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This is Colm and Simon from CommerceGurus, with a handpicked weekly roundup of eCommerce articles.
We released a big Shoptimizer update this week, particularly focused on our companion plugin CommerceKit.
See our update guides for instructions on how to get the new versions.
Ajax Search suggestions now include a clear “Out of stock” indicator, GTIN support, and new admin controls that allow SKUs, GTINs, and attributes to be excluded from results, giving store owners more precision in how products appear.
The Waitlist module gains a new double opt-in option, ensuring higher-quality signups with user confirmation before joining.
Attribute Swatches now support all multi-currency plugins following WooCommerce standards, while Countdown Timers have been expanded with support for WooCommerce’s Scheduled Sale Price feature and a new global countdown option shared across all users.
Additionally, store owners now have the ability to exclude the featured product image from the gallery for more flexible visual layouts.
Beyond new features, the release focuses on improving usability and performance.
The admin experience is refined with enhancements such as improved pagination and layouts in the Wishlist module, native date inputs for countdowns, tooltips for stock meter settings, and restructured Waitlist tabs for easier navigation.
On the technical side, the update optimizes loading for swatches and video libraries, removes unnecessary markup, and improves Ajax Search full-text matching.
Accessibility has been addressed with semantic adjustments to size guide headings, and compatibility improvements ensure smoother operation with popular plugins like WPML and Polylang.
Discover all of the Shoptimizer and CommerceKit Updates
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How a Trust Badge Under the ATC Button can Unlock €10,927/Month
Here’s a fascinating eCommerce test from Samuel Hess that shows how much feeling drives buying decisions.
Instead of trying to convince the brain with more copy or features, the experiment leaned on embodied cognition - the idea that physical cues like spacing, placement, and symbols shape trust before logic kicks in.
In this case, the cart drawer had no trust signals, so users hesitated.
The only change made? A simple payment badge bar (PayPal, Klarna, VISA) placed right below the Add to Cart button.
No redesign, no extra copy. That tiny cue alone increased ARPU by 2.68% and added more than €10K/month in revenue, without a single extra cent on ads.
Remember, with Shoptimizer it's also easy to add payment badges under the add to cart button within your cart drawer. We even do it on our demo site.
Check out the Payment Badge Bar Example on X/Twitter
Rodolfo from Business Bloomer describes a wave of bot attacks that generated dozens of fraudulent orders for free products, clogging admin inboxes, skewing analytics, and disrupting workflows.
To combat this, he developed a lightweight code snippet that limits how many times a free product can be ordered per day.
Once the daily threshold (e.g. five orders per product) is reached, the product becomes temporarily unpurchasable, and visitors see a friendly message suggesting they “come back tomorrow”.
This method offers a simple, code-only solution to reduce spam orders without installing additional plugins. It tracks purchases per product ID and disables the “Add to Cart” button after the limit is hit.
The snippet is customizable by category and order cap, so businesses can tailor it to their needs. This approach is ideal for stores that offer free downloads or giveaways and frequently experience abuse from bots or fake users.
Learn How to Stop Spam Orders on Free Products
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