How to add a custom sales status to WP eCommerce
WP eCommerce includes several core sales statuses that can be used to manage the orders in your shop. Incomplete sale: customer added items to the cart but didn’t finish the purchase Order received: order created but awaiting payment (i.e., a...
9 Useful Free Easy Digital Downloads Add-ons
This is post 9 of 11 in the series “Free eCommerce Add-ons 2014-15” (Click to expand) Easy Digital Downloads is an excellent selling tool for digital goods shops, and we’ve written about it extensively. The core plugin is free and is...
Easy Digital Downloads 2.2 Review
Version 2.2 of Easy Digital Downloads was released on Tuesday, which refines shop administration and provides some new features related to quantity selectors and products with multiple options. There are also some minor improvements and for-developers changes to note. We’ll...
Better Order Received Emails: Receiptful Review
You have a fantastic source of revenue that you may not be aware of sitting right in front of you. No really, it’s true. Your current customers are also your best customers, and should be a key area of focus...
WP eCommerce 3.9 Review
WP eCommerce is one of the most mature eCommerce solutions for WordPress, but its growth and core development have slowed in the past couple of years. New users sometimes had difficulty finding the extensions or themes they needed to create...
Exchange Table Rate Shipping Review
If you’ve read my iThemes Exchange Pro Pack Review, you know that I love the ease-of-use you get with Exchange, but there are some tradeoffs to using it versus other eCommerce plugins. Order management and import / export functionality doesn’t...
WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart Review
This is post 16 of 16 in the series “WordPress eCommerce Platforms Guide” (Click to expand) If you’re running a WordPress site, there are several options available to add eCommerce functionality. However, many of these plugins may be overkill if you...
Selling an online membership with recurring payments
We’ve got an entire post category devoted to creating a membership site, so there are lots of options available to do so. However, what if you want to sell other products aside from your memberships, or you need to ship...
How to Sell Video Tutorials on Your WordPress site
This is a guest post from Jawad Khan. Jawad is a Content Marketing Specialist at Quality Trade, a leading marketing and trading platform for B2B companies. You can follow him on his blog Writing My Destiny, Twitter, and Google+. Online...
Selling Digital Goods: Easy Digital Downloads vs Gumroad
This is post 5 of 5 in the series “Head to Head” (Click to expand) We’ve written about several different WordPress eCommerce plugins – there are a lot of choices available. What’s best for your store will depend on what you’re...
Easy Digital Downloads Payment Gateways
Easy Digital Downloads offers tons of flexibility with regard to accepting payments in your digital goods store. There are over 70 payment processing options for sale to integrate your payment processor with Easy Digital Downloads. If you don’t already use...
WooCommerce 2.2 Review
WooCommerce 2.2 is being released today, and we have all of the details on the new release! We’ll go over the major changes to WooCommerce Core that have been made in this version, as well as all of the cool...