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Apr 17, 2024

With more people shopping online to aid local businesses and meet their desires and needs, the number of transactions could strain businesses that are online as well as those which have been in operation for a long time.

By using just a few extensions, stores have the ability to reduce anxiety while keeping their customers satisfied and well-informed. By Automating as much as they are able and setting order limits, they will be able to continue in providing top-quality service without creating backlogs that confuses customers or stress employees.

Create shop limiters in order to handle the volume of orders as well as stock

If you're a smaller operation or have a smaller staff It's essential to limit purchases to a number that you're able to manage. Although this may be counterintuitive but when you're only able to complete a handful of orders daily and you're receiving hundreds of orders all at one time will create an inordinate amount of waiting. The stress on your employees and is a detriment to your customers.

Restrict Orders per day is a brand new extension that allows the user to limit the quantity of orders per 24-hour timeframe. When the daily limit has been exceeded, your store will show the products, however it won't allow the customers to complete the checkout procedure. Instead, a notice on every page will explain that the limit of transactions have been completed for the day and request to allow customers to try again the following day.

product with a Join Waitlist button from the  Waitlist extension

You should also consider these extensions that could be utilized to help support your request:

Inform customers at every moment.

If you are dealing with backorders that need to be fulfilled, you can ease the customer's anxiety by proactively informing them. Many customers are able to understand when you establish clear expectations and inform customers of the status of their order. This can save you much of time, by implementing the process using extensions.

This extension can also send emails to customers every time their order status alters. Click on Settings, and then to Order Status. Followed by Emails to design emails to be sent updates to customers on a regular basis. Customers will be informed and will be able to track the progress of their orders.

If you've let customers register accounts, they will have access to their account and view the status of their purchase. When you've created a custom status flow, it will be clearer to your customers where they are in the fulfillment process they're at right now.

customer account view of the Order Status Manager extension
The customer's view of their account on Order statuses

You can also make the following additions:

Aid your staff

Notify staff about low stock to allow them to reorder items ahead of time or replace items. You can also directly contact suppliers, and set up automated order for reorders.

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Automatize as many times as possible.

A key factor in surviving the raging demand for online purchases is to streamline as many of the processes you are able to. There is no need for business owners to waste the time writing emails with regular updates, or formulating tax rates time and again, or even asking the same query each time. Apart from the ones mentioned include a couple of additional extensions to help run the business effectively:

With more customers than ever before, having an online store can boost your organization's efficiency and be beneficial to the customers you serve, do away with the constant worry. Automating the process of selling and extensions could be beneficial both now and in the near future.

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