Shop sectin for a wordpress site

hargi · 17 Jun 2014 at 10:48

I have a wordpress site that I would like to add a shop section to.

I don't know what's the best approach, or even if I should put in a shop plug in or just use pages.

The shop part will be reselling( if thats the right word) stuff ( so want them to contact me I get a price and get then to order from the company, so they deal with the company directly but I get a cut from said company when they pay )
Or the other part will be they contact me and I purchase the stuff for them then sell it to them bank transfer or cheque. Hope this makes sense.

Would this be done better as a few pages with the items on and buttons that email me. Or would a shop plug in be better?

RoyMi6 · 17 Jun 2014 at 10:55

No doubt achievable with other plugins but I know that Woocommerce has a "catalogue" mode that means it doesn't display prices etc.

A cunning way to allow users to contact you regarding specific product is to do what I did on a previous shop implementation and add a ContactForm7 that includes the URL of the current page and include it in the product template.

hargi · 17 Jun 2014 at 10:58

RoyMi6 in your shop did you use a mixture of woocommerce and contactForm7?

Basically I want a email rather then a buy it now type thing

RoyMi6 · 17 Jun 2014 at 13:27

I used Woocommerce as a full shop allowing you to have a shopping basket and checkout etc.

I just know that it has a "catalogue" option, this is what you want - or at least what I THINK you want.

Unfortunately it turns out this is a paid for plugin (http://www.woothemes.com/products/catalog-visibility-options/) but in all fairness it's something you could easily do with simple changes so about 3 or 4 files - or even just CSS to hide buttons etc.

In addition to allowing people to buy, like a normal shop, I also added the option on each page to "contact us about this product".

I used ContactForm7 to create the form (for convenience) and updated one of the templates (item/product template) to show this single form.

Within the mail settings for the contact form I simply added the [_post_title] and [_post_url] mail tag (http://contactform7.com/special-mail-tags/) which automatically included the item name and a link to the product page so the shop manager knows what product the question is about.

Long story short, yes, I used a combination of WooCommerce and ContactForm7 - although you'll probably easily find a plugin that adds this for you

EDIT: Boom - https://wordpress.org/plugins/product-enquiry-for-woocommerce/

Not sure if this existed while I was making my shop or I simply wanted to use ContactForm7 to make all the contact forms easy to maintain for the user. It was a while ago now that I made it.