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A WooCommerce review request email beside a Delay setting raised from 7 to 21 days before Black Friday, so an order completed on 20 November is asked on 11 December

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WooCommerce review reminder emails: when to send them (and why once is enough)

A review reminder that arrives before the parcel, or weeks after the customer has forgotten the order, gets ignored. How to set the delay on a WooCommerce review reminder from the way your store uses the Completed status and the time your products take to judge, what time of day it really arrives, why one well-timed email beats a sequence, and how to keep it away from Black Friday.

October 11, 2026 · 12 min read

A Most Wishlisted report with Linen Shirt highlighted at 48 wishers and 3 sold, beside the Guest Wishlist Lifetime setting raised from 30 to 90 days

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How to use WooCommerce wishlist data to pick your Black Friday discounts

Most Black Friday discounts are picked by guesswork, overstock or last year's bestsellers. A wishlist shows the products people wanted and did not buy. How to read that data in WooCommerce, which products to put on sale, how to reach the people who saved them, and the 30-day guest-list setting to change before October's saves expire.

October 9, 2026 · 14 min read

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Can customers stack loyalty points on top of your Black Friday coupon? We tested it

Eleven carts on a real WooCommerce 11 store, with every total recorded. Loyalty points stack with every kind of coupon, "Individual use only" does not stop them, the cart can never go below zero, and the customer earns points on the part of the order they paid for with points. What that means for a Black Friday code, and the three filters that change each behavior.

October 7, 2026 · 15 min read

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Black Friday without the margin bonfire: loyalty points instead of discounts

A Black Friday discount is spent once and gone. A points balance earned on Black Friday is the reason a customer comes back in January. The worked math on 20% off versus 10% off plus 10% back in points, how WooCommerce loyalty points behave on Black Friday orders, sale items, coupons, returns, and what to tell customers so the balance actually gets used.

October 5, 2026 · 19 min read

Guides

How to get your first reviews on products that have none

A playbook for the WooCommerce products sitting on zero reviews: how to find the ones worth starting with, who to ask and who never to, when to ask, what to offer so the reward is the same for every rating, and the settings that silently stop customers from answering.

October 3, 2026 · 27 min read

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Incentivized reviews in WooCommerce: how to pay for them without breaking the rules

Paying customers for reviews is legal and common, but three lines decide whether it stays that way. What the FTC, the UK, the EU and Google actually say about incentivized reviews, why a bonus for five stars crosses the line, and how to disclose and moderate so the reviews you paid for still count.

October 1, 2026 · 20 min read

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WooCommerce review request email: how to switch it on (and the three traps)

WooCommerce 10.8 added its own review request email, and it ships switched off in two places. How to turn it on, what the Delay setting really counts from, what the Review Order page does with a submission, and three traps worth knowing before your customers see it.

September 29, 2026 · 20 min read

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WooCommerce photo reviews: how to collect them (and why they vanish on block themes)

WooCommerce has no photo upload of its own, so photo reviews need a plugin. What a photo review is worth, what to pay for one, the two file-size limits that silently drop uploads, and the block-theme render path that hides the photo a shopper just uploaded.

September 27, 2026 · 18 min read

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WooCommerce product reviews: the complete 2026 guide

How WooCommerce product reviews actually work: the settings that decide whether they appear, where reviews are stored, how to collect and moderate them, and the block-theme trap that hides customer photos in 2026.

September 25, 2026 · 17 min read

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Choosing a WooCommerce rewards plugin: 9 questions that matter

A rewards plugin holds a balance you owe your customers, inside a database you have to live with for years. These are the nine questions to ask before you install one — who owns the ledger, what is metered, what happens when you stop paying, and what it costs to leave.

September 23, 2026 · 15 min read

Guides

How to disable WooCommerce reviews and WordPress comments (and when not to)

Four things get called disable reviews, and each needs a different switch. Where each one lives in WooCommerce and WordPress, what happens to the Reviews tab, how to stop comment spam on media, and the middle path that keeps your social proof.

September 21, 2026 · 15 min read

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WooCommerce points and rewards: how earning and redeeming actually work

The settings screen is the easy part. This is what happens between a customer placing an order and a discount coming off their next one — the order status that triggers the award, the amount it is calculated on, rounding, expiry order, refunds and multi-currency.

September 19, 2026 · 16 min read

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WordPress rewards plugins, compared on a real store

Every rewards plugin has a feature table, and the vendor wrote it. Here are nine tests you can run on a staging store in an afternoon, a scorecard to fill in, and what three pricing models really cost over three years.

September 17, 2026 · 14 min read

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WordPress loyalty plugins: what to check before you install one

A WordPress loyalty plugin touches your checkout, your database and your customer data, and most of that is invisible from the plugin listing. Here are the seven checks that predict whether you will still be happy with it in a year.

September 15, 2026 · 14 min read

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WooCommerce loyalty program: the complete 2026 guide

A WooCommerce loyalty program pays customers points for buying, and those points bring them back. This guide covers the five settings that decide whether it works, the math behind what it costs you, and how to run one for free on your own store.

September 13, 2026 · 20 min read

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How to sell variable products well in WooCommerce

Sizes, colors and bundles are where most WooCommerce shops make their money — and where the buying decision actually happens. Here is what your product page should do at the moment a shopper picks an option.

September 11, 2026 · 10 min read

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Birthday emails are the easiest repeat sale your store is not making

Automated emails earn about 22 times more per send than the newsletter you blast to everyone. A birthday is the one date every customer has, and the one they will happily tell you. Here is the data, and how to set it up for free.

September 8, 2026 · 13 min read

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How to turn a first-time buyer into a repeat customer

Roughly a quarter of first-time WooCommerce customers ever come back on their own. Give them a points balance worth returning for, then tell them it exists in the three places that decide whether they do — the product page, the confirmation page, and the email that lands when the points do.

August 28, 2026 · 10 min read

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Introducing NeoWish: a free wishlist your shoppers can use without an account

NeoWish 1.0 is out and free. Guests save products without signing up, keep the list when they log in, and you finally see which products people want most.

August 25, 2026 · 10 min read

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Why product reviews matter more than price in WooCommerce

Discounting is a race to the bottom your competitors can always win. Reviews are the one advantage they cannot copy — here is the data, the buyer psychology, and what to do about it.

August 23, 2026 · 15 min read

Growth

Reward customers in every currency you sell in

Selling internationally is one of the fastest ways to grow a WooCommerce shop. NeoGrow keeps your loyalty program worth the same to your business in every currency, so you can expand without guessing what your rewards cost.

August 22, 2026 · 10 min read

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WooCommerce loyalty plugin vs hosted app: which should your shop use?

Before you pay monthly for a hosted loyalty app, check whether it supports WooCommerce at all. Two of the biggest do not, and a third stopped taking new WooCommerce stores. Here is what that means for your shop.

August 18, 2026 · 13 min read

Performance

Why loyalty points do not belong in postmeta

Most WooCommerce loyalty plugins store balances in wp_postmeta or wp_options. Here is what that costs you at scale, and what NeoGrow does instead.

August 14, 2026 · 9 min read