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Ciao Italia Ristorante is an Italian restaurant based in New Hampshire, USA. They offer curbside pickup options to customers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

They used our WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin to create a quick, one-page food order form for their website. Customers can use it to place their food orders online and use the restaurant’s curbside pickup option.

Ciao Italia Ristorante uses WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering to create a restaurant food order form that displays the restaurant’s entire menu including foods and beverages from different categories. This includes Sandwiches, Salads, Pasta, Kids, Beer and Wine, Dry Pasta, Chips, Meats, Pasta Sauce, Pantry Items, Cookies and Desserts, and Gift Cards.

For each food item, Ciao Italia Ristorante displays an image, food name, a brief description, price, and add to cart options.

When customers click the (+) icon to add a food item to their cart, a popup lightbox displays add to cart options. For example, customers can use the quantity selector to add multiple food items to their cart.

Once customers have added foods and beverages to their cart, they can view the shopping cart and proceed to the checkout page to finish placing their order.

Ciao Italia Ristorante followed our step-by-step tutorial to quickly create a one-page food order form for their website and start accepting curbside orders.

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ENinsider helps users navigate the expert (or knowledge) industry by providing a directory of expert networks that they can browse and request a quote from. They used our Posts Table Pro WordPress plugin to create a directory of expert networks that visitors could easily search through and find the expert networks they’d like to get in touch with.

The directory of expert network listings makes it easy for people to search for the knowledge networks they’re interested in contacting for a quote. Visitors can request a quote from up to five expert networks at a time.

Users can sort the expert networks listed in the table by their names, tags, and geography expertise. In addition, the table provides filters for tags and geography expertise, as well as a search box which makes it easy to narrow down your search.

For each expert network listing, ENinsider displays the logo, name, description, tags, geography expertise, and a Request a Quote column. The Request a Quote feature is bespoke. They built it as a custom feature using our instructions on how to add a custom column to the table. As well has having lots of built-in features, Posts Table Pro is developer-friendly and makes it easy to add bespoke functionality on top of it.

Tip: If you want to sell contacts then you can achieve a similar result with our WooCommerce Product Table plugin.

The table is configured to display all of the expert network listing on a single page. At the time of writing, ENinsider has a total of 37 entries in their database, all of which are displayed on the Expert Network Directory page.

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WCLS.org is the Whatcom County Library System’s online presence. It provides easy access to its collection of books and other physical items as well as digital resources such as eBooks, online learning resources and reference databases.

During the pandemic crisis, all WCLS library buildings were closed and events such as weekly Storytimes for preschool children were cancelled. WCLS used our Posts Table Pro plugin to create an online library of Storytime videos performed by WCLS children’s librarians. It allows parents to provide their children with the routine and experience at home which they had previously received at the library.

Additionally, WCLS updated their Digital Content page using Posts Table Pro to improve their patrons’ experience by providing a quick and intuitive way to search and filter for digital resources. This includes e-books, e-audiobooks, music streaming and downloads, online learning tools, reference materials and digital magazines.

Whatcom Country Library System uses Posts Table Pro in two different ways in their Storytimes songs table and their Digital Content table:

• The Storytimes table has columns for the title, content, categories, and presenter. Parents can use the filter options to filter the table by categories and presenter. They can also use the search box to quickly find songs by name, presenter or category. In this way, a family can watch videos by their favorite presenter or from several presenters. They can choose a Welcome video, a Storytelling video, a Quieting video or any of the other six categories.
• The Digital Content table has columns for the resource link, image, and topics. Patrons can filter by topic and use the search bar to narrow down their search. This is an improvement over a long list of resources. Typing the first few letters of a resource name will bring it into view. Patrons can select from a long list of “Topics” (WordPress tags) to find resources of interest.

With both of these tables, patrons can decide how many items to show on the page through a dropdown selection. They can sort alphabetically by any column. The patron has much more control over their experience than they previously had.

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Bespoke Swim Spas is a family firm based in Staffordshire that imports and supplies hot tubs and swim spas. They used our WooCommerce Lead Time plugin to show lead times for their products on their single product page.

The online store configured the plugin to show the lead time for their swim spas and hot tubs on the single product pages. This way, their customers can get all of the product information from one page and make a purchasing decision.

The lead time is displayed under the product’s title, price, and description. If a customer wanted to purchase, say, a hot tub, they would see that the lead time is 6-8 weeks.

If they wanted to place their order, they’d simply choose to either Pay in Full or Pay a Deposit and click the Add to Basket button to proceed to checkout and place their order.

Products with variations, such as the dual zone swim spa, that’s available in different depths i.e. Std 126 cm and Deep 155 cm, displays the product lead time after the customer has selected a variation.

Sheila Lee Thompson of Bespoke Swim Spas was happy with how easy it was to set up WooCommerce Lead Time to display product lead times on their single product pages.

