A whopping 80% of Americans are now online shoppers and they demand convenience like never before. Where they do not find it, they abandon carts and resort to household names like Amazon, Walmart, etc. The obstinate refusal to tolerate complex, lengthy checkout flows, which tend to plague the vast majority of newly emerging online stores, has driven the cart abandonment rate up to 80% according...
Read MoreOne question we get often is how to connect Instagram with WooCommerce! Well, if you’ve been on Instagram lately, you may have noticed a new feature represented by a shopping bag icon: Instagram shoppable products. As part of the social media platform’s push to enter the eCommerce world, it has introduced a way for its users to easily purchase the products that they see on Instagram...
Read MoreWooCommerce has become one of the most popular platforms to set up an online store. But, why has it become so popular? One of many reasons for the popularity of the platform is that it is a free, open-source platform, just as WordPress is. However, as to be expected, you will still incur a few expenses required to run your online store. Before you stop...
Read MoreSetting up your WooCommerce store is the first step to start selling. The second? Marketing. As most eCommerce store owners know, the old saying of “build it and they will come” isn’t always true for eCommerce businesses. The internet is a big, wide place with lots of online stores and LOTS of competition. So how do you drive sales? If you’ve been asking yourself that...
Read MoreNew feature alert! The MyWorks Team is very excited to share that we have added a new feature to our QuickBooks Sync for WooCommerce that allows users to sync WooCommerce Purchase Orders into QuickBooks along with orders! The purchase order synced from WooCommerce to QuickBooks will contain the full order details, so it's easy to then send to your vendor to order/re-order the products you just sold! WooCommerce...
Read MoreWhile the number of regions that are legalizing the sale of CBD and cannabis-derived products has been steadily increasing, this market continues to be heavily regulated - both in the US and other countries. More importantly, the technology supporting CBD-related businesses can contain just as much red tape than these legal regulations. This usually extends to cover two main areas of your online store: the...
Read MoreWhen you're looking to host an online business in WordPress, keeping it in sync with your QuickBooks can seem intimidating at first. Deciding where to start in Wordpress, choosing an efficient sync between these two platforms, and most importantly, making sure that everything is as effortless as possible may just seem impossible. In this post, we're hoping to make it possible for you. As long as...
Read MoreSelling your products on different channels can often feel like managing several individual stores. Each new marketplace you sell your products on is an opportunity that also adds an extra layer of data and settings to worry about. Each new marketplace adds new business opportunities, but each one can multiply the amount of work you do. However, it doesn't have to be that way as...
Read MoreAre you using PayPal to accept sales or pay vendors - and also using QuickBooks? QuickBooks allows you to directly connect your PayPal account to your QuickBooks company so you can easily view your PayPal transactions in QuickBooks, and add or match them to existing QuickBooks transactions! Additionally, the QuickBooks PayPal connection works very well when combined with our WooCommerce Sync for QuickBooks, as since the...
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Read MoreRight Networks is one of the most popular platforms to use when hosting your QuickBooks Desktop company on an external server. They do a fantastic job with allowing you to access your QuickBooks company from anywhere, while keeping it secure and updated. Due to Right Networks security restrictions, you're limited to installing just any 3rd party application on your QuickBooks computer. Luckily, our WooCommerce Sync for...
Read MoreWe're very excited to announce our newest WooCommerce Extension - WooCommerce Multi Location & Intelligent Order Routing! For quite some time, we've noticed the need for an extension that allows WooCommerce store owners with multiple locations to be able to manage their inventory per location - and route their orders to the correct location. For restaurants, distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and many more industries - there's no...
Read MoreOn or around January 26th, 2018, we began to receive reports from our users that when QuickBooks Online inventory was decreased by an Invoice/Sales Receipt created manually in QuickBooks Online, webhook notifications were not being received for the updated inventory value - and the product inventory in WooCommerce was not decreasing accurately as a result. We were able to replicate this in our testing instances, and...
Read MoreAs our WooCommerce Sync for QuickBooks Online users already know, our real-time sync solution is the most robust solution to syncing between WooCommerce and QuickBooks. With extensive settings to control exactly how and when your data syncs, intuitive on/off switches, control and sync status indicators, as well as easy to view reporting, there's not much more users could ask for. One of the main features that...
Read MoreWooCommerce vs Shopify - "WooCommerce or Shopify?" is a question we hear over and over again, so we've decided to fully address this question here. While there are several different e-commerce platforms available, WooCommerce and Shopify are by far the most popular. Similar to Pepsi vs. Coke or Tom vs. Jerry, WooCommerce vs. Shopify is one of the stiffest competitions within the e-commerce landscape. Have you been...
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