Resources
This page is a work-in-progress and shall be updated each week with new information.
Use the resources on this page to improve your Shopp-powered store.
Tutorials, How-tos, and Recommendations
Organized from Shopp installation to post-checkout and ideas in between.
WordPress
Shopp Installation & Setup
- Enable Multiple Merchant Email Notifications
- Manual Processing of Transactions for Shopp
- How to Set the Payment Method Order in Shopp
- How to set Shopp to Capture Payments
- An Explanation of Shopp Templates: Theme vs Content
- How to Change your Shopp Image Sizes
Shopp Storefront Page
Shopp Product Pages
- Accept Variable Donations with Shopp
- Allow a Custom Message with a Product in Shopp
- Show Current Stock and Product SKU on Shopp Product Pages
Shopp Collection Pages
Shopp Cart Page
- Configure Shopp to Skip the Cart Page
- Override the Shopp Order Handling Fee
- Add Product Images to the Shopp Cart and Checkout Pages
Shopp Checkout Page
- How to Make the Credit Cards Fields on the Shopp Checkout Page More User Friendly
- Add a Customer Message Box to your Checkout Page in Shopp
Shopp Thank You Page
Other
- Video Tutorial: Reinstall your Shopp Plugin
- Video Tutorial: Manually Upgrade Shopp
- Reset Shopp Sessions
- Add Items in your Shopp Store to your Cart via a URL
- How to use Widget Logic with Shopp
- Setup Shopp 1.2.x with W3 Total Cache
Marketing Recommendations
- Encourage Larger Orders in your Online Store with Free Shipping
- Engage your Website Visitors with the Hello Bar
- Add an Affiliate Program to Shopp
- Setup ShareaSale with Shopp
- Setup Shopp eCommerce Plugin with zferral
- Add Existing Shopp Customers to your Email Marketing List
Operating Recommendations
Performance Recommendations
Get Help & Support from the Shopp Help Desk
Below are links to official Shopp support resources. Be sure to read our post: How to get Awesome Support from the Shopp Help Desk
- Help Desk — find a solution for your issue with a one-on-one with a Shopp agent
- Community Support – discuss Shopp with fellow members
- Beta Discussions — talk about the beta releases of Shopp
- Feature Requests — create a request for a new feature in Shopp
- Knowledge Base — find solutions to the most popular issues
- Documentation — official documentation for Shopp (also available as a PDF)
- API — customize your site to your liking
- Bug Tracker — report bugs in Shopp
Shopp Extensions
Email Marketing
Short Message Service (SMS) Notifications
Forms & Reporting
Help Desk
Utility
Premium Themes for Shopp
Shopp plays well with many themes. The WordPress Free Themes Directory has a vast amount of themes for no cost. You’ll want to choose a theme that uses WordPress standards.
Interested in getting the most from Shopp? Want to save time, enjoy flexibility, and get support?
We recommend choosing one of the premium themes below:
- Catalyst — Even with no coding experience, you can use Catalyst to build your own fully-functional website from the ground up.
- Elegant Themes — Amazingly beautiful Premium WordPress Themes coupled with advanced functionality and awesome support.
- Genesis — The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.
- Builder — iThemes Builder is one of the easiest to use WordPress theme frameworks out there and loaded with options that ordinary themes can’t match.
- Thesis — Thesis 2.0 pushes blogging technology to a place it’s NEVER gone before with three revolutionary features that you won’t find in any other WordPress theme.
- Pagelines — Turn WordPress into a fully functional CMS and build awesome websites with PageLines Drag-and-Drop design platform for WordPress.
We use and recommend WP Engine.
