Cart66 is a little different from other WordPress e-commerce plugins because you get a suite of hosted services that take e-commerce beyond what you can do with a plugin alone. Here are a few things to know to get started.
WordPress Shopping Cart Tutorials
How To Sell An eBook On WordPress
This is an in-depth tutorial on how to sell an eBook on WordPress with Cart66. We look at marketing ideas for growing your email list and building interest in your book as soon as you can. We also look at some powerful features of Cart66 for selling your eBook including a couple different ways to offer discounts, email marketing, and how to give away a free chapter of your book to build your email list.
Ecommerce Boot Camp
5 Lessons, No Fluff, Great Stuff When you’re launching an online business there is a whole new world of things to learn about and to watch out for. But, you don’t have a lot of time to read through a bunch of fluff. That’s why I created this new, free course. In five quick lessons
Set Min / Max Quantity For Product
Some products are best sold in large quantities while others are limited one per customer. Cart66 gives you the ability to set a minimum or maximum quantity for a product in the cart. This is great for minimum quantity orders, group item purchases, digital products, and more. Here are a few examples of when you
How To Accept Payments With WordPress
Understanding Payment Gateways and Merchant Accounts In this video we look at how to accept payments on your WordPress site. I’ll talk about the difference between payment gateways vs merchant accounts. We will uncover the difference between individual and aggregate merchant accounts and what that means for you. Looking Out For Fees We will also
How To Sell Web Hosting
We’ll look at how to set up subscriptions for selling web hosting. This video tutorial will show you how to set up individual products for each hosting plan as well as how to create a single product that shows a form where your customer can select the hosting plan as well as a WordPress support and maintenance package. Finally we’ll look at the secure customer portal where your customers can manage their account information.
How To Create Product Pages
One of the things that sets Cart66 apart is how easy it is to put product order forms and add to cart buttons anywhere on any page you want. In that sense, any page or post on your WordPress site can be a product page. Sometimes, however, it’s nice to have an easy product page
Custom Product Page Layouts
Cart66 comes with a custom post type for products. The Cart66 Product post type serves a couple of purposes both for presentation and some behind the scenes stuff. By default, the product pages are presented with an image gallery in the top left, the Add to Cart button in the top right, and the page
Customize Receipt Text For Specific Product
Sometimes you sell a product where you want to include some special instructions or information in the email receipt. For example, if you sell a WordPress theme, you might include a link to PDF with instructions. Or, maybe you want to recommend some related products. For example, if someone buys a coat, you can email
Kustrix Theme Demo
The Kustrix WordPress Theme is premium theme available on TemplateMonster. Also available through TemplateMonster is the free, Kustrix Lite version of the theme. The free theme does not have quite as many features as the paid version of the theme and it doesn’t come with support, but it’s still very flexible and capable theme. In this
Cart66 Secure Site Seal
One of the major benefits that Cart66 brings to the table is security and PCI compliance for your WordPress store. You can use any WordPress theme, host your site anywhere on any server and you don’t even need your own SSL certificate. Simply install Cart66 and you’ve got all the security and PCI compliance you
Shipping and Package Tracking
Today we are announcing a new feature that significantly enhances the workflow for fulfilling orders in Cart66. We’ve added the ability to include a tracking number and automatically email the tracking information to your customer when you mark the package as shipped. If you are shipping with USPS, FedEx, or UPS the tracking number will
When To Use Cart66 (and when not to)
There is a wide variety of WordPress ecommerce plugins available today and they each have different situations where they are best used. Let’s take a look at when Cart66 is a good fit for your ecommerce site and when you might want to choose a different plugin.
How To Earn Money Blogging
This article is a great resource to show you how to earn money blogging. We’ll cover both the technical side of how to actually sell something from your blog. I’ll also introduce you to Amy Lynn Andrews. She’s got a gold mine of information on how to earn money blogging. Let’s start with my first
Customer Portal Using WordPress Theme
The Cart66 secure customer portal has gotten an update! The sign in page is now skinned with your WordPress theme. This makes for a really nice, seamless experience for selling access to content on your WordPress site.
