Much as we might like it to be otherwise: paper isn’t dead. Here are two plugins that will help you keep the luddites happy: WooCommerce PDF Invoices Extension No matter how many purchase confirmations you send by email, some customers are still going to want to proper invoice. This plugin will automatically generate a PDF … Continue reading

Yes. You can generate invoices for orders that were ‘completed’ prior to installing the WooCommerce PDF Invoices Extension. From the order detail screen, go to ‘Order Actions’ and resend the ‘Completed Order’ email!

Unlike WooCommerce Product Vendors Extension, WooCommerce Product Brands Plugin does not create a vendor marketplace. Like Product Vendors, WooCommerce Product Brands Plugin does offer important branding opportunities for your store. Let’s say you have created a marketplace for selling artisan goods. You have used the WooCommerce Product Vendors Extension to set up each artist as … Continue reading

No. You don’t need an SSL certificate to use the WooCommerce PayPal Advanced Payment Gateway Extension. However, there are two reasons you might want to get one anyway: Extra level of security for your website as a whole Avoid customers getting ‘mixed content’ warnings from their website browser. Any time your customers see a browser … Continue reading

WooCommerce Subscriptions Plugin is compatible with WordPress Multisite. Subscriptions will be linked only with the site they are purchased on. User accounts will only be created for the site on which the customer purchased the subscription.

By default, WooCommerce Subscriptions Plugin follows the default WooCommerce behavior for orders: If the order is not both ‘digital’ and ‘downloadable,’ then the order will be set to ‘processing’ after payment. Why? By default, WooCommerce assumes you have a product that needs shipped. An order wouldn’t be ‘complete’ until you ship and then mark the … Continue reading

What exactly happens when your customer ‘suspends’ a subscription product created with the WooCommerce Subscriptions Plugin? No payments will be charged while the subscription is suspended. The customer’s ‘user role’ will be set to ‘inactive subscriber’ (this is the WooCommerce default). When the customer ‘re-activates’ the subscription… Payment schedule continues as normal (if customer reactivates … Continue reading

Yep! In fact, WooCommerce Product Vendors Extension currently works best for sites selling time via the WooCommerce Bookings Plugin. That is, if you would like vendors in your marketplace to be truly independent in managing their own product orders. Woocommerce Product Vendors Extension Limitations Vendors can’t see orders. By default, vendors that have been defined … Continue reading

By default, WooCommerce lets you define ‘up-sell’ and ‘cross-sell’ products. This approach to recommending products to your customers has a major drawback: Recommended products are based on your ‘guess’ as to what your customers will consider relevant to the product they are currently viewing. This isn’t how Amazon and Netflix do things. These guys base … Continue reading