9 Ecwid Updates That Make Working an On-line Retailer a Breeze

The sky’s the restrict together with your Ecwid retailer! That’s why we’re all the time including new instruments and settings. To preserve you in the loop, right here’s a recent roundup of the most up-to-date Ecwid updates.

Take a look at the newest instruments that simplify operating your retailer. These updates will make it extra handy to handle your merchandise, orders, subscriptions, tax invoices, and extra. Take new settings for a spin and don’t hesitate to share your suggestions in the feedback.

Set Up Subscriptions on the Cellular App

With a subscription-based mannequin, a firm offers merchandise or providers on a common foundation in trade for constant fee, usually at a discounted value.

The recurring subscription instrument is already accessible for Ecwid retailers on the desktop app, however now you possibly can arrange subscription merchandise on the go! All you want is the Ecwid cellular app, which works for Android and iOS.

Simply open the app and you’ll be in a position to:

• Add merchandise with subscription pricing;
• Replace subscription costs for current merchandise;
• Arrange billing durations.

Subscription merchandise and orders are simple to discover on the cellular app as a result of they’re highlighted on the Merchandise and Orders pages:

Additionally, you gained’t miss a new subscription order because of the push notifications in your app:

To use the recurring subscriptions instrument, you’ll want to be on the Enterprise or Limitless plans and arrange Stripe as a fee methodology in your retailer.

Take a look at the way to arrange subscription merchandise on cellular or be taught extra concerning the Ecwid Cellular App for iOS and Android. ​​The cellular app is accessible on all paid Ecwid plans (on the Free plan, you possibly can take a look at drive the cellular app for 28 days.)

Replace Costs of Dozens of Merchandise in an Immediate

Now you possibly can replace product costs in the blink of an eye! No matter if you might have 5 or 50 merchandise, it takes a few clicks to replace costs on the Merchandise web page. Simply choose merchandise and click on “Mass Replace → Change costs.” You possibly can select a fastened worth or a share to change costs.

Be taught extra about mass updating costs in the Assist Heart.

Add Merchandise to the Retailer House Web page in Bulk

You might need already used Bulk Product Editor to shortly edit product particulars–title, SKU, photographs, value, inventory, delivery settings, and many others.–in a handy spreadsheet. Now that instrument has much more settings to make enhancing merchandise as quick and handy as potential.

You need to use Bulk Product Editor to function a number of merchandise on the retailer house web page at as soon as. Simply go to the Merchandise web page, choose the merchandise that you just need to spotlight on the retailer house web page, open them in the Bulk Product Editor instrument, and mark the merchandise as Featured.

The chosen merchandise are instantly displayed on your retailer’s house web page. You don’t must edit merchandise one-by-one, or replace the catalog by way of exporting and importing a CSV file!

Use this setting if you might have a massive catalog and need to show a new set of merchandise on the entrance web page of your on-line retailer.

Be taught extra about utilizing Bulk Product Editor in the Assist Heart.

Handle Scheduled for Pickup Orders on Cellular

If you supply a pickup possibility, you don’t need to miss this replace! Particularly if you’re utilizing our cellular apps for iOS and Android to handle your retailer.

To make managing pickup orders extra handy, we’ve added a new “Scheduled for Pickup” part in our cellular apps. To discover the new part, go to the Orders web page in the cellular app and select “Scheduled for Pickup”:

The “Scheduled for Pickup” part exhibits pickup orders sorted by date and time. You possibly can see what orders ought to be fulfilled first, so it’s simpler for you to put together orders.

A couple of helpful ideas for managing your pickup orders in the app:

• Swipe the order to mark it as picked up.
• Rapidly discover the orders that haven’t been picked up in a separate listing.

Be taught extra concerning the Ecwid Cellular App for iOS and Android. ​​The cellular app is accessible on all paid Ecwid plans (on the Free plan, you possibly can take a look at drive the cellular app for 28 days.)

Spotlight the Guidelines for Return of E-Items on Checkout

German on-line retailers, we made the following adjustments largely for you. In Germany, clients have a proper to return purchases inside 14 days for a full refund except they’ve began downloading or streaming digital items. A vendor can cancel the buyer’s request to return digital items, however solely after receiving express consent from the clients.

