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WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce platform in October 2014

You can see some pretty interesting eCommerce data with builtwith.com regarding platforms and their level of growth, month by month.

WooCommerce 2.2 Feature – Automatic Refunds

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The latest version of WooCommerce, version 2.2 mostly changed things under the hood – feature-wise there wasn’t a whole lot added. One interesting new addition though is the option to provide automatic refunds.

Quick Tutorial: Translating the Captiva WooCommerce theme

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With eCommerce truly global it goes without saying that there is increasing demand for online shopping in your own language.

It’s a question we get asked a lot – “How do I go about translating Captiva?”. This is a quick run through of the steps to take.

Give your WooCommerce customers a superior looking invoice

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Friday’s WooCommerce featured plugin is ‘PDF Invoice’ – a marked step up on the default WooCommerce one both in looks and functionality.

Fighting fraud with a new plugin from WooCommerce

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WooCommerce today launched a very interesting plugin designed to help store owners fight fraudulent transactions on their store.

A recent report from Cybersource, a unit of Visa estimated the fraud cost for online retailers to be $3.5 billion or 0.9% of online revenue in 2012.

Keep Captiva up to date with the Envato Toolkit

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We try to keep our WooCommerce theme Captiva up to date by regularly releasing updates which include bug fixes, compatibility resolutions and new features.

Here is a quick tutorial on keeping Captiva and indeed any other theme on ThemeForest up to date.

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