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How Shark Tank Company Ready Festive Uses WooCommerce

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022 by Daniel Espinoza

Shark Tank is a long-running show on ABC where entrepreneurs describe their businesses to a group of seasoned and successful business owners, or “sharks.” The entrepreneurs’ goal is to impress the sharks so they will invest and partner with the business.

On a recent episode the owners of a subscription holiday decor box company named Ready Festive pitched the sharks on their holiday decor subscription box company. I work with several subscription box companies who use WooCommerce so I was excited to discover Ready Festive’s site uses WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions!

A Unix CRON Equivalent in WooCommerce

July 26, 2022 by Daniel Espinoza

This question about a WooCommerce cron equivalent is from the WooCommerce Community Slack channel:

I want to loop through all users and their subscriptions, check some custom meta data I added to each subscription on creation and update some of the meta data if needed.
What would be the equivalent of a linux cron job in WooCommerce? Is there something in WooCommerce that triggers daily?

3 Ways to Change Prices in WooCommerce Subscriptions

How to Change Prices in Active WooCommerce Subscriptions

January 11, 2023June 8, 2022 by Daniel Espinoza

Your business is finally at the place where you have a few hundred or a few thousand active subscriptions. You are now able to forecast renewals month to month and work on reducing churn with those active subscribers. After celebrating your hard work and success there are some housekeeping tasks that arise with a large group of active subscribers.

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Using the Action Scheduler in WordPress Presentation

June 8, 2022March 24, 2022 by Daniel Espinoza

This week I had the opportunity to present to the West Orlando WordPress Meetup group about using the Action Scheduler in WordPress.

WooCommerce: How to find products in the database

Where are WooCommerce Products Stored in the Database?

January 3, 2023June 22, 2021 by Daniel Espinoza

WooCommerce products are stored as custom post types. Each product will have 1 row in the wp_posts table. and the post type will be “product.”

WooCommerce: How to Refund Orders Programmatically

How to Bulk Refund Orders in WooCommerce Programmatically

November 22, 2021June 15, 2021 by Daniel Espinoza

While running your WooCommerce store it might become necessary to refund a large number of customer orders.
Refunding an order is possible via the WordPress dashboard, but if the number of orders is more than 100 you might want to do this programmatically using a script and WP CLI.

WooCommerce: Stop Adding Pixel Tracking Code to Thank You Page

November 12, 2021June 8, 2021 by Daniel Espinoza

A common task for ecommerce sites is needing to add a tracking pixel to the Order Completed, or Thank You page of WooCommerce. This pixel will help report data to an external service like Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Pinterest, or a CRM.

WooComerce: Bulk Update Next Payment Date

WooCommerce Subscriptions: How to Bulk Update Next Payment Date

November 28, 2021June 1, 2021 by Daniel Espinoza

If you run a WooCommerce Subscriptions site for long enough you will experience a situation where you need to change the Next Payment date for subscriptions. Knowing how to bulk update the next payment date in WooCommerce Subscriptions is a vital tool for developers and shop managers.

In this article I’ll explain how to change the Next Payment date on one or thousands of subscriptions at one time in a few steps:

10 Ways to Improve a WooCommerce Subscription Site

January 3, 2023October 19, 2018 by Daniel Espinoza

Howdy WooSesh viewer! WooSesh is a free online conference for all things WooCommerce and I had the opportunity to present on how to improve WooCommerce Subscription Sites.

How to Filter WooCommerce Order Table

January 3, 2023September 6, 2018 by Daniel Espinoza

This how-to is a follow up to the How to Hide Zero and Free Orders post. This is a developer focused how-to, where we will dig into some WooCommerce code.

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