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I spent the better part of this month reviewing
all of the various shopping cart platforms
that are available on WordPress WordPress
all of it and in this video were to take a
look at ThriveCart which is a hosted shopping
cart solution and it’s got some really neat
things to that were to talk about in this
video so if you’re considering it’s a hosted
shopping cart solution this video stifling
to be for you were to take a look at what
it offers and what the interface is like and
how it is in using it and since this is primarily
a channel based upon WordPress this integrates
with a lot of things that you can want to
do or a lot of the tools that you are using
on WordPress so let’s go ahead and get started
but before you get started hi my name is Adam
from WPCrafter.com where we go over tactics
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with ThriveCart list is going to jump on into
it so let’s just go with background of this
Word 2018 ThriveCart came out in 2013 and
it’s kind of been closed for Celso when you
come to their website there is no order button
however if you visit WPCrafter.com/ThriveCart
one word it will take you right on over to
a special location on the site where you can
actually order it and we might as well just
talk about that right now right now it’s up
$595 to purchase ThriveCart and it’s a lifetime
deal one time purchase there is no fees on
any of your transactions and since there’s
no monthly fees as well it’s a one time purchase
it’s become very very popular they also have
a $95 one-time $95 add-on that will allow
you to white label it so right now there’s
a little badge on the bottom right of the
cart this is powered by ThriveCart you paid
the 95 you don’t have to have that and you
can also use your domain name with it so you
can have a domain cart.WPCrafter.com and that
could go to your your carts that you make
with ThriveCart as well as it allows you to
make carts for five different brands of you
have clients you can use it for five different
clients is a really good deal it’s really
popular especially when you compare with some
of the other hosted platforms out there that
carry a hefty monthly fee you look at Sam
card just the card alone is $99 ThriveCart
has an affiliate platform in it as well so
you can have affiliates and to get something
like that was something like Sam card you’re
looking at $200 a month so it’s a very good
deal now the reason why ThriveCart is a very
popular with people using learning management
systems membership sites are just selling
things on their WordPress website is because
it will integrate with those platforms so
say you’re using LearnDash and you have some
come to your website they want to buy course
it takes them to the shopping cart that you
built with the ThriveCart as soon as they
complete the purchase ThriveCart will push
that information into WordPress creating user
account and it will go ahead and give them
the proper access to the course now you can
do a lot of that with WooCommerce but what
makes us special is some of its marketing
features which is a bump offers and a optimized
and is also up cells and down cells you can
have more of an optimized checkout experience
so X I wasn’t going to all ventilator so logistically
there was a real quick check this out is is
is the world’s easiest card platform and you
know what you’re going to agree this is a
very easy to use card platform you’re in a
Greek however right here it’s is the most
powerful card platform I don’t agree with
that we’ll talk about that in this video but
is definitely the easiest that I have come
across okay so will become the homepage and
we scroll down organist see lots of the features
I like to go over it’s on the website so I
don’t miss anything some of the real treats
is the bump offers that’s when someone gets
your card there is like a checkbox you can
have that will just add something to the cart
or swap out the entire purchase one click
up cells is actually one click up cells with
stripe it’s not really true one click up cells
with PayPal that’s a complicated thing it
is actually complicated to have enabled on
your PayPal account you can embed the cart
so it will still say powered by ThriveCart
if you don’t have that $95 add-on but you
can embed it on your site although I prefer
not embedded on the site I like it just on
the ThriveCart site itself and also you you
can build funnels essentially it sides it
is a funnel in the sense that you can have
an upsell in a down cell so basically if someone
makes a purchase then you would push them
to a another page where there made an additional
offer they can reject that and then you can
send them to a down cell offer and you can
have this enter webs of offers like that a
B split testing so you can split test aspects
of your card affiliate center this is actually
very nice you can easily add affiliates to
your cart and it makes it so easy that it’s
all integrated in the one platform web hooks
auto follow-up so what that means is there
some shopping cart abandonment features if
