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If your organization deals with a large volume of documents, having an efficient system to organize and present them is essential. This case study will help you understand how SKA, an organization that needed to transition from Joomla to WordPress, found the perfect file management solution with Barn2’s Document Library Pro plugin.

The challenge: finding a WordPress-compatible document management system

Since 2011, SKA had been using Joomla as their content management system, relying on DocMan to manage their extensive library of PDFs, including annual reports, financial statements, and newsletters. When the organization decided to migrate their website to WordPress, they faced a key challenge: finding a robust document management system that could handle their large volume of files efficiently.

Gurdip Singh, who led the website transition, initially considered using the WordPress version of DocMan due to his familiarity with the platform. However, after careful evaluation, he decided to explore other options. This led him to conduct an extensive review of various WordPress-based document management plugins, examining their features, user experience, and ease of setup.

After testing several options, Document Library Pro emerged as the best choice for SKA’s needs.

The solution: why SKA chose Document Library Pro

SKA selected Document Library Pro because it provided an intuitive, feature-rich, and professional way to organize and display their documents.

Key benefits that made Document Library Pro the ideal solution:

• Instantly professional appearance: “It looks great right out of the box.”
• User-friendly setup: “It’s easy to learn and set up.”
• Powerful filtering options: “The filters work seamlessly.”
• Featured image extraction: The ability to automatically extract the first page of a document as a thumbnail was also an exciting addition they hope to implement soon.

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Many merchants are searching for a way to integrate their retail and wholesale options into a single ecommerce shop. That's how Zoop, a Lithuanian apparel and homewares shop, came to find Barn2's WooCommerce Bulk Variations plugin.

How our plugins solved their problems

Zoop specializes in custom printing and bulk orders, but they needed a way to make the shopping experience quick and seamless for all of their different customers, no matter the size of their order. Using the Bulk Variations interface, their customers can order anything from a single t-shirt to hundreds of items in various sizes and colors. It also had an immediate positive impact on their order volumes:

With WooCommerce Bulk Variations we started receiving larger orders from our customers as it makes it very easy to order in bulk.

Zoop team

Zoop's wholesale customers can also benefit from bulk discounts that allow them to save more money on larger orders. These savings are powered by our WooCommerce Discount Manager plugin, and are displayed in a table format on product pages for everyone to see.

They also use WooCommerce Product Options to allow custom image uploads from clients who want a logo or design printed on their products.

It saves us a lot of time that we previously spent emailing our client back and forth until we finally got all the required information to proceed with the order.

Zoop team

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La Soufflerie is a family-owned and operated glass shop based in Paris, France. They sell a full range of glassware along with plaster, terracotta pieces, and candles. They’ve used our WooCommerce Fast Cart plugin to help customers complete their orders quickly without leaving the page.

How our plugin solved their problem

La Soufflerie were looking for a way to make it easier for customers to quickly complete their orders. They wanted a solution that would let them display upsells – like gift bags – that customers actually want.

They used the WooCommerce Fast Cart plugin to display a pop-up cart whenever a customer clicks the Add to Cart button. The pop-up cart appears on the right-hand side of the screen and shows the cart items, coupon code box, subtotal, shipping options, checkout button, and upsells.

La Soufflerie wanted to use the pop-up cart to display carefully chosen upsell offers based on the products customers add to their cart. For example, if a customer adds a Bordeaux Baby Transparent to their cart, they’ll see a You might be interested in… section in the pop-up cart with the Cotton Gift Bag Small product as an upsell.

This enables La Soufflerie to enhance the shopping experience, streamline the buying process, and boost their average order value.

Users can go to any product category page and add products to their cart without leaving the page. They can then view the cart in a pop-up and add a gift bag to their order, checkout, or keep shopping. Customers can also click the cart icon in the menu to view the pop-up cart.

La Soufflerie uses the WooCommerce Fast Cart plugin to enhance the customer’s shopping experience while boosting product visibility and increasing their average order value.

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Extrude-A-Trim is an aluminum extrusions store that sells thousands of products on its online store. They’ve used our WooCommerce Product Table plugin to create order forms for technical products including angles, tubes, slatwall, dividers, and others.

How our plugin solved their problem

Extrude-A-Trim needed a way to make it easier for customers to find the correct products quickly and add them to their shopping cart. They used WooCommerce Product Table to create order forms for each category page on their online store.

The order form layout allows them to list aluminum extrusions with extra data about each product such as its part #, width, height, thickness, and weight. This makes it easy for customers to find the correct product quickly.

In addition, the order forms let customers select the finish, length, and quantity of the aluminum extrusions they need and add multiple products to their quote from a single page.

WooCommerce Product Table also adds a search bar above the order form which allows customers to search for a specific product e.g. by entering its Part #. For example, let’s say a customer wants to buy a few different types of Aluminum Slatwall. They can simply go to the product category page and use the order form to:

• Select the exact type of aluminum slatwall they need
• Select finish, length, and quantity
• Request a quote for each item

WooCommerce Product Table is ideal for selling technical products like aluminum extrusions where customers make purchases based on the extra data about each product. Large images of the products aren’t needed for stores that sell technical products like these. Instead, store owners need to be able to display this extra data about each product on the shop page to make it easy for customers to buy from them.

Extrude-A-Trim enabled the product table layout globally through their shop and category pages. They use WooCommerce Product Table with YITH's Request a Quote plugin to replace the add to cart button with Add to Quote buttons in the order forms.

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Vancouver Custom Earplugs is a Canadian online store that sells audiologist-designed and doctor-recommended custom earplugs. They used our WooCommerce Product Options plugin to let buyers customize earplugs.

