20 Superior Ecwid Updates That Will Save You Hours of Work


Do you know you could customise your checkout with none coding? Or you could scan broken barcodes with the Ecwid Cellular App?

It’s time to get you up-to-date on new useful instruments in your Ecwid retailer! Take a look at recent Ecwid updates that make working an on-line retailer simpler than ever by simplifying your storefront design, transport, taxes, managing orders, and extra.

Customise Your Checkout With out Coding

If you promote on-line with Ecwid by Lightspeed, your retailer advantages from a clear and fashionable one-page checkout. It’s designed to make putting an order handy for your clients, stopping cart abandonment resulting from a lengthy or awkward checkout course of.

At the similar time, we perceive that companies are distinctive, identical to their goal audiences. That’s why we wished you to be in a position to tweak the customary checkout to higher regulate it to what you are promoting.

Now you may add customized fields to any a part of your checkout web page in lower than a minute. No coding wanted!

Customized fields permit you to accumulate further info from clients, reminiscent of present messages, buyers’ tax IDs, packaging preferences, supply preferences, and no matter different info you would possibly want.

An instance of a customized checkbox area at checkout

The settings of customized fields are very versatile. You may:

  • Add a title and placeholder for directions for every area and select a area kind (textual content fields, radio buttons, dropdowns, date and time, choice buttons, checkboxes).
  • Make it so that filling out fields could be required or non-obligatory for your clients.
  • Add as many customized fields as you want to any checkout step.
  • Type checkout fields as you want whenever you add two or extra customized fields to the similar checkout web page.

The wealthy customized area settings permit you to regulate the checkout as you want whereas holding the checkout course of handy and fast for your clients.

Study extra: Tips on how to Customise On-line Checkout to Enhance Buying Expertise & Gross sales

Arrange customized fields for your checkout utilizing these directions from the Assist Middle.

Handle Taxes with Ease

“I love calculating taxes manually,” mentioned no one ever. Fortunately, you may allow automated tax calculation in your Ecwid retailer and get a exact tax charge on every order, relying on the buyer and retailer places.

Till the current replace, the automated tax calculation software was accessible for merchandise with customary tax charges and shops primarily based in the USA, the EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand. To make managing taxes even simpler, we made automated tax calculations accessible for extra nations and merchandise.

Calculate Taxes Routinely for Non-Customary or Tax-Exempt Merchandise

Earlier than current updates, automated tax calculation labored with customary tax charges. If you bought non-taxable merchandise or gadgets with a tax charge totally different from customary tax charges, you needed to arrange taxes manually. Fortunately, you don’t must do that anymore!

Now, automated tax calculation works with non-standard tax charges too. For instance, this works for diminished tax or zero tax merchandise.

After you arrange product-specific tax charges for your gadgets, your retailer will robotically calculate the right taxes at checkout. It’ll think about particular product charges, plus retailer and buyer places.

The usual tax charge is utilized by default except you arrange a non-standard tax charge for a product.

Complying together with your nation’s tax legal guidelines takes much less effort, no matter what merchandise you promote.

Discover ways to assign product-specific charges for automated taxes in our Assist Middle.

Allow Automated Taxes When Promoting in non-EU nations in Europe

Nice information for sellers from non-EU European nations! Now, automated tax calculations can be found for outlets in Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, and Switzerland.

You no longer must manually calculate taxes or regulate tax settings in line with tax adjustments in your nation. All tax charges are up to date and robotically up to date when a nation broadcasts upcoming adjustments in their gross sales tax guidelines.

Discover ways to arrange automated taxes in your Ecwid retailer in our Assist Middle.

Make Your Retailer Solely Multilingual

If you promote overseas or what you are promoting is primarily based in a nation with a number of official languages, it is smart to make your retailer multilingual. This fashion, your clients can store in their most well-liked language.

All it’s a must to do is add translations of your catalog, like product names, descriptions, choices, and class names. Ecwid by Lightspeed will robotically translate the relaxation — texts on buttons, invoices, and notifications.