you’re using one of their supported email
marketing platforms so essentially someone
both your card pops in their name and email
address it doesn’t actually check out ThriveCart
can capture that information and push it into
one of your email marketing platforms with
say a certain tag that says abandoned cart
and then it in your email marketing platform
you can have an automation that can send them
an email saying our later say no you might’ve
forgotten something and try to get them back
in others coupons that officer here coupon
so autos might respond or integration that
does not integrate with all auto responders
were will go in the settings coupons customer
hub I haven’t actually checked out the customer
hub detailed stats it’s okay a discount URL
so instead of issuing out a coupon you can
make it part of the URL and then there is
auto retry so you can do subscriptions with
this two factor authentication two-step cards
and this is what your shopping carts can a
pretty much look like right here and when
I say this is the easiest to get going it’s
shockingly easy to sell stuff with ThriveCart
nearly to see that in a moment so here’s the
anatomy of their cart page you get some customization
but not a ton it’s it’s a little on the rigid
site but it I think it’s actually okay in
this case so you got your contact information
that you can collect they will choose their
payment but here’s that bump offer looks like
right here then you could pop some testimonials
in on the side okay and then let’s just just
glance over some of the remaining highlights
and then will jump into ThriveCart skin integrate
with some CRM’s like Infusionsoft it instant
affiliate payments Kentucky integration so
it has some fulfillment integration options
cannot these fulfillments of your say selling
DVDs not like music DVDs but may be a seminar
or something like that conduct is kind of
a fulfillment for that so it can push that
information across link tracking membership
integrations it does integrate with lots of
WordPress plug-ins a modal card so what this
means is you can actually have a cart be a
pop up on your website predicted sales product
upgrades receipts retargeting retargeting
because you could drop your cheer pixels in
the cards okay so the sales tax subscription
management secure URLs and advanced a trial
support there’s so it’s got a real easy to
set up but powerful way of pricing thing so
will look at that unlimited card so he will
the way it works is that like WooCommerce
right WooCommerce you have one shopping cart
and and whenever someone checks out it adds
the product to that card and then they check
out with ThriveCart you’re creating separate
unique carts on a per product basis so that’s
what he means by unlimited cards and you can
of course put a video it’s his video cards
are basically up here were this images you
could have a video if you want and some analytics
and I think that is pretty much it here on
the website so if you want to check this out
yourself but where you could actually see
the pricing it’s WPCrafter.com/ThriveCart
so here is a a new account with ThriveCart
and I don’t have any cells in this brand-new
account is just a month old for this video
I just wanted to show you around it a little
bit so I usually like to jump into the settings
first and so we have the settings right here
let’s go ahead and take a look at some of
the settings you can know the integrations
and see if it maybe fits what you’re doing
and then were going to go and make a shopping
cart urine to see how fast and easy it is
so go ahead and click on view right here so
integrations are the payment gateways the
auto responders membership platforms webinar
platforms fulfillment services webinar platforms
would you want that is say you sold a product
that came with a webinar this can auto enroll
the buyer into the webinar so webinar platforms
fulfillment services like Kentucky that I
just talked about notifications in order sink
and connected apps so let’s click in payment
gateways it’s and this is one of the things
were I say it’s not really the most powerful
card out there and that’s more because they
have to build everything themselves not like
WooCommerce where you can get pretty much
any payment integration under the sun with
this they have to build it so they’re only
going to create and support the biggest ones
she got authorize.net PayPal and stripe so
if you’re using any like razor pay I think
is very popular in India it’s just not gonna
work so there’s your payment processors knowledge
of the auto responders so of course is going
to fit it’s going to support the big ones
right your active campaign a Weber convert
kit hub spot but if you notice there’s a lot
that are not actually here that you may be
using so if you’re using say ConvertFox it’s
not going to support that you are using Mautic
it’s not going to support that either so it’s
only gonna really support these ones that
you see right here and that’s where I’m coming
back to that’s not really the most powerful
one out there because it’s not like you can
make a EA autoresponder integration you can
