It doesn’t matter whether you are offering the customers a single subscription to a service or countless different items from all around the world. Constructing and releasing your WooCommerce store is something you won’t regret!
Worrying about costs is not something unusual. With so many things to take into account in terms of prices, you risk losing everything before actually making a single sale.
WooCommerce is a platform which offers almost endless flexibility and ways to develop. Although the main part of the program is cost-free, if you want to receive all the extensions you will have to spend some money.
We have chosen for you, our top 10 free extensions of Woocommerce. Hope you enjoy!
1. Get Google Analytics to understand customer behavior
Google Analytics is particularly a free service which is used for the really detailed statistics it creates. From clickthroughs to conversations this integration will tell you everything. In order to get it up and working you will need to get the integration and fill your GA details so you can connect it to your WooCommerce store.
2. Add Jetpack for security, spam protection and ‘lazy loading’ images
Jetpack is basically a security resource pack that offers you protection from almost every possible tread to your store. Another feature of it is being able to stop the spam in order to enable real time backups, which gives you the ability to rewind your website.
Jetpack also gives its users a wider variety of themes. The aspect of the pack that is the most interesting is the “lazy loading” of images. This feature is a way faster method of loading your pictures and saving you a whole lot of time.
3. Connect to MailChimp for world class email marketing
MailChimp is a platform we all know for its marketing automation features. They provide their users with a brand new list of useful eCommerce tools and services.
When you utilize the official integration your clients’ data including their purchases are synced with your MailChimp account. This particular aspect of the integration helps you do more work with less effort. That means, sending emails, dealing with customer purchases, you can also recover carts that have been abandoned and so much more. The best thing is you get all of that without paying a single cent.
4. Connect to Facebook in order to run ads and grow sales
Promoting your store on Facebook will increase not only the popularity of your store, but also will grant you well-built relationships with other people. And the fact that your shop will grow on popularity means that there will be more sales, doesn’t it? Using the Facebook for WooCommerce will provide you with 2 really important tools in the names of shop page and advertisements. This integration will give you the experience needed to start promoting yourself on Instagram, as well.
5. Engage with visitors and boost sales with live chat
At some point every shop owner has to face the inevitable in the face of customer problems. One way of resolving them is allowing the visitors of your store to talk with real person at the moment they come up with a question or face a problem. If you want to use such feature, go and turn the live chat of your shop on straight away.
6. Automate and personalize your abandoned cart remarketing
Sometimes it happens that buyers abandon their cart right before they complete checkout. A great way to take care of such problem is emailing them not too long after the problem has appeared. If you write and send these though will take a whole lot of time and can be quite tiring. Some integrations such as MailChimp have several instruments which make the job easier but Jilt offers its customers a large field of customizations in terms of service.
Jilt was able to earn $28 million worth of revenue for eCommerse stores from all over the globe. On average, shops make an additional 15-20% of income in 20 minutes or even less. Jilt makes things such as tracking abandoned carts, bringing back lost revenue look easy. One last feature we want to mention is the ability to customize your emails.
Skyverge, who is a reliable partner of WooCommerce, has constructed this extension. They offer you a free test period of 14 days. The sad part is that after this trial comes to an end you will have to pay $29 a month if you want to continue using Jilt.
7. Automatically request product reviews after each sale
We can’t omit to mention the customer reviews. They can benefit your website more than you think. From showing the customer you are reliable to boosting your store in terms of SEO.
Yotpo is an awesome extension which has an amazing feature called review request. Basically when you start using the integration it will ask the customers via email to give their opinion on the product they have bought as soon as it arrives.
Other aspects of Yotpo which you don’t want to miss are its ability to: create galleries of the different products, Q&A, and it provides you with the chance to reward the reviewers with coupons for discounts and personalized offers.
8. Take payments in person and track inventory
If you are looking for a way to keep track of all your payments then Square is the integration for you. It is completely free and once you install it you can immediately begin to accept payments. Square allows you to both track online and offline sales and inventory. In today’s world, such extension is a good addition to your online store.
9. Optimize images to ensure fast pageload
In order to develop your store and make it a successful one, high-quality pictures are essential. Especially in some cases where you want to upload galleries for example.
High quality though always means large files. These huge files can cause your website to work slower than it should be. Taking into account that pictures are 50% of a website’s loading time.
We are fortunate to have the picture optimization. It is a way of reducing the size of the file without actually affecting the quality. If you want to be able to do that, please follow the instructions below.
- 1. Download your pictures in the right measurements. The size of an image should be no less than 800x800px. This is estimated to be the minimum size for a photo to work with most themes.
- 2. Reduce the size of your images. You are given the ability to compress your pictures by 70% only using plugins such as: Imagify, EWWW Image Optimizer, or WPSmushit. Although they will make the files lower on size, they won’t make the pictures blurry.
10. Trigger coupon messages with hidden shortcodes
You probably aware of the coupons you can add to your online store. If you think it is too early to upload codes on different websites, Coupon Shortcodes might come in handy for you.
Using this integration will give you the freedom to make different criteria in order for people to get discounts and coupons. The criteria could be whatever you decide and you are able to create as many of them as you wish. One of the best features is that the messages are completely customizable. If you don’t mind making some coupons which will trigger after a customer does something particular, then this integration is a must.
Building a successful store doesn’t have to cost a fortune
The bigger part of the new shop owners are appealed by cash. The best way to generate money is spending as less money as you can and on the other hand, earning as much as you can.
All of the integrations we mentioned above will provide you with the tools which you need to, gain confidence and more data with which you will be able to give a head start of your online store.
Feel free to share your opinion in the comment section below, and don’t forget to tell us witch of the extensions is your favorite.