24+ essential woocommerce plugins
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Woocommerce is the best ecommerce platform out there, and knowing which plugins to use can extend its functionality to new levels. I gathered up some of the best ones, from payment gateways to customer relationship management, you can find it here.TRANSCRIPT
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24+ Essential
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Email Cart
What it does: You can send any customer a pre-populated invoice that’s ready to checkout. All they need to do is follow the link and they’ll land on the checkout page with the products you put together ready. This is a great way to offer custom quotes and product bundles. Combine it with a robust product inquiry feature, and you can add an effective level of customer service. Download it here.
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CRM Manager
Woocommerce Curstomer Relationship Manager – Using a CRM platform brings tons of adantages when it comes to understanding, managing, and catering to your customer base. And while you can certainly integrate Woocommerce with Salesforce or other larger CRM tools, sometimes those solutions are too robust. That’s why I like this lightweight CRM plugin, which offers great features for a low one-time cost. You can segment and filter customers, then send an email message to them easily. Download it here
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Woocommerce Product Search
If you tried the native Woocommerce search feature, you know it’s fairly limited. This enhances the search parameters to include all sorts of extra product information and delivers accurate results. Download it here.
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Display Product Multi-Layout
If you want to display your product listings in a column format, or switch it up and have them tiled top to bottom, you can use this plugin to do just that. It helps you adjust the way products display across your site, from the category listings, to the single product page itself. Download it here.
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Paypal Pro Gateway
Everyone needs a quick and easy way to get setup with a payment processor on their site, and that usually means setting up a Paypal Pro account. You can use this plugin to easily integrate your Paypal account to your website’s checkout for seamless transactions. Download it here.
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Table Rate Shipping
If you offer a lot of different products that ship from multiple places, using a few different carriers, then you know how complicated shipping can be. This plugin is a lifesaver when it comes to constructing a sensible, rule-based shipping setup for your store. Download it here.
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Social Coupons
Download it here
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UPS Shipping Method
You can integrate a lot of shipping methods into your Woocommerce store, and UPS is one of the obvious popular ones. You can get real time rates, create custom shipping quotes, and more with this handy plugin. Download it here.
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Product CSV Import Suite
Importing products isn’t hard when you have only a few, but try adding a few hundred or more and it becomes a serious chore. This plugin lets you easily bulk import products to your store. Woothemes also has a great version that’s worth checking out (although considerably more expensive). Download it here.
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Woocommerce Zapier Integration
Zapier is really cool service that acts as a middleman between two applications. Their aim is to automate the web using these “recipes”. For example, you could send new subscriber information to Mailchimp or Zoho CRM when a new order comes in. Download it here
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Coupon Shortcodes
Download it here.
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Free Gift Plugin
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Video Product Tab
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PDF Invoices
Download it here
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Woocommerce Ebay Lister
Now you have an easy way to export products to Ebay. With just a few clicks, you can select the products you want to post, and create full ebay listings. Download it here
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Price History/Price Drop Notifications
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Image Hover Preview
When shoppers are browsing product categories, they can only see small thumbnails of your products. This lightweight plugin lets them hover over those images, and see a larger preview, which helps improve their shopping experience. Download it here
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Custom T-Shirt Designer
Here’s an interesting plugin for Woocommerce that lets users create their own t-shirt designs. But it’s not limited to just t-shirts…you can offer custom iphone case designs, cakes, and other items using the custom design interface that it layers onto your store. Download it here
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Amazon Affiliates Plugin
This powerful plugin gives you everything you need to create a fully functional Amazon affiliate store on your own website. You can import hundreds of products from Amazon to be featured, and allow users to checkout on your own site. Download it here
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Braintree Payment Gateway
Download it here
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Automatic Checkout Discounts
Sometimes you want to have an automatic discount applied to every product in your store – for example, on a Cyber Monday sale you may want to offer a 10% storewide discount. This plugin lets you do just that, and automatically applies the discount to the shopper’s cart. Download it here
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Product Enquiry Form
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Advanced Notifications
When a new order comes into your store, chances are a few people need to be notified. If you’re using a drop-shipper, they need to get a copy of the order, along with anyone else you might need in the loop. The Advanced Notifications plugin lets you set up order notifications based on product categories and other filters, ensuring that everyone gets updated as needed when a new order comes in. Download it here
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Bulk Price Edit
If you want to edit prices in your Woocommerce store, you can either export the products to a CSV, adjust them manually, and then re-upload the products to the site or you can go through one by one and do it from the Admin. Both options are time-consuming, and instead, you can use this plugin to make bulk price edits to multiple products from one screen in your admin. Download it here
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Currency Converter
Allow easy conversions between denominations. Very handy if you do a lot of overseas sales. Download it here
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Coupon Countdown Display
Do you have any suggestions for Woocommerce plugins that you like to use? Post them in the comments, and I’ll update the list with any good ones. Download it here