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The WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin allows you to discontinue WooCommerce products without negatively affecting our site's SEO or losing the opportunity to sell related products. However, discontinuing 500 products can become somewhat tedious if you edit one product at a time.

That’s why, in this guide, we will show you how to increase your productivity by discontinuing hundreds of products in bulk with a few clicks.

We will use the WP Sheet Editor - WooCommerce Products plugin, which allows you to view and manage hundreds of products in an intuitive spreadsheet within WordPress. You can find your products using any field as a search filter, apply bulk changes to all search results, export products to a CSV, and import products quickly.

You'll need the following plugins to follow this tutorial:

1. WooCommerce Discontinued Products
2. WP Sheet Editor - WooCommerce Products

Once installed, watch the video above or follow the written instructions below.

1. How to discontinue individual products

Go to WP Sheet Editor → Edit Products and follow the steps in the sections below to discontinue hundreds of WooCommerce products quickly.

While this tutorial is focussing on how to bulk discontinue products, I'll also show you a quick way to discontinue individual items. WP Sheet Editor provides a time-saving way to do this without having to open and edit each product.

1. Go to the 'Manage Stock' column.
2. Disable this option for the products you’ll discontinue.
3. Move to the 'Stock Status' column.
4. Choose 'Discontinued'.
5. Hit 'Save' to apply the changes.

You don't have to open and edit one product at a time. Instead, you can apply changes to as many products as you want, and then you only have to save the changes once.

2. How to filter your WooCommerce products to discontinue in bulk

WP Sheet Editor contains a powerful search tool that allows you to filter your WooCommerce products using any field as a search parameter. You can search for your products by:

• Keyword in title or content
• Category
• Attribute
• Tag
• Vendor
• Price
• Thumbnail
• Sold individually
• Stock status
• Stock
• Product type
• And any other field

Just hit Search on the plugin’s toolbar, and you’ll be able to use any of these search filters.

As an example, we’ll find all the t-shirts that belong to the Fashion category by selecting these values:

• Contains keyword: tshirt
• Enter Product categories: Fashion
• Hit 'Run Search'.

Once your products are filtered, the search results will be displayed on the spreadsheet.

3. How to bulk discontinue WooCommerce products

Before selecting the Discontinued stock status for all the filtered products, you need to bulk disable the 'Manage Stock' option.

Open the Bulk Edit tool and select the following values:

• Select the rows that you want to update: Edit all the rows from my current search (including non-visible rows).
• What field do you want to edit: Manage Stock
• Select type of edit: Set value
• Replace existing value with this value: No
• Hit 'Execute Now'.

After that, open the Bulk Edit tool again, and select the following values to change the 'Stock Status' value to 'Discontinued'.

• Select the rows that you want to update: Edit all the rows from my current search (including non-visible rows).
• What field do you want to edit: Stock status
• Select type of edit: Set value
• Replace existing value with this value: Discontinued
• Hit 'Execute Now'.

Once the changes have been applied to all the filtered products, you will see that the Manage Stock option has been disabled, and the Discontinued stock status has been added to the products.

4. How to find all your discontinued products

Since WP Sheet Editor allows you to use any field of your products as a search filter, you can easily find all the discontinued products in your store.

Just open the Search tool on the plugin’s toolbar and select the following values:

• Tick the 'Enable advanced filters' checkbox.
• Field: Stock status
• Operator: =
• Value: Discontinued
• Hit 'Run Search'.

As you see here, all the discontinued products have been filtered and displayed on the spreadsheet.

Managing your discontinued products

WooCommerce Discontinued Products has lots of other features for managing your discontinued products. You can display discontinued text on product pages, choose whether to show or hide the products in your store, and more.

WP Sheet Editor completely simplifies the way you manage your WooCommerce store. You can save many hours of work and increase your productivity considerably by using any field as a search parameter and applying bulk changes with a few clicks.

Use the two plugins together to discontinue products quickly and easily in your store.

WooCommerce, out of the box, doesn’t provide a way of marking products as discontinued while keeping them visible in the store. The easiest way to do this is by using a WooCommerce product discontinued status plugin.

Discontinued products are completely different from out-of-stock products. While WooCommerce lets you mark products as out-of-stock, there’s no built-in option to mark products as discontinued.

The only option is to manually add a notice to the product short description saying that the product has been discontinued. Aside from this, you can either delete the price of the discontinued product or mark the product as out-of-stock.

The WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin provides an easy way for store owners to mark products as discontinued. In this article, we’ll explain why you might want to do this and how you can get started with the discontinued products plugin.

Why might you discontinue products in your store?

Companies discontinue products for many different reasons.

• Profitability. One of the most common reasons why store owners discontinue products (or product variations) is that they simply aren’t profitable anymore. This could be due to a drop in product demand or a loss in market share.
• Availability. Products that are no longer available from the supplier are usually discontinued.
• Time-limited products. Products that are time-limited are often discontinued when they’re no longer relevant. Examples of time-limited products include seasonal goods and holiday gifts such as New Year’s party glasses from 2010!
• Obsolete. Products that have been replaced by other products are also discontinued. Tech products are usually discontinued when an upgraded version is launched. Apple, for example, has discontinued the iPhone X.
• Manufacturing. Products that are no longer manufactured are discontinued. This can also happen due to a shortage of raw materials.

Let’s take a look at some examples of products that are discontinued:

It’s also worth noting that companies bring back previously discontinued products all the time. For this reason, as a store owner, you need a way to mark discontinued products in WooCommerce rather than taking them down.

Why mark products as “discontinued”?

The typical product life cycle goes something like this:

1. In stock - products are active and in stock, available for purchase.
2. Out of stock - products are active but currently out of stock, awaiting restock.
3. Discontinued - inactive, end of life products that are no longer being sold with no plans to restock.

For WooCommerce store owners, the problem is that WooCommerce plugin combines stages 2 & 3 and doesn’t provide a separate option or stock status for discontinued products. In other words, there’s no option available to mark discontinued products.

Until now, there were two main options available to store owners:

• Mark discontinued products as out of stock. This isn’t a suitable option because it clutters up your store catalog in the front-end (and in the back-end if you hide out of stock products) with unnecessary discontinued products. This leads to a bad user experience since there’s no way to distinguish between out of stock and discontinued products. The out of stock status is normally used for products that are temporarily out of stock. It implies that the product will become available again if you wait. But, if you mark both out of stock and discontinued products as “out of stock”, customers won’t know whether or not to wait for new stock to arrive.
• Delete discontinued products or change them to private (or draft) status. This is bad for WooCommerce SEO. You lose all the link juice and rankings for your discontinued product pages if you change the page’s status to private or draft.

The solution: the WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin

Whether you’re dealing with products that are discontinued temporarily or permanently, it’s essential to distinguish out of stock products from discontinued products.

The WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin was built for exactly this purpose.

It’s designed to keep your search engine rankings intact for your discontinued product pages while also keeping customers happy and avoiding disappointment. It allows store owners to keep the product while marking it permanently as out of stock i.e. discontinued.

Benefits of marking discontinued products

Let’s step through the main benefits of marking WooCommerce products discontinued:

SEO

Using a WooCommerce discontinued products plugin, you can handle discontinued products on your online store without damaging your SEO.

You might want to disable purchases for discontinued products while keeping them visible on your store’s front-end for SEO reasons. After all, you don’t want to lose your rankings for that product!

Using a WooCommerce discontinued products plugin, you can keep the product page alive without confusing shoppers.

It’s important to keep in mind that, even if an item is discontinued, you can still get a lot of traffic to these pages. Done right, you can use this as an opportunity to encourage customers to purchase other, similar items.

Put simply, the product pages for discontinued products have significant SEO value. There may be backlinks pointing to them and customers still search for them. Deleting them can lead to lost sales of your other products and potentially stop people from finding your store in the first place.

Handled correctly, you can keep discontinued product pages alive to boost your SEO rankings in the long term. It’s an easy way to preserve your product page’s SEO value.

