Thanks to many pre-optimized themes, and tools, it’s become relatively easy to create the bare bones of a store and start selling products. An appealing design is always your top priority. It makes the site seem more trustworthy and is overall more likely to draw in customers.

However, many other aspects can make or break an eCommerce business. Poorly handled shipping is the number one spot on that list. Not only does it hurt your bottom line, but terrible shipping policies can also have catastrophic consequences when it comes to customer satisfaction. Let’s take a real-life example.

Many brands advertise free shipping; you see it, fill up the cart and proceed to checkout. Only to find out later that shipping to your country is actually near the sum cost of the products you purchased – never going back there again.

If you’re using WooCommerce, there are plenty of plugins that can aid you in getting shipping rules straight. Still, if you have an international customer base and need specific shipping rules for different products or quantities, we suggest you try out the WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping plugin.

How to Setup Shipping Based on the Number of Items in the Cart

Well, first things first. You’ll have to install the plugin to your WordPress by either downloading it straight from the “Plugins” tab or using other provided resources. Add the License Key, and commence installation. After that’s all fine and dandy, you can go on and start to create a new shipping method.

So, let’s jump into our WordPress admin panel. Under WooCommerce, jump into “Settings” and navigate to the “Shipping” tab located on the top of the page.

The first you’ll have to do to get the store up and running is adjust a shipping zone. Now, if you’re an absolute beginner and aren’t yet familiar with the ins and outs of running a shop, feel free to peruse the knowledge base and get acquainted with that first. Don’t worry. It’s not as hard to understand as it seems at first. You’ll get the gist of it in a manner of minutes.

Click on “Add Shipping Zone,” and you’ll be ready to begin. Name the zone ( for clarity, use something recognizable and clear like the US, for the United States), and select a country where this method will apply. Upon clicking “Add Shipping Method,” pick Table Rate Pro from the dropdown menu.

Once you select the plugin’s name, hover over it, and navigate to “Edit.” Add your first shipping method, and enable it. You will be using it to ship your products correctly after all, and as you can already tell yourself, without me even mentioning it, it will not apply if it’s not enabled.

The first text box is the “Method Title” if this is your usual method, name it something like Standard. Also, this is the title that’s going to appear on the checkout page. Adding a handling fee is optional, and if the text box remains blank, it will disable automatically. Set if the shipments are taxable or not, and then we can get into setting up the rules.

There are quite a few options in here, so we’ll give you a quick run-through of what they’re for and how they impact the shipping rules.

Possible tables rates:

• Shipping class – If you’re unfamiliar with this, you can go back to the knowledge base and learn more about them. But for this particular instance, we won’t be setting this up, so leave it as is.
• Condition – Here, you’re telling the plugin how it should apply the rule. There are three choices, weight, total price, and item count. Note that wight is expressed in Oz due to this shipping zone being in the US.

• Min and Max Value – Prety self-explanatory but denotes the total values of the products for which the rule is to be applied.
• Base Amount and Per Item – How much you’ll be charging as a base per order, and how much extra you’ll charge per item in the cart.
• Per Oz – If you add a rule based on weight, you’ll add how to charge per Oz.

So, now that we went over basics, so there’s no confusion. Go ahead and click on “Item Count” under Condition. Then set the minimum and the max value of the packages for which this rule will apply. If you want it to apply to all packages, enter “0” under minimum value and an asterisk (*) under Max Value.

The asterisk here denotes infinity. So the rule will apply no matter the cost of the products.

Next, enter your base charge and how much you want to add per each item. To avoid confusion, let’s use an example. If you set the base value to $3, the standard rate shipping will be three dollars. And if you set the per-item charge to $1, it will add one dollar to the shipping cost per item in the cart.

Once you’ve set everything up, save the changes, and that’s it.

To demonstrate, we’re going to pop by our store and what this all looks like when you are all done.

As you can see, there are two products in the cart, shipping is $5, and the name will appear directly next to the price, as we specified. Your per-item shipping rate is now complete.

Final Thoughts

Having solid shipping methods in place is a must-have for any successful e-commerce store out there. With Table Rate Shipping Pro, you can set up a per-item rule in mere minutes. Of course, this is only scratching the surface, as the plugin offers a whole host of features that’ll allow you to customize shipping to a tee.

Hopefully, our mini-tutorial was of some help to you, and you’re now ready to create your very own shipping rules—best of luck.

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Well, there are many ways:

• You can visit third-party services like StubHub and Ticketmaster, but you might have to pay hefty commissions to these services and cut your profits.
• You can create a separate landing page with a CTA that allows your audience to purchase tickets. While this is a good approach if you are hosting a single event, it can be a menace if you want to sell multiple gigs from your website.
• You can turn to social media to sell the tickets and facilitate ticket sales on the platform to reduce friction for the customers. But as you know, social media is a competitive world, and for a newbie, it can be challenging to reach an audience instantly.

