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Selling carpet online isn’t as simple as assigning a fixed price to a product. Customers rarely buy a standard-sized piece of carpet. Instead, they need to enter the dimensions of their room and receive an accurate price before placing an order. In this guide, we’ll show you how to implement carpet pricing in WooCommerce, allowing…

Many WooCommerce stores don’t sell products with a fixed price. Instead, the final cost depends on the size the customer orders. Whether you sell fabric by the metre, flooring by the square metre, timber by length or custom-made products, customers expect to enter their measurements and receive an instant price. In this guide, we’ll show…

If you sell products by the square metre, WooCommerce doesn’t include a built-in way for customers to enter their measurements and receive an instant calculated price. Whether you sell flooring, tiles, carpet, artificial grass, decking, wallpaper or construction materials, customers increasingly expect to enter their dimensions and see an accurate price before checkout. In this…

If you sell products priced by the square foot, WooCommerce doesn’t provide a built-in way for customers to enter their measurements and receive an instant price. Whether you sell flooring, artificial grass, carpet, roofing materials, or any other product charged by area, customers expect to enter their dimensions and see the total cost immediately. In…

Many WooCommerce stores need to charge a minimum amount before allowing a customer to place an order. Perhaps you sell carpet by the square metre, fabric by the metre, or cut-to-size materials. A customer might only need £3 worth of product, but processing, packaging and shipping make that order unprofitable. A minimum charge solves this…

Selling ribbon and trimming online looks simple until you realise that customers don’t usually want to buy a fixed number of individual items. They want 2 metres of ribbon. Or 7.5 metres. Or 25 metres. Or perhaps 100 metres for a wedding, craft project, packaging run or upholstery job. That creates a different kind of…

Selling structural steel online is a very different proposition from selling ordinary products through an ecommerce store. A customer doesn’t necessarily want to buy “one steel beam”. They may need a specific beam profile, a particular length, multiple pieces, or a cut-to-size section for a building project. That creates a fundamental ecommerce problem: How do…

Selling screed online is a little different from selling ordinary building materials. A customer doesn’t usually know how many bags, tubs or units of screed they need. They know the size of the floor and how deep the screed needs to be. That means the ecommerce problem isn’t simply putting screed products into an online…

Selling underfloor heating online can be a strong opportunity for heating suppliers, electrical retailers, bathroom businesses, flooring companies, renovation specialists and specialist heating stores. The difficulty is that customers don’t normally know how many heating mats or metres of heating cable they need. They know the size of the room. They may know where their…

Selling cladding online can be a strong opportunity for builders’ merchants, timber suppliers, roofing businesses, landscaping companies, exterior renovation specialists and specialist cladding retailers. The challenge is that cladding isn’t normally bought as a simple quantity of individual products. A customer has a wall to cover. They know the wall’s width and height, but they…