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Colin Newcomer is a freelance writer from the US, working the digital nomad lifestyle in Saigon, Vietnam. He helps businesses and websites grow by writing in-depth, conversational blog posts.

BigCommerce Review: Is It the Right eCommerce Platform for You?

Looking to launch your own eCommerce store? In our hands-on BigCommerce review, we’ll help you decide whether this popular eCommerce platform is right for your needs.

Overall, BigCommerce is flexible for a hosted eCommerce platform, especially as compared to some other hosted tools. It also offers a multi-channel approach that’s great if you want to also sell on eBay, Amazon, and other platforms.

Want to learn more? Keep reading and we’ll go hands-on…

9 Best WooCommerce POS Plugins (Easy Point of Sale Setup)

Searching for the best WooCommerce POS plugin to take physical orders on your WooCommerce store?

WooCommerce handles everything about eCommerce out of the box, but what if you want to remove the “e” and also use your store for in-person commerce?

With a point of sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce, you can create sales and manage orders from a front-end system on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.

In this post, I’ll share a little bit more about how a WooCommerce POS plugin works. Then, I’ll take you through the nine best WooCommerce POS plugins.

WooCommerce Subscriptions Tutorial: Create Your First Subscription Product

Getting someone to buy something from you one time is nice. Getting someone to buy something from you every single month automatically? Now that’s fantastic — after all, automatic recurring revenue is the eighth wonder of the world.

With WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can easily create your own subscription-powered store using WordPress. What’s more, you can sell all kinds of products:

  • Physical products — like a monthly subscription box where you deliver a new product (or products) each month.
  • Digital products – like ongoing access to your library of stock photos.
  • Services – like a monthly coaching fee that you charge clients.

In this post, we’re not going to tell you what to sell or who to sell it to. But we are going to show you exactly how to sell recurring subscriptions using WooCommerce.

WooCommerce Gift Card Tutorial: How to Sell Gift Cards at Your Store

With the holidays in full swing, you might be looking for a way to start selling WooCommerce gift cards at your store.

Gift cards are a win-win – not only does it make it easy for gift-givers to check off their shopping lists, it also lets you lock in sales at your store.

Unfortunately, WooCommerce doesn’t come with a built-in gift card feature. But we’re going to show you how to fix that using a WooCommerce gift card plugin.

WooCommerce Hooks: Introduction, Tutorial, and Real-Life Examples

If you want to customize how your WooCommerce store looks and/or functions, understanding WooCommerce hooks is going to make your life a whole lot easier. We’ve included two videos at the end which allow you to follow along step-by-step.

Hooks make it easy to insert content or change behavior at specific parts on your store, like the checkout page, shopping cart page, etc. What’s so great about WooCommerce hooks is that they let you do this without needing to edit any of the underlying theme template files.

The Ultimate Guide To WooCommerce Dropshipping: Everything You Need To Build Your Business

So you want to start a dropshipping store…that’s awesome! But there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to building a successful dropshipping store, so it’s natural that you might be looking for a helping hand to guide you along the way.

To make getting started a whole heckuva lot easier for you (and put you on the path to success), we’ve created this massive dropshipping tutorial covering everything from what dropshipping is to how to pick dropshipping products and how to actually build your store.

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