Tag: iThemes

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...

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...

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: 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 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...

Weekly Roundup: April 11, 2014
We’ve got an exclusive offer for our readers we want to make sure you saw this week. We wrote about affiliate programs and a new plugin that makes creating one ridiculously easy: Affiliate WP. Use the code SELLWITHWP to sign...

Weekly Roundup: April 4, 2014
We’re starting this week’s roundup with a public service announcement of sorts: I’d really like for you to read this post about open source projects from Ipstenu (AKA Mika, who is a WordPress.org wizard). It’s a great reminder that the...

Weekly Roundup: March 28, 2014
Welcome to this week’s news catchup! We’ve got add-on and theme releases, coupon codes, and more! Congrats to WooCommerce on becoming the most popular eCommerce tool (based on these stats from BuiltWith). You can celebrate by getting 25% off on...

Weekly Roundup: January 10, 2014
Welcome back to a full week of work! This week was full of plugin updates and add-on releases, so we’ve cultivated this week’s eCommerce news and announcements just for you: Easy Digital Downloads 1.9 was released this week with some...