r/woocommerce

So, I know in woocommerce you can keep track of inventory on the variation level (1 SA, 3MA etc) but is there any way for it to show me total inventory on the catalog page easily? So like in the above example, 4? That way I know how many total I have of something instantly!

Good morning! I have a small soap company with an online store through Square. I have some beginner experience making a Wordpress website for my husbands business but I didn’t use Wordpress for my store because Square was all-in-one and simpler to use. Recently though, the Square cost has skyrocketed and I’m looking into making my own. How difficult is it to work with woo commerce for a pretty-much-beginner with no programming experience? Is the interface user friendly? Thanks in advance for any advice.

I've seen a service/plugin in the past that migrates sales that occur between the time a site is mgrated and when it's fullly launched (with DNS changes, etc).

Anyone used a service like this in the past that can recommend one? I am moving a site next week but will take a few days to test and then complete the DNS changes.

Thanks!

Hey guys, long time reader, first time writer.

I am in the process of building out our store and I have probably a very common problem.

Example:
Product = Workstation

Required metrics

Overall height
Work Surface height
Overall Surface Width
Overall Surface Length
Capacity

Options
W/ light
W/ ESD Top
W/ power supply
W/ adjustable height

How would I go about entering a product so that these were all drop downs?

There could be lengths from 2ft - 20 ft so, you can see where Im getting hung up.

Theres also more products just like this.

Id share an image if it let me.

I’m having an odd issue where only the submenu items in my top menu are non clickable and only on desktop (if I shrink the window on my desktop so it shows the mobile version they work again), when clicked the menu closes and the links do nothing, but they do show as links when you hover over them in chrome. I have two menu items with submenus and neither work. This was seemingly working fine until today (I hadn’t noticed an issue and no reports from customers). My first thought was a caching issue so I cleared cache, and deactivated all caching plugins, no luck. I use cloudflare so I also cleared that cache and set the browser TTL to 1 second. Weirdly enough I’ve noticed that when I open a new private tab, the menus are clickable once after the page first loads, then go back to being non-clickable.

On extendable theme, only recent change other than plugins I’ve deactivated, is to add a blog page to the one sub menu. I’ve tried different browsers and all exhibit the same symptom.

Any ideas of what I should check next?

I tried to search for a few hours and it seems like most themes show beautiful demos but the free version is usually just backbones with very little functionality and content in it, making it hard to build it without much knowledge.

And please spam bots and other shills giving freemium links to f*** off. Looking only for genuine answers.

Looking for theme for natural clothing brand.

We are switching back to Woo from Shopify due to their policy updates. One thing we really liked was their local pickup system. We would really like it if we could replicate similar functionality.

Here is our new stack any advice(on anything) is welcomed.

Rocket.net Hosting Business Plan w/ CDN
WP+Woo+WPRocket
Lightspeed Retail (X) POS with 3 Outlets(locations)

Lightspeed’s Woo app integration is working but Woo at some point combines all 3 location’s inventory data into a single global stock level.

We were thinking to try Local Pickup Plus & a multi location inventory plug-in. Has anyone had experience with this setup without building a PHP bridge?

Hi everyone,

​I’m in the process of launching a UK skill-based competition platform on WooCommerce.

Everything is almost ready to go; the website is built, branding complete, business bank account set up, and initial prizes secured.

​My main hurdle right now is finding a suitable payment provider/gateway for micro-transactions.

​The Problem:

Standard card processors charge \~20p–25p plus x% per transaction. On a £1 entry ticket, that wipes out 25%–30% of gross revenue instantly in processing fees alone.

So I’m looking for a provider/setup that keeps fees at or under 10% (sub-10p total fee) on a £1 transaction.

​What We’ve Tried:

We’ve approached providers like Atoa and TrueLayer, but hit roadblocks due to either high-risk sector classification or being a brand-new startup without trading history.

​My Questions:

1. ​For anyone running or operating in the UK competition/prize draw sector, which gateways or high-risk merchant acquirers actually accept new startups?

2. ​What payment setups or workarounds do you use to keep fees sustainable on £1 ticket sales?

3. ​Are there specific UK high-risk payment brokers or gateways you'd recommend for WooCommerce?

​Any advice, recommendations, or insights from experience would be hugely appreciated!

I get a lot of traffic from people who DM me on Instagram asking about a product, then I send them a link to the store. But right now, when I check WooCommerce Analytics (or Jetpack/GA), I can't tell that traffic apart from someone who just clicked a normal Instagram post. It all just shows up as "social" or "referral."

What I've tried:

• Adding UTM tags to the links I send in DMs — this works, but I forget to do it half the time since I'm mid-conversation
• WooCommerce's built-in Analytics — doesn't split traffic this way at all

Does anyone know an easier way to track this? I want to know if DM traffic actually converts better than my other traffic.