All these methods are great and have their pros and cons. But what if you add another very underrated way of selling tickets to your events? I’m talking about WooCommerce.

Ecommerce has worked wonders for many industries, and with WooCommerce, every business person wants to sell anything online. Even the tickets to your first gig. This article will share how you can use a WooCommerce store to sell the tickets to your WooCommerce store.

Why WooCommerce?

The straight answer is WooCommerce is fantastic, and it’s not me; the numbers speak so.

According to a report by BuiltWith, 4,414,537 live websites are using WooCommerce. So many sellers couldn’t go wrong in choosing a platform to run their business. But still, let’s see some factual information as to why you should WooCommerce for selling online:

1. WooCommerce Is Free

So actually, WooCommerce is a free and open-source WordPress plugin; therefore, it is accessible to anyone who owns a WordPress website.

WordPress is the most popular content management system in the platform, and it provides direct developmental support to the WooCommerce plugin.

2. Comes With Built-In eCommerce Features

WooCommerce gives you all the features required to create a full-functioning eCommerce website, therefore, saving you from all the efforts of building custom product pages.

Here are some of the promising features of WooCommerce:

• Unrestricted customization.
• It comes with a built-in blogging system.
• The product categories are easy to manage in WooCommerce.
• You can quickly know your customers’ feedback with the help of reviews and ratings.
• The product can be quickly sorted and filtered with the help of tags and attributes.
• You can make customizations according to the region you’re selling in for currency, taxes, and other details like measurement units.

3. Flexibility To Sell

WooCommerce store owners are free to sell anything and everything from their eCommerce stores. The default WooCommerce store lets you selling the following types of products:

1. Simple Product

A stand-alone physical product that might have to be shipped to your customers is known as a simple product. For selling a simple product, you have to assign a price and SKU for the product and start selling them.

Example: books

2. Grouped Product

A cluster of simple products clubbed together to form a single entity is known as a grouped product in WooCommerce. The grouped products are identified by their child products that have unique features of their own. One of the best examples for a grouped product can be a t-shirt available in muted colors.

3. Virtual Product

With WooCommerce, you can even sell non-physical entities. Unlike the simple and grouped products, there is no need to ship virtual products. For example, you can list services as a product in your store.

4. Downloadable Product

Similar to virtual products, the downloadable product need not be shipped. These products are available as a downloadable file to the customers with a specified path and URL.

5. External/Affiliate Product

Products that you are not the actual seller for comes under the external/affiliate product. The products listed on your website but the customers are directed to somewhere else for completing the checkout process fall under this category.

As you can see with WooCommerce, you can sell almost anything from an eCommerce website. However, you can extend the functionality of WooCommerce with the help of plugins and introduce a new product that you will use in the case of events. Moving forward, we’ll see how you can extend the functionality of core WooCommerce and add events as products on your WordPress site.

How to Add Events as Products to My Woocommerce Store?

Let’s begin with the most awaited part of this article and learn step-by-step how to create an event and ticketing website using WooCommerce.

Ready to sell your first gig?

Step 1: Creating a WooCommerce Store

To sell events from WooCommerce, you first need to have a WooCommerce store. Creating a WooCommerce store is very detailed, and if it is your first, you might need a WooCommerce setup tutorial.

But I’ll take you through all the necessary steps to make and the prerequisites for creating a WooCommerce store.

1. Purchase a Domain Name and Hosting Service

The very first step is to purchase a unique domain name which will be your website’s address on the internet. Then, you have to buy a hosting service that will make your website accessible to the searchers.

Instead of a standard hosting service, you can go with a WordPress hosting service provider such as Hostinger.

The advantage of a WordPress hosting service is that you get pre-installed WordPress thus, making it for you to start your website with a click.

Lastly, you’ve to invest in an SSL certificate, but you can skip this step if your hosting provider has already done it for you.

2. Installing WooCommerce

Once you finish that setting up your WordPress website, you have to install WooCommerce. It is similar to installing any other plugin in your WordPress environment.

Just trace the following steps:

• On your WordPress dashboard, press on the Plugins → Adds new from the side menus.
• In the search bar, type WooCommerce and from the search results, press on the install button beside the WooCommerce plugin.
• Once you’ve installed WooCommerce, activate it and move forward with other procedures.

3. Configuring Essential Settings

Once you activate WooCommerce, it will ask you to fill in some vital information for starting selling online.

These configurations include:

• Store location, currency, and product type.
• Next, you’ve to choose a payment method. If your payment method is not available, you can skip this step and add a payment method later.
• After choosing a payment method, WooCommerce will ask you to select a shipping method.
• Lastly, the setup wizard will ask you to install some recommended services. If you want any assistance, you can install them or skip this step too.

