Tutorials

Yes: an open source multi vendor shopping cart is simply WooCommerce, which you already host and own, with a vendor layer added on top. Cmsmart Marketplace adds that layer as a licensed store package activated with one key: vendor registration, vendor dashboards and store pages, commissions and payouts, built on your own WooCommerce install. Is there an open source multi vendor shopping cart, and what's the real problem with picking one? Yes — WooCommerce...

The new Cmsmart Stores Setup wizard installs a niche store, the Cmsmart B2B Store or the Cmsmart Marketplace Store on your own WordPress host in minutes, live with sample data and your licence active from the first visit. This update also covers what shipped in Cmsmart Product Designer since the last documented release, and what changes if you are already a Cmsmart customer. Why did adding a new Cmsmart store used to mean slow,...

What features should an ecommerce platform include? Look at who owns the store and its data, which features are built in versus add-ons, what you pay each year and what it takes to move away. Cmsmart runs on WooCommerce, so you own the store, the data and the customer list; plans are billed annually with a free 30-day trial. What features should an ecommerce platform include, and what do they cost you? Beyond the...

A WooCommerce customer CRM print shop teams can run without a separate plugin is already built into Cmsmart Product Designer. It resolves every order — guest or registered — into one customer record, scores a lifecycle segment, and surfaces a daily care digest of who needs attention, so a small team can manage repeat buyers like one twice its size. What does it cost a print shop to lose track of repeat customers? Cmsmart...

A WooCommerce sample products import print feature gives a new print store 23 ready products — business cards, posters, stickers, T-shirts, mugs and more — wired to the online designer, with templates on one and price rules on six others. Pick what you need, start the import, and keep working while it finishes in the background. What's the real cost of listing your first print product by hand? Cmsmart Product Designer needs print areas,...

Live chat design assistance woocommerce shops can offer today is not a chat window inside the designer, but a CRM-connected chat lead plus an order-level approval step. Cmsmart Product Designer already captures chat leads from the online designer into its CRM and lets staff approve or decline a design before it ships; a live, synced canvas view is custom development. What does it cost a WooCommerce shop when buyers get stuck mid-design? Cmsmart Product...

AI in B2B ecommerce means software that drafts a quote from an RFQ, flags a customer who is due to reorder, or turns a supplier's spec sheet into clean catalogue data, instead of your team doing it by hand. Cmsmart Product Designer for WooCommerce already structures that pricing and quote data; custom development adds the AI step on top. What does manual quoting and catalogue clean-up really cost your B2B team? Cmsmart Product Designer...

A trade printer sells to other printers and resellers, not to the public, so its web to print software for trade printers has to take a job complete with print-ready files, price it by quantity, run a file check before the job reaches production, and let the same buyer reorder it next month in one click — no new email, no new upload. What does it cost a trade printer to run reseller orders...

Made-to-order furniture needs a configurator: buyers pick components such as frame, material and colour, see the result and the total, and the order carries every choice. Cmsmart's Product Builder for WooCommerce does this with component, text and image fields, without a variation per combination; 3D configurators are custom development, quoted per project. Running a made to order furniture ecommerce store without a configurator looks familiar: a shopper emails asking for a different fabric or...

A print shop can run web to print three ways: open source code you assemble yourself, a hosted SaaS you rent, or licensed software you host and own. Open source vs SaaS web to print software is not really a feature fight — it is a decision about who owns your store, what you pay every year, and how easily you can leave. Cmsmart is the third model: WooCommerce on your own hosting, licensed...