What exactly is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is a free WordPress plugin and it lets you to see your product and services. It makes doing these things inexpensive and accessible. You can offer digital and physical items, oversee stock and transporting, take secure payments and sort taxes easily. WooCommerce is the most famous WordPress Ecommerce plugin on the Internet with over 16 million downloads and it comes with lots of extensions.
These details reveal the core plugin is helpful piece of pack, yet it cannot do everything. If you are looking forward more from WooCommerce, then you really need to enhance the core plugin by using extensions and add-ons.
There is lot of money in ecommerce, most of the extension comes in price tag. Luckily, you don’t have to buy every WooCommerce plugin; actually there are many free options out there. This article talks about 10 best free WooCommerce extention, add-ons, and plugins with the aim to improve your ecommerce store.
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1. YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier:
Customers are looking forward to know and see how your product look likes; they want to investigate them for quality. Do you really think that customers to know all that from a tiny and barely viewed photo?
So, if you are looking forward to display your image loud and proud, then I would suggest you to try WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier plugin.
When a visitor drags the mouse on the photo, then you will see an enlarge popup on the products. You can easily configure the zoom levels for clear viewing. You can expect a serious jump in conversions.
2. WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping by Mangohour:
As most online store proprietors know, surprising delivery charges can truly eat into those margins. You can charge flexible shipping rates, if you are looking forward to protest your profits. Having such potential features, this functionality is usually saved for the domain of premium plugin.
The free WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping by Mangohour plugin offers the basic features and is a decent passage point.
For a beginner, you can decide your shipping charge based on your customer sale and subtotal. For heavy shipments, you can charge more money and can even offer free shipment on set value. For international store proprietors, you can likewise part countries into various transportation zones, and afterwards set delivery rates in light of a client’s geographic area.
3. Stripe Payment Gateway:
WooCommerce in the past used to only support one payment gateway: PayPal Standard. However, this payment gateway was not really attractive for most store proprietors, as, to make payment; clients were redirected to the external PayPal site.
Many ecommerce stores install a payment gateway such as (Stripe or Paypal Pro) that appreciates card payments.
I would suggest you to opt Stripe Payment Gateway, as it is completed free of charge. You can easily install this payment gateway by a click of a button. You can accept any Visa, MasterCard, and other cards too by syncing your store with Stripe API.
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4. WooCommerce Direct Checkout:
This plugin was created to make the checkout process simple by skipping the shopping cart page. This plugin helps the user to get out of the shopping cart completely. If the checkout process is not working enough for you, the plugin can also add ‘Checkout’ button on the shop page. This means that visitor who is knows what they want can skip the product page screen. Best part of this plugin is that it can be downloaded in just 2 years.
5. WooCommerce Menu Cart:
It is another plugin which refines the checkout process. This plugin adds a shopping cart on your menu. This means you can access it from any page of your website. This shopping card button fits your menu smooth. This also has an option to display the number of items or sub-total.
6. WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor:
I have already told you about few plugins which deals in WooCommerce checkout process. If you are looking forward for an ultimate control over your checkout, then WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor is waiting for you. There are many upgraded plugins, such as WooCommerce Checkout Manager, this plugin has many features.
WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor lets you add text or drop-down menu field to checkout. You can even customize the default WooCommerce Checkout fields with the plugin. It also come with a safe guard features ‘Reset to Default’.
7. WooCommerce Product Gift Wrap:
Most of the store have busiest period during the holidays. If you need a bit of that yearly purchases free for all, then better target people looking to buy gifts. So, having a gift wrap option can be enough to drive some gifters during stressful times also. It has added features like Default gift wrapping cost, and gift wrap message.
8. WooCommerce CSV Importer:
Well, it is not easy to run an online store. Some of the time the little undertakings truly stack up, influencing you to feel just as there aren’t sufficient hours in the day to remain on top of everything.
Let me tell you a situation; Imagine your supplier increases their wholesale prices. This is a circumstance most online business stores confront on no less than a yearly premise. So, after this you have to update your own price to cover your margins, but it takes time to do it manually, when there are lots of products. So get rid of this, I would suggest you to go for WooCommerce CSV Importer plugin. Just upload a formatted CSV file and your product will update automatically and it is tested on 10,000 products at a time.
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9. WooCommerce Currency Switcher:
A rise of online shopping means that your store could drive to a global customer base. Well, before switching towards international customers, you must deal with practicalities.
This plugin allows your site customers and visitors to switch their currencies on your woocommerce store and instant get converted rate in the real time. Customers have option to pay in selected currency.
10. WooCommerce Mailchimp:
Do you agree that it is easier to get new customers than retaining the old ones? The best and easiest way to make a database of your customers is by collecting their email addresses in an email list. This plugin automatically subscribe your customers from email list. By this you can retain them as they are your best friends.
These are all essential plugins you should definitely apply on your ecommerce websites. If you are looking forward to grow your business and make it user friendly, then make sure to have above plugins in your ecommerce site. So, there are several companies’ providing Ecommerce Development services in India and in abroad too. These companies know how to develop innovate ecommerce portals with all required features. Security is the major concern in online shopping, so these companies ensures that customers are comfortable with development portals and enjoy safe shopping experience. These ecommerce portals are created in very cheap amount by Website Development Company in India, rather than other countries.
So, these all above Plugins should be there in every website. It not only provides the basic features, but also it improves the site SEO, optimizes the speed, and even helps to market your content and products in a better way.
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Stephanie Braga
Hi, I am Stephanie Braga. A professional blogger and content community manager on this platform. I love to write and post content on different niche. Contact me, if you need any help related to digital marketing or content marketing.
