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Yes it is! Woocommerce is the most user friendly, easy to set up and easy to work with e-commerce platform. It gives you unprecedented customising options with all the hooks and filters available. It truly is a dream to work with. Green Water Sports who sells inflatable stand up paddle boards and Red Paddle Co SUPs along with other awesome SUP products, uses WordPress, Woocommerce and a slew of other plugins and extensions to provide a seamless shopping and checkout experience. Head on over to Green Water Sports to check out what Cabarete Web Design and can for you.

Woocommerce has fast become a powerful player in the WordPress and e-commerce world. An easy to use admin area that takes it’s lead from WordPress, Woocommerce has also had several hundred extensions developed for all sorts of payment gateways, shipping methods and general additional features. We’ve been extensively working with Green Water Sports, an online SUP retailer who specialises in inflatable SUPs, namely the Red Paddle Co inflatable SUPs, and we use Woocommerce and several extensions to power the online store. Payments are handled via Stripe, Amazon or PayPal. Shipping is handled via UPS. Advanced Notification emails for drop shippers,…

Accepting credit cards online opens the door to many more purchasing options for customers, crucial in the success of any e-commerce store. There are a few ways it can be done. I’ve made a short list here with my 3 favourite options: Stripe. Currently only available to a limited list of countries but by far the easiest and cheapest option. No monthly fees, standard 2.9% +0.30c transaction fee and you are automatically wired your share after 7 days. It handles refunds, saved customers and also the ability to charge cards directly for a phone or in person order. Paypal. This…

In this article we explore the development of Green Water Sports. Green Water Sports is an online only retailer for the paddle boarding industry’s best SUP products, especially the inflatable paddle boards by Red Paddle Co. To the nuts and bolts of it. We naturally chose WordPress for this project and the best e-commerce plugin available is Woocommerce. WordPress has hundreds of awesome plugins and Woocommerce has hundreds of awesome extensions. Some of these extensions are premium, meaning they cost anywhere from $29-$199 each, but the functionality and ease of use coupled with awesome WordPress designs, make Woocommerce a much…

In the market to buy a stand up paddle board? It really is very simple. Our recent clients for web development, Green Water Sports, are the foremost authority on the inflatable SUPs by Red Paddle Co and they have written 2 guides for people new to paddle boarding. First off, you need a board so you’ll want to check out this guide for choosing an inflatable SUP paddle board and then, you need a paddle, so you’ll want to read this guide to choosing a SUP paddle. The paddle guide also has a short section on how to measure your SUP paddle so you…

Many months in development, Green Water Sports has emerged as a full service stand up paddle boarding online store. Launching with a full range of inflatable paddle boards and several hard board models, Green Water Sports hopes to build into a fully fledged paddle board and water sports store. From their site: First and foremost we are active stand up paddlers and we ship SUP gear worldwide. Whether you are paddling on a lake, cruising down a river or slaying massive waves, we have what you need and then some. Check out what we have in our shop or contact us with questions. Read…

With new owners comes change and when Walter and Jeanette took over Hooked Cabarete late last year, a new website for Hooked Cabarete was on the cards. After working on several immediate improvements to the facilities and rooms at Hooked, they had the time to focus on a new website to promote the new Hooked. A part of the new promotion was a stand alone German version of the website at HookedCabarete.de. Their new site is responsive meaning that it works on any device of any screen size, a recent trend for 2013. It’s Flash free, highly visual and utilises…

Etoile Du Monde is a very well known fashion brand in Europe. Now it is destined to become well known in the USA too. Putting her extensive fashion background to work, Julie has acquired the exclusive rights to Etoile Du Monde for the USA and will endeavour to build the brand in the USA initially with an online store and then into retail stores in the future. From her new website at EtoileDuMonde.us: Life is about deep French kisses, great adventures, midnight swims, rambling conversations, feeling good, daring and dress heavenly. I told myself that if a fashion line looks…

Launched just a few weeks ago, Cabarete Beach Condos offers 2 rental apartments in the Orillas del Mar development. Located east, or upwind of Cabarete, Cabarete Beach Condos’ Orillas del Mar apartments are both ocean front and share a great view of the pool. Check them out for your next Cabarete vacation!

We are currently profiling one of our e-commerce projects. Green Water Sports is an online store for water sports equipment. At launch the product focus will be on stand up paddle boards, paddles and accessories. The website is taking shape and will launch soon. Credit card payments will be via one of the best, if not the best, gateway setups offered by Stripe. Green Water Sports will also accept payments PayPal, but Stripe streamlines credit card processing and bypasses the need for a very costly, confusing and expensive merchant account. The only catch with Stripe, is you need a USA…