How to Sell iThemes Exchange Umbrella Memberships
Many memberships sites want the ability to separate content access from the membership purchase in order to allow one purchaser to “give out” memberships to other users. For example, a company may want to purchase 10 memberships for employees, and...
Ask Sell with WP: Creating an iThemes Exchange Add to Cart Shortcode
I got an interesting question the other day from Jean: I’m switching from WooCommerce to iThemes Exchange, but I don’t see a way to use shortcodes for products in my blog posts like I could with WooCommerce. Am I missing...
Building a Membership Community with WordPress
Most purchases are straight-forward and easy for consumers to understand: the transaction is completed up front by paying for items that provide immediate value. For example, think of a new laptop: you’ll pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to purchase...
WordPress eCommerce Plugin Statistics Revisited
About 6 months ago, we published a comparison of eCommerce plugin usage based on statistics from BuiltWith.com. About a month after that, WordPress.org implemented their own active install tracking for free plugins hosted on WordPress.org, which gave even more insight...
Create a purchasing club with iThemes Exchange
While many membership plugins focus on only restricting content (like Restrict Content Pro, which we recently reviewed), some sites will sell products aside from memberships, and can even require memberships to access products or discounts in the shop. These eCommerce...
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...
4 Ways to Set eCommerce shipping methods with WordPress plugins
We’ve previously given you some tips for setting eCommerce shipping methods, but today we’ll take some of them a step further. Here are some examples of how to create eCommerce shipping methods based on your WordPress eCommerce plugin. Since 56%...
iThemes Exchange Pro Pack Review
We’ve already reviewed Exchange, which is the easy-to-use eCommerce plugin offered by iThemes (and told you how to use it for a membership site), but there’s been a ton of new development for the platform. As a result, we wanted...
Weekly Roundup: June 6, 2014
Lots of new add-ons and extensions across the board this week! We also recommend checking out the Exchange swag site – Beka loves her Exchange tee shirt! Easy Digital Downloads 2.0 has been released! Check out our review of what’s...
Weekly Roundup: May 30, 2014
Promotions, tutorials and new add-ons for several eCommerce plugins! Busy week 🙂 . Want recaps, more special offers, and zero spam? Don’t forget to sign up for the newsletter! Practical Ecommerce has posted a list of 5 Beautiful WooCommerce Sites...
Weekly Roundup: May 23, 2014
Congrats to Easy Digital Downloads for hitting 300,000 downloads! And ratings are still at 4.8 of 5.0 stars, which is a great sign for the platform as it grows. iThemes has released even more add-ons for Exchange this week –...
Weekly Roundup: May 9, 2014
Have you signed up for our newsletter yet? We’ve tripled our traffic over the past 4 months thanks to dedicated readers like you, and we’re building some cool “thank you’s” for newsletter subscribers and dedicated readers. To start, we’ve created...