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A Concise Bluehost + WooCommerce Review (June 2021)

Rosie Greaves June 2, 2021

Bluehost is a veteran web hosting provider with a focus on WordPress. They're famously beginner-friendly and affordable, making them a suitable choice for budding entrepreneurs looking to start an online store.

When it comes to eCommerce web hosting, security, performance, and storage are all significant considerations. But you also need a solution that seamlessly integrates with powerful eCommerce platforms like WooCommerce and offers the support you need to keep everything running smoothly.

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The Ultimate Guide to Magento Hosting (June 2021)

Rebekah Carter June 2, 2021

Magento is a robust solution in the world of eCommerce. Many developers and store owners rely on Magento for selling their products online. If you are among such users, you might have spent some time figuring out the best possible Magento hosting solution for your business.

While Magento’s requirements are not something extraordinary, not every web hosting provider can run a Magento installation equally well. As such, you need to bear certain special considerations in mind when selecting a Magento hosting service for your website.

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Automatic Email Manager: The Ultimate Automated Order Printer for Ecommerce

Joe Warnimont April 4, 2021

Shopify, WooCommerce, and the many other ecommerce platforms are known for their automation features, such as order alerts and receipts. However, many businesses require the printing of invoices, orders, and receipts, whether it's a restaurant that needs hard copies of orders sent to the kitchen, or it's a wholesale business with custom invoices. Shopify, and most other platforms, don't automate printed orders, so that's where the Automatic Email Manager comes into play.

We discovered this extension after hearing that there aren't many solutions for printing orders without going into the platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce and printing manually.

With that limitation, we found that the Automatic Email Manager extension could help many of our readers. So, in this article, we'll cover the list of features you get from the extension and guide you through an example of it in action.

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Best Fulfillment Center in the USA (June 2021): Which One Works for Your Store?

Joe Warnimont June 2, 2021

All online stores need some sort of fulfillment. Whether that's self-fulfillment, third-party logistics, or dropshipping depends on the type of organization. We recommend looking into which style of fulfillment works for you as your business grows. Eventually, third-party logistics make sense for online stores, seeing as how it cuts out expensive and time-consuming elements like storage, shipping, and packaging. The goal is to find a fulfillment partner near your primary customers. That way, the products don't take long to get to their homes. That's why we put together a list and comparison to find you the best fulfillment center in the USA.

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How to Add a Favicon to Your Shopify Store

Joe Warnimont March 14, 2021

The identity of your ecommerce store brings together several elements such as the logo, site colors, and your marketing materials. This identity strengthens your overall brand and creates a healthy reminder for your customers, evoking feelings of comfort and reliability when they see your brand images and colors. Although small in size, the Favicon also ties into that branding strategy. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to create and add a favicon to your Shopify store, rounding out your online appearance and making it easier to recognize your store when customers visit.

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Best Free WooCommerce Themes for Stores on a Budget (June 2021)

Joe Warnimont June 2, 2021

A WooCommerce theme turns a basic WordPress blog into something that allows you to sell to customers, link payment gateways, and manage your products with the help of marketing, accounting, and design tools. The average WooCommerce theme sells for around $50-$100. That's not bad, but some smaller companies and startups have rather tight budgets to even consider something like this. Not to mention, many of the best free WooCommerce themes provide just as many tools as the premium ones.

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CJdropshipping Review: What Do They Have to Offer?

Rosie Greaves March 18, 2021

Have you ever wanted to start your own online business and earn a stream of passive income?

That’s the dream, right?

Well, with the help of modern dropshipping platforms, gone are the days where successful entrepreneurship was only an option for those with large investment funds.

Instead, dropshipping enables you to launch an online brand with no inventory at all.

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Best WooCommerce Themes for the Perfect Online Store Design (June 2021)

Joe Warnimont June 2, 2021

Finding the best WooCommerce themes takes patience and testing to locate the right features and appearance for your brand. However, there's what seems like a never-ending collection of WooCommerce themes online, making it rather difficult to see them all and identify the options that may work. That's why we did the work for you, testing out hundreds of WooCommerce themes and understanding the features that make them stand out. We eliminated the ones that didn't hold up for various reasons like slow load times, limited features, and restricted design settings.

After that, our testing allowed us to compare the best WooCommerce themes from a more subjective nature. We looked into the overall value of these themes and picked the ones that are most versatile when it comes to design settings and templates.

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