WordPress eStore WishList (Feature Suggestions)
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Tell me what you want to see in future versions of the WordPress eStore Plugin by leaving a comment in this post.
When I look for features/functionality to implement in a future release of the WP eStore plugin I go through this page and pick the ones that I think adds more value and are most in need. Some of the best feature requests came from the users of this plugin so feel free to share your thoughts.
Features that will be Considered in a Future Release
Read the WP eStore change log to see which features have been added already.
- Google Analytics e-commerce tracking
- Add a Link that says “Visit the shop” if the shopping cart is empty (configurable option).
- Introduce Product Category and the option to display all products in that category.
- Variation Control.
- Add 2Checkout
- Add Authorize.net gateway
- allow manual checkout option
- Ability to track coupon per transaction
- downloadable goods can be delivered on the “Thank You” page after payment
- Rename the plugin directory and any associated references to “WP eStore”.
- Ability to take customer input for special instructions
- Be able to automatically redirect to Checkout page after add cart
- Add coupon code or discount feature
- Create a Non-WordPress version
- Add some basic sales stats
- Add separate international Shipping Cost functionality
- Ability to offer product specific affiliate commission
- Add an empty Cart button in the shopping cart
- Display the product name of each product next to the encrypted link in the email
- Implement Google Checkout option
- Implement an optional checkbox for terms and conditions before checking out
- Add TinyMCE buttons to the wordpress editor for plugins
- Ability to use an image to display the empty shopping cart
- Ability to configure a “Subscription” button for any type of subscription payment
- Variation control for digital product (digital delivery of different files depending on the selection)
- LightBox effect on product display images
- Ability to insert HTML (eg. URL of a page) in the product description field
- Ability to make a coupon code for a specific product
- Ability to configure one time use coupons
- Product Follow-up Messages. The plug-in automatically sends an optional second delivery message a certain number of minutes (or hours) after ordering.
- AWeber auto responder integration
- Infusionsoft auto responder integration
- MailChimp auto responder integration
- Integrates with OSI iDev Affiliate
- Ability to link the thumbnail image to any URL
- The upselling feature where the shopping cart shows related products below the cart
- Add a third variation
- Ability to POST PayPal IPN data to a external script (Can be used to integrate with the other plugins)
- Limit download by number of download count
- Change the look and feel of the checkout redirection page.
- Add GetResponse inegration
- PayPal Payment Pro Integration
- Option to remove the Qty field from the cart
- Investigate eWay Payment gateway
May 27th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Another feature suggestion is Discount Codes
May 27th, 2009 at 6:09 am
I am very happy with the eStore already as is. These are only a few new features I could think of that one day could be added:
- Discount price for multiple items – bulk product sales. E.g. buy 10 items and get 20% discount from the total.
- In the shopping cart, a drop down option select box for multiple currencies, Euro, USD$, AUD$, CAD$, NZD$, English Pound, Japanese Yen would do. The different currency prices for each product can be added for a product by admin easy, like now, in the product add/edit pages.
- Google Checkout and PayPal, both visible as 2 payment options in the cart at the same time, a buyer can then select any of the two by using 2 radio buttons, or simply by clicking on an image button link to got to a particular checkout.
- Yes the terms and conditions, forced, tick box.
Please leave the shopping cart looking simple, as it is now it’s perfect. The extra/new features mentioned above could show on product pages, or on shoping cart areas, after admin selects them in the wp eStore admin pages as a preference.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Aweber integration
Send customers emails and emails from squeeze form to an aweber list
It would be awesome!
May 31st, 2009 at 4:31 pm
If I had to come up with one feature request, it would be the ability to send different automated messages for each product (so that I can link to my instruction page which if different for each file.)
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:16 am
when there ere sales of different products in the basket; how about if there is still only one email sent as it is sent now, but, in the email’s body inline below it would contain paragraphs for each product’s Title and in second line of the paragraph would be a clickable link (e.g. url to take you into this product page.) Like:
p> {product_title}: br />
{product_page_url} /p>
Then people can download the product before each of the links expires (btw the expiration is great feature) and still be able to use the same email to get to the products’ details/instructions pages. The email-title would be always same for all sales in the shopping trolley, e.g. purchase at domain.com shop or whatever suits better.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:57 am
how about an affiliates management system?