do that it’s not like WooCommerce or something
WordPress base where you can develop for it
or have something developed for it are most
likely someone already developed it yearly
you have to wait on them okay membership platforms
so digital access pass member mouse MemberPress
which I mentioned optimize member teachable
so a lot of folks that have teachable and
set of sale LearnDash it’s right here and
was wish list member there is an integration
that’s in beta for LearnDash that you could
actually access and I’ve heard that one’s
coming to LifterLMS as well okay so was your
membership platforms it’s a good Darwinian
webinar platforms is just daimyo right now
just shocking that they don’t support webinar
Jim okay fulfillment services so right now
it’s actually pretty good there there fulfillment
services that they have is pretty deep as
matter fact so you can see them all right
here or reprint the fall you got ship station
you got Shoppify so if you want you Shoppify
just for the fulfillment side of things you
got that right here and of course you have
your is a pure integration which is good okay
and connected apps actually don’t even think
I’ve seen this out because I have to connected
to Xavier okay so that is our integration
so let me go back to the settings here so
we’ve got the section for their API and web
looks and this is how it’s being done with
LearnDash and house can be done with LifterLMS
when it’s released you’ve got tax back blacklists
legal and compliance is is GDPR compliance
and some account wide settings right here
so it’s all pretty simple so the way the interface
works is you list your products here and then
right here you can make your coupons right
here’s a list of your transactions and then
right here’s where you can decide if you want
to have an affiliate program for any of the
products that you sell and all of this is
shockingly simple to set up so obviously I
started the video by saying this kinda came
out in 2013 and you could tell us there some
aspects to the interface that look 2013-ish
now that’s a prone upon its kind is maybe
my wants and that looks a little more up-to-date
but the pro is this is so stinking easy to
use so say I will I have a course it’s called
Elementor essentials but I’m in a rebranded
Elementor accelerator okay so if I wanted
to say start selling that with ThriveCart
and have a bump offer let’s go ahead and do
all of that right now some click right here
it says create first product so versus asked
me digital or physical I’m in the leave it
on Digital click on create new product and
then it’s going to go ahead and take me here
in urine is a step-by-step this is so not
overwhelming like anyone can start selling
stuff right now using this platform so the
way it’s gonna work as you go through these
different steps here for our product and then
I’m the click on fulfillment and go through
those steps on the click on check out that’s
we create the check out and go through the
little steps there and it’s all pretty simple
so the first things obviously I’ll just fill
this out I’m in to give it a name okay have
gone ahead and fill this out I just put for
the product name Elementor accelerator and
then what it did is it generated the checkout
page URL every product that you create is
going to have its own dedicated check check
out page URL in K and so I put all this in
here so that I can just click on next right
here and go to the next step so simple to
price this thing I can click on right here
it says plus set my product price this pops
up and I can do one time subscription split
pay pay your own price for me I’m just gonna
go ahead into a one-time fee but these are
some great powerful options student to have
different ways of pricing your product so
why don’t I do one time fee and then I’ll
also do a split peso for one time fee I would
just go ahead and pop this in here and then
I’m to create another one right here for split
pay and I’ll split it up like that so I’ll
do this all at right now okay have gone ahead
and created two pricing options for this course
I’ve got a one time payment right here of
9199 and then a split pay to payments of two
of 120 right here so only scroll down here
we can calculate tax and right here I have
an option to customize the invoice I’m not
to do that I’ll just go ahead and click on
next so here’s where I can add in order bump
if I wanted to so go ahead and check this
box here and it’s going to go through some
of those same product questions as can be
physical or digital a click on confirm and
then right here I can start filling this out
and I’m using the chrome web browser if you’re
using Safari it’s a little different but it’s
an chroma just click and start typing about
what I really like is how simple this is so
far so right here I’m in a go ahead I’ll name
this product I’m in a pop a price in and I
don’t become to customize this much okay so
I went ahead and put a name in here at a price
and then I actually probably should edit this
but I don’t want to spend the time in this
video essentially this is going appear when
someone checks out and all they have to do
