Last week Recurring Donations plugin was released on WordPress.org. While most WordPress plugins offer only once off donation payment option, this plugin introduced a very interesting concept – “Recurring Subscription Donations”. It allows you to configure various terms to accept donation payments on a monthly basis. Users also have the choice of making the full donations if they don’t prefer the recurring method.
How to Integrate PayPal in WordPress Simply
If you are using your WordPress site for e-commerce, having a reliable shopping cart plugin is a must. Tips and Tricks HQ has designed the WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart for this purpose. With a rating of 4.3 stars, close to 400,000 downloads, regular updates and great support, the plugin is definitely worth giving a try.
WP Simple PayPal Shopping Cart allows you to include an Add to Cart button on your posts or pages, as well as display the actual shopping cart in your posts, pages or sidebars. Visitors can see what they currently have in their carts, and remove products or change their quantity with a simple click of a button. Payments are processed via PayPal.
Top 3 Ways to Personalize Sales Using WordPress (for Ultimate Customer Satisfaction)
Consumers expect the stores that they shop in to remember them and offer a more personalized experience next time they visit, be it a physical business location or an online store. In the Internet retail business, personalization always equals speed, which so many Web users are all about. Your clients expect to get the information they need and find the product they want with a click of a mouse, so they can quickly move on to the next urgent task in their busy lives. If you run a WordPress store and haven’t customized your visitors’ shopping experience before, give it a try. With this approach, you are likely to increase customer satisfaction and retain more of your first-time buyers. The process is neither complicated nor expensive; you just need the right tools to do the job for you. The following techniques and plugins will help you get started.
Increasing Conversions on a WordPress eCommerce Site
It has been said more than once (I’ve even said it myself) that one could launch an online store using WordPress as the back-end in a matter of minutes, but the truth is that extra time should be taken for each product added to the store. Even up to 30 minutes per product could go a very long way, but I recommend even more than that. Sure, the entire site from the ground up can be built in 30 minutes, or perhaps in less than 3 hours for absolute beginners with the proper manual in hand. Here’s the break down of the time to “build” the site:
- Buy/prepare the domain/hosting for the store’s web site – 7 minutes
- Setup WordPress and install the proper theme/plugin for the store – 13 minutes
- Configure the store and payment gateways – 3 minutes
- Add a few products with name, price and basic description – 7 minutes
If my math is accurate, the above should amount to approximately half an hour to setup an eCommerce site with WordPress ready for sales. But, there are many ways to give the store more conversion potential out of the gate. One such way is to focus on each product. [Read more…]
How to Use WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart
The WordPress Simple Paypal Shopping Cart plugin by Tips & Tricks HQ allows customers to buy products via a WordPress blog/site with just a few clicks. On a basic level, it is an interface for including PayPal’s “Add to Cart” buttons into posts or pages (using shortcodes) that are about specific products.
The product details are tied into each button. It uses the a streamlined checkout process through the PayPal web site. There is no need to store customers personal and financial information freeing the shop owner from having to put in place the necessary security and privacy information. Naturally, PayPal profile based shipping is supported.
5 Popular Free Shopping Cart or E-Commerce Plugins for WordPress
Setting up a web site to sell products on the Internet is a lot simpler to do than days of past. And it doesn’t require custom software in order to get a custom look. Like any task or project that is commonly done on the Internet, developers find ways to make them a lot simpler and faster for end users to implement.
In this article I’m going to discuss setting up an online store using a self-hosted WordPress option with freely available e-commerce plugins.
5 Ways To Improve Conversions for E-Commerce Web Sites
Improving conversions, i.e. making more sales in the eCommerce world, is a general goal for any virtual store front owner. If only one person out of every 100 visitors makes a purchase on a given site (a conversion rate of 1%), it might be safe to assume that getting 200 visitors will double that number. And while that may be true, there are a number of changes that could be made to the site that could increase that rate without increasing the traffic. [Read more…]
The Best Product You Can Sell Online (Hint – It is Not Software or Music)
Did you ever think about…
- Why do we people go online?
- Why do we check sites and forums and blogs?
- Why are you doing it yourself?
I assume because you are looking either to entertain yourself or find specific information and articles of interest, or perhaps both.
WordPress iSell – Easily Sell Digital Downloads From Your WordPress Site
WordPress iSell is an easy to use WordPress plugin to sell digital downloads from your WordPress site (for free). This plugin is designed to do one thing only but do it really well, which is to sell digital downloads from your WordPress site via PayPal.
If you need a more robust method of selling digital downloads via PayPal, check this paypal wordpress plugin.
WordPress Store Setup
Everyday more and more people are using WordPress. You can now create professional and powerful WordPress store just by using a simple plugin. In this tutorial I am going to show you one of the easiest ways to create a WordPress store.