So I can pay via paypal incoming traffic… this is to sell more of my product
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
@Angelo, I am more than halfway through developing my affiliate management system… it’s a big plugin as there are a lot of tracking and stuff involved so it’s taking some time.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Hey, any idea for a tentative launch of the affiliate addition? I can beta test if need be as this is something i’d love to integrate into my site.
David
June 8th, 2009 at 5:44 am
@David, the affiliate system is about 80% complete.. so I would say I should be able to launch it by the end of this week but no guarantee as this one is a bigger project so I have a lot of testing and stuff to do. I will email you regarding beta testing.
June 9th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Rahul,
I am definitely interested too to test, purchase, etc. cause a cozy affiliate system by you integrated with the eStore (it will add $ome new dimension and interactivity.)
June 11th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Hi,
I have just bought the plugin today and like the wishlist ideas. Do you know when the new version will be available? I like the options for thumbnail and description, it makes adding a product to posts/pages a lot easier.
How do we get notified about plugin updates? Do we get sent an email, asking as I have no idea how this is going to work.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Hi,
I’m using Thesis and my buttons have gone way bigger. Would it be possible to add a css class for the buttons to make sure that they are displayed correct.
I have not published a post yet, just testing it first.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Hi,
I’m using thesis and want to call the sidebar widget function within my functions file. What is the name of the widget (call to the function)?
June 11th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@George, I email all the clients after I release a new version. I intend to release the next version before the end of this month.
Yes, you can add CSS to make the buttons dispay the way you want it. All the buttons are in a unique CSS class so you can just add the definition to the CSS file that comes with this plugin and it will pick it up.
The following is the widget function:
show_wp_digi_cart_widget($args)
June 11th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Hi and thanks for the details above.
I put in your details about the widget function, but I’m getting an error:
Warning: extract(): First argument should be an array in /hsphere/local/home/georges/serradinho.com/Blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-cart-for-digital-products/wp_cart_for_digital_products.php on line 771 Serradinho.com Shopping Cart
Do I need to put something in instead of $args?
June 11th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
@George, I don’t know how Thesis theme works. Can’t you use the normal wordpress widgets menu? Here is another function that you can try too:
wp_digi_cart_widget_control()
June 11th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
The $args is an array passed to that function by WordPress. I need to understand one thing here… How are you using other plugins if you can’t use the WordPress Widgets Menu?
You can use the following line from your sidebar.php to display the shopping cart on the sidebar too:
< ?php echo print_wp_digi_cart(); ?>
June 11th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Hi,
with Thesis, you have a customs_functions.php file that is called. I placed the code in their.
My sidebar is not long enough so it looks squashed if i place it using the widget. If i don’t come right then I will just leave it off the sidebar.
If you find a solution then pls let me know.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:38 am
Hi George,
On the sidebar at the top and at the bottom you have Ad unit which is spread across the full sidebar.. can you put the shopping cart there? You can call the following PHP function form anywhere on your blog to display the shopping cart:
print_wp_digi_cart()
So Just use the following line in any PHP file (probably on your sidebar.php)
< ?php echo print_wp_digi_cart(); ?>
Can you try the following function in your customs_functions.php file please?
print_wp_digi_cart();
you might need an echo there like the following:
echo print_wp_digi_cart();
June 12th, 2009 at 5:43 am
Hi,
thanks for the help, it’s working 100%. You have made me happy. I was trying to put the shopping cart at the top of the sidebar the whole time. I just needed the call to work.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Hi,
just a thought of new feature.
1.Maybe split the pages into smaller pages as I have loaded over 1000 products and they all display on one page when I go to ‘manage products’.
2. Maybe have a search buy ‘manage products’ so that the user can search and update a particular product. It will make it easier to find.
3. make the qty field on the shopping cart longer in length. If I input 2 digits (10) then it’s ok, but If I input 3 digits (100) then only 2 will show. The calculation is correct, but the field is to small.
Otherwise, I’m waiting for the new version with the thumbnails and description.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Hi,
Is there a way to automatically take the item off the gallery if the product has already been sold? Usually in the occasion where I only have one item of each and if someone had purchased it the image would automatically delete itself or say it has “sold out”.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:19 am
I’m sorry to add to the top post. These items are non-digital. I’m not sure if that might help clarify anything, but thought I mentioned it. Thanks in advance.