How our plugin solved their problem

Vancouver Custom Earplugs were looking for a way to let customers customize their earplugs before placing their order. To do this, they used WooCommerce Product Options to display a variety of earplug customization options on their product pages. Customers can…

• Pick a color
• Choose which ear they’d like the earplug for
• Pick a style
• Pick venting options
• Choose to add acoustic filters, curly tubes, and filtered earplugs to the other ear
• Choose to get their order delivered faster
• Add a special request

When a customer lands on the product page, they can choose as many customization options as they’d like and click the Add to cart button to place their order. Some options cost extra and the additional costs are displayed right next to the option. This way, customers know exactly how much the custom earplugs will cost them.

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gftd. jewelry is a Belgium-based online store that sells personalized jewelry. They’ve used our WooCommerce Product Options plugin to let customers personalize jewelry gift items in a variety of different ways.

How our plugin solved their problem

gftd. jewelry is an ecommerce store that sells personalized jewelry products such as earrings, chains, and bracelets. They were looking for a way to let customers personalize jewelry gift items before placing their order.

They used our WooCommerce Product Options plugin to display a text box that lets customers enter their personalized message when they select the This gem is a gift for someone special option on the product page.

When a customer lands on the product page, they must choose if they’re buying the jewelry for themselves or for someone special. Customers who select For someone special see a text box appear on the product page that lets them enter their personalized message.

Some products have additional options such as selecting a color, finish, length, charms, and style.

For example, if a customer wants to buy a charm bracelet, they can use the various image swatches and dropdowns on the product page to personalize their bracelet before placing their order. This is all possible with the WooCommerce Product Options plugin.

This way, customers can personalize their jewelry items directly from the product page and add the product to their shopping cart. It saves gftd. jewelry from having to go back and forth with each customer on the personalizations they want.

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Scared Cat Music is a royalty-free music subscription library that offers a wide range of authentic soundtracks, with new tracks added every month. They’ve used our WooCommerce Product Filters plugin with WooCommerce Product Table to make it easy for users to find music tracks.

How our plugin solved their problem

Scared Cat Music have hundreds of tracks listed on their website. They needed a way to make it easy for users to filter through their large collection of music tracks and find exactly what they were looking for.

To do this, they used the WooCommerce Product Filters plugin with the WooCommerce Product Table plugin on their music library page.

When a user lands on the All Music page, they see a neat and organized table that lists all of the tracks Scared Cat Music offers. The table consists of four columns – Name, Preview, Download, and Info. Users can click the play button next to each track to listen to the preview and click the Read more button to learn more about it.

By default, the table shows 25 tracks at a time. Pagination options directly below the table let users see more tracks. In addition to this, users can sort the columns in the table to see all the tracks in alphabetical order or reverse alphabetical order.

In addition to this, there’s a Filter button directly above the table. When a user clicks this button, a sliding menu opens up from the right with multiple filter options. Users can apply as many filters as they’d like to narrow down their search. The different product filters let users filter music tracks by Categories, Tempo, Mood, Feeling, and Duration.

When users click the Apply Filters button, the product table updates to show only music tracks that match the user’s criteria.

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goodegg is a New Zealand-based ecommerce store that sells printers, ink cartridges, and toner. They use our WooCommerce Product Filters plugin to help customers find the correct printer cartridges and toner for their printers.

How our plugin solved their problem

goodegg wanted to make it easier for customers to narrow down their search and find the correct printer cartridges and toners for their printers.

They used our WooCommerce Product Filters plugin to show product filter options in the sidebar on their category pages.

When a customer visits a product category page, they initially see the hundreds of products and some product filter options in the sidebar to the left. Customers can use the filter options to only see products from a specific printer brand, search for a specific product, sort the products by a variety of parameters, or narrow down their search by product type, colour, and yield.

For instance, a customer might want to see printer cartridges from the brand Brother that are Genuine, in the colour Black, High Yield, and sorted by price high to low.

When they apply a product filter, the product category page updates dynamically (without a page refresh) to show all the products that fit the user’s selection.

The product filters make it easy for customers to narrow down their search and see the products that work with their printer. This helps goodegg to optimize product discovery for customers, simplifying the process of adding items to the cart.

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Karo is an online furniture store that sells chairs and desks to furnish offices, labs, factories, training facilities, call centers, and homes. They’ve used our WooCommerce Product Filters and WooCommerce Product Table plugins to create an interactive chair shop.

How our plugin solved their problem

Karo sells dozens of different chairs through their online store. They needed a way to make it easy for customers to find the most suitable chairs. To do this, they created a Chair Selector page that uses an interactive step-by-step quiz to help customers narrow down their search.

They did this by using the WooCommerce Product Filters plugin to create a step-by-step quiz that asks the user some questions about their chair requirements to be shown suitable chairs. Based on the user’s answers, the WooCommerce Product Table plugin populates the table with chairs that fit the user’s parameters.

Both plugins work seamlessly together to create a smooth experience for the customer.

The step-by-step quiz is located on the left side of the screen. Customers can click on a question to view the available answers below. Once they’ve answered the questions, they click the Apply Filters button and the product table automatically shows the chairs that fit the customer’s requirements.

The product table has 5 columns – Image, Product, Warranty, Price, and Buy Now. This gives the customer information about each chair at a glance. They can see an image of the chair (or click it to see a bigger version of it in a lightbox), the product’s name, warranty period, price range, and buying options.

The Buy Now column lets customers choose their headrest option before adding the chair to their shopping cart. Customers can use the dropdown in the column to select either With headrest or Without headrest. The product image updates automatically depending on what the customer selects and the price of the chair is displayed directly below the Add to Basket button.

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