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Using Gravity Forms as a Restaurant Online Ordering System
I get asked a lot about which eCommerce solution is the right fit for a project. Many times, a full eCommerce solution isn’t necessary to accept payments online. If you need a complex ordering form, and you don’t tools like...

Improving Product Reviews: Add Employee Badges
If you could watch me shop online, you’d see that I’m crazy about reading product reviews. It doesn’t matter to me if I’m buying bath towels or a new TV. I’m almost ashamed of how much time I’ve spent reading...

3 Essential Insurance Policies for eCommerce Sites
Using a quality managed WordPress hosting provider goes a long way towards keeping your site in top shape. For example, most managed hosting companies will provide: automated daily backups of your site staging sites or development areas for testing great...

WooCommerce 2.3 Review
WooCommerce 2.3 is scheduled for release this week, and we’ve got a WooCommerce 2.3 review to catalog the changes in the newest version for you here. Most of the major changes and features were included in the beta 1 and...

5 Tips to Use Pinterest for WordPress eCommerce
Let’s start with a cold, hard truth: email marketing outperforms social media marketing. Email has 3x as many users as Facebook and Twitter combined, and emails are viewed at higher rates with higher conversion rates and average order values. Does...

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...

6 Steps to Use Gravity Forms for eCommerce
We’ve written tens of thousands of words on selecting an eCommerce plugin for WordPress, and we’ve also continued to update our reviews as new versions are released. However, there’s another option for WordPress eCommerce that we haven’t yet discussed, and...

Which Authorize.net Version Should I Use with WordPress?
We’re not surprised that we get asked about Authorize.net for WordPress eCommerce frequently, as it provides a lot of flexibility in processing options and integrates easily with many merchant accounts. However, there are several options and we get this question...

6 Keys to Effective Customer Service
Customer service and communication are keys to increasing customer lifetime value, and eCommerce businesses are no exception to this guideline. Effective customer service makes the difference between one-time purchasers and customers, therefore increasing your return on the investment required to...

WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing: A Store’s Best Friend
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Daniel Espinoza, solopreneur, WooCommerce expert, Magento & WooCommerce plugin developer, and future nomad. WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing is one of our favorite plugins, since it allows you to set bulk-discounts, category discounts, pricing...

New Release! WooCommerce 2.1 Review
WooCommerce 2.1 was released this Monday! While we already wrote a preview of WooCommerce 2.1, we’re following up with a WooCommerce 2.1 Review now that the updates have been officially released. We’ve aimed to cover features and changes that we...

Gravity Forms: The Ultimate WordPress Form Builder
If you ask which WordPress plugins are essential for any site, you’ll get some varied answers, but many recommendations center around Jetpack, WordPress SEO, and others. For many sites, I’d contend that a quality WordPress form builder is essential as...