June 20th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@Pisei, It is possible to have a “Sold Out” image instead of the “add to cart” button when a product is sold out. This was introduced in V2.0. Please see the section that says “How to Sell Limited Number of Copies of a Product” at the following URL
http://tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/?p=1
July 1st, 2009 at 6:07 am
Several ideas from our support work this evening:
-include an email method and settings section in the plugin settings screen
-allow products to inherit the currency type from the plugin settings
-in settings, allow configuration of a base product directory so that adding a product can be just the file name…
–example: base directory http://my-domain.com/wp-content/downloads/
Thanks for all your hard work!
July 9th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I would love the option to place in an archive for selling digital products. Let me explain:
I have a photography site that I am setting up, I would like to set up several galleries that show an event, and I want to be able to sell these photos to the people at the event at a very low cost, just enough to cover distribution, so they will probably purchase several to many photos.
The idea is that they can place multiple pictures in the cart and purchase them, and the script will add all the user selected files to an archive, preferably a zip archive, and the user will have only one download.
Once the time passes that the custom URL expires, that same script will also delete the archive file.
This feature is very important to me, I imagine other people could find a similar use for it as well.
July 12th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Hello it would be nice to have an option to add more than one File for a product.
For example, i sell a cd-image, a large file of 700 MB, it would be realy good when i could add a spilitted archive of 10 files at 70 or 20 files at 35 mb to the product.
And if someone buys the product he gets an email with a list of download-links. Not only one link with one very large file. At the best solution the buyer could choose wether he wants one link to a large file, a list of 10 Links to smaller files or a list of 11 links to smaller files and the large file.
Greets from Germany
Jan
July 14th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
That is a great idea Jan, I like the idea of the user having the option to select a zip archive or separate links. Even if they don’t get a selectable option, the script just does both, where when it sends the email, it will state to the user:
Download all files in an archive:
OR
Download each file individually:
That would be a great idea, I am sure the users would enjoy this option for digital downloads.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
I really am still in the testing phase but so far, really like what I see.
I’m wondering if a Coupon code or Bulk purchase discount feature is in the works.
I would like clients who purchase multiple items to be able to automatically be given a discount. If there is already a work around for this, that would be awesome.
Thanks
Mindi
July 16th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Hi Mindi, Yes I am working on adding a coupon code/discount functionality for the next release.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I have another suggestion. When someone is emailed their order, if they are receiving multiple products (bundle) It would be excellent if the Title/name for each product proceeded the link . Any chance that’s a possibility or something I can currently do with some tweaking?
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Can I add another suggestion? Create a ‘Dashboard’ tab (under the ‘Right Now / At a glance’ area) with basic stats to help monitor product sales without having to look them up in the ‘Manage Products’ submenu.
Nothing too sophisticated – just a couple of basic tallies: eg. PRODUCTS SOLD TOTAL: 100, PRODUCTS SOLD (PAST 24 HOURS): 9, etc. I don’t know about the difficulty involved, but perhaps also a custom display based on a particular product ID (eg PRODUCT ID_5: 8 sales, PRODUCT ID_7: 2 sales) with a checkbox next to the item in the ‘Manage Products’ submenu to turn each item displayed on or off.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I’d like to see the “Remove From Cart” button be a red circle with a white minus sign inside. Seems more standard, and the blue rounded rectangle just doesn’t visually read as “remove”.
Same for the new “Empty Cart” graphic, I’d rather see a shopping cart with a red X through it.
Is there a way to use my own custom images for all these items?
July 31st, 2009 at 3:15 am
Hi George, using your own images for the buttons are really easy. All the image files used by this plugin is stored in the ‘images’ directory of the plugin. So all you gotta do is overwrite the one that it is currently using with your image file.
If you like to see different images for any button, you can always send me the files and I can take a user poll to see what people like.
July 31st, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Great, thanks!
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:27 am
When using the admin feature to send an encrypted email and you generate the encrypted link, have a button to paste to email or have it generated automatically inside of the email.
August 6th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Add the ability to create a third variation, for example.
Quantity
Colour
Size
Regards
John
August 11th, 2009 at 12:28 am
To build on what Ken said…
“When using the admin feature to send an encrypted email and you generate the encrypted link, have a button to paste to email or have it generated automatically inside of the email.”
It would be nice to have a button that will create a new product link, put into the exisitng “Buyer E-mail” and have it sent to an email address. I seem to have a lot…of I missed the 24 hour deadline, can you send me a new link? I’m thinking 2 fields and a button (the product id, the buyer’s e-mail, and then a send new link button).
