WooCommerce hits 4 million downloads, new version coming soon
OPMC's favourite e-commerce platform, WooTheme's WooCommerce WordPress plugin, has hit the 4 million downloads mark. The announcement comes as the company prepares to release WooCommerce 2.2 later this quarter. WooCommerce, which is free to download and use, is the...
New app lets WooCommerce users print and ship branded t-shirts easily
Print Aura, a Sacramento, CA-based company, has created a free app for WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, Storenvy, and Etsy users to automatically print and ship t-shirts to their customers. Print Aura’s apps are free to install and configure and allow users to...
Sisters with fast growing business give advice for entrepreneurs
You may not know who sisters Sali and Julie Stevanja are, but you should be listening to their business advice. Why? Because their e-commerce store Stylerunner, which the siblings started in 2012, has achieved almost 600% year-on-year growth and their social media...
New website allows wine drinkers to fund the wine they want to drink
The Wine Federation of Australia has launched a new website that allows wine consumers to directly buy from wine producers, bypassing the middleman. The appropriately named From The Producer website is a non-profit website and is the initiative of entrepreneur and...
Aussie duo turn lecture notes into profit
A pair of savvy Australians are helping students turn their lecture and textbook notes into cash. Sydney-based Nexus Notes, founded in Adelaide in 2011 by ex-AFL player Hugh Minson, 26, and Macquarie Bank worker Richard Hordern-Gibbings, 25, contains a collection of...
OPMC recommends WooCommerce
SmartCompany recently released an in-depth view of the top four ecommerce platforms on the market: Magento, Shopify, Bigcommerce, and Volusion. While it stopped short of making a recommendation, it did point out the most prominent aspects of each one. However, the...
Welcome to the OPMC Australia blog’s new home
Hello and welcome to the new home for Australia's most comprehensive online retail blog. Here, you will continue to find the latest news, the best advice and the most useful information for opening and running an online business in Australia. If you are thinking about...
When accepting Paypal became a competitive advantage
When considering payment methods on a website, Paypal can be overlooked especially when it's foreign to you and you don't "get" it. Below we share our own experience with Paypal, and why we made the switch. Why we didn't use Paypal before We didn't use Paypal on our...