Customer expectations

From a user experience standpoint, customers need to know that a discontinued product will never be available for purchase again. This way, they won’t keep checking back in hopes of placing an order.

You need control over what text to display on the discontinued product page to make things clear to the customer. This way, you can effectively manage customer expectations and prevent disappointment. In addition to this, it also helps you eliminate broken links to your online store.

Even though customers can no longer buy the product, being able to access the discontinued product page has important informational purposes. For example, the product page might contain documentation of downloadable user guides, specification information, and usage tips that might be useful to anyone that purchased the product before it was discontinued.

Existing customers who bought the product before it was discontinued will find links to the product page in places such as their Account area and saved bookmarks. So, they will still need to be able to access the product page. The product page isn’t just for potential new customers but also for existing customers.

Sell alternative products

You can use the Discontinued text field to advise customers to check out related products. For example, you could display a message saying "We're sorry, this product has been discontinued. Please visit our store for similar products."

The cross-sells feature in WooCommerce lets you suggest alternatives. Customers will only pay close attention to these if they know the product they’re looking at is permanently discontinued.

You can manually select suitable related products for each discontinued product. This way, you can point customers to products they can place orders for.

To counter any disappointment, add a coupon code to the short description to encourage customers to continue browsing your store. In addition to this, you can also add an email capture form promising to notify them of similar products.

You can also add a Visit Shop button or link to the short description to direct people to available products they can place orders for.

This way, you can make a sale even if the exact product the customer was searching for is discontinued.

Accurate stock reporting

Store owners need to be able to filter and view discontinued products separately from other statuses (such as in stock products and out of stock products) in the admin area. This allows them to accurately report on discontinued products separately from out of stock products.

This way, the view at WooCommerce → Reports → Stock → Out of stock doesn’t clutter up the stock report or stock checks.

Ideally, you don’t want to delete discontinued products from your online store as this could mess up historical sales data and stop customers from viewing the product when they view their past orders in the Account area.

Reliable, quality solution

Using a WooCommerce discontinued products plugin means that you can avoid hacky and error-prone workarounds. It’s the easiest way to mark your products as discontinued while keeping things simple for the store manager.

How the discontinued products plugin works

The WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin lets you add a ‘discontinued’ stock status to your products. It lets you easily mark products as discontinued, either individually or in bulk.

Keep reading for step-by-step written instructions, or watch this video on how to add a WooCommerce discontinued product status to your store:

Easily select the discontinued stock status for products or variations

After installing the plugin, simply select the discontinued stock status for all the products and variations that you wish to discontinue. You can do it individually, in bulk for all variations of a particular product, and in bulk for multiple products at once.

Add a discontinued product message

Customers visiting discontinued product pages need to know that the product won't come back in stock. You can easily do this by customizing the 'Discontinued' text that appears on discontinued status products. For example, you can write something like “Discontinued product” or “We no longer sell this product”.

In addition, we recommend using features such as cross-sells and related products to display other products that the customer may like. This helps you to recover a sale that would otherwise be lost.

Show or hide products with a discontinued status

The WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin lets you choose whether to show or hide discontinued products from your shop and category pages and on-site search. Either way, the page remains visible in the background to search engines. This means that you can keep the page alive without damaging its SEO value.

Bonus: list discontinued products on a separate page

You can use the WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin with our WooCommerce Product Table plugin to list discontinued products on a separate page. This way, customers can quickly see all of the products that you’re no longer selling on a separate page.

First, make sure you have both the WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin and the WooCommerce Product Table plugin installed and activated on your online store. Next, create a page in WordPress and add the following shortcode to it: [product_table cf="_stock_status:discontinued"].

The discontinued products page will look something like this on the front-end:

The WooCommerce Product Table plugin lets you choose which columns to include in the list.

Where to get the plugin

With a WooCommerce discontinued products plugin, you can easily mark discontinued products while retaining the product page’s SEO value. It also makes it easy for shop managers to accurately report on stock.

Get the WooCommerce Discontinued Products plugin today!

Out of the box, WooCommerce doesn't have any quantity increment options. Customers can choose any quantity they’d like and buy products in any step value. Luckily, you can easily set different quantity increments by installing a quantity management plugin.

Some types of product need to be bought in larger quantity step values. It just doesn't make sense to sell them in increments of 1.

By installing the WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin, you can easily add advanced quantity rules to your online store. As a result, you’ll be able to set quantity increments and quantity groupings. This lets you ensure that each sale is profitable and fits with your delivery and warehousing systems.

Introducing WooCommerce Quantity Manager

A WooCommerce quantity increment plugin makes it easy to set quantity increments, quantity groups, and quantity step values in WooCommerce. The WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin lets you do this in a flexible way that meets the needs of your store.

Set quantity step values, increments, and groups

You can use WooCommerce Quantity Manager to set WooCommerce quantity increments, step values, and groups at any level. The plugin has options to set quantity rules globally, by category, product, or at variation level. This gives you fine-grained control.

If you want to set quantity increments globally, then you can do this in less than a minute. Or, you can set it for categories if you need increments for specific types of products only. You can even set it individually for specific products and variations that must be bought in specific quantity increments.

You can also choose whether the WooCommerce quantity increments are calculated for individual products or shared across multiple products.

The different quantity increment options work together using hierarchical logic. This means that the category rules will override the global rules, and so on. As a result, you can create advanced WooCommerce quantity increment rules that match your requirements exactly.

Advanced quantity management features

WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin isn't just a quantity increment plugin. It also comes with lots of other quantity management features.

These include:

• Minimum and maximum quantities.
• Minimum and maximum order values.
• The ability to change the default value that appears in the quantity field for each product.
• Quantity rules for specific user roles only.

As with the WooCommerce quantity increment options, you can set quantity rules at every level of your store. For example, you can set min/max quantities for the whole cart, specific categories, or individual products and variations.

How to use the WooCommerce quantity increment plugin

The WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin lets you set quantity increments, groups, step values, and minimum and maximum quantities in WooCommerce.

Step #1: Install the WooCommerce quantity increment plugin

The first thing you need to do is get the WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin. You’ll receive the plugin files and a license key in the confirmation email.

Log into your WordPress website and install and activate the plugin. Go to the plugin settings screen and enter your license key to start using it.

Step #2: Configure WooCommerce quantity increments, groups, and step values

Head over to WooCommerce → Extensions to configure the WooCommerce quantity increments, groups, and step values.

Step #3: Set category-level increments

Head over to WooCommerce → Categories from the admin panel to set category-level increments.

Step #4: Set product-specfic increments

Open up the product you’d like to set product-specific increments for in the Edit Product screen. From the Product data section, go to the Inventory tab.

Step #5: Set variation-level increments

Open up the product you’d like to set variation-level increments for in the Edit Product screen. From the Product data section, go to the Variations tab.

What if a customer tries to buy the wrong quantity increment?

The WooCommerce quantity increment plugin cleverly prevents customers from selecting an invalid step value.

When a customer uses the quantity up/down arrows, the numbers in the quantity field will increase in the correct step values. If they try to bypass the quantity increment rule by typing an incorrect number directly, they will see an error:

This gently prompts customers to buy in the correct WooCommerce quantity increments, without being too intrusive.

Where to get the quantity increment plugin

The WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin is the easiest way to control quantity increments, step values and groups in WooCommerce. You can use it to set quantity rules globally, by category, by product, and at the variation level.

Ready to set WooCommerce quantity increments? Get the WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin today.

When you first install WooCommerce on your WordPress website, customers can buy as many of each product as they like. You can use the best WooCommerce product quantity plugin to take control and create advanced quantity rules that maximize your revenue from each sale.

Most e-commerce stores display a starting value of '1' in the quantity field, and let customers change this to anything they like. However, this can mean leaving money on the table by reducing the amount that customers are likely to buy from you. Many moreover, it may not fit with the type of products you're selling.

By using the best WooCommerce product quantity plugin, you get advanced control over your product quantities. This includes the ability to change the default quantity, set minimum and maximum quantities and order values, and add quantity groupings and step values.