With the newest updates, you may manually translate extra in your Ecwid retailer, reminiscent of:

  • Captions for the “Order feedback” part on checkout so that clients talking totally different languages perceive what this checkout area is for.
  • Titles and descriptions of transport strategies, native supply, and in-store pickup choices to let clients know when orders will arrive, amongst different vital details about transport.
  • website positioning titles and meta descriptions for product pages. This fashion, you may optimize how your merchandise present up to an worldwide viewers in engines like google and get extra guests from the search outcomes.

You may have Ecwid translate a transport technique title to match the clients’ language

Discover ways to provide your retailer in a number of languages in the Assist Middle.

Save Time Modifying Product Attributes in Bulk

You would possibly already be aware of Bulk Product Editor, a spreadsheet-like software that permits you to replace product info for dozens of merchandise at as soon as. This software saves you time and effort when it’s worthwhile to edit many merchandise at as soon as, as you don’t must open product pages one by one to make adjustments to merchandise info.

After the current replace, you may bulk edit much more particulars of your catalog, reminiscent of product attributes and their translations. These are further product particulars, for instance, dimensions, colours, model, or supplies.

Updating product attributes with Bulk Product Editor

You’ll respect the new settings if your retailer has a massive product catalog. No matter if it’s worthwhile to edit supplies or colours for 5 or 50 merchandise, you are able to do so rapidly and simply.

Discover ways to use Bulk Product Editor in the Assist Middle.

See The place Your Orders Come From

Have you ever ever questioned what number of clients purchased a product after clicking on your Google advert? Or, what number of orders come by means of Instagram? Your retailer analytics are invaluable to see what promotions and instruments work greatest so you may double down on the advertising campaigns that convey you extra orders.

Of course, you may at all times use the analytics instruments of the totally different web sites and functions to higher perceive the place your clients come from. Nonetheless, busy enterprise homeowners don’t at all times have time to swap between instruments.

That’s why we up to date your ecommerce retailer to permit you to monitor your order sources proper in your Ecwid Management Panel! Whether or not it’s from Fb Store, an deserted cart electronic mail, or a Google advert  you may simply see the place your order got here from on the order particulars web page.

Due to UTM (or Urchin Monitoring Module) tags, monitoring the sources of your orders is not solely doable however straightforward. You may assign sure hyperlinks with UTM tags, permitting you to monitor site visitors that’s coming to your web site from mentioned hyperlinks. Every hyperlink shall be related to a sure supply, like Fb or Google. Then when a buyer clicks a hyperlink with the UTM tag and makes a buy in your retailer, you will notice the place the order got here from.
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For instance, this order was positioned by means of an deserted cart electronic mail

If you could have a number of orders from the similar supply, you may click on a hyperlink on the order particulars web page to see the checklist of orders related to this supply. In only one click on, you’ll see what number of gross sales you bought because of that specific supply.

You may obtain the order supply info together with different details about orders. This fashion, it’s simpler to evaluate your campaigns and see which one brings extra income.

Discover ways to create UTM tags and use them to monitor the sources of your orders in the Assist Middle.

Handle Your Retailer On Cellular Effortlessly

With Ecwid Cellular apps for iPhone and Android, you may handle your on-line retailer wherever you go. With our current updates, the app can simplify order processing like by no means earlier than.

Scan Textual content with Your Cellphone to Reduce Typing

The Ecwid cell app saves you time typing product particulars, buyer addresses, telephone numbers, emails, and monitoring numbers. That is all doable because of a software referred to as the Stay Textual content characteristic. You should utilize it if you could have an iOS 15 (and later) gadget.

All it’s a must to do is level your digital camera at the textual content on a image or doc, and the app will immediately add the textual content into the textual content area. That drastically saves you time and effort when it’s worthwhile to edit order and buyer info. No must kind in an electronic mail tackle, telephone quantity, buyer’s title, tackle, and so on. Let your telephone do it in a second!

Scanning textual content with the Ecwid Cellular App to add a buyer title

Stay Textual content works with each handwritten and printed textual content in English, Chinese language, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. To begin utilizing Stay Textual content, double-tap any textual content area in the Ecwid app and select to scan the content material. Level your digital camera at the textual content on a image, and it will robotically add into the textual content area.

