Category: <span>WooCommerce</span>

How to create and edit an email template for WooCommerce Follow Ups

Here is a quick tutorial on how to create and edit an email template for WooCommerce Follow Ups.

How to setup WooCommerce Bookings with multiple booking durations, fees and varying costs

Here is a use case that frequently comes up for hotels and room rentals using WooCommerce Bookings.

The requirements

“Booking should be done 48 hours in advance, hence there shouldn’t be rooms available for same/next day booking.”
The pricing structure and therefore booking duration is divided into three types:
12h (4h) block stay
Overnight stay
Day stay
Prices increase on weekends.
Each booking must add the reservation fee

I played through various scenarios where I also thought of using WooCommerce Product Add ons at one point.

How to setup availability rules in WooCommerce Bookings

Availability rules galore

WooCommerce Bookings can be tough to setup. In my recent weeks, I have compiled a “rule of thumb” list that I stick to whenever I solve bookings scenarios.

Most issues arise in configuring the right availability for a custom scenario. Oftentimes people end up with either the wrong or no bookable slots at all. In my experience this is often caused by too many availability rules that end up interfering with each other.

How to setup time slots with different durations in WooCommerce Bookings

Fixed blocks of
Timelots with varying durations in the same WooCommerce Bookings product, you say? Not possible. Yes, possible with a little math.

Here is the scenario.

The required times:
• 8.15am
• 9:30am
• 12.00pm
• 2.30pm
• 5.30pm

In many bookings scenario the duration of the bookable slot is not a deciding factor. Just like in this one, only the start time counts.

How to enable WooCommerce Stripe payment gateway debug mode

When things go sideways with Stripe payments using https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-gateway-stripe/ enable WordPress debug mode and Stripe debug mode. You should enable debug mode as early as you can when you detect failed or double payments.

Code Snippet: Display WooCommerce highest variable product price only

Here is a code snippet that displays the highest price only for WooCommerce variable products instead of the default price range.

Need more? Try this post by Anna Schneider: https://annaschneider.me/hide-the-price-range-for-woocommerce-variable-products/

Based on this handy snippet by Gerhard.

How to setup one time / on-off payment or free plan in WooCommerce Subscriptions

Setting up a one time payment

WooCommerce Subscriptions offers a signup fee you can use to collect a one time payment using WooCommerce Subscriptions.
Here is how.

Set the recurring price to zero
Set the duration to the required time
Set the sign up fee to the full amount you want to collect

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Setting up a free plan to downgrade to

If you want your users to be able to downgrade to a free plan you can use WooCommerce Subscriptions and setup a variable Subscription product.

Setup a plan type attribute

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How to fix saving issues in WooCommerce and WordPress

Sometimes you have trouble saving settings in WooCommerce. Your shipping zones do not get saved or your WooCommerce Bookings resources fail to get saved. Here are possible issue scenarios for you
to check.

Checklist

Corrupted WooCommerce database tables

Not being able to save may indicate damage to your WooCommerce MySQL database tables. The best way to fix this is to completely deinstall WooCommerce manually followed by a new installation. This rebuilds the database tables anew

Plugin conflict interfering

The form failing to save may be due to conflict between active components.

How to troubleshoot failed commission payments in WooCommerce Product Vendors

Woocommerce Product Vendors uses PayPal to payout commissions.
If commissions do not get paid neither automatically nor manually, it is time to do some testing.

Checklist

Test with PayPal Sandbox

After completing your due diligence tests, move on to testing via PayPal Sandbox. This requires you to have a account at https://developer.paypal.com/ – go on and sign up now if you do not own one.

WooCommerce plugin features and inter-compatibility

WooCommerce is simplicity and stablility

WooCommerce itself follows the same principle that WordPress has been true to successfully for many years. The core is simple and above all stable and easily extendable.

If you are running a self hosted shop, you need to do configure and extend your shop until it meets you or your clients requirements. There are many, many plugins that you can use to extend your WooCommerce shop.

Here are a few things to consider.

Plugins are not compatible with each other

Plugin A will not work with plugin B and C, unless specifically stated.