Archive for the ‘online stores’ 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

How to create an e-empire

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

The Sydney Morning Herald has written a success story on the web’s first luxury fashion store, Net-a-Porter.

Launched in 2000, and attracting many doubters who didn’t believe women would purchase luxury items online, it has been so successful that it was sold in 2010 for 350 million pounds.

You can read more over at SMH.com.au

Biggest ever online shopping spree

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

PayPal has revealed the Christmas period was Australia’s busiest ever for online shopping.

PayPal did not announce much much money was spent, but did say there was double-digit growth in the amount of online transactions over the Christmas period compared to 2011.

PayPal spokesman Adrian Christie said today “It’s been the biggest online Christmas for transaction volume,”

“The week commencing December 5 (2011) was the biggest week we’ve seen at PayPal Australia in regards to processing secure payments.”

Mr Christie said roughly 70% of online purchases were made with Australian stores.

You can read more over at the Sydney Morning Herald.