As we updated before about WooCommerce 1.2.1 Update, no wonder you guys have tried it and delivered the amazingness of it.

Now, without waiting too long, with very much pleasure, we announce you : Here come new baby on town!

Dec 1st, 2011, as they reported, WooThemes gave us (users of WooCommerce) good news about new version of WooCommerce plugin, WooCommerce 1.3 Version. With several significant, usefull and great upgrades, WooCommerce 1.3 version offers us more simplicities, improvements and innovations.

Here are some special upgrades of WooCommerce 1.3 Version :

• Some improvements, such as, the re-designed of orders interface, and upgrade of shipping and payment system and facilities
• New extensions of :

-          3 more payment gateways

-          A product converter tool, and

-          SMS notifications and services for WooCommerce

More to see about the upgrades? Just have a click on it.

Is it just that? Of course no. WooCommerce 1.3 Version also offers you :

• Minor bug fixes + localisations
• Schema.org marjup for products and reviews
• Option to apply coupons before tax (per coupon)
• Rewritten cart tax calculations to support coupons before tax and after tax
• 2 lines of discounts on total tables – 1 for product discounts, 1 for after tax discounts (e.g. store credit)
• Tweaked paypal to work with tax inclusive prices without screwing up rounding
• Stored ex. prices with higher precisiion to prevent rounding errors
• Rewritten options for tax display – cart items can be shown without tax now
• Fixed ordering of custom attributes in variation select boxes
• Support for ordering attributes with the same ID (but different taxonomies)
• Made catalog ordering filterable
• Enhanced admin with http://havesthq.github.com/chosen/
• Added ZAR currency
• Fixed product (single) visibility
• Improved orders interface
• On orders screen you can load customer details is on file
• Fix address_1 address_2 names
• Updated German Lang (formal) thanks @owcv
• Sale date uses current_time (‘timestamp’) instead of strtotime
• Fixed variations loading dimensions
• Product get_attribute function
• Option to clear cart on logout
• Made cheque/bacs gateways reduce stock levels upon ordering
• Continue shopping button when directing user to cart after adding a product to the cart
• Refund/Reverse notification in paypal gateway
• Made stock notifications use email template
• Added dimensions to individual variations
• Added settings API to be used by Shipping Methods and Payment Gateways
• Free shipping/Flat rate uses setting API
• Free shipping coupons
• Ship to billing default option
• Trim zeros off prices (optional)

Have a great pleasure enjoying the new baby on town, people!

Now, you have heard things which are claimed by WooThemes about WooCommerce functionalities. But everyone needs everyone else’s opinion. So, what do people think about WooCommerce?

Is it reliable enough? Is it worth changing my current e-commerce plugin to WooCommerce and use WCT (ha-ha)?

Check these out.

WooCommerce Reporting - image by WordCamp Cape Town

What They Said about WooCommerce

“One of the best things about the back-end of WooCommerce is that it blends in seamlessly as if it were part of WordPress all along. They did a great job of using existing elements that are supported within WordPress such as the tabs, file uploader, and my favorite little feature, the calendar. I only referred to the readme file once during configuration but that was to see if there was any information regarding themes and whether they were seperate from WordPress or not. Other than that, I was able to configure WooCommerce without any issues.

Gone are the days of using clunky E-Commerce software which seems to make every aspect of selling products harder versus easier. WooCommerce flips that trend over with beautiful execution. It’s not fancy but it shouldn’t be. It gets the job done without having me want to put my head through drywall.

I can definitely recommend using WooCommerce for your e-commerce needs and since the plugin was audited by the great Mark Jaquith, you can be sure that it’s secure.”

- Jefro, WordPress Tavern

“Everything so far is lovely. But what about the hardcore store owners? I want facts and figures. I need store reporting.

This, again, is taken care of.

If you have installed WooCommerce by now you will have noticed that on your Dashboard you have some new widgets:

• monthly sales overview,
• recent orders, and
• recent reviews, which you can amend, trash, publish and so on.

Would I recommend WooCommerce to others? Yes I would. In the end that’s what it’s all about: feature rich for you, the store owner, and easy to use for the customer.”

- Ben Townsend, WPCandy

“The product management functionality is simple and intuitive to use. Adding a product is just as easy as writing and publishing a post within WordPress. A product can be categorised and tagged, just like a post is, and you can set your product types e.g. simple, downloadable, variable etc. You can also set up all the data for your product e.g. SKUs, weights, taxes, etc. Adding products to your webshop should be a breeze.  If you’ve never worked with WordPress before, the documentation and videos will be really helpful.”

- Ashley Shaw, WordCamp Cape Town

“Satisfied!”

Those are actually the reasons of why we released TeeShirt, free WooCommerce themes: because good reviews absolutely means something.

Talking about WCT, have you check out our TeeShirt free WooCommerce themes?

TeeShirt WordPress WooCommerce Themes is our new apparel themes in charge. The special one you can find TeeShirt, which you can’t find in another themes is, this TeeShirt themes now compatible and can be integrated with your Facebook fan page business site. Moreover, it will give you responsive layout soon.

TeeShirt is available in F-R-E-E version. What are you waiting for?

Additional readings regarding WooCommerce Plugin Review:

1. http://wpcandy.com/reviewed/woocommerce
2. http://2011.capetown.wordcamp.org/2011/10/11/woocommerce-core-plugin-review/

The WooCommerce plugin is almost three months old by now. This baby e-commerce plugin has shown all of us its remarkable growth since the first launch. Not to mention the euphoria it caused.

The good news is, WooThemes continuously release updates to support the baby’s growth.

A few days ago, they announced that they are technically done with the ninth update: the 1.2.1. Ninth updates in less than three months, those guys must be very enthusiastic about WooCommerce. So are we as the WooCommerceThemes provider!

So, what does 1.2.1 offer?

• Reworked downloadable and virtual products – now variations can be downloadable/virtual too making it more flexible
• My account/login widget
• Added shortcode insertion button to the post editor
• Shortcode for products by category (slug)
• Option to enable/disable ajax add to cart buttons
• Widget for showing onsale products
• Signup/login can be turned off for checkout
• Paypal remote post now has ‘sslverify’ => false to prevent errors with CURL
• Minor admin settings tidyup
• Dutch translation has been updated
• Cart is now more robust and supports custom data being stored, such as addons
• Fix for 0 quantity
• add_to_cart shortcode
• Improved order search
• Option to unforce SSL checkout
• Support for X-Accel-Redirect / X-Sendfile for downloads
• Customer new account email when signing up from the checkout
• Attributes can be added to nav bar via filter
• External/Affiliate product type
• Added Spanish translation by lluis masachs
• Support for informal/formal localisations
• Directory changed for uploading file downloads – uploads/woocommerce_files
• Download directory created on install as well as htaccess for denying access
• Formal and informal German translations – thanks to stefahn, jessor, Ramoonus , owcv and deckerweb
• Hook for checking cart contents during cart/checkout – used for plugins too