Scan Even Broken Barcodes Efficiently

Along with your Ecwid cell app for iOS or Android, you may scan barcodes on merchandise to add new gadgets to the catalog, join barcodes to present merchandise, and rapidly discover gadgets and orders in your retailer. You can too scan barcodes on transport labels to join the monitoring quantity to a particular order.

Now, your barcode scanner is much more useful! Our new replace permits the scanner to acknowledge and decode even poor-quality barcodes in any lighting situation. Even when a barcode is broken, barely seen, the wrong way up, or soiled, you may nonetheless scan it together with your Ecwid app and efficiently proceed together with your day-to-day duties.

Study extra about utilizing a barcode scanner in your Ecwid app in the Assist Middle.

Set Price Costs for Merchandise

Price value is the quantity of cash it takes for you to produce a product. Whether or not you make merchandise your self or purchase them from a provider, holding monitor of your value value and retail value (the one clients see) helps you establish your revenue.

Now you may set a value value for every product and product variation in your retailer. Don’t fear, value costs are hidden from clients — solely you see them in your Management Panel.

After you arrange value costs for your merchandise, your retailer will robotically calculate the revenue and the revenue margin. This fashion, you’ll see how a lot cash you make from every product.

Price costs are invisible to clients in your Ecwid retailer

Arrange value costs utilizing the directions from the Assist Middle.

Present Extra Correct Supply Dates

Displaying an estimated supply date at checkout improves a buyer’s expertise in your retailer, as it helps buyers rapidly resolve which transport or supply choice to select from.

We made the estimated supply time software extra versatile so you could go the additional mile for your clients, incomes their belief and rising retention charges:

  • Arrange supply time and pickup preparation time for every product. This fashion, extra correct supply dates shall be proven on product pages and checkout to assist clients select the greatest transport, supply, or pickup technique.
  • Present the supply date proper on a product web page. It’s particularly helpful when transport or supply must be additional predictable in the course of the vacation season. For self-pickup, you may present an estimated accessible time for pickup.

Prospects can see an estimated supply time on product pages

Study extra about informing clients about an estimated supply or pickup date in the Assist Middle.

Purchase Delivery Labels for Extra Nations

With Ecwid by Lightspeed, you should buy transport labels proper out of your Management Panel, print them, put them on your parcels, and drop them off at the nearest put up workplace.

Shopping for transport labels out of your Management Panel is extra handy and saves you cash. Charges for labels purchased by means of the Management Panel are decrease than retail charges at the put up workplace. It can save you a nice deal of cash, particularly if you ship many orders.

Now shopping for transport labels in the Management Panel is accessible for sellers from extra nations:

Shopping for a transport label from PostNL from the Management Panel

Study extra about  purchase discounted transport labels in our Assist Middle.

Present Each Element of Your Merchandise

With the new zoom-on-hover impact, clients utilizing a desktop can view even the smallest particulars on your product footage. This characteristic helps showcase your merchandise’ materials, texture, and intricate patterns. A lifesaver for companies promoting attire, jewellery, equipment, or any different merchandise with plenty of small particulars.

The zoom-on-hover impact is enabled robotically for all high-resolution product footage which can be 1.5x larger than the product thumbnail proven on the product web page.

The zoom-on-hover impact is instantly accessible for new Ecwid sellers. If you created your retailer a while in the past, attain out to our Buyer Care workforce and they’ll allow the zoom-on-hover impact for you.

Add Extra Fee Choices

Providing your clients extra cost choices helps forestall deserted carts. Buyers usually tend to end a buy after they see handy and acquainted cost choices at the checkout.

Even earlier than our replace, you would select from 80+ protected and handy cost choices utilizing an Ecwid by Lightspeed retailer.

Now there are much more choices!

Allow One-Contact Fee with Amazon Pay

You may allow one-touch funds utilizing the Amazon Pay button at checkout with the Amazon Pay app from the Ecwid App Market. Prospects gained’t must enter their card particulars. As an alternative, they’ll take a look at utilizing the cost particulars saved in their Amazon account.

