Gone are the days when you have to wait for paper checks to arrive in the mail. Let’s take a look at how to get paid online. You can add a payment page to your WordPress website and Cart66 will handle everything including payment security. If you have repeat clients, they can even save their…
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Visual Product Builder
Welcome to the new Cart66 Product Builder! This is something we’ve been working on for a long time and I’m so excited to introduce you to it. Now it’s really fast and easy to visual build simple or complex order forms. Super Fast Product Creation If you are selling a simple product that doesn’t have…
Sell Monthly WordPress Maintenance Plans
As a WordPress developer, one of the ways to serve your clients better and to make more money in the process is to put your clients on a WordPress maintenance plan. To keep your clients’ sites secure and running at top performance you will want to make sure you’re running the latest version of WordPress,…
Free Images No Copyright
If you blog, post to Twitter or Facebook, or pretty much do any writing online you probably spend a lot of time looking for images to include in your content. It may be tempting to do a Google image search to find the photos you need, but that’s a great way to get yourself in…
WooCommerce vs Cart66 – Overview
Not all WordPress stores are the same so why use the same WordPress ecommerce plugin for all WordPress stores? Let’s take a quick look at the major differences between WooCommerce and Cart66.
Cart66 Goes Naked!
You can now use your theme’s css (styles) for your Cart66 buttons and product forms with the new “naked” product form display mode. When you use the naked display mode, Cart66 does not dress the form with the normal Cart66 CSS and, instead, just sends down naked HTML markup so that the native CSS from…
WordPress Ecommerce
Cart66 has been at the heart of WordPress ecommerce since 2008. It all started when I was found some noise reduction headphones that I wanted to sell online. I started to hand-roll another e-commerce site when I thought maybe I could build an ecommerce site on WordPress. At the time, there were only about three…
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.
Getting Started With Cart66
Cart66 was one of the first WordPress plugins for ecommerce. It 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. The goal is to use the tools provided by WordPress, the most powerful and popular content management system, to design your store to deliver the most customizable ecommerce storefront. Then use the Cart66 WordPress shopping cart plugin to power your online shopping cart and your secure hosted checkout page.
PCI Compliant Out of The Box
Your shoppers will know your serious about their safety and security because Cart66 is the only ecommerce solution for WordPress that makes your online store PCI DSS compliant by providing a secure hosted checkout page that integrates with over 100 payment gateways including PayPal, Authorize.net, and Stripe. You can proudly display your Cart66 Secure Site Seal on your store to show your customers that you care about their safety.
Marketing Tools To Increase Sales
Cart66 also comes with the marketing tools you need to increase sales like staying in touch with your customers with sales follow-up emails. You also get the tools to support your business needs like a built-in recurring billing engine, live shipping rate calculations, printing shipping labels for order management and fulfillment, and inventory management.
Hassle Free Ecommerce
Cart66 takes the hassle out of building your ecommerce website by giving you all the tools you need to securely sell your products right out of the box. Here are a few things to know and you’ll be up and running in no time.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