is click on this checkbox and it will automatically
add this to the cart just go ahead and click
on next so this is where I choose my payment
processors you can actually have multiple
payment processors multiple PayPal accounts
connected into this only to do this on my
own and click next okay now I’m on the affiliate
tab I can check this box if I want to have
affiliates to promote this product so I’m
not gonna do that I’ll just click on next
and we’ve already loaded in our products are
bump offers and you can see it only really
took a minute or two it’s that easy to get
going so right here is for the fulfillment
side so after purchase just want you to put
in a support email address right there and
then what’s gonna happen after someone purchases
are you just gonna show them what they their
total what they paid are you to send them
to another URL may be a thank you page or
something like that or add them to a membership
site so you can choose those options right
there some go ahead and put my support email
in okay there it is support it WPCrafter.com
a go ahead and click on next you could see
were almost done were now going to choose
our checkout style to change the text whatever
we want so this was that same design that
was on their homepage except it has a different
color for the background you can have that
if you want right here is a two-step check
out I’m not super fond of the two-step check
out these days especially because it’s a very
condensed checkout to begin with with ThriveCart
so I think a single one step is totally fine
and then here’s an option if you want to embed
it so what you see right here is what would
actually get embedded anywhere on your websites
and then here’s where you can have a pop up
on your website for someone to check out to
go ahead and and use this one and I’m sure
if you purchase anything on the Internet you’ve
probably come across someone using ThriveCart
and using this very check out template so
I’ll scroll down here in just click on it
next and this is what I like about the simplicity
right here you could just click on what you
want to edit in this kind of template submit
is a little bit of a rigid template and that’s
not necessarily a bad thing so I can like
drag-and-drop the video right here the video
can only be over here on the right of course
there’s an option to flip these columns if
you wanted but this is actually perfectly
fine so I wanted a countdown timer on the
the checkout page I can click right here I
can click right here to add it and you can
have it be specific date or can be evergreen
based upon when someone visits your checkout
page we go ahead and close that out actually
here when I enabled that and I’ll just leave
it all the way that it is right here and click
on save just you that you could see it okay
comes a some guarantee seals so here’s Juan
here’s a moneyback seal and an encrypted checkout
seal so those are to be on the top or in that
same location that you see right right here
the guarantee seal and then right here you
can edit the fields of fur of information
that you’re asking so right here if I wanted
to add a business name to at ask that and
make it mandatory or optional I can do that
here and if I wanted their first name I will
definitely want their first and last name
and right here if I wanted their address don’t
ask for the address if you don’t need it in
a good rule of thumb is to only ask for the
things that you absolutely need so go ahead
and click on save and then right here you
can add some custom fields if you wanted to
there’s custom information that you want to
get from the purchaser on your site and then
here is to edit that custom checkbox now when
we enabled this year you see that this is
more of a GDPR feature so you’re want to send
marketing emails to someone after they check
out and it someone that is a resident of the
European Union and might be a good idea to
enable this okay and then right here you can
edit the buy button so this what it looks
like and you can change the cub colors right
here I do believe you get CSS customization
in here if you wanted to modify something
later with CSS but there you go and you can
change the text of the button so that’s complete
order I can change it if I want I just go
ahead and leave that the way that it is here
on the right we didn’t have a video or a product
shot right here in image it says a shot that’s
one reason I said that you can add bullet
points of different benefits so it’s good
to use this as an opportunity to reinforce
the purchase so so that someone will have
more reason to actually complete the checkout
won’t get cold feet okay so that is right
here for the edit bullet points and then right
here you can put in some testimonials and
it just can have the format that is can have
so you can see I actually didn’t really fill
out much of this is and was and when you scroll
down here you can choose the language of the
card and so limited on these languages we’ve
got English German or French Italian and Spanish
and then right here you could choose the background
colors are right now there’s no background