Also, a checkbox for bcc’ing messages that you send would be helpful. I’d like a record of what I send customers via the “Admin Functions”.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:41 am
@David — all great ideas!
August 12th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
would really like to see one time use coupons as someone requested on another page. Also, would be great if coupons could be made to only work for a specific product. An expiration date would be awesome as well!
thanks!
August 12th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Once again, this plug-in rocks! Love it to pieces. In fact, I was just thinking about it last night and thought of another great feature you could add…
Product Follow-up Messages. The plug-in automatically sends an optional second delivery message a certain number of minutes (or hours) after ordering. This could be used for any number of things: 1] sending along extra information to help new users (eg. usage instructions, FAQs, etc) 2] sending a “thank you” note seperate from the product note 3] giving away bonus discount codes for other products 4] further product links (like free bonus items) 5] product reminders (eg. “Your 72 hour trial is coming to an end, so why not buy a full subscription…”) … I can think of loads more besides these too; I think it’d be pretty simple to implement, but would add a lot of value to the plug-in!
August 13th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Hello
I love this plugin and have added it to a website for two products. It works great although there is one thing I would like help with. I have added the shopping cart as a widget and it comes up at the bottom of the page when the add to cart button is clicked. But the page disappears up to the top of the page and you have to scroll down to see it.
I would like this shopping cart to open in a new page and I am not sure how to do this. I have created a new page called Shopping Cart and put in the trigger tag but nothing happens.
Can you let me know if this is possible in the Simple Paypal WP Software.
Thanks
Jenny
August 14th, 2009 at 1:47 am
Hi Jenny, There is a checkbox in the settings menu called “Allow Shopping Cart Anchor” that you can use. If this option is checked, it will make the page jump to the shopping cart within the page when your customers click the “Add to Cart” button. I am going to add another option so you can put in the URL of a checkout/shopping cart page and it will take the visitor to that URL after he/she hits the “add to cart” button.
August 16th, 2009 at 4:30 am
I would like a way to make a coupon code for a specific product ( and only show the coupon code box when the product has a coupon code attached)
Since I want to sell hard products and down-loadable I cannot give every product the same discount program.
Thanks
Dale
August 18th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Will like to see ability to use a buy now/subscription button (link) from a html sales page that is not a wp page but on same domain. Just to be clear, I want to be able to create html sales page with a add to cart/buy now/subscription button, so that it will work with eStore.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Just a few things
export all customers
export of customer who purchased x,y,z or categories
Or if we can have a mailing function to customers that would be good too , but MailChimp, Mad Mimi or Aweber is good in this case too
August 26th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Here is a good idea that would help tremendously if you have time to incorporate it:
Under the Admin section, create an option to save an email as a template. Then, provide a dropdown menu so that you can select a template. This way you can send different variations of emails depending on the product, especially if a particular product requires a unique activation key and another product is non-downloadable but you need to include additional info. Of course, you would provide a way to edit or delete the template.
September 4th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
ability to handle a text input field for custom custom input requests or for any additional information needed which cannot be handled by the current drop down variations.
September 5th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Hi Brad, I have added this ability recently (I haven’t made this available to the existing customers yet as I need to do more testing before I send out the new release). You can see how it works in the demo page (http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/?p=175)
Let me now if that’s what you are after.
September 20th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I have several sites that I am working on and many of them have 300+ products – I haven’t scoured the info, but would love to have a bulk upload from csv file. Which also brings up the issue of image upload, association, etc.
On one site almost all products can be personalized/engraved – is there a straightforward way to handle this – options would be monogram, inscription (#), line 1, line 2, font style, thread color, text area for instructions/comments – point is many personalization options.
Finally, multiple product images?
I know this is a lot to ask, but I have many customers who could manage their own store after I setup the site, uploaded the majority of products, etc and that would be a blessing.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I have a couple of questions / ideas about shipping address info and taxes.
I know that this plugin is predominantly centered around digital goods. However, I like it so much that I am implementing it for tangilble items. Unless I am missing something, there does not appear to be a way to capture shipping address information for a customer that makes a purchase. Right now, it looks like the shipping address info being used is based on the customer’s verified paypal address. Do you have any suggestions on the best way to capture customer shipping information as he/she steps through the sales process?
Also, what about taxes based on the location of that customer? Maybe in the settings area, add a dropdown list showing the various locations (user defined), then have a field which allows the input of the taxation amount. Thus, when a customer inputs their location when making a sale, a tax % would automatically show up against the overall sales amount.
