Woocommerce – Web Design with WordPress

Show/Hide the product tabs Menu

Do you want to display additional menu or product menu for your eCommerce site? You may have left it uncheck from Screen Options page. To make sure you display your product menu, you may refer to the steps below Pre-requisite(s) Woocommerce - you will see additional items such as Products, Product Categories and Product Tags in the [...]

Adding Variable Products in Woocommerce

Variable products are a great feature of WooCommerce for offering variations of a product such as the color and size on a different prices. Below is a step by step tutorial on how to: 1. create a product and set product image and gallery 2. set the product type (variable product) 3. define variation attribute [...]

Ecommerce podcasts

Learn while you drive, that's the aspect of podcasts that I really love. Driving to and from appointments is generally a complete waste of time. The options for making use of that slack time other than quiet contemplation are: listen to music listen to the radio listen to podcasts It's definitely not ok to be [...]

Laws for selling wine online in NSW

There are some required laws to observe when selling wine in New South Wales from your website. All available to read here: http://www.olgr.nsw.gov.au/liquor_online_sales.asp Quite important to follow the laws because there are fines and penalties. A few key things that stand out to me as very important. Over 18 Warning On your website you must display [...]

Xero and WooCommerce

Woocommerce is our favourite shopping cart at the moment, its good to develop for, clients love how easy it is to use and it integrates nicely with wordpress. Xero is beautiful accounting software and is the world’s easiest accounting software you’ll see. It handles all of your business accounting functions from bank reconciliation and financial [...]

Interesting Woocommerce plugins

Here are a few interesting WooCommerce plugins that look like they would be great to use on a store in the right situation. Shop Assistant for WooCommerce Custom Product Designer Social Media Checkout Account Creator

Gift Vouchers

While virtual gift certificates are great, they require the voucher be spent on the website which is not how most businesses with a physical presence operate. Business owners who want to sell gift certificates need them to be redeemable at a physical location for a product or service. PDF Product Vouchers can be used to [...]

PCI DSS Compliance

Is my website PCI DSS compliant? Yes, assuming you are not using an offline credit card payment method that stores details on your computer or website then woocommerce is PCI DSS compliant for the aspects that are relevant to this policy. To ensure you stay compliant: Choose a trusted, secure hosting provider – preferably one which claims [...]

Payment Gateways

Payment Gateways Choices for payment gateway in Australia are usually focused on: PayPal Paymate eWAY ANZ Egate NAB Hosted Payments Cheque Direct Bank Transfer Cash On Delivery Other Payment Gateways There are other payment gateways but they tend to have higher fees than the above options and are not particularly more convenient. Many of the [...]

WooCommerce Settings for Australia

WooCommerce make it simple to adjust the settings we require. These are the settings we use for NSW Australia based businesses. General Business Region Settings Settings are as follows: 1. Base Location: Australia - New South Wales 2. Currency: Australian Dollars ($) 3. Allowed Countries: Specific Countries 4. Specific Countries: Australia 5. Scroll down to the bottom of the [...]

Shipping Cost Calculated by Postcode Regions

Calculation shipping and freight costs based on the postcode of a buyer is a quite accurate way of segmenting the cost by region. Picking a cluster of postcodes lets us assign costs based on that region and so this doubles as a way of determining the approximate distance of the buyer from the seller. Creating [...]

Australian Freight Costs

Shipping can be one of the most complicated aspects when setting up an online store that will deliver nationwide in Australia. High shipping and handling costs at the checkout stage of a purchase is a sure way to get the buyer to go back and check for competitor prices or abandon the sale completely. The [...]

Woocommerce Overview

Two screen capture videos taking you on a guided tour of the woocommerce interface, some of the useful features and where to find settings that you will most likely be interested in changing.

Adding Images to a Product

Adding a Featured Image The featured post image is the main image for your product. It is the image which will be displayed within your product category view and it is the first photo viewed on your product details page. Adding Product Image Galleries Product galleries are used to show extra views or aspects of [...]

Adding a New Product

Product Name and Description In the Products menu click Add Product and type in the product title and description. Pricing and Measurements Under the main dialog box is the Product Type panel. Required Product Details Regular Price – The item’s main price. Tax: Set to Taxable and Standard. Excerpt Usually this will appear next to the product image [...]

Detailed Guide to Adding a Product

Product Name and Description In the Products menu click Add Product and type in the product title and description. Pricing and Measurements Under the main dialog box is the Product Type panel. Here you define the product type (as outlined above) and whether it is a downloadable (digital), or virtual (service) product. General tab SKU – stock keep unit, used [...]