As a result, these tools can significantly increase revenue and help you increase your average order value.

In this article, we’ll start by introducing you to the best WooCommerce product quantity plugin - Quantity Manager. Next, we’ll explain how you can use it in your online store.

Why you need advanced product quantity options in your store

Depending on the types of products you sell, there are plenty of ways you can benefit from a WooCommerce product quantity plugin:

• Set minimum quantities. Add minimum quantities for each product if it isn’t cost-effective to sell certain products or variations in small quantities. As a result, you can require customers to order at least the minimum amount.
• Add minimum order values. Minimum order values ensure that each order is profitable. If the cart meets the minimum order value, then the customer can check out.
• Set maximum quantities. Maximum quantities ensure your store can always handle the size of each order. The max quantity determines the maximum number of units a customer can purchase of each product.
• Set a higher default quantity. Increasing the default quantity subtly encourages customers to buy more by presenting it as the norm to buy bigger quantities. For example, let's say the default quantity is set to 3. When the customer clicks the add to cart button, 3 units of the product will automatically be added to their shopping cart.
• Add quantity rules per user role. If you sell to different types of customers then you might want quantity rules for some but not others. For example, if you offer free shipping to certain user groups then this is only financially viable if they order a certain minimum quantity or value.
• Create quantity step values. If you have to ship products in certain quantity groupings because of your delivery or warehousing setup, then you need to create quantity step values or increments. For example, if you create quantity step values of 5, then customers can only purchase 5, 10, 15 etc. units of the product. When they use the quantity field, the value will increase by 5 units instead of 1.

Who might need a WooCommerce product quantity plugin?

A WooCommerce product quantity plugin can be used by a diverse range of businesses. Let’s step through a few examples:

#1: Restaurants

If you run a restaurant, you might consider creating meal deals for customers. In addition, you can require customers to purchase a specific quantity from each category. For example, you might require customers to purchase three starters, three mains, and three desserts from the meal deal.

If you don’t already have a restaurant ordering system set up on your WooCommerce store, create one first using the WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin.

#2: Wholesale stores

If you’re running a wholesale store using a plugin like WooCommerce Wholesale Pro then you can add minimum quantity rules and step values for wholesale users only. This way, you can ensure your retail customers are free to purchase any quantity. Most importantly, this delivers a better user experience to wholesale buyers.

#3: Bulk variations

If you sell products that have lots of variations in bulk, then you might be using the WooCommerce Bulk Variations plugin. The best WooCommerce product quantity plugin works seamlessly with it.

Because of this, you can control the WooCommerce variable product quantity that people can purchase of each variation. You can also set min or max quantity for products. As a result, you can handle the size of each order in a profitable way.

How to use the best WooCommerce product quantity plugin

The WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin gives store owners control over product quantities including the ability to change the default quantity, set minimum and maximum quantities, and add quantity step values.

First, install and activate the WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin on your WordPress site. Next, you can:

• Set global options. You can configure global options to reflect changes across all of your products. Do this on the WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin’s settings page. You can also set rules that apply to the entire order. For example, you can specify that the cart must contain a minimum and maximum number of products, or meet certain value rules.
• Set category-level rules. The WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin also lets you set category-level rules. This means you can set default quantities, minimum and maximum quantities. You can also set quantity step values for all products in a specific WooCommerce category.
• Set product-specific rules. The WooCommerce product quantity plugin also lets you set product-specific rules from the Inventory tab on the Edit Product screen. This is perfect for stores that sell a few products they’d like to apply quantity rules to, or where you need different rules for each product.
• Set variation-level rules. Do you sell products with variations and need quantity rules for individual variations? You can do this with the WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin. It also lets you set variation-level rules from the Variations tab on the Edit Product screen.

Key features

The best WooCommerce quantity plugin lets you change the default quantity, set min/max quantities, and add quantity step values. You can do this globally for all products or at the category, product, or variation level.

Customers can use the quantity selectors on the front-end to set different quantities before adding products to cart. As a result, they buy quantities that are profitable and manageable for your store.

Before we finish, here's a summary of everything the quantity plugin can do:

• Default quantity (global/category/product/variation)
• Global rules:
  • Min & max order value
  • Min & max order quantity
  • Quantity increments
  • User role
• Category rules:
  • Min & max category value
  • Min & max category quantity
  • Category quantity increments
• Product rules:
  • Min & max product value
  • Min & max product quantity
  • Product quantity increments
• Variation rules:
  • Min & max variation value
  • Min & max variation quantity
  • Variation quantity increments

Where to get the product quantity plugin

In conclusion, WooCommerce Quantity Manager is the perfect product quantity plugin for all types of e-commerce store. Whether you run a restaurant, wholesale store, grocery store, or anything else, it's time to take control over your product quantities.

Get the WooCommerce Quantity Manager plugin today!

Do you offer discounts in your WooCommerce store, either by running sales or discounting specific products? Discover the easier way to put your products on sale, display 'On Sale' badges, and list sale products in prominent parts of your store 🚀

In WooCommerce, you can add 'On Sale' badges by setting a sale price for individual products or variations. That's pretty time-consuming 🥱. Keep reading to discover how to streamline and showcase your WooCommerce on sale products by:

• Quickly putting products on sale either globally, or in bulk for selected products or categories. We'll do this with the WooCommerce Discount Manager plugin.
• Supercharging your sales by creating other types of sale price and discount, such as quantity-based incentives and buy-one-get-one-free offers. We'll use WooCommerce Discount Manager for this too.
• Displaying WooCommerce on sale products in a quick order form in prominent parts of your store, for example on the homepage. We'll use the WooCommerce Product Table plugin for this.

What's wrong with using the 'Sale price' field in WooCommerce?

As I mentioned above, the default way of adding sale prices in WooCommerce is pretty limited. The problems are:

The solution is to use the best WooCommerce discount plugin to put products on sale, instead of entering sale prices manually. I'll tell you which plugins you can use to solve each of the above problems.

WooCommerce Discount Manager: The easier way to put products on sale

Using the WooCommerce Discount Manager plugin to create your sale prices will solve the first four problems that I listed above. You can use it to:

Next, I'll tell you how to set it up in a way that achieves all these things 💪

Step-by-step tutorial

1. Get the plugin and install it in your WordPress Dashboard.
2. Activate your license key in the plugin setup wizard.
3. Now go to Marketing → Discounts and click 'Add New'.
4. Select which type of WooCommerce sale price you wish to create:
   

   

5. Fill in all the options, such as a fixed or percentage amount and the logic that will allow customers to qualify. For example, you can offer sale prices based on amount spent, and much more. Play around to find the most enticing and profitable options for your store.
6. For simple fixed and percentage discounts, you can tick a box to display the "On sale" badge on qualifying products. (This isn't relevant for more advanced discount types because they're calculated later, on the cart page.)
7. Use the 'Product Page Content' field to add any information that you want to display to highlight the discount.
   

   

8. Finally, test out the WooCommerce sale prices on the front end of your site. Keep tweaking until you're completely happy.

Product Filters and Product Table: The perfect pair for displaying On Sale products

The Discount Manager plugin mentioned above is great for actually adding sale prices in WooCommerce. However, other than displaying sale badges on products with fixed or percentage discounts, it won't help customers to find your on sale products.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to list WooCommerce On Sale products more effectively in your store. You'll learn the different ways to put products on sale in WooCommerce, and how to display them prominently in your store.

To draw attention to your on sale products, you can use WooCommerce Discount Manager with either or both of the following plugins:

• WooCommerce Product Filters for adding an 'On sale' filter to your store. Customer can use this to filter the list of products to view items on sale only.
• And if you want to display WooCommerce on sale products separately to your main products, then you can do this with the WooCommerce Product Table plugin. This lists any or all of your products in a quick order form. You can use it to:
  • List on sale products, for example on your homepage where customers won't miss them, and/or;
  • Transform the layout of all your shop pages.