Just got this familiar email from a customer:

>Unfortunately, we've made the tough decision to migrate over to Shopify. We've just had too many frustrations with WooCommerce. We're making the plunge, and that should be going live in the next week or two. We'll probably just work to get something set up on there.

This isn't my first rodeo. I've been shipping products/services for Woo since 2017 - building Woo stores since 2016. My experience with ecommerce on WP goes back to 2010.

I feel like I should know why more and more people are jumping ship to Shopify, but the answer feels nebulous. Shopify and Woo seem to have roughly the same value proposition and the same pros and cons as they did in 2020 when Woo was exploding.

My general theory is that the path to running a Woo store that doesn't suck is pretty easy, but it's hard for most people to find that path. Most people end up on crappy hosts, with crappy themes/page builders, crappy plugins. On a given day, any of one of those things can take the store down or leave them pulling their hair out wondering why an order didn't reach the 3PL, etc.

How can we help people find the happy path? How can we help people build stores they actually like with Woo?

I'm tired of losing customers.

seeing so many store owners spend thousands migrating their search backends to get 10ms retrieval speeds.

but if your user types "jacket" and your frontend just passes that raw string to the backend, returning 500 irrelevant jackets instantly doesn't actually solve the problem. the retrieval engine isn't the bottleneck, human query formulation is.

is anyone else focusing on fixing the input bar instead of the search engine? like adding an intent layer like ai-autocomplete to structure the query into JSON before it even goes to search?

I am building a Woocomerce site where I am selling a product in different Vials means a packet of 3, packet of 4 and so on.

On Shipstation these products are not added by Vials it’s just 1 product and they’re QTY.

Now since my Woocomerce have more products and different SKUs it’s not being Sync properly.

Dose anyone else faced this issue if yes please suggest how did you tackle this problem.

First time creating a WordPress site. I am a florist, and I need to create a place where customers can enter an address that they want their flower arrangement delivered to. I also want it to tell them how much it will cost to deliver to the address they entered. I want custom tiers: for example, 1-5 miles from my business would cost $3, 5-10 miles would be $8, 10-15 miles would be $14, 15-20 miles would be $21, and so on. Does it need to be a distance-based shipping rate plugin, or could it be done on a form plugin? TIA!

I have been running an online training company since 2018, using Learndash have become quite accustomed.

We are trying to use the groups functionality (between stacking LD/ Woo/ Uncanny) in order to 1. Create a group > 2. Allow the group leader to add seats > 3. Select a number of seats > 4. Charge a price per seat per month for the total number of seats in the group.

So far all I can do is add one seat at a time, and this additionally creates a whole new subscription though it does add the seat to the group. When I try to add more than one it says “cannot add a group product to a cart that modifys an existing group”

Please help.

i am trying to understand, i am a developer trying to get in WooCommerce ecosystem. they are very little info as compared to shopify ecosystem.

can you tell me some practical pros and cons? and i should be aware with ?

Need advice: We just found out our website's order/service request forms were quietly sending customer info to our old web developer's personal email instead of our company email. He's no longer working with us. Has anyone dealt with this before? How do you track down and fix a hidden email redirect like this, and is this something to be concerned about legally (privacy/data issue)? Would appreciate any pointers to the right kind of developer or service to fix it. Thanks!

Hello la commu,
J’ai créer une boutique en ligne avec Woocommerce sur mon site WordPress en revanche, j’ai des problème de stocks.

Lorsque je renseigne une quantité définie pour un produit, lorsque certaines personnes commandent, les quantités restantes sur le site ne correspondent pas avec les quantités vendues. Idem lorsque j’exporte sous Excel les ventes, je ne retrouve pas les mêmes chiffres sur mon site.

Quelqu’un aurait-il une solution ?

Hi there,

I'm playing around with a custom block-only theme and a fresh install of WooCommerce - some real basic out of the box stuff.

I've added some attributes (e.g. "Brand") and assigned them to a couple of products.

However it appears there is no way to get my new "Brand" attribute to display as a dropdown selector. There are only two options for display - "list" and "chips".

Neither of which are viable options for any store with more than a handful of products as the sidebar gets cluttered.

I've been slowly optimizing my website, and noticed TTFB is a huge issue. I've activated OpCache which improved my server response time greatly, and got to around 400ms average TTFB. Sometimes it stays on around 200ms, sometimes it jumps to 600. Out of around 30 measurements the average result was +-400ms.

I'm trying to find a caching plugin that will improve the situation, but somehow the caching has only made things worse for me before. Using WP Optimise i got worse results that without it...

Is 400ms TTFB okay, for now? (While I'm looking into catching plugins that will actually help instead of making things worse)