• WooCommerce Auction Winner Didn’t Pay? How to Prevent and Handle Unpaid Auctions

    Non-paying auction winners are one of the biggest challenges in managing online auctions. This tutorial explains how WooCommerce Simple Auctions helps prevent non-paying bidders, and what options sellers have when a winning bidder doesn’t complete payment. If you run WooCommerce auctions, you’ve probably encountered this kind of problem: “At least once a week I get someone […]
  • Celebrating 12 Years of WooCommerce Simple Auctions

    Twelve years ago today, on February 13th, 2014, we released WooCommerce Simple Auctions, the first-ever auction plugin for WooCommerce. Fast forward to today, we’re on version 3.0.6, and our plugin is still the most affordable auction solution for WooCommerce, with more than 8,150 sales on CodeCanyon and an amazing 4.66 out of 5 stars from […]
  • How to Add Free Tickets to WooCommerce Subscription-Based Competition

    Learn how to reward competition subscribers with free tickets using WooCommerce Subscriptions and Subscription Gifts for WooCommerce Many of our clients running websites with our WooCommerce Lottery plugin and Pick Ticket Number add-on use WooCommerce Subscriptions to run subscription-based competitions. Recently, we’ve received multiple requests for a reliable way to automatically reward subscribers with free […]
  • How to Add Free Gifts to WooCommerce Subscriptions

    Want to encourage your customers to subscribe? This tutorial shows you the easiest way to add free gifts to WooCommerce subscriptions. In recent years subscriptions have become a standard part of how consumers shop online. In 2025, nearly every product category, from food and beauty to health and tech, has integrated some form of subscription. Numbers […]
  • Spending Limits for WooCommerce: Player Protection for Competition Sites

    Learn how to enable competition players to set personal spending limits and purchase restrictions on their accounts using the Spending Limits for WooCommerce plugin If you run a WooCommerce competition or raffle site, you are probably aware that responsible gaming tools aren’t just a good practice: they’re becoming essential. Around the world, many regulators now […]
  • Introducing Subscription Gifts for WooCommerce: Reward Subscribers Automatically

    We’re excited to announce Subscription Gifts for WooCommerce, a powerful add-on that brings flexible gifting capabilities to your WooCommerce subscription store. Automatic Gift Products on Subscription Start or Renewal Unlike coupon-based solutions limited to first purchases, Subscription Gifts for WooCommerce gives you complete control over when customers receive free products. Add gifts automatically at subscription […]
  • How to Target WooCommerce Customers Based on Products They Ordered

    Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are behind us, and if you’re running a WooCommerce store, you now have customer order data that can be incredibly valuable for your future sales strategies. You might have sold dozens or even hundreds of different products, with some clear bestsellers while others didn’t sell at all. You may […]
  • How WooCommerce Lottery chooses winner when there are no ticket numbers?

    A great way to go viral in a saturated market is implementing online prize draws. Promotional games and contests are considered a great marketing tool since they are often an easy and fun way to gain potential customers’ attention. Whether that’s a competition, a giveaway, or some other kind of prize draw, they add the […]
  • WooCommerce VS Shopify: Control or Convenience?

    Shopify nightmare scenario: Getting locked out while sales are still live If you are in the process of choosing an e-commerce platform, you are probably aware that there’s ongoing debate between two most popular platforms, Shopify and WooCommerce.  So, which is the best solution for your online store? There are many articles comparing and analyzing […]
  • How to Run a WooCommerce Storewide Sale in 5 Minutes

    Let’s talk about a well-known scenario that many webstore owners are about to face: Black Friday is just around the corner, and you want to put your entire WooCommerce store on sale. So, you Google “How to reduce prices for all products in my store?” and “WooCommerce discount plugin” and find an overwhelming number of […]