One more idea – If a user is a local and decides to pick up the item instead of having it shipped, then shipping costs should not be charged. Maybe there could be a checkbox when capturing the customer address info which says “pick up locally”. This checkbox could override the shipping charges at the main settings level and the product level.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
@Jean, unfortunately there is no bulk update feature available with this plugin. I intend to add some kind of bulk update and multiple image file upload options in a future release
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
@Mike, Shipping address is provided by PayPal.. customers can specify their shipping address during checkout on PayPal or after they come back to the site after payment.
Please refer to the “Shipping and Tax Related” section on the WP eStore Documentation index page for detailed info.
I am working on a solution so the shipping address is collected before payment. I don’t really like this model as my favorite is the Express Checkout model. I will also incorporate the “Pick Up” option in a future release too.
September 27th, 2009 at 1:48 am
I’d love to be able to put html markup in the product name, which would be stripped when passed to PayPal or anywhere other than on-screen display. The reason is that the proper punctuation for a book name is to underline it. But if the product name is, for example, “Parenting Softly, By Bryan Post”, then only part of it should be underlined. When I try it, it does seem to work, but it breaks the display at PayPal.
Also, if I try just putting the book name in quotes (double or single) then it breaks lots of things in very creative and disturbing ways. It tries to escape characters like that out, but it’s buggy.
My #1 most-wanted feature right now, though, is the ability to include a custom field in the transmission to PayPal which PayPal will spit back out to the Thank You page. I’m integrating with my fulfillment system and I need to pass a UPC barcode number to it for the product id (since the internal id in the cart will be different from the one in my other system). I had hoped that the “Reference Text” field could be used that way, but it doesn’t appear to be included in the PayPal return. I know this is a feature that few would use, but it would greatly enhance “integratability” and should be super-simple to add.
Great plugin, by the way!
September 27th, 2009 at 8:32 am
I am adding some options in the next release that will allow you to style the Product Name field more.
You should be able to use the reference field. You don’t need to pass the reference field through as you can retrieve it on the other side (post payment) given the product ID.
You can also utilize the PayPal’s custom field to include a pass thru variable. This plugin already uses the custom field to pass a few variables so you will just have to add your one there too.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Search ability for customers!
I noticed that the standard WP search form does not see product names or descriptions.
Lovin’ the plugin the more I’m fiddling with it…
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 am
I’d like to see more coupon features. For example, if they add $50 to cart, give $10 discount, along those lines.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:08 am
I’ve seen sites which have a shopping cart type of widget that scrolls up and down with a page. That would be kinda nice to add as an option.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Some kind of upsell feature would be great on the thank you page. For example, offer a select (or random) product at a discounted price one time and one time only. or maybe a random coupon code generated that expires in 1hr.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
How about a feature where after they add an item to the shopping cart it says “Add $X more to your order and get free shipping/10%off/an item free”etc, almost like Amazon w/free shipping over $25.
October 10th, 2009 at 1:20 am
Hi Shawn, good suggestions on the marketing side of things.. I will look into implementing some upselling and special deal options in the plugin.
October 25th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I’d like to see the Product Name be linkable to an info page, particularly in the cart (which at present links to the page where the product was added?) but also in the ‘fancy’ display (where at the moment I am inserting a ‘more info’ link in the Product Description).
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 am
I really like the eStore plugin…great work!
I was wondering if it was possible to add a second or even third Collect Customer Input field?? I have a store that I am building that is a clothing embroidery company, they are doing a specific store for a client. They are selling tshirts, hats, etc. and want to be able to add the last name and player number for a hockey team. 1 Field is great, but a second would be amazing. I am pretty well versed in PHP and HTML so if its a simple fix or can be added somehow, I would really appreciate any help you can give…
Thanks,
Jason
November 4th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Hi Jason, the addition of another customer input field requires adding a database field. You can see what I have done with the first field and introduce the 2nd one by doing the same thing. I have received a few requests to add multiple customer input fields so I do plan to add this in the plugin in a future release too.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:44 am
Hi,
I was looking at the various example sites that use this plugin. I would love to be able to customize it more. I have a little knowledge of css, but not a enough to feel confident. So maybe some more graphics to use? Or advice in further customizing your store.
Thanks!
November 28th, 2009 at 12:21 am
An ‘apply gift certificate’ function that will let us offer a gift certificate AS an Item, and let the customer enter its unique number to pay for a given purchase, plus credit tracking for unused portion of a given certificate, so it can be used in pieces.