Add an On Sale filter to your store

The WooCommerce Product Filters plugin lets you add an "On sale" filter above or beside your shop and category pages. That way, customers can easily filter the list to view products at the best prices. This is how to add it to your store:

1. Purchase and install the plugin.
2. Use the setup wizard to choose how your want the product filters to work. If you want to display the on sale filter above your main shop pages, then you can do this in the setup wizard too - just select the default filter group for your shop pages.
3. Now go to Products → Filters and edit the default filter group which has been created for you. Click 'Add filter' and create an 'On sale' filter. Repeat this step to add any other product filters which will help people to find your products, such as a category filter.
   

   

4. If you want the on sale filter to appear at the top of your shop pages, then you've finished! Or to display it in the sidebar, then go to Appearance → Widgets, add a 'Product filters' widget and select your filter group.

How to list On Sale products separately

The best way to draw attention to your discounted products is by listing them in a dedicated space on your website. There are several places where you can do this:

• Add a 'Sale' section to the homepageList On Sale products in a prominent spot on the homepage of your WordPress website. This allows them to capture your customers' attention the second they arrive on the site.
• Create a 'Special offers' pageList the On Sale products on a 'Special Offers' page or a 'Clearance Sale' page. You can then link to this page from your website’s navigation menu to encourage people to check out the WooCommerce On Sale products.

• List On Sale products above your other productsYou can list On Sale products in WooCommerce on the main shop page above your other categories and products. This immediately draws the visitor’s attention to the products on sale. And, at the same time, it encourages them to check out the products and make a purchase.
• Blog about your discounted productsAnother way to draw attention to products is by listing special offers in a blog post. This is particularly useful if you’re reviewing a specific product. Or perhaps you want to write about several different On Sale products and then list all the special deals within the post.

Use these methods to showcase your best deals. In the next section, I'll show you a simple method to list On Sale products in any (or all!) of these locations.

How to list on sale products with WooCommerce Product Table

The WooCommerce Product Table plugin makes it easy to list discounted products anywhere in your store. This includes each of the locations that I recommended in the previous section.

Step 1: Tag your On Sale products

First, you need a way to tag your On Sale products so that you can list them separately from your full price stock.

WooCommerce lets store owners highlight their most important products in the sale by marking them as Featured. Here’s how:

1. Go to Products → All Products from the WordPress admin panel.
2. Find the product you want to mark as Featured and click on the star in the far right column.

Pro tip: If you already use featured products for something else in your store, you should create a custom taxonomy called Sale and tag each On Sale product as Yes.

Step 2: Install and configure WooCommerce Product Table

Get the WooCommerce Product Table plugin and install it on your WordPress website. Once that’s done, activate the plugin’s license key on the settings page (WooCommerce → Settings → Products → Product tables).

From the same screen, you can choose which product details you’d like to display in the table layout. You can do this by setting the Columns option to image,name,summary,price,buy.

To show customers what a great deal they're getting, the 'Price' column will display the main price crossed out with the sale price alongside.

Check out the available column options for ideas on what’s possible with the WooCommerce Product Table plugin.

Step 3: List discounted products

There are two ways to list discounted products on your WordPress site’s front-end:

Method 1: For featured products

If you marked the WooCommerce On Sale products as Featured products then you can use the following shortcode to list them in your product table: [product_table term="product_visibility:featured"].

Method 2: If you’re using a custom taxonomy

If you decided to create a custom taxonomy called Sale, you can use the [product_table term="sale:yes"] shortcode to list WooCommerce On Sale products in the table layout.

Step 4: Display the On Sale products on your website

All you have to do is add the shortcode to any page on your site. This depends on where you want to list the On Sale products. For example:

• Homepage - simply edit the homepage and add the shortcode.
• 'Sale' page - create a page, add it to the menu, and add the shortcode to the page.
• Shop page, above the other products - edit the 'Shop' page and add the shortcode. The default grid of all your products will automatically appear underneath the product table.
• Blog post - add or edit a blog post and add the shortcode wherever you want to list the On Sale products within the post.

List ‘on sale’ products today

As you can see, there are lots of opportunities to run successful sales in WooCommerce which go beyond what's possible with the default 'Sale price' feature. Here's a recap of them all:

• Use the WooCommerce Discount Manager plugin to quickly add a wide range of sophisticated sale prices and deals, and display them prominently on product pages.
• Add On Sale filters to your shop pages with the WooCommerce Product Filters plugin, so that customers can find products on sale more easily.
• Use WooCommerce Product Table to list WooCommerce On Sale products in a neat table layout - the perfect way to enhance product visibility and make it easier for customers to buy.

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The management of restaurants are now being significantly impacted by the world of technological improvements. Given that the majority of people spend a significant portion of their days online, restaurants have enormous market potential. In fact, customers who frequent restaurants are more interested in buying food online. Restaurant managers and owners are constantly looking for ways to make it easier for consumers to order meals online and have it delivered quickly.

Most restaurant owners are setting up a restaurant delivery website to stay in business and give a neck to neck competition to others owners. The good news is that you can create a food delivery website in WordPress in a few simple steps.

One of the key benefits of setting up your own restaurant delivery website is that you don’t have to rely on third-party food delivery service providers and food delivery apps like Grubhub, Uber Eats, Postmates, or Doordash. Instead, you can start taking online orders for your own local restaurant and keep 100% of your profits.

In this tutorial, we’ll explain how you can create a restaurant delivery website using the WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin. You can also watch this video to see how it's done.

How to create a restaurant delivery website in WooCommerce

To create a food delivery website, you’ll need a WordPress website with the WooCommerce plugin installed. You’ll also need the WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin to set up your online menu and take orders online.

If you don’t already have a WordPress website set up, check out our in-depth tutorial on how to create a WooCommerce restaurant online ordering system for step-by-step instructions.

It's much more cost-effective than signing up with a third-party food delivery service provider like Grubhub, Uber Eats, Doordash, or Postmates.

Step #1: Add food items as WooCommerce products

The first thing you need to do is to add menu items to your restaurant delivery website as WooCommerce products.

We recommend organizing food items into different categories the way you would if you were creating a menu for your physical restaurant.

For example, your categories might be:

• Starters
• Main Courses
• Desserts
• Drinks

Once you’ve created the categories, simply add each food item as an individual WooCommerce product. Enter its title, description, category, and image, and then fill out the Product data section to set the price and (optionally) variations and other options.

Step #2: Install WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering on your WordPress website

The WooCommerce plugin automatically creates shop pages with its own layout for displaying products or, in this case, food items. However, this isn’t ideal for a restaurant delivery website. Instead, you can use the WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin to list your online menu in a one-page order form.

Get the WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin and install it on your WordPress website. You’ll get the plugin’s files and license key in the confirmation email.

Head over to WooCommerce → Settings → Restaurant from the WordPress admin panel and enter your license key. You can choose the default settings for your restaurant food ordering forms from the same screen. Also add opening dates and times if you want to prevent people from placing orders while you're closed.

Here's how it works:

The WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin automatically creates a food order form for you. If you preview your food delivery website on the front-end, it should look something like this (depending on your settings):

The food items are listed in a menu-style format with images, descriptions, and pricing information.

Optionally, you can create separate food order forms for different categories instead of listing all of them on one page. You can also create a section for Special Offers.

The easiest way to do this is by adding the [restaurant_ordering] shortcode to a page and using the shortcode options to choose which categories to include on that page.

Customers can simply place their order online and then proceed to the checkout page.

Step #3: Set up delivery and collection

One of the biggest advantages to using WooCommerce to power your restaurant delivery website is that it has options built-in for delivery and collection. To configure these settings, simply head over to the WooCommerce → Settings → Shipping section of the WordPress admin.

For example, you can create shipping zones for the areas you offer deliveries to. Let’s say you want to offer free shipping to areas close to your restaurant and charge for areas further away. You can set up two shipping zones in WooCommerce. And, if you want to offer collection or takeout option, all you have to do is set up a third shipping zone that gives customers the option to collect their orders from the restaurant.

