscribing to a logistic service for nearby customers is also not a good choice and not all your customers will want the products to be shipped at their door. So enabling store pickup on your eCommerce website can be a great option for your business.
This way, you would be able to accept orders online, pack the baggage for each customer, and let your customers pick it up from your home or store without crowding your place. This is a great solution for nearly every kind of business that sells physical goods such as grocery stores, departmental stores, restaurants, electronics, and every shop that serves nearby and local people.
If you want to make things simpler then you may also leave the option of subscribing to a third party payment gateway service and simply enable bank transfer or UPI payment or pay on delivery or a wallet service such as Google Pay on your eCommerce website to start taking orders. WordPress Ecommerce facilitates you every option configurable from the admin panel of your website. So simply register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce, and start selling online.
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.
The cost of registering a domain name is less than USD10 per year, the cost of hosting an eCommerce store online is less than USD2 per month, the cost of designing an online store website is zero and the time you need to make the website live on the domain name is less than 15 minutes. Hence, the monthly running cost of a fully functional website is not more than three US dollars.
Start selling your products online because this is the thing you can do to survive your business and save yourself, your family, and your customers from the coronavirus.
How To Start Selling Online?
If you want to go for the cheapest option then simply register your domain name, subscribe cPanel Starter hosting, and click WordPress icon on cPanel to install it on your domain name. Once WordPress is installed, simply install and activate the WooCommerce plugin. That’s it, your online store is ready.
And if you want to go for a bundled product and skip all the above-mentioned installation steps then register your domain name and simply subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce, add your products and start selling.
Make good use of lockdowns to build a successful home-employment for yourself and your family. Simply start by following Sangkrit’s four-fundamentals of cleaning your private space, cooking your vegetarian meals, programming your world, and blogging your business to finally startup as people’s personal outlet and help other businesses to come online.
Register Your Domain Name
Everything on the internet starts with a domain name, the domain name is the newest kind of private property that can be owned, transferred and it worth your investment. Your domain name is online address to your business website.
So register your fullname.country or whatever you find appropriate to startup online and then subscribe Managed WordPress.
Subscribe To Managed WordPress
WordPress is more than a blogging platform, you can use it for blogging your business, to start selling online, or to use it for helping other businesses to come online by making their website. Whereas Managed WordPress is a complete online solution for your website. Just as your domain name is your online address, the Managed WordPress is a package of your WordPress site with a hosting option and useful tools you need to keep your website running online without needing anything else.
By starting up as people’s personal outlet, your work is to bring every business online. Help other businesses to set up their business website with WordPress Basic to start blogging their business. Help shop owners to start selling their products online with WordPress Ecommerce.
Instead of simply suggesting people the advantages of doing business online. You can help them as a problem solver, understand what problems they are facing, and then provide them with a solution.
You can do this by blogging on your domain and then sharing those posts with the business near you.
Instead of giving people a big budget of making a website, simply offer them a cheaper plan of per month costing.
For example – You can tell them they can start selling online in less than 15USD per month. Where about 6USD will go in the subscription of WordPress Basic, and 9USD will be your monthly fees to help them in the management of their website. This way if you make a thousand businesses your customers, your monthly income will be nine thousand US dollars per month which is a good starting point.
When you register your domain name, subscribe to Managed WordPress to start posting content related to your business resolving simple issues that your potential customers face, the Google indexes your website and your posts start to rank on search results pages.
Just keep sharing small posts that are helpful for your prospects, stay consistent, and post your sentences as an authority to beat your competition and become an authority in your field.
When you do this, you not only get organic traffic from Google but the people who visited your website earlier keep coming back for new valuable content on your website and this takes your business to the next level when they seriously consider you as their next service provider.
Blogging is the cheapest and best marketing tool, you can use blogging to post about the latest offer and deals and grab leads from a call to action button after or inside your post content. A call to action can be a simple contact form, allowing your customers to message you their requirements or a link to your online store within your website so that you can sell your products and services right from your website.
You can do all this from within your WordPress website. WordPress is not just a blogging platform. Subscribing to WordPress Ecommerce enables you to run your online store alongside your business blog.
Blogging your business is the lowest cost marketing method that helps you to drive more leads and get more paying clients online from your website.
Get your business online because the new consumer is online. Consumer behavior has changed everywhere, and businesses failed to realize this will eventually lose their business. From the past decade, the slight shifting of consumer behavior has finally shifted online. Google has become the ultimate research tool and the data shows that before a customer calls a business, they first do online research and calculate all pros and cons of their choice.
The new coronavirus has changed the searching pattern of the people. People are using Google to find businesses near them, they are searching for products and services online. So the time has come when you must take your business online.
When a local business is searched on Google, a list of many small businesses is displayed where most of the business listings are fetched from some local business directory, and that builds a very tough competition. But you can easily beat that competition by blogging your business. When you blog your business, you are more likely to take over the search results page and make your business stand out from the crowd of searches.
The shopping malls and supermarkets which destroyed many small businesses and local stores in the past are nowhere today. So you must make good use of this time and venture online not only to save your business but make use of a cost-effective business model that brings in more possibilities to grow online in less budget and less time.
WordPress Ecommerce is your complete solution to start selling online and blog your business to establish a strong online presence, once you are subscribed to WordPress Ecomerce you can simply add your products to start selling online with pay on the delivery payment method and use store pickup or home delivery options as per your ease.
So stop resisting the idea of doing business online, it is the only way left for you to save your business. Accept the change, register your domain name, subscribe WordPress Ecommerce and it will bring you more paying customers. It is the best way to move forward in this time of crisis and do a profitable business online.
Startup As People’s Personal Outlet
If you are reading this, then you are learned enough to understand what is this all about. So it becomes your responsibility to help other businesses and grocery stores in bringing their businesses online.
Introduce businesses with WordPress Ecommerce, help them to register their domain name, charge something for making their website, you can easily do that with WordPress, to build your home-employment as people’s personal outlet.
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.
Selling online is the only way left to adapt and stay connected with your customers. Blogging when combined with selling online from your eCommerce store works as a free internet marketing platform, that helps you to get visible on search and get more paying customers.
WordPress Ecommerce gives you complete freedom to sell anything online from anywhere. You can sell anything from physical products to downloads, services, and subscriptions. You simply need to register your domain name and subscribe to WordPress Ecommerce.
The simplified setup process reduces the steps needed to get your online store up and running. Once the product is subscribed, it auto-installs WordPress, WooCommerce, and other important extensions so that you can simply focus on creating and managing your products from your admin panel.
Additionally, it provides SSL i.e. https encryption, daily backups, speed-boosting CDN with malware scans, and removal. Hence, it works as a complete product, a complete solution offering you a bundle of premium WooCommerce addons to customize your online store for the best consumer experience.
Blogging your business is equally beneficial for small businesses serving in their locality as near about forty-six percent of searches made on Google have local intent. Eighty percent of Internet users own a smartphone, their general behavior is when they need something, they first search about it on Google and then contact the businesses located near them.
So when you blog your business on your domain, the possibilities of gaining new clients increases. Local businesses have a bigger opportunity as their competition is small and not every business located near you know the benefits of business blogging. So when you blog more, you grow more.
To start your own blog, you simply need to register your domain name and then subscribe to Managed WordPress. The automated process will take you to the admin panel from where you can start posting. You may start with microblogging by simply sharing the reasons you use to tell your customers to convince them to buy your products.
Once you successfully set up your own blog, you can help other businesses in doing the same, you may charge some amount for that and build up a second source of income by working as a people’s personal outlet.