Beforehand, the discover for the restricted proper to return digital merchandise was in the Phrases & Circumstances checkbox throughout checkout. To make that discover extra apparent, we have added a separate checkbox for return circumstances of digital items on the checkout display screen:

The checkbox is necessary if enabled: clients gained’t be in a position to proceed to the subsequent checkout steps with out checking it. By the approach, the checkbox is accessible for all EU-based shops!

You possibly can allow the checkbox on the Authorized web page in your Management Panel–right here’s the instruction.

Be taught extra about organising your retailer to adjust to German legal guidelines in the Assist Heart.

Show the Orders as You Like

Relying on your preferable workflow, you possibly can increase or shrink your order listing in your Management Panel. The brand new Compact view shows the most important details about orders and exhibits extra orders on the web page–useful if you might have numerous orders and don’t need to scroll.

You possibly can nonetheless use the Expanded view if you need, which exhibits detailed details about orders. It is handy for processing orders with out going to the order particulars web page; it can be useful if you’re simply beginning out and don’t have too many orders.

To swap between the order views, go to the Orders web page and click on the Expanded View hyperlink on the prime proper and then choose Compact View. Or vice versa—handle your orders in no matter approach is most handy for you.

Replace Order Statuses by way of New Motion Buttons

Order statuses (akin to Paid, Shipped, and many others.) make it easier to determine what actions must be taken to course of every order.

Altering statuses helps you observe your achievement course of and retains your clients knowledgeable. For instance, while you change the order standing to “Shipped”, your buyer will routinely obtain an electronic mail notification.

Now you might have three new motion buttons on the order particulars web page to make it easier to course of your orders shortly:

• “Mark as Paid”: if an order has “Awaiting Cost” standing
• “Mark as Prepared For Pickup”: if pickup is chosen as a supply methodology
• “Mark as Out For Supply”: if native supply is chosen as a supply methodology.

Once you open the order particulars web page, you instantly see if you’ll want to take any motion with that order:

You can too replace the order statuses by selecting one in all the statuses from acquainted dropdown lists on order particulars pages and on the orders listing.

Be taught extra about managing orders in the Assist Heart.

See Adjustments Made in the Tax Bill Editor

Tax invoices are essential for on-line promoting; you need to use these monetary paperwork in your inside accounting, current them to the native tax workplace, or ship them to your clients.

Typically you’ll want to customise your tax invoices, like altering enterprise particulars or swapping an outdated brand for a new one. To make the course of extra streamlined, we improved the tax bill editor.

Now the adjustments you make are highlighted in yellow. This fashion, you possibly can see the place precisely the change occurs in the template preview. After you save adjustments, they’re utilized to new tax invoices.

Customizing the contents of tax invoices is accessible on all plans. Be taught extra about it in the Assist Heart.

If you’re an superior consumer and choose to edit tax invoices by way of the HTML editor, you are able to do this on Enterprise and Limitless plans.

Use a Preferable Separator for Worth and Weight

Take a look at the weights beneath. Do you understand which format is utilized in the USA and which one in Europe?

27.00 / 27,00

The factor is that completely different nations use completely different separators in costs and weights. Europe sometimes makes use of a comma, and the USA a dot.

Beforehand, Ecwid shops used a dot as a separator in all value and weight inputs. Now, you need to use a dot and a comma wherever you want: product web page, delivery settings, dealing with price, ideas, or reductions. Your on-line retailer will convert the show of the entered separator to the one that’s configured in the retailer settings. You possibly can select the default show format while you set the default weight and dimension models in your Ecwid retailer.

Keep Tuned

Don’t need to miss huge updates and new useful instruments? Right here’s the way to keep up to date on what’s new in your Ecwid retailer:

Now, it’s up to you! Have you ever tried any new instruments but? Or perhaps you might have an thought for a new instrument to enhance your on-line vendor routine? Don’t hesitate to share your suggestions and recommendations in the feedback! It is our aim to make Ecwid the very best ecommerce platform for everybody.