The WooCommerce plugin also lets you offer delivery options for each shipping zone you create. You can use these options to set up free home deliveries if the order value is above the minimum spend, charge for deliveries on orders less than the minimum spend, and offer local pickup.

If you like, then you can also add a plugin to allow customers to choose an exact delivery or collection time slot.

Step #4: Printing orders in the kitchen

To keep things simple, you can integrate a GPRS printer with your restaurant delivery website to automatically print orders in the kitchen in real-time. For this, we recommend using the WooCommerce Automatic Order Printing plugin. It offers seamless integration with WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering.

Alternatively, you can receive an SMS notification of new orders instead of printing orders to the kitchen. Our best advice is to use the SMS Alert Order Notifications plugin. You can also use the Twilio SMS Notifications plugin to send customers an SMS when their order is ready. This is especially useful if you want to offer local pickup options. Keep in mind that you’ll need to ask for the customer’s phone number at checkout if you want to offer this service.

Step #5: Offer online or offline payments

The WooCommerce plugin lets you set up various payment options. If you’re just getting started and want to offer online payment options, choose PayPal Payments Standard and enter your PayPal email address. In addition to this, you can also accept credit or debit card payments without using PayPal. For this, you would simply select Stripe and follow the setup instructions.

You can also offer offline payments (such as Cash on delivery) which are particularly useful for restaurant delivery websites. This way, your delivery drivers can collect payments from customers. This way, you can rival online food delivery service providers like Grubhub, Uber Eats, Doordash, and Postmates.

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By setting up your own restaurant delivery website in WordPress you can start accepting online orders and keep 100% of the profits. This is much better than going with an online food delivery service provider like Grubhub, Uber Eats, or Postmates. The WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin makes it easy to get started with a step in the right direction.

Once you’ve set up your restaurant delivery website, there are plenty of ways to enhance the customer’s shopping experience, for example, by setting up delivery and collection and offering online payment options in your online ordering system.

Ready to set up your restaurant delivery website and make it easier for customers to order food? Get the WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin today.

If you sell car parts, you might consider setting up an online store to get your products in front of more customers. Selling car parts online also makes it easy for people to buy from you since they can quickly search for what they're looking for.

One of the biggest problems store owners have when selling car parts online is finding a good way to list products in a way that makes it easy for customers to find exactly what they're looking for. One way to do this is by setting up a WooCommerce store and listing automotive or car parts in a product table with purchasing options. As a result, you can increase product visibility and grow your bottom line.

With this in mind, in this article, we’ll explain how you can start selling car parts online. Along the way, we’ll also show you how you can optimize your online store’s shopping experience for customers.

The demand for online auto parts

In recent years, the automotive aftermarket industry has witnessed a significant shift towards online channels. This has been driven by several key factors, including:

• Increasing number of DIY customers
  • As more vehicle owners take matters into their own hands, the demand for auto parts has surged. DIY enthusiasts prefer the convenience of online shopping, where they can easily find the specific components they need for repairs or upgrades.
  • Online platforms provide detailed product information, compatibility guides, and customer reviews, empowering DIYers to make informed decisions.
• Convenience offered by online shopping channels
  • E-commerce platforms have revolutionized the way consumers shop for auto parts. With just a few clicks, customers can browse catalogs, compare prices, and order parts from the comfort of their homes.
  • The hassle-free experience of doorstep delivery and secure payment options has contributed to the popularity of online channels.
• Growing market and digitization
  • The e-commerce automotive aftermarket has thrived since the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, the market size reached $78,631.4 million, and it is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.4% from 2021 to 2031.
  • Vehicle owners turned to online platforms for maintenance services and aftermarket components during lockdowns, driving sales.
• Increasing average age of vehicles
  • Vehicles worldwide are aging, leading to higher demand for replacement parts. The average age of vehicles in regions like China, the US, and the UK has risen significantly.
  • Car loans with longer repayment periods and improved vehicle quality contribute to this trend. As vehicles last longer, the need for replacement parts grows.
• B2B dominance in online sales
  • Business-to-business (B2B) sales account for over 73% of revenue in the e-commerce automotive aftermarket. Bulk buyers benefit from easy payment options, discounts, and efficient logistics.
  • Growing economies and disposable incomes drive B2B engagement in online auto component purchases.

For these reasons and more, the demand for online auto parts continues to rise. This creates an opportunity to build an eCommerce store to sell car parts online. Whether you want to target auto professionals or DIYers, it's an interesting niche with plenty of potential.

Identifying popular categories in auto parts market

If you want to sell auto parts online, then it's vital to understand which types are most sought-after. Let’s delve into some of the popular auto parts categories:

• Engine components - Engine parts are the heart of any vehicle. Categories within this segment include:
  • Spark plugs: Vital for ignition and combustion.
  • Oil filters: Essential for maintaining engine health.Timing Belts and Chains: Ensure precise engine timing.
  • Pistons and rings: Key components for power generation.
• Braking system parts - Safety is paramount, making braking system components highly sought-after:
  • Brake pads and rotors: Regularly replaced for optimal braking performance.
  • Calipers and brake lines: Crucial for stopping power.
  • Master cylinders: Responsible for hydraulic pressure distribution.
• Suspension and steering components - These parts impact ride comfort and handling:
  • Shocks and struts: Absorb road shocks.
  • Control arms and bushings: Maintain stability.
  • Tie rod ends and ball joints: Influence steering responsiveness.
• Electrical and lighting parts - As vehicles become more technologically advanced, electrical components gain prominence:
  • Batteries: Power source for starting and running the vehicle.
  • Alternators and starters: Generate electricity.
  • Headlights and taillights: Essential for visibility and safety.
• Body and exterior components - Aesthetic and functional parts fall into this car parts category:
  • Bumpers and grilles: Protect the vehicle and enhance appearance.
  • Mirrors and door handles: Vital for safety and convenience.
  • Fenders and hoods: Shield engine components.

You need to decide whether to specialize in a particular area or sell all types of car parts. If you decide to stock a wide range, then it's important to consider the best way to source and stock each item.

Finding reliable suppliers

In the competitive landscape of the auto parts industry, establishing strong relationships with reliable suppliers is essential. There are several ways to source quality car parts:

Traditional suppliers

Traditional suppliers play a crucial role in the automotive parts industry. This includes local distributors and wholesalers. These suppliers operate physical locations and maintain warehouses stocked with a diverse range of auto parts and accessories. By establishing relationships with these local distributors, you gain the advantage of inspecting products firsthand and negotiating favorable terms.

Another category of traditional suppliers is the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). OEMs specialize in producing parts specifically designed for particular vehicle brands. Collaborating with OEMs ensures access to genuine components. However, it's essential to note that OEMs often impose strict requirements and may have minimum order quantities.

Authorized dealers represent specific brands and provide authentic parts. Partnering with authorized dealers and then selling the car parts online not only ensures the quality of the components, but also enhances your credibility as a seller.

Online marketplaces

In the digital age, online marketplaces have become essential for auto parts businesses. Let's explore some key aspects:

• Dropshipping - Dropshipping allows you to sell auto parts without the need to hold inventory.
• Marketplace platforms - Platforms like eBay, Amazon, and Alibaba serve as intermediaries connecting buyers and sellers.
• Specialized auto parts marketplaces - Dedicated websites such as RockAuto, CarParts.com, and AutoZone cater specifically to auto parts.

Trade shows and industry events

It's definitely worth participating in trade shows, expos, and industry events related to the automotive aftermarket. These events provide valuable networking opportunities. When attending, engage in conversations with suppliers, ask pertinent questions, and gather information. Evaluate factors such as product quality, pricing, and reliability. Meeting suppliers face-to-face allows you to establish stronger connections and make informed decisions.

When evaluating potential auto parts suppliers, consider several critical factors. First, prioritize quality and authenticity - ensure that suppliers offer high-quality, genuine parts to maintain your reputation. Next, compare pricing and margins, taking into account shipping costs, bulk discounts, and payment terms. Evaluate shipping and logistics reliability, as timely delivery is crucial for customer satisfaction. Lastly, choose auto parts suppliers with excellent customer support and a positive track record.

