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Starting next month (October 2025), Washington businesses and residents will be paying sales tax on a slew of new services -- including custom web development, IT services, digital advertising, and even temporary workers.
As we start developing mini-products to offer to our clients, we've found we actually need to group multiple products under one purchase.
One of our e-commerce clients has several thousand active products. As a distributor, their clients are retailers, some of which like having an up-to-date product spreadsheet.
Using the Events, Conditions, and Actions (ECA) module along with a Views Data Export view of all products, we created a view of all the relevant fields that exports a spreadsheet of all their products, and saves it in their private media system once per day.
Sometimes a simple reminder can spur a sale. If you have repeat customers that log into your commerce site, you may be able to remind them if they did not complete a checkout.
While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and helps them understand your product and service (without your involvement) is even more compelling. There are a number of different ways for your website to help your customers along the purchase process. There are a number of different ways to build a relationship with a potential customer that does not require your involvement.
When you’re running a business, especially a small business, there are a lot of moving parts to pay attention to. Filling orders, staffing, budgeting, sales projections, ordering supplies... all of these are parts that help the business move forward. At Freelock, we are very familiar with the parts surrounding your website. Part of our job is to get that website relevant, sleek, and converting. Once that crucial step is reached, the next step is to engage in successful business with your customers. This is the step where your website starts speaking to your bottom line.
While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and helps them understand your product and service (without your involvement) is even more compelling. There are a number of different ways for your website to help your customers along the purchase process. There are a number of different ways to build a relationship with a potential customer that does not require your involvement.
The reality is that a website visit does not necessarily actually lead to more money in your cash drawer, unless you are conducting e-commerce or selling ads. Admittedly, this website visit has some value regarding awareness. However, customers are being inundated with information in today’s society. The best websites take existing website traffic and turn these visits into potential new customers. This process is called “Website Conversion”.
While most of the attention that a website gets is how much it brings new customers, new partners, and new employees into the fold, a powerful website can also be an engine for the operations of the company. Savvy companies use their website as a portal to provide their internal staff and partners with the relevant data they need to expand the business. Using effective data management, a company can create tools and processes to streamline reporting, sell their products, and transfer sensitive data safely within the confines of a secure portal.
It's only taken two years since the release of Drupal 8 for us to get our own site updated... Cobbler's children and all. But finally, we are proud to unveil our shiny new site!
But wait, don't you tell your clients you don't need a new site?
We're nearing launch of two new Drupal Commerce sites, one of them being this one. It turns out Freelock.com has some relatively sophisticated commerce needs: some taxable products, some non-taxable products. Recurring subscriptions. Arbitrary invoice payments.
We're in the midst of a Commerce 2 build-out for a client, and a key requirement was to preserve their quantity pricing rules.