Big order, I know: but I’ve had a request for it and our store isn’t even open yet.
November 28th, 2009 at 5:31 am
How about the ability to upsell related or substitute products at the time “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now” is clicked – before the product is added to the Shopping Cart?
As examples:
A related product upsell might be a customer clicks Buy on a $9.95 eBook. Before adding it to the cart, offer them the audio version of the same eBook for an addiontl $4.95.
A substitute product upsell might be a customer clicks Buy on a $9.95 eBook. Before adding it to the cart, 3 different related eBooks are offered at $4.95 each or get (substitute) all 4 eBooks (original and 3 related) for $19.95.
Thanks.
December 18th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
My wishlist in order of importance to me:
-Bulk upload via excel.
-One time coupon that can be used/purchased as gift certificate
-More css hooks. I want to move the checkout link on the shopping cart page to the right. Makes more sense to me there but I haven’t found a way to do that yet.
-Link product name. The thumbnail image links to the post page but not the product name.
Great plug in. Almost have everything figured out. Just need to start adding lots of products (item 1 would be handy now). I’ve tried several other shopping carts (some for Worpress some not) and I am really impressed. Thank you for making my store possible.
January 7th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
the ability to add a “share this” app to the product
January 9th, 2010 at 4:18 am
I would like to offer gift certificates for my site. I am trying to find the best way to do this at the moment. I am thinking more of a digital card not a physical one. I am not very savvy with creating programs or editing code at all. You people that can amaze me! So I have no clue how far fetched this request is, but Is it possible for the eStore to create a unique code when a gift certificate is purchase and it be emailed to the customer with like a graphic of gift card? Then eStore only allow that code to be used once and keep track of the remaining amount.
Also the ability to add/edit products in like a tabular format or import for excel. It would making editing/adding multiple much easier.
By the way, your technical support is phenomenal.
January 9th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
I will look into this.
January 15th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
How about some more robust features for order metrics? In other words, instead of just counting how many of each product has been sold, keep track of sale dates, number of units sold in a certain period, etc, and maybe even use that data to generate reports. This would be helpful to me for reporting earnings and paying royalties on the ebooks we sell.
January 23rd, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Hey your Plugins are great. A language file for eMember would be great. And It would be great to have the German Paypal instead of the US Paypal Site. Is there a way to fix this?
January 24th, 2010 at 12:09 am
It should automatically go to the local paypal site for you account. If this is not happening then open the “wp_eStore1.php” file and search for paypal.com and replace as necessary.
January 31st, 2010 at 10:22 am
Hi,
it works great and I’m very happy with the plugin.
There are only two things…
1. a short code for showing only product list (not stylish) with product name, and product price would be great
2. I setted the links (product name and thumbnail) to an extern target but there is no way to set rel=nofollow…
Have a nice day.
February 1st, 2010 at 7:09 pm
PLEASE!
I would like my variations to be side-by-side and not stacked.
POSSIBLE?
Please see the store I just set up. I am thinking the stacked variations makes it look a bit odd and if they could be side-by-side it would tighten up any page that is simply designed like mine.
http://www.peaceoftheaction.org/store
THANKS!
-Josh
P.S. Also: I think it would be good to have a warning and accept button when someone clicks on the EMPTY cart button. Was thinking that people might click on it by mistake and would wipe out all items they had previously put in… and then they might be miffed about it and not go back and add items that were previously in it. Just a side note. Not as important as side-by-side variations request.
February 16th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Add a delete button in manage customer screen with edit button.
Would like to delete duplicate Free Download customers without going to edit first.
February 17th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
I agree with one of the other comments that an Authorize.net payment gateway is needed. So many people use it and Authorize.net is becoming the industry standard. With that as your final payment gateway option, you will have every base covered.
Great work on the plugin!
February 17th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
My suggestion would be to allow a product to be added to multiple categories.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
I’ll add another vote for authorize.net payment gateway integration.
February 21st, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Your cart looks good but I ship both to the USA and Internationally and I need Real-Time Shipping quotes from USPS and UPS. Most of the carts for WP are extremely basic and designed only for shipping to the USA. If you added this functionality you would be far ahead of most of the WP carts on the market. Thanks.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:04 pm
I’ll add another vote for authorize.net payment gateway integration. My customer has to have it so therefore i can’t use this great software..