Choosing your platform: eCommerce websites vs. online marketplaces

Now you've learned why it's worth selling car parts online and where to source them from. Next, let's look at different ways to sell auto parts and consider which is best.

1. eCommerce websites: The self-hosted solution

An eCommerce website is a dedicated online store that you build and manage independently. Here’s why it might be the right choice for your online auto parts business:

1. Brand control and consistency:
   • With your own eCommerce store, you have complete control over the design, functionality, and tone of voice. This consistency reinforces your brand identity and sets you apart from competitors.
   • Unlike marketplaces, where pricing and reviews dominate, your brand experience becomes a powerful differentiator.
2. Better profit margins:
   • Selling directly through your eCommerce store allows you to retain all profits without sharing them with a third-party platform.
   • Implement strategies like up-selling, cross-selling, personalized recommendations, and dynamic pricing to maximize your margins.
   • In contrast, marketplaces often recommend similar products from competitors, potentially diverting business away from you.
3. Ownership of customer data:
   • Your eCommerce store grants you access to valuable customer data, which is not possible on marketplaces.
   • Utilize this data for targeted marketing campaigns, personalized experiences, and cost-effective retention strategies.
   • Lower customer acquisition costs (CAC) by leveraging your direct access to customer insights.
4. Forecasting and proactive measures:
   • With direct data access, you can forecast demand ahead of time and take proactive steps to meet it.
   • Adjust inventory, marketing efforts, and pricing based on real-time insights.

To build your own eCommerce website, you either need to DIY it or hire a developer to do it for you. While some platforms  make it easier for non-technical users to create and manage their stores, some technical knowledge or professional assistance may still be necessary.

You'll need to pay for development, hosting, and ongoing maintenance. However, the long-term benefits often outweigh the upfront costs if you use a platform like WooCommerce.

2. Online marketplaces: The guided bus tour

Online marketplaces act as bustling hubs where buyers and sellers converge. They get you:

1. Immediate exposure:
   • Marketplaces already have a large customer base actively searching for auto parts.
   • Listing your products on platforms like eBay, Amazon, or specialized auto parts marketplaces (e.g., RockAuto, CarParts.com) instantly exposes your inventory to potential buyers.
2. Lower startup costs:
   • Marketplaces handle infrastructure, traffic, and payment processing, reducing your initial investment.
   • Ideal for businesses with limited resources or those testing the waters.
3. Ease of setup:
   • Listing products on marketplaces is straightforward, especially if you’re already familiar with their interfaces.

If you're wondering "What is the best site to sell car parts on?" then I recommend looking into them all and comparing the size of their audience with their fees and functionality.

Disadvantages of online marketplaces

1. Profit sharing:
   • Marketplaces charge significant fees for each transaction, impacting your profit margins - especially as your online car parts business grows longer-term.
   • You share profits with the platform.
2. Limited brand control:
   • Your brand presence is diluted within the marketplace environment.
   • Reviews and pricing become dominant factors, potentially overshadowing your unique value proposition.
3. Customer data ownership:
   • Marketplaces retain customer data, limiting your ability to run targeted campaigns or personalized experiences.
   • You're dependent on the platform’s policies and algorithms, which can change at any time.

Our recommendation: Sell car parts online with WooCommerce

I believe that WooCommerce is the best way to sell auto parts online. This self-hosted eCommerce solution combines the best of both worlds:

• You get your own website, which gives you total flexibility and control over your branding, ownership of your customer base, etc.
• No revenue sharing (except for a small percentage to PayPal or a credit card payment processor if you accept payments online).
• You can either choose your own hosting with a company like Kinsta, or take the easy route and use the hosted WooExpress service.
• Choose from a huge worldwide community of experience WooCommerce developers.
• Avoid custom development costs by installing off-the-shelf themes and plugins to add extra features to your car parts website. For example, in a minute I'll show you how to use the WooCommerce Product Table plugin to create quick car parts order forms.
• As well as selling direct on your website, you can integrate your inventory with marketplaces such as eBay, extending your market even further.
• Integrating with marketplaces (e.g., eBay) allows you to tap into their customer base while maintaining your brand identity.

That's why I think that WooCommerce is the perfect solution for selling car parts online. You get high flexibility, while benefitting from low costs at the same time 🚗💡

How to list a large number of car parts

Selling car parts online means that you have to work with a lot of information. You might have posts for multiple vehicle types with multiple product types for each vehicle type.

Here are some of the key challenges store owners need to think about:

• You need an easy way for customers to narrow down the list of car parts based on specific criteria such as make, model, and category.
• Displaying information about each car part is more important than having large images.
• Ideally, you want to display a large number of car parts on a single page so customers don't have to browse through multiple pages to find what they're looking for.

One way to optimize the customer’s shopping experience is by structuring and displaying product information in a user-friendly way on your store.

For this, you’ll need to make the most of WooCommerce categories, attributes, and custom taxonomies to properly structure data about car manufacturers and models – more on this later.

To make your online car parts store a success, you need to make it as easy as possible for customers to find products, learn more about them, add them to their cart, and proceed to checkout. This is possible with the WooCommerce Product Table plugin.

Search, sort, and filter options will help customers quickly find what they’re looking for. Dynamic filters (i.e. filters that are connected to each other) allow customers to see available products only. In other words, when a customer selects an option in one filter, the options in the next filter are automatically updated.

For your online automotive or car parts store, this means that instead of listing all the available car makes and models in a single dropdown menu, when the user selects Toyota from the Make dropdown, the Model dropdown will update to only include Toyota models only.

Dynamic filters are ideal for e-commerce websites that contain lots of information as is allows customers to narrow down their search and quickly find the product they want. Similarly, with a search box customers can search the product name or description to find what they’re looking for.

How to sell car parts online

To sell auto parts online, you’ll need a WordPress site with an e-commerce platform like WooCommerce. After you’ve set up your WordPress site, and installed WooCommerce, add automotive parts or car parts as WooCommerce products. Once that’s done, you can categorize them and list them in a front-end table layout.

Step #1: Add car parts products to WooCommerce

Here’s how you can add car parts to WooCommerce:

1. From the WordPress dashboard, navigate to Products → Add New.
2. Enter the title of the product, description, and product image.
3. Fill out the Product data section by entering information for each car part like the pricing and stock details.
   1. Simple product refers to products with no variants. So, when adding car parts with only one version, have this option selected.
   2. For car parts with multiple product options (for example color, size, or material), select Variable product. This way, customers will be able to select these attributes before placing their order.
4. When you’re done, click on the Publish button to add the car part to your store.

Step #2: Categorize the car parts

A typical WooCommerce car parts website contains hundreds or even thousands of products. It’s not easy to find a specific car part on an online store that sells tons of different types of products.

Here are some ways you can structure the car parts products on your website to improve user experience:

• WooCommerce product categories. Using WooCommerce categories and sub-categories, you can break down your car parts listings. For instance, if you sell car parts for different car manufacturers, you can create a category for each one of them (e.g. Toyota, Honda, and Hyundai). The Toyota category may include subcategories for Aygo, Corolla, RAV4, and Yaris.
• Tags. Tags let you label products and allow customers to quickly see all products with the same label. Labelling your products with appropriate tags will enable customers to quickly find car parts. For example, you might consider creating tags for battery, bumpers, doors, windows, tail lights, new, and used.
• Attributes. You can add specific data related to car parts in product attributes. For example, you might create attributes for colors, sizes, and materials. Use attributes when you’re selling auto parts online with variations. For instance, you might create an attribute group Material containing laminated glass and tempered glass for car windows.
• Custom fields. WooCommerce custom fields enable you to store additional information about the car parts you are selling. Ideally, they should only be used when you want to display information that is unique to a product. For instance, you can create a custom field containing information about the item’s condition if you sell used car parts or fitment details.
• Taxonomies. As with categories, taxonomies also enable you to organize products into hierarchical groups. However, organizing with taxonomies is a little different than organizing with the standard categories and subcategories. For instance, you might use standard WooCommerce categories for car manufacturers and models and create a custom taxonomy to store hierarchical information about the type of car such as SUVs or Crossovers.

