Archive for the ‘online business’ Category

Introducing WooCommerce 2.0.2 – The latest version of WooCommerce is here.

Friday, March 15th, 2013

WooCommerce is a plugin that helps manage online stores using a WordPress website. WooCommerce 2.0.2 has officially been released to the public market. It has been considered as a major release as it has brought more features to better handle online sales.

WordPress is an open source web software, also known as a Content Management System (CMS) for managing of websites and blogs. WordPress is free software and is open to download for the public. WordPress is fully integrated with WooCommerce 2.0.2, together they make a great tool for customers, developers and website managers.

WooCommerce 2.0.2 has been released for the purpose of adding more features and fixing up some minimal issues in the previous versions of WooCommerce. WooCommerce 2.0.2 offers strength and stability, smart dashboard widgets and reporting tools, and is customizable so it can be modified to work with any installed theme.

Some of the new features of WooCommerce 2.0.2 are:

  • Improved pagination & sorting
  • Star ratings in archives
  • Realtime checkout validation
  • Cache friendly cart widgets
  • and many many more

In general, the WooCommerce 2.0.2 plugin is a really useful release as it offers more functionality & helps in controlling online sales for businesses. It is easy to use for customers who want to pay for products they buy online, with WooCommerce 2.0.2 they can do that  using various payment gateways and methods. It has features such as free shipping and flat rate shipping. All these features make up a really useful plugin that is fully integrated with WordPress.

Read the article here for more information about WooCommerce 2.0.2.

Online sales on the increase

Wednesday, February 6th, 2013

Figures from the Commonwealth Bank show online sales in Australia represent 5.4 per cent of all retail sales. This is expected to rise, with figures in the UK showing 10 per cent on sales are online, and in the USA 7 per cent are online.

Read more at the Sydney Morning Herald.

Government pours millions into online retail study

Friday, July 20th, 2012

The Australian Federal Government has committed to studying Australians’ online retail spending habits by providing funding of $2.1 million dollars over 4 years to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

The study will track Australians’ online retail spending habits, and how online sales might be affecting bricks and mortar stores.

You can read more at CRN.com.au

Online travel start-up raises $US2.1 million, merges with European site

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Roomorama.com has announced a merger with lofty.com, a short-term rental website. Roomorama has secured US$2.1 million in seed funding to assist with growth.

The online travel start-up was launched in 2009, offering a service to handle short-term rental transactions.

With an average gross booking of $1330 in 2011 and present booking numbers at approximately 200,000 nights to date it’s yet another case of the success of launching a business online.

Featuring more than 2000 Australian properties, Australia was it’s second most frequent user base in 2011.

You can read more over at smartcompany.com.au