March 6th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Add another vote for Authorize.net. I would’ve purchased the entire package (Store, Members, Affiliates) today it it worked with Authorize.net.
In fact, what would it cost me to “fast track” that option? I have a project and need it now!!!!
March 11th, 2010 at 8:38 am
1) Definately a WARNING, before a product is totally removed as well as a
WARNING, before the entire cart is emptied.
2) AUTHORIZE NET
3) Coupon/Discount Code Per Product – a) Want to discount some products… not
all. Different Code – In the product admin, specify the certain Code that would
give the discount. b) Expiration
4) Unlimited followup/autoresponder after they purchase something (email that
would automatically go out two weeks, etc. that says.. thanks for your last
purchase, take a look at this certain post of free info, new product, etc).
5) Upsell features similar to what Shawn suggested in October, 2009.
6) Product Name be linkable to an info page, particularly in the cart.
7) Allow a product to be added to multiple categories.
Maybe in that order.
I like all of the other suggestions, as well.
Now, after more research, you may have implemented some of these.
One question…
Is there anything to do in Paypal with the IPN or is it to just enter the Paypal email address in the plugin’s settings? (I prefer the latter… that way we can still use other carts/different websites, with one Paypal account).
Thanks… your plugin is really improving, continually… that’s good!
Jim
March 11th, 2010 at 9:02 am
As far as emails go… Having the ability to email all customers, at any time… if not an automatic, pre-written autoresponder seqence ability.
March 11th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
For the affiliate plugin you have, in the states we need a place for their tax id number (social security or business identification number) before we can pay them (we have to report to the government how much we paid to the individual or business).
March 11th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Hi Jim, We have added a few of these features. I have sent you an email regarding this and an update for the eStore. Features added 3, 5, 6, have been added and Authorize.net is being tested right now and an add-on will be available shortly.
Cheers,
Ivy
March 12th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Just two things at the moment please:
1. For the discount codes to expire after a number of days or to have a set end date.
2. To be able to generate batch of similar codes like each customer gets a discount code of x% that is valid for the next 3 days
Thanks
Gosia
March 16th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
An automatic ‘bundle’ discount – buy product A and get a discount off product B (only applies if both items are added to the cart, remove either and the discount disappears).
I guess you might call this ‘bundling’ or even ‘upselling with discount’?
Paul
March 16th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Terrific plug-in. The coupon code feature is a godsend, however it could be much better if you could use more than one condition option. Unless I’m missing something, allowing only one conditional statement makes the coupon code feature frustratingly limited.
March 30th, 2010 at 12:34 am
As an ebook publisher, it is critical that we be able to use multiple categories for individual titles. The ability to attach multiple categories to a product would be a huge help.
March 30th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Jay, the way I got around this was by ignoring the plugin’s category system all together and assigning ebooks to regular WordPress posts so I could use the built-in WordPress category and tag system.
Personally, I would like it much better if the plugin could be modified to use WordPress posts natively, rather than trying to tack on a separate, much less robust product classification system.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:59 am
I would like to use this plugin for clients but need Google Checkout. Thanks.
April 3rd, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Hi all,
I am not affiliated with Tips and Tricks eCommerce, but I’ve been working on a more robust Stats page for the plugin. Right now it displays 12 months of stats instead of just one, and it also divides up the total sales for each period so you can see how many of each product were sold at what total price. This is useful for us because it helps us to more easily calculate royalty payments for ebooks.
I’m wondering if anybody else would be interested in this functionality, and if so, what other stats you might like to have.
And if anybody from the plugin is interested in folding this into the core functionality, I would not be averse to that.
April 4th, 2010 at 12:47 am
Hi Michael, Thank you for your post. This sound like a good feature. We have recently added some more stat options to the eStore plugin too. With our stats you can now view itemized sale stats for any time period.
April 4th, 2010 at 1:00 am
Ivy,
Really? That sounds better than the stats improvements I’ve managed so far. How do I get access to these new features? Download the plugin again?
Michael
April 4th, 2010 at 1:34 am
Hi Michael, =) I will send you an update via email. Please let me know if you do not receive this email. We just added this feature 2 days ago. =) Please let me know if you need anything else.
Cheers,
Ivy
April 16th, 2010 at 4:36 am
The ability to upload images & downloadable products right in the eStore interface would be great.
Also, ability to select downloadable products (& variations) right in the interface… not have to hard link to them in the media library.