As I’ve said earlier, the features have to be extended to add a product type that is not available in the stock WooCommerce. Once you have installed WooCommerce and do all the necessary steps, you must add products. In this case, those are events. Let’s see how.

Step 2: Installing Event Tickets Manager for WooCommerce

By default, WooCommerce does not have a feature to add events as products. But we can always turn to plugins for achieving our plugins. So after installing WooCommerce, the next step is to install a plugin called Event Tickets Manager For WooCommerce.

You have to use the same process to install the which you used to install WooCommerce, or you can directly visit WordPress.org, download the plugin and activate it.

Wasn’t it simple?

Installing his plugin will open your routes for selling events from a WooCommerce store. Therefore, our next step is to add your gig for selling the tickets online.

Step 3: Adding Events to Your WooCommerce Store

Like any other product, you have to add events as products if you want to sell them. Trace the following steps to add events on your WooCommerce store:

• Visit the Products → Add New page to upload your first gig.
• Upon visiting the page, scroll down to the product data box section.
• You’ve to select Events as product type from the drop-down menu.
• Finally, you have to start filling in the required details.

The event-based products require the vendors to fill in some essential details before your gig goes live. These events include:

1. Price

The vendor has to enter the price of the tickets for your gig. You’ll find two fields in the pricing section: Regular price and Sale price; if the tickets are at a discount, you’ve to enter expenses in both these fields. You can leave the Sale price field empty if there is no discount available.

By clicking on the Schedule button below, you can fix the start and end date of the sale. This lets you build a sense of urgency among your customers.

2. Date and Time

Select the Events tab in the product box, and you’ll find some vital information to be filled in, such as the start and end date along with the timings of the event.

The vendor has to enter the date and time of the gig for the audience.

3. Location

If you’re inviting people to an event, you cannot keep the location hidden. Therefore, the Event Tickets manager asks the vendor to enter the location of an event. The merchant has to enter the exact locational address, and the plugin will automatically generate the longitude and latitude related to the location.

You can also show the gig’s location on the product page by clicking on the checkbox beside “Display event on google map.” The plugin offers integration with Google Maps that lets the merchants show the live location of the event through a widget.

Step 4: Configuring the Ticket Settings

When customers visit your store and book a seat at your gig, they receive the tickets in an email. The WooCommerce plugin has some settings that you have to configure to ensure the guests receive correct emails.

The Event Tickets Manager lets you modify the subject and body of the emails sent to the customers whenever they purchase your WooCommerce store. Customers can find the ticket settings on the MakeWebBetter → Event Tickets Manager For WooCommerce page, and finally, click on the Ticket Setting tab.

Under the ticket settings tab, you’ll find the options to:

• Edit the subject line of emails and automatically send it when a customer purchases a ticket.
• You’ll also find an editor that lets you edit the content of the email’s body. Thus, letting you make personalized content in a breeze.
• Also, you have an option that allows the merchants to upload an image used as a logo for an email template.

Once you’ve configured the emails, don’t forget to save the settings.

Step 5: Show Live Location of Your Gig

I love Event Tickets Manager For WooCommerce and show the live location of gigs. We don’t want our attendees to get lost or face any problem finding the event’s exact location. Therefore, the plugin has a feature that shows the live location of your gigs on the product pages.

This WooCommerce event management system offers integration with Google. The merchant has to generate an API key and later update the key on the MakeWebBetter → Event Tickets Manager For WooCommerce → Integrations page.

Once you’ve entered the API key, visit the page product editing page and enter the location using the steps mentioned above in Step 3.

Consequently, you’ll see the live location of your gigs on the product page within a widget.

Step 6: Managing the Ticket Stocks

If you are aware of WooCommerce inventory management, you’ll know that the eCommerce platform provides an option for every product to enter the stock quantity.

In this case, the stock quantity defines the number of seats that are available for your event. You can also set the threshold for low stock and take advantage of the feeling of urgency to sell your tickets.

For a quick overview of all things, you may look at the plugin documentation and follow all the steps easily.

Let the Party Begin!

So this is all how you can sell your first gig with WooCommerce. Wasn’t it easy?

The Event Tickets Manager For WooCommerce is an extension that has it all. From selling the tickets to your audience to managing the sales in your store. Indeed it is a complete event management solution that automates most of your marketing efforts and lets you focus on the big day.

This WooCommerce extension simplifies the highly complex task of event management and lets you coordinate and plan all the details. I hope this article was helpful and gave you an idea of using an overrated platform to sell a very underrated product with eCommerce power.

Don’t forget to invite us to your first gig!