color but I can choose one of these if I wanted
to end up having a background color but I’ll
just leave it the default right there and
then right here for the layout is just flipping
the columns so if I click right here it just
can afflict the columns and that’s all there
is to creating a card so what I can do right
now is click right here to preview it it’s
can open up in a new tab and you show me what
this card looks like and I gotta say right
out of the bad this is a beautiful looking
shopping cart and I didn’t spend any time
on it right I didn’t put a product image I
didn’t put my testimonials my bullet points
but as you can see it just looks good and
then right here if I check this box you’ll
see the total go from 199 up to that C was
I made a 149 so for a total of 348 for some
reason it saying untitled product I have to
go back and fix that anyway so that is the
preview someone to go ahead and click on next
and we only have two more steps right here
click on next and then right here is your
success page you can put a video right here
if you wanted to if there’s the next thing
that someone needs to do for this purchase
and you can put some text right here I will
go ahead and just click on the next and then
there’s some tracking this is where you would
drop your pixels right here and then I’ll
go to next and then behavior right here is
where Juergen is said some of those rules
so a rule would be adding them to a mailing
list putting some tags in there and maybe
even pushing them into a webinar an automatic
webinar registration okay so let me actually
go back in the good thing is is you can’t
mess up you saw how there was a problem at
the checkout it’s at untitled product I can
just go back and click on product and find
out what the heck was going on maybe it’s
because I had to save it or something like
that let me go to fulfillment to see what
I did wrong let’s see them click on customize
note I think I did everything right so I’m
in a go back to behavior on the click save
and get URL and I’ve already created a shopping
cart right here slowly click on view check
out page there it is so here’s the preview
right here are actually where the P here is
a preview right here is pride because it wasn’t
saved yet that’s right said this untitled
product but right here it has been saved and
it has my name of the product right there
I can send someone to this right now what
actually I have to take it out of test mode
but I can send someone to it as soon as I
take it out test mode and I could start making
sales through this hosted shopping cart it
was really that easy and you know it’s funny
when I first used this to all I thought oh
my gosh this is shockingly easy to get up
and running there’s very few steps it’s so
fast there’s no reason why anyone that wants
to sell a course or sell a product or sell
something can’t use a tool like this and especially
if you’re non-techies to get a tool like this
and be able to sell really quick so it says
super easy to do now when you scroll down
you see if I if I would put a product image
I would see something there but I don’t have
that anyways so here we go Elementor Excelerator
so now what I could do is I could create a
second product that could be an upsell and
then I can create an upsell right here create
a down sell right here you can start doing
tests you can start creating a funnel and
having this these are multiple steps whether
someone accepts the purchaser doesn’t accept
the purchase so the next thing would be if
you wanted to make another product all you’d
have to do is go here and you can click on
this clone option right here it’ll duplicate
this product and then you can start from there
and Yorty have your shopping cart experience
of purity have your testimonials loaded in
in your bullet points you can make different
variations of your product it’s a pretty easy
platform I mean literally guys were done obviously
adding the show you coupons that’s pretty
basic stuff right here creating some coupons
and then auditing through your transactions
it has very basic dashboards right here it’s
really that simple to get up and running using
ThriveCart and start selling your products
so I do think when I’m looking at their homepage
here were it says it’s the easiest I have
been testing all the different car platforms
and I have a page on my website put a link
in the video description boxes WPCrafter.com.com/cards
CA RTS and that’s can it take you to the page
I have on my website where I’m comparing all
of these different shopping cart platforms
I differently got a say ThriveCart is the
easiest but you know it it can’t be the most
powerful the reason it can be the most powerful
is because you don’t have control to be able
to have the payment processors you want to
use any email marketing platform that you
want it doesn’t have all the integrations
in its not it’s not super practical for them
to have them all because they have to create
and maintain them all and selects a difference
when you’re using a closed system like ThriveCart
versus WooCommerce that already has a lot
of this built into it or with WooCommerce
