WooCommerce Casket Store
I was the sole developer for the online storefront for a cremation products vendor. We quickly settled on WooCommerce as the most robust e-commerce platform, and though the designers based their design on a commercial theme, we quickly decided that the custom functionality would require us to create our own, while starting with the theme as the basis for our code.
The store handles around $20,000 of sales per month, with multiple managers handling sales and customer processing.
Purchase Minimums
The client had some very tricky minimum purchase requirements, including a minimum number of caskets of certain types that would fit on a skid. I was able to check for this by setting a “4 minimum” product category, and check for a minimum number of items in that category at checkout. The client also wanted a warning to pop up in the sidebar, and so I just wrote some simple JavaScript that checked for numbers of items in that category in the cart and injected a small warning if it didn’t total at least 4.
Registration Approval
The client wanted to be able to approve all customers before they could login and shop. I created a custom registration form in conjunction with the WP Approve User plugin to accommodate the multi-step registration process.
Custom User Fields
One of the major features that the client offered is the ability to pay on terms (invoice), but only if the customer is approved to do so. My simple solution was to create a custom user field and disable that payment gateway if the checkbox is not checked.