As an example, let’s say you are setting up a WooCommerce car parts website. Here is how your products and categories might look like:

• WooCommerce Categories – Toyota → RAV4.
• Tags – Windshields, Car Windows.
• Attributes – Material: Laminated Glass.
• Custom Fields – Part #194358Z; Condition: used, high-quality.
• Taxonomies – Car → Crossover.

These WooCommerce features enable you to implement a logical product structure for your online car parts store.

Step #3: Create car parts order forms

The default WordPress shop page layout isn’t ideal for selling car parts online. When selling products where the customer’s focus will be on information rather than what the products look like, you need to display them in a structured, grid-style layout.

The first thing you need to do is get the WooCommerce Product Table plugin and install and activate it on your WordPress website. From the setting screen (WooCommerce → Settings → Products → Product tables), scroll down to the Table controls section.

From here, use the Product filters dropdown to choose the filters you'd like to display. You can set this to Custom and then enter the filters you'd like to use in the Custom filters option.

The next step is to start creating order forms for car parts. There are two ways to do this:

Method #1: Use a shortcode to list all your car parts in a one-page order form

Head over to the page where you want to list your car parts. Add the [product_table] shortcode to the text editor. This will list all your WooCommerce products in a neat table view. If you’re using the Gutenberg editor, you can simply insert the product table block.

When you preview the page on your store’s front-end, you’ll notice all of the car parts are listed in a table layout.

This way, you can list all car parts in a single WooCommerce table similar to an online order form. An intuitive, single-page layout combined with search and filter options will help customers quickly find the car parts they want. This will also enable customers to view all the products and product information on the same page and place their orders.

You should implement this product layout if you sell dozens of products. For instance, this is perfect for auto parts sellers that stock car parts for a handful of cars only.

You can also create separate category pages for different types of car parts.

To do this, you’ll need to create a different product table on each page listing the car parts for each product category. For example, one category page for Air Filters and another category page for Brakes, each with Make and Model filter dropdowns above the table to let customers select their vehicle. This way, customers will be able to view the correct products for their cars using dropdown lists.

Alternatively, you can choose to split a single page into different sections, with each section containing a table listing different car parts.

This product display style works well if you sell hundreds or thousands of car parts.

Method #2: Add order forms to your shop and category pages

The WooCommerce Product Table plugin also lets you automatically replace the standard WooCommerce templates with a product table. In other words, you can automatically add car parts order forms to your main shop page and category pages.

For this, you'll need to head over to the plugin's settings page (WooCommerce → Settings → Products → Product tables). Next, scroll down till you reach the Table display section. Tick the checkboxes next to the Shop templates option.

Click the Save changes button to continue.

Bonus! Add advanced car parts filters

So far, we've looked at how to use the filters that are built into the WooCommerce Product Table plugin. They're pretty good for selling car parts, but you can supercharge them even further by installing the WooCommerce Product Filters plugin.

This lets you add a step filter to your car parts store. When the list of car parts first loads, the car manufacturers filter dropdown appears on the page. After the customer selects a manufacturer, a 'Car models' dropdown appears underneath. And so on, for as many levels as you set up when you added your product data:

As well as adding step-by-step dropdown filters, you can use WooCommerce Product Filters to add a wide range of other filter styles. For example, it comes with filter checkboxes, radio buttons, clickable images, range sliders, and so on. If you have lots of car parts to sell, then this is a good way to help customers find what they need more easily.

Start selling car parts online

Selling information-dense products like car parts can be difficult if you’re running vanilla WooCommerce. As a car parts retailer, you need a better solution.

The WooCommerce Product Table plugin lets you display products in a neat, front-end table layout complete with a search box and sorting functionality. In addition to this, you can use it to add dynamic filters above your product tables making it easy for customers to quickly find the exact car parts they’re looking for. By doing so, you’ll be able to increase online sales and grow your bottom line.

Ready to optimize the user experience of your online car parts store? Get WooCommerce Product Table today!

Everyone wishes to live in a picturesque atmosphere, but in modern times, we are encircled by man-made constructions that has increase the solitariness from the natural world. Without a doubt, gardening is a pleasurable hobby, and there are a number of other advantages to take into account.

With the increasing era of technology and the business model for plant nurseries and center can help people's growing interest in gardening. Therefore, if you have a deep love for nature and a passion for gardening, you can consider beginning an online plant business to assist people achieve their goals. The good news is that you can set up a garden center online shop using WordPress and WooCommerce in a few simple steps.

In this complete, guide, we’ll show you step-by-step how to set up a garden center in WordPress. This will enable you to continue running your business even if you can't serve as many customers in person, which can make a big difference to your sales.

You’ll learn how to set up a garden center store in WordPress using the WooCommerce Product Table plugin.

Why garden centers need to start selling online

During the Coronavirus outbreak, businesses of all sizes were looking for ways to stay operational. However, with social distancing policies and lockdown restrictions, it sometimes proved to be difficult to sell to customers from a brick-and-mortar store.

Fortunately, as a garden center owner or florist, you can set up an online store so you don’t miss out on sales. It’s also a great way to reach more customers and potentially increase sales. As well as selling to local customers who would normally visit you in person, you can extend your reach to a national or even international audience.

You can add products to your garden center store and allow customers to browse and purchase them from home. You can choose to ship products to customers or offer in-store (or curbside) pickup options.

Setting up a garden center in WordPress

The first thing you need to do is set up an easy-to-use website for your garden center. The easiest way to do this is by using WordPress and WooCommerce. Since WordPress is open-source, you’ll have complete ownership over your garden center online store.

If you already have a non-ecommerce website for your garden center, don't worry. Simply link this to your WordPress WooCommerce online store and vice versa.

Here's what you need to do:

1. WordPress. Start by installing and setting up the WordPress.org CMS on your hosting server.
2. WooCommerce. Install the WooCommerce plugin on your WordPress website to enable e-commerce functionality.
3. WordPress theme. You’ll need a gardening WordPress theme or a drag-and-drop page builder plugin to create an attractive website. There are plenty of free WordPress themes to choose from. This will help you deliver good user experience to customers.
4. Product categories. Your garden center online store will likely have multiple product categories if you sell a variety of different types of products. This makes it easier for customers to quickly find the products they’re looking for.
5. Navigation menu. You can set up your menu by going to Appearance → Menus from the WordPress admin panel. Depending on the types of products you sell, you can list product categories in your navigation menu or simply link to the main shop page.

Once you've set that up, you can set up a garden center online store in WooCommerce.

WooCommerce Product Table: the perfect plugin for setting up a garden center store

The WooCommerce Product Table plugin is perfect for setting up a garden center store in WordPress. It lets you display products in a front-end table layout with search, sort, and filter options. This way, customers can quickly find the products they’re looking for and add them to their shopping cart.

As compared to the default store layout you get with WooCommerce out of the box, the WooCommerce Product Table plugin lets you showcase your garden center products in an order form layout. You can choose which columns to display in your product table.

This way, customers don’t have to visit the single product page to learn more about each item, select variations, or add it to their shopping cart. Instead, customers can view product details, set the quantity selector, tick the checkboxes next to the products they’d like to purchase and add them to cart in one go.

How to set up a garden center in WooCommerce

Once you’ve set up your WordPress website, follow the steps below to set up a garden center in WordPress using the WooCommerce Product Table plugin.

Step #1: Add garden center products to your online store

Start by adding products to your garden center e-commerce store as individual WooCommerce products. If you sell a variety of different products – plants, flowers, seeds, soil, planters, lawn care products – then we recommend creating categories to keep them organized. This also makes it easier for customers to quickly find the garden products they’d like to purchase.

Head over to Products → Add New from the WordPress admin panel to add each item as a WooCommerce product. Enter a title, brief description, product image, and price for each item. Finally, select the appropriate category for the product. Click the Publish button to continue.

