If you're running a blog on Google's blogger platform and want to sell
different types of products or services on it, you may struggle to find a
ready made widget for it. However, there are several useful services
that provide you an easy way to add eCommerce functionality on blogger
platform. For using these features, you never need to be a coding
expert. All you need is basic knowledge of HTML and the copy pasting
ability. If you're planning to
sell digital products
on your blogger blog, the solutions mentioned below can easily help you
do that in a few simple steps. You don't need to purchase a SSL
certificate for opening a shop on blogger. These solutions provide a
handy way to showcase and sell products in an intuitive way that doesn't
require any added tools or services. Before applying it on your live
blog, once test your selling widgets on a dummy blog to ensure they're
working, as intended. So, let's get stated and see how we can turn our
blogger blog into an eCommerce platform to sell products.
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| Ecwid eCommerce Cart |
Ecwid - When
it comes to integrating eCommerce functionality on a blogger blog for
my client, this is my preferred choice. It's specifically designed for
blogger and works like charm. Its setup is quite simple and technically
challenged bloggers with basic copy pasting practice can also use it
with ease. You can sell both tangible and non-tangible products through
this tool. Power users can take advantage of its flexible feature to
showcase an advanced shopping cart on their blogger blogs. Let's check
some of the best features this service has on offer for professional
blogger platform bloggers to easily sell items.
- Easy integration - This service allows you to
add eCommerce shopping cart in two different ways. You can either copy
the cart code and can paste it directly within posts or pages or you can
opt for customizable blogger widget made specifically for this purpose.
In both the cases, you get the same result.
- Flexible payment options - It supports over 30
different payment platforms so that publishers can select their
preferred option. Popular payment gateways like PayPal and Stripe are
also supported by this powerful shopping cart system.
- Customizable - Apart from using premade design
schemes, bloggers can also customize the shopping cart with CSS to match
it with their blogger design giving better shopping experience to the
customers. Power users use this feature to completely customize the
integrated shopping cart.
- Enhanced checkout - Bloggers can also customize the
checkout experience by giving an option to the customers to create a
profile before making a payment. This way you can easily make the
customers' database for future pitches.
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- Easy cart integration - Once you've filled all
the details of the product, simply copy paste the code at the desired
place on your blog to let the purchase button appear with relevant
details. A protected buying widget pops up which completes the
transaction and delivers the product to the buyer.
- Build email lists - You can also integrate popular
email marketing services like MailChimp or Aweber with your checkout
process to start building email lists right from day one. This way, you
can easily keep your customers in the loop for new product announcements
and discounts, if any.
- Built-in messaging - As I've mentioned before, you
also get baked in direct messaging service so that your customers can
interact and take help in case of any issues with the product or
purchase. This greatly helps in increasing the customer satisfaction
level once they've made the purchase.
- Customize appearance - And last but not the least,
you can customize the design of the integrated buttons and widgets so
that they match with the blogger design. This also ensures that visitors
feel comfortable when making a purchase to see a familiar look and feel
which is not alien to the base site design.
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| ShopLocket |
ShopLocket - I've
seen lot of blogger blogs using this eCommerce shopping cart service.
Naturally, I gave it a try on one of the test blogs and found it
amazingly powerful and flexible. It has dozens of features to help you
setup full fledged shopping cart on the blog. The integration process is
dead simple and works instantly without any hassle. Its starter plan is
totally free and is ideal for new merchants who are just starting with
their online selling business on blogger platform. Get ready and see
what this intuitive eCommerce platform offers to blogger users to easily
integrate shopping carts on the blog.
- Pre-ordering support - This is one of the few solutions available for blogger platform that fully supports Pre-Order
option out-of-the-box. This is deal for those bloggers who're already
running a popular blog to collect potential customers' details even
before launching the product.
- Multi-product checkouts - Its flexible shopping
cart allows a buyer to include multiple products in the cart before
checking out. This not only increases sales but also gives you the
freedom to sell multiple products on the blog which closely relate with
each other.
- Customizable widgets - The embeddable product
widgets are fully customizable so that they become part of your blog's
primary design. This gives better buying experience to the potential
buyers and significantly increases the conversion rates.
- Fully responsive - Buyers can purchase your
products both from smartphones and tablets without any issues due to the
responsive nature of the shopping cart. This greatly increases the
sales as more and more buyers are using mobile devices for completing
purchasing activities.
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| Gumroad |
Gumroad - This
is yet another impressive eCommerce platform ideal for blogger platform
which allows you to sell different types of products in an easy way.
You can sell almost any kind of product through this platform. They have
a simple pricing mechanism and supports quick integration with various
platforms including Google's blogger platform. It has flexible payment
options both for the buyer and merchant to facilitate easy payments from
either end. It's time to look at the some of the best features
supported by this promising eCommerce platform to integrate shopping
carts on our blogger blogs.
- Sell product variants - You can easily sell
different versions of the base product line to let customers choose the
best one that fits their needs and budget. This greatly helps in
conversions and gives more flexibility to the customer while making a
purchase.
- Subscription based products - One can also create
subscription based products where each subscriber pays a recurring
amount on a monthly basis to access a part of the product on a continual
basis. This is best suited for bloggers offering premium content
through their blogger blog in multiple installments.
- Flexible widgets - You get an array of widgets to
choose from which can be easily integrated with your existing blog. All
these widgets are easy to customize and effectively showcases your
products to the potential buyers.
- Powerful analytics - Savvy users can take advantage
of the rich analytics data this service generates for the products.
This greatly helps in improving the products and in optimizing the
existing cart to get more sales with minimum efforts.