you you can if it wasn’t created a you could
have it made it there so many different different
people making extensions for WooCommerce and
plus the stuff already exists but of course
where this is superior over WooCommerce is
that this has an optimized check out experience
if you’re selling anything online you want
to be able to have a bump offer it’s just
like if someone’s on your e-commerce site
buying a pair shoes why not offer them a big
discount on a pair of socks they can check
one box and you can increase the average transactional
value of that check out and also the power
of having a upsell so someone does make a
purchase then you can send them to an additional
offer where you’re discounting something so
in the example you saw for an upsell offer
I would have a course bundle and maybe have
it be 75% off that someone can add so you
keep adding value and it’s actually good to
have a tool where you’re able to provide bump
value bump offers and up cells because you’re
actually giving more value to your customer
you’re saying you know you bought this and
I really appreciate that you bought this you’re
now my customer let me give you a good deal
on this other thing that might interest you
not everyone’s gonna take you up on that offer
but you might be surprised to see 2030% of
the people that are making that initial purchase
go ahead and take that additional offer that
you’re making them so anyways this is been
a quick look at ThriveCart is rocksolid you
can ask anyone that using it is rocksolid
like is it right now you can get it for at
one time cost it’s it’s a cheap it’s $595
but that’s actually very cheap when you look
at other platforms that are equivalent to
this or about $200 per month so it’s a really
good deal when you look at that angle they
have been claiming for a couple heaters that
is knocking to be a lifetime one time purchase
forever it might go to a monthly purchase
or something like that of Lehman saying that
for quite a long time but anyways if you’re
interested in checking this out I do have
a referral link of course it’s the VP crafter.com/ThriveCart
I’ll take you over there to the actual page
or you can purchase it and you can check it
out and see if it actually meet your needs
have a generous return. It’s 30 days old is
a problem or your findings not meeting your
needs you can go ahead and get a refund but
what I’ve noticed is that a lot of the people
that are serious about selling their courses
through LearnDash they are using a cart system
like this a lot of people that are serious
about e-commerce or using a more optimized
shopping cart experience like this versus
WooCommerce which isn’t White set up to be
this way so anyways got like 70 in the video
description down below if you use ThriveCart
you wanted to give a shot out of some pros
and cons that you’ve actually experience got
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10 Comments
Adam,
Is there any plugin available for WordPress?
Thanks in advance.
Yes you should check out CartFlows.
Hi Adam! Thanks for this insightful review. I’m wondering though where the digital products are uploaded for clients to download. Or do they have to be downloaded by means of redirecting to a URL? I see the 3 options for what happens after purchase, but none is “download page” or “download product”, is it?
Yea ThriveCart doesn’t have digital delivery unfortunately. Would have to be delivered via your email marketing platform or some form of a membership plugin.
Hey Adam, we appreciate the review of the platform!
Could you please get in touch regarding a few inaccuracies so we can have the chance to correct them.
For example, you state ThriveCart was released in 2013 and that the interface has not been updated since. ThriveCart was released in 2016, not 2013 and to date, we have updated the interface 10+ times.
Please reach out directly so we can make sure any inaccuracies are updated. Thanks again for the review!
Regards,
Josh Bartlett
Founder & CEO ThriveCart
Updated here. I did update that on the video over on YouTube, but it slipped my mind that it was here as well.
Thrivecart doesn’t work like a regular cart, right? This makes it nothing like WooCommerce or East Cart, etc. Right?
For instance, it looks like you cannot add multiple items from a store, or add physical and digital items together and then get a cart total. Or, it looks like it doesn’t seem to be able to handle different options of an item (i.e., for example if you offer a t-shirt in three colors and three sizes) there is no way to put say, (2) small red shirts and (1) large blue shirt in the cart. Then pay.
Am I missing something?
You are correct, it doesn’t work the same. It’s more of a single item cart. That being said, I am releasing CartFlows on November 19th, 2018 and with it, you will be able to have full control over the WooCommerce checkout.
That sounds interesting, is it a plugin or a service, how about pricing (one time or monthly)? Thank you.
ThriveCart is currently a lifetime deal meaning you buy it once in your account is good for as long as the services online.