Author bio-  Himanshu Rauthan is an entrepreneur, Co-Founder at MakeWebBetter, BotMyWork, and the Director of CEDCOSS Technologies. He has worn many hats in his career – programmer, researcher, writer, and strategist. As a result, he has a unique ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects and navigate complex challenges. He is passionate about building and scaling eCommerce development.

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One of the tips for making the whole process easier is to take your customers directly to the checkout page so they can place the order and purchase the item(s). There are three ways you can do this:

1. WooCommerce default settings

Under WooCommerce, go to Product settings, then the General section where you will edit Add to cart behavior. There, tick the checkbox so it will redirect your users to the cart page after adding products.

Next, under Advanced settings and Page setup, you can select the Checkout page option which will redirect your visitors to the checkout page.

Lastly, you need to change the text that says Add to cart (if you have one on your site). For this, you need to add a code snippet to the functions.php file of the current theme you are using. That will replace the current text with Buy Now.

2. WordPress plugins

This is probably the easiest method to add direct checkout, and we would recommend you use it, especially if you have little knowledge of coding or are just beginning to use WooCommerce and plugins. Using plugins also lets you add more customization to your site.

Here are some plugins we recommend you try:

Direct Checkout for WooCommerce – Skip Cart with Buy Buttons

Had enough complaints about how reaching the checkout on your online store is a hassle? Completely get rid of them by installing the Direct Checkout for WooCommerce plugin. With this plugin, you completely skip the cart and send your customers to the checkout.

How is this achieved? Using so-called buy buttons. These buttons can be placed anywhere on your site, meaning you are not limited to just the product page. This way, your checkout process is optimized, and your sales are given a boost.

The buy buttons can be created for individual products or for all products. What’s more, they are compatible with simple, variable, and affiliate products alongside simple and variable subscriptions.

Direct Checkout for WooCommerce

Direct Checkout for WooCommerce is a plugin that lets you make the process of buying a lot easier as you basically allow your customers to skip the whole Add to cart page. Next to each of the products’ images, an Add to cart button will appear which will automatically redirect your customers to the checkout page. This is helpful in reducing cart abandonment percentages.

There is also the Add to cart AJAX option where you can include single products, variable, grouped, and virtual products without reloading the whole site. You can customize the checkout fields to speed up the buying process by removing order comments, shipping address, coupon forms, etc.

There is a premium version of this plugin that allows you to add a quick purchase button and a one-page checkout where your buyers can edit their cart items on the checkout page.

Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout

Digital Goods for WooCommerce Checkout is a plugin designed for online stores that specialize in digital downloads (for example e-books). When people want to download something, they expect it to happen right away, without too much extra time spent on filling out some Add to cart fields.

This plugin makes this process quick, so your customers don’t need to fill in any unnecessary details or access the Add to cart page. And since you are dealing with online downloads, there is no need to ask for billing and/or shipping addresses.

You can set up the quick checkout for all products, exclude multiple fields, add a quick checkout button next to your products, and add those quick to buy buttons on any page. It can also be integrated with WooCommerce.

This plugin allows you to sell various types of files, pdf, e-book, photo, music, video, audio, mp3, and others.

Direct checkout, Add to cart redirect, Quick purchase button, Buy now button, Quick View button for WooCommerce

Direct checkout, Add to cart redirect, Quick purchase button, Buy now button, Quick View button for WooCommerce plugin lets you add a redirect to the checkout page. After adding a product to the cart you can redirect to any page on your site, even with AJAX. You can also disable the cart page and only show the cart on the checkout page, without using shortcodes to make this work.

Lastly, you can add a quick purchase button on your product pages and add a quick view option from the checkout page, so you don’t lose your customers right before they are about to purchase an item.

All in all, it is a versatile plugin that comes in a free version and a premium one with more features, such as disable redirect for some products, set redirects only for specific products, customer support, and set any page as an order success page.

WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor

WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor is a plugin that lets you add custom fields to your checkout page. This includes billing and shipping fields, and any additional fields you might need. You can edit and rearrange the checkout page any way you want to and add or delete as many fields as you think is necessary.

You can add different types of fields that can include text, select, checkboxes, and date pickers. You can move these around and organize your site style according to the theme you are using so you achieve the best possible customer experience and ensure everything flows naturally.

This is a premium plugin, but it costs $49 annually, so it is not too expensive and provides you with great support, and allows you to simplify your whole buying process.

3. Code snippets

This method of adding direct checkout means you will add a code snippet to the function.php file of your current theme. It is similar to changing the settings in the WooCommerce settings section we mentioned before. However, this requires a bit of coding knowledge, so we won’t get into it.

Conclusion

By making the whole purchase process simpler and quicker, you will ensure that a greater percentage of your customers also finish the process. This can be done by abandoning cart pages and making sure your customers are automatically taken to the checkout page.

You can choose how you wish to do this, but we recommend using a plugin. It is simpler and easier than to add pieces of code to your site.

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