Step #2: Configure the WooCommerce Product Table plugin settings

Navigate to WooCommerce → Settings → Products → Product tables from the WordPress admin panel. From here, you can configure the WooCommerce Product Table plugin’s settings.

Use the Columns option to choose which columns appear in the product table. For example, you might consider displaying the product image, name, short description, price, and add to cart options. You can also display reviews and stock. Here’s a complete list of columns to choose from.

Next, scroll down to the Add to cart button option and set it to Button and checkbox using the dropdown menu. Make sure the Quantities checkbox is ticked.

This is because people often buy multiple garden center products at once. For example, a customer might purchase a few planters, soil, and seeds. They can then use the checkboxes to select the products they’d like to purchase and add them all to their cart in one go. In addition to this, they can use the quantity selector to buy more of each item.

Most garden centers have many different product categories such as plants, flowers, planters, soils, seeds, lawn care products, and gardening tools. Using the WooCommerce Product Table plugin, you can let customers filter the items in the table by categories. To do this, set the Product filters option to Custom. Next, enter categories in the Custom filters option.

Click the Save changes button to proceed.

Step #3: Display products on the front-end

The WooCommerce Product Table plugin automatically replaces the default WooCommerce shop page layout with the table layout. Your shop page should look something like this on the front-end:

Customers can use the filter options to view the category they’d like to purchase from. They can tick the checkboxes next to the products they’d like to purchase and set the quantity selectors to add multiple products to their cart at once. If you sell variable products, customers will be able to choose the variation they’d like to buy directly from the main shop page.

Bonus: Adding extra features to your garden center website

To enhance the user experience your garden center website delivers, you can add other features to it. The sky's the limit wit WordPress and WooCommerce, but here are some examples.

Provide advanced filters to help customers to find products more easily

The WooCommerce Product Filters plugin works perfectly with WooCommerce Product Table, and adds even more advanced filtering options to your store:

As you can see in the screenshot above, you can use WooCommerce Product Filters to add user-friendly features above and/or next to the list of products. This is perfect for garden centres with lots of products, and helps customers to narrow down their selections and make quick decisions.

Add opening and closing hours

If you have set opening hours and closing hours, you can add a text widget to the sidebar to display them on every page throughout the site.

Go to Appearance → Widgets from the WordPress dashboard and add a Text widget to the sidebar. Enter a title and your opening and closing times.

You can also use widgets to display other information such as testimonials, featured products, on sale products, photo galleries, or garden care tips. For best results, use a free plugin like Widget Context to show different garden care tips on different product categories. This will add value to your customers and is a good way to subtly encourage them to buy more.

Set up your garden center store today

By setting up a garden center website, you can continue running your business during the lockdown. The best part is that you can do this whether you have a physical store or not.

Once you have your WordPress website set up with the WooCommerce plugin installed on it, it only takes a few minutes to set up a complete garden center website. Start by adding garden center products as individual WooCommerce products. Next, configure the WooCommerce Product Table plugin’s settings to display products in a table layout.

You can set up a similar online store if you’re in the gardening business or the landscaping business.

Ready to set up your garden center in WordPress? Get the WooCommerce Product Table plugin!

As an online store owner, you might want to offer different payment options to different types of customers. This complete guide will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about how to set up WooCommerce payment by user role. In other words, we'll explain how you can show different payment options to different users based on their user role.

Out of the box, the WooCommerce plugin shows the same payment options to all of your customers – regardless of their user role. But what if you want to offer different WooCommerce payment gateways by user roles to different types of customers?

The easiest way to set up WooCommerce payment by user roles is by using the WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin. It’s incredibly easy to set up and you can choose which user role(s) can see available payment gateway in WooCommerce.

Why you might want to offer different payment methods to different customers

There are plenty of reasons why you might need to offer different payment methods to different types of customer. Here are some use cases for when you might consider showing WooCommerce payment gateways by user role:

• Wholesale customers or B2B buyersYou can set up WooCommerce payment by user roles to offer popular online payment options – such as PayPal, Stripe, or credit card – to retail customers and additional payment options – such as invoice, cheque, cash on delivery, or bank transfer – to regular wholesale customers.
• Offline payment options for trusted customersYou might want to create a user role for loyal customers and offer them extra payment methods such as invoices. Users with the Customer role and guest users, on the other hand, will only have the option to make payments online at the time they place their order.
• Different payment terms for different groups of customersSome online stores offer different payment terms and shipping methods depending on the customer’s past behavior. For example, reliable payers might qualify for longer payment periods.
• Test payment gateways for administrators and shop managersMost online store owners have a separate staging site that they use for testing payment methods. Others temporarily activate an offline payment gateway such as Check and use this whenever they want to test their live checkout. It’s best to permanently add a test payment method and only make it visible to Administrators and Store Managers only, not users with the Customer role.

Offering different payment gateways to different customers based on their user roles helps you deliver a better, more personalized customer experience. As a result, this can help you boost sales.

In addition, you can use the WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin to offer different shipping methods to different user roles. It's the perfect way to create a tailored shopping experience for each role.

Related: How to offer user group discounts in WooCommerce. 

How to set up WooCommerce payment by user role

For this tutorial, we’ll assume you already have the free WooCommerce plugin installed and set up on your WordPress website.

Step #1: Install and activate WooCommerce Wholesale Pro

Get the WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin and install and activate it on your WordPress website. Head over to WooCommerce → Settings → Wholesale → General and enter your license key.

Click the Save changes button at the bottom of the screen to continue.

Step #2: Create multiple user roles

WooCommerce itself creates a default 'customer' role for your retail buyers. The WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin automatically creates a 'wholesale' role for you. This gives you two roles to start with.

You can create as many additional WooCommerce user roles as you like. It’s the easiest way to create custom roles.

First, consider whether you actually need any extra roles. For example, if you want to offer retail customers the option to pay via PayPal, while letting wholesale buyers make check payments or direct bank transfer, then you don't need to create any new roles. Simply set the visibility for each payment gateway so that 'customers' can see the PayPal option; and 'wholesale' users can see the check and bank transfer options.

To create additional roles, head over to the plugin settings at WooCommerce → Settings → Wholesale → Roles and click the Add new role button. Next, enter a Display name and Discount amount for the user role, if applicable.

Click the Add role button to continue.

Step #3: Add payment options in WooCommerce

If you haven’t done so already, go to WooCommerce → Settings → Payments → Payment methods and enable the specific payment options you’d like to offer your customers. Disable any payment gateways that you don’t want to offer to any user role.

Click the Save changes button to continue.

Step #4: Select which user roles can use each payment option

Finally, go to WooCommerce → Settings → Payments → Payment roles to select the specific user roles that can use each payment method.

The WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin lists all the enabled payment methods so that you can control each one individually. By default, all user roles are selected for each payment option. Click the X to remove the roles that you don't want to see specific payment gateways.

It’s a good idea to keep the Administrator and Shop Manager user roles enabled for every payment method, in addition to the customer roles which will actually be buying online. This will make it easier for you to test the different payment methods.

Preview

When customers add products to their shopping cart and proceed to the checkout page, they’ll see payment options depending on their user role. For example, when users with the Customer user role reach the checkout page, they’ll have the option to make their payment via PayPal. It will look something like this on the front-end:

On the other hand, wholesale users will see Direct Bank Transfer and Check Payments as the available payment methods:

Related tutorial: Complete guide to WooCommerce hide products by user role. 

Where to get the plugin

The WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin lets store owners create multiple user roles and set up WooCommerce payment by user role in a few simple steps. It also lets you offer different shipping methods to different user roles.

It’s a great way to deliver a better user experience through your e-commerce store and make it easier for customers to pay you. As a result, you can effectively boost sales and grow your bottom line.

The plugin comes complete with:

• Quick plug-and-play setup.
• In-depth documentation and video tutorials (there's no way to get it wrong!).
• Technical support and personalised advice.
• 30-day money-back guarantee - love it or get a full refund!

Get the WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin now and set up WooCommerce payment by user roles today.