She followed our step-by-step tutorial to quickly configure lead times for the store.

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Beer Drive Thru is a brewery online store that sells beers and ciders online to customers in England, Scotland, and Wales. They used our bestselling WooCommerce Product Table plugin to let customers place orders online using a one-page order form.

The brewery set up two different pages – Brewery Click ‘n’ Collect / Local Delivery and Nationwide Home Delivery – to give their customers the option to either collect orders from the store or have them delivered to their doorstep.

Both pages have a similar one-page order form with a few differences. The beer and cider prices and minimum beer pints customers can order vary for local delivery and nationwide home delivery.

Customers can view details about each beer or cider including an image, product name, tasting notes, and price. Next, they can choose how many pints they’d like to place an order for using the variations dropdown (for beers) or the quantity selector (for ciders).

Beers are available in different pint options including 2 pint bottles, 4 pint bottles, 9 pint bag in box, 18 pint bag in box, and 36 pint bag in box. Ciders are added as simple products, each approximately 2.6 pint bottles.

Customers can simply select the variation they’d like to purchase or set the quantity and click the Add to cart button to add the beers and ciders to their shopping cart.

The owner of Beer Drive Thru, Dave Turner, was delighted with how easy it was to use WooCommerce Product Table to set up a one-page beer order form for both shop pages. He followed our in-depth tutorial closely which allowed him to quickly set up a brewery online store without having to code.

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WordPress agency Bright Vessel were designing a website for Foothills Montessori School. They used our WooCommerce Product Table plugin to enable the school to take bookings for their upcoming summer camps.

The website features multiple product tables on the same page, each listing a particular category of events.  It uses the column options in WooCommerce Product Table to choose which data to display about each event. Students and parents can see the event date, description and price - everything they need to decide which events to book.

The add to cart buttons in the product table make it easy to book events from a single page. This is much easier than having to visit a separate page for each event. Parents simply choose all the events their child wishes to attend and adds them to the cart, all from one page.

Learn how to do the same on your own site in our tutorial about WooCommerce events bookings.

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The Games Den

The Games Den sells a wide range of board games, tabletop games, and card games and provides space for gaming. They’ve used the WooCommerce Product Table plugin to list new arrivals in a neat table layout on their online store.

How our plugin solved their problem

The Games Den were looking for a way to list new arrivals on their website to make it easy for customers to find the games and accessories they were looking for. This involved displaying the product’s image, name, and description in a neat and organized way.

They used the WooCommerce Product Table plugin to list new arrivals on their Latest Arrivals page. To do this, they simply added a product table to their page and selected their latest products to showcase in it.

The product table features a total of five columns – to show each product’s image, name, description, price, and buy buttons.

When a customer lands on the Latest Arrivals page, they can quickly see all of the latest products The Games Den offers. They can use the category filter dropdown above the table to only see products from a specific product category such as Tabletop Games, Miniatures, and Accessories. They can also sort the items in the table alphabetically or by price (low-to-high or high-to-low) using the sortable columns.

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Yarn Gate sell premium yarns and wools for wholesale and trade. They use our WooCommerce Product Table and WooCommerce Quick View Pro plugins to list wholesale products in a table, with 'Select color' buttons that open up a quick view lightbox. They also use our WooCommerce Wholesale Pro plugin to allow wholesale users to register and get special pricing.

Logged in trade users can select colors from the quick view lightbox and add to the cart. They then return to the list of yarns, where they can continue adding more products to their order. This is much more user-friendly than the standard WooCommerce grid layout because wholesale customers can see more products per page, and purchase color variations without being taken to a separate page for each item. This speeds up the buying process and maximises sales.

Yarn Gate have achieved this fantastic setup by combining the following plugins:

• WooCommerce - the world's leading e-commerce plugin, used to add their products and take care of shipping etc.
• WooCommerce Product Table - lists the products in a wholesale-friendly table layout.
• WooCommerce Quick View Pro - this Woocommerce wholesale quick view plugin adds lightbox popups to speed up the buying process.
• WooCommerce Wholesale Pro - add a wholesale area with special B2B pricing.
• WooCommerce Variation Swatches and Photos - allows customers to click on a color to select a variation in the quick view lightbox.

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Universal Fans sell electrical fans, which are described using some fairly complex technical data.

They needed a way for customers to compare the various technical data in a structured WooCommerce comparison table.

After trialling some free plugins that weren't suitable, Universal Fans discovered our bestselling WooCommerce Product Table plugin. They used it to create a WooCommerce product comparison table with all the technical data they needed.

Since they sell a lot of products, they added a keyword search box and attribute filters to help customers find the products with the correct specification.

Customers can click on any product in the WooCommerce comparison table to access the single product page.

From there, they can select quantities and variations, and add products to the cart.

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