Amazon Pay at checkout

Amazon Pay is accessible for retailers from the US, the UK, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Eire, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Permit “Purchase Now, Pay Later” with Zip Funds

Let clients pay for purchases in installments with the Zip Funds app from the Ecwid App Market. Buyers will pay for the order with 4 interest-free funds unfold over 6 weeks. The app is accessible for sellers from Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, India, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, UAE, the UK, and the US.

You can too provide clients different “Purchase Now, Pay Later” choices by means of Klarna, Afterpay, Clearpay, Laybuy, or PayPal.

Settle for Funds with Cayan

If you promote in the US, you may provide your clients to pay with Cayan. This cost choice is displayed at the retailer checkout and clients don’t must depart the retailer to full the cost. That makes for a extra handy checkout expertise.

Settle for Funds with Viva Pockets

European sellers can settle for on-line funds with the Viva Pockets app from the Ecwid App Market. This feature helps a number of cost strategies, reminiscent of credit score and debit playing cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, PayPal, Alipay, JCB, WeChat Pay, and native cost strategies. Viva Pockets is particularly widespread in Greece, so Greek sellers ought to be certain that to benefit from this highly effective software.

Energy Your Retailer with New Apps

The Ecwid App Market affords dozens of apps to customise your retailer, market it, attempt new gross sales channels, and provide extra cost and transport choices. Listed here are a few new apps you may set up in your Ecwid retailer.

Join Your Retailer to Telegram

Now you may promote your merchandise on Telegram, certainly one of the hottest messenger apps. With the Telegram Storefront app, you may create a messenger bot for your Ecwid retailer that helps clients purchase, search, and share your merchandise.

You can too use the app to promote your retailer in Telegram communities and ship messages to your subscribers to generate repeat gross sales.

Prospects can purchase merchandise from a Telegram bot for your Ecwid retailer

Take a look at the Ecwid App Market to be taught extra concerning the Telegram Storefront app and set up it in your on-line retailer.

Promote Extra Merchandise with Product Bundles

To encourage clients to purchase a number of merchandise as a substitute of one, show the Amazon-style “Continuously Purchased Collectively” bundle on your product web page. For instance, when somebody is  shopping for sun shades, recommend that they add a belt and a summer season gown to their order.

You are able to do that with the new Upsell & Cross Promote Package app that helps you enhance how a lot your retailer sells.

Take a look at the Ecwid App Market to be taught extra concerning the Upsell & Cross Promote Product Package app and set up it in your on-line retailer.

Handle Product Ribbons Simply

Product ribbons assist you to spotlight featured merchandise on your storefront, whether or not it’s a bestseller, sale merchandise, new product, or any different merchandise that deserves a highlight.

Examples of product ribbons

Nonetheless, when you could have a massive product catalog, managing product ribbons manually would possibly take a while. Fortunately, with the new AutoRibbons app, you may get that point again by automating product ribbons administration.

The app means that you can create guidelines that robotically allow ribbons for particular merchandise. For instance, the app can robotically assign a “New” ribbon on merchandise that had been launched lower than a week in the past. Or disable “Sale” ribbons for merchandise when the sale is over.

Take a look at the Ecwid App Market to be taught extra concerning the AutoRibbons app and set up it in your on-line retailer.

Keep Tuned

At Ecwid by Lightspeed, we continuously work to make promoting on-line extra streamlined for enterprise homeowners. Ensure you don’t miss new instruments that simplify your day-to-day routine. You could find extra details about instruments and updates right here:

  • For the full timeline of updates, massive and small, go to the Assist Middle.
  • Peek into the What’s New tab in your Management Panel to allow instruments that require guide activation.
  • Subscribe to the Ecwid Weblog publication to be the first to know concerning the most enjoyable instruments.
  • Bookmark the Ecwid Updates part of the weblog.

Have an thought on  make an ecommerce retailer perform higher for you and hundreds of different retailers? Need assistance fine-tuning your Ecwid retailer to what you are promoting’s wants? Don’t hesitate to contact our Buyer Care workforce together with your questions—we’re completely satisfied to assist!

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