Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Adding products

Adding products with WooCommerce is simple, but there are a few things that need to be done each time, the first thing when adding a product is to name it and give it a description, after this you then have this box


In this section you can add the price of the item and then you have the option to add a sale price which I have done to most of my featured items. The boxes ticked at the top let the server know that the idem is a download after purchase and this is where you can add the actual product link rather than the thumbnail. You then have the options to limit your download per purchase, this is something that has come in very handy as I only want one download per purchase on my site, this means that if the customer tries to download it again, they get an error message saying they have exceeded their limit on that purchase.

When uploading my products I came across an issue that took me a while to get around, there is no way of stopping the customers taking the image you have uploaded to the shop gallery and printing them off without paying, for this reason I was worried that people would come to the shop and steal the products, I tried to add watermarks to the work but unless I covered part of the work, making it look bad in the store, there was no way a water mark could stop someone cross stitching that pattern. 
The only solution I could think of was to take away the grid in the thumbnails, then upload the fully finished and labeled piece so they can only access it when they have paid.

Here is an example of what my thumbnails look like in comparison to the actual pattern print.





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