I LOVE much about this plugin, but the inability to manage the images/downloads easily in the admin area is stopping me from using it with clients. & honestly WP eCommerce (while sexy), isn’t nearly as solid as your stuff.. wish I could get off of it.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
Under product managment we have the “edit” and “delete” options for a product.
Would it be much of a hassel to have a hide option, if we wish to turn a product off till stock arrives etc?
April 26th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
By selecting a variation, it displays the price updated with the correct price of that variation. For example I start with ‘single license’ that displays 1$ and after have selected ‘business license’ I see 3$. Oh, and I would have a shortcode for the price.
So no more static price text and “business license +$2″ that is extremely confusing to me (and for customers too).
May 5th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I haven’t read all the responses.
One thing I am certainly missing is shipping options and prices for eg. Digital Delivery which is free, Domestic shipping, International Shipping etc.
This can be great for down-loadable products in case a customer may wish to receive by post or maybe both Digital and a back up copy via Post.
Something I guess won’t be lot of work to implement !!
May 8th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
I would like to request Auth.net (like many others here). I previously worked in the merchant accounts industry and having a merchant account is much safer than paypal. Paypal is actually not even a merchant account in the true sense, where they just transfer funds and do not have the merchant protection that banks and a real merchant account offers (i.e. fraud protection). So having authorize.net would be awesome.
May 8th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Forgot to add a google checkout as a payment option would be great too.
May 9th, 2010 at 2:17 am
Hi Ann, I have sent you and email regarding authorize.net.
For anyone else that is looking for authorize.net.
Authorize.net has been added and is in beta testing right now. If you would like to test this please send us an email via the contact page: http://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/contact
As for the Google Checkout we are looking into adding this but the ETA is unknown at this time as our to do list is always changing.
Cheers,
Ivy
July 16th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Hi..
My wish is, could wp eStore integrate with ipay88. Here is the link http://www.ipay88.com/
Regards,
SM
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:35 am
Hello!
My wish is for a deposit system to compliment the standard shopping cart and checkout system. For example, if one of my deposit levels for my marketplace is $20, the customer can click the corresponding button that takes them to PayPal so they can make a $20 payment, and it will give them $20 in credits to use on my site.
This would also be a great feature if we wanted to use an “eGiftCard” that would give our customers a certain amount of money in credits on our site.
Best,
NS
August 12th, 2010 at 2:58 am
Admin tweaks I’d like to see:
1. Display Product ID/number on edit screen
2. Forward/Back (by 1 Product ID/number) on edit screen
3. Display Category along with Name and Price edit fields, OR make the sliding windows “sticky” from one edit to another
4. Force 2 decimal places for price
.
I also vote for Heather’s January 9 suggestion of tabular edits, Ariel’s February 17 idea of 1 product with multiple categories, and Jeril’s April 22 thought about a Hide/Do Not Display switch for temporarily out of stock items.
.
Thanks.
August 16th, 2010 at 3:49 am
As I get closer to a live install, I find other “little” things that I could use.
1. transaction ID tracking for manual sales
2. 2 decimal places EVERYWHERE, including the emails
3. easy access to the checkout form. If the form and fields were CSS classes, this would be ideal
4. better ‘string’ cleaning for product name and description entry. I need to use quotes and commas and number signs and slashes; and I too often forget to escape the characters or the escaped characters don’t work in all situations
.
Yes, I know what I’m asking. But I’m willing to pay for a major upgrade…and I’m willing to provide regular feedback as a tester, too.
August 16th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Wishlist:
1. Option/Shortcode to list Categories alphabetically
2. Option/Shortcode to list Products alphabetically
PS. Ideally using any of the display options (normal, fancy1, fancy2, etc)… (apologies for duplication)
August 18th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
I really love this plugin – any idea what’s the timeframe like in implementing :
- Add separate international Shipping Cost functionality?
Or has there been no plans yet?
August 19th, 2010 at 3:49 am
Hi Morticya, We do not plan to have separate international shipping options. At this time this is handled by “PayPal Profile Based Shipping”. You can read more about this here:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-the-shipping-cost-calculation-works-in-wordpress-estore-50
August 29th, 2010 at 2:06 am
Hi,
I would love to see Kunaki integrated with WP eStore!
Regards,
WIlliam
August 29th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Allow multiple photos for each product!!!
-JA
August 31st, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Have Multiple Categories for product items.
Such as a product type and Manufacturer.