Charlotte Mason launched the educational revolution 100 years ago, and today it has particularly affected family schools. As a British educator in the late 1800s, she left an impressive legacy for family education. I think Charlotte Mason is a passionate project for two homeschool families and an online Center for homeschool books, curriculum plans, discussion forums, etc. I think you’ll like com. In short, woocommerce’s openness and flexibility enable two homeschool families to build a thriving online bookstore and subscription business that affects communities and thousands of families around the world. Their vision goes far beyond selling books and revenue.
I talked to Doug, one of the site creators who built and maintained the site. Read the whole story, including the list of extensions and plug-ins that support the store. Starting method: repeatedly ask questions and study Doug Smith, his wife Karen, and their good friends John and Sonya Shafer. When conducting family counseling, they began to ask their friends how to conduct family counseling. Together, they started blogging so that they could easily share their learning content. At that time, Smiths lived in Illinois and shafers lived in Georgia, so simply Charlotte Mason actually started with a virtual company such as automatic.
Soon, they found that homeschool parents all over the world were reading and following blogs. They decided to pack the resources into books and then into other books. \
We participated in the user survey from the beginning of the website and discussed the content needed by the homeschool community. This includes a questionnaire to start filling out the mailing list. Guide strip, operation and team growth: \
The SCM team currently has 5 regular employees, 4 hourly employees and 9 course contractors to produce materials for them. They also work with other contracting parties and have partners in other projects, including communities. Sonya Shafer is the main face of the organization and is responsible for most of the spoken and written language of the company. Doug is the leader of technology and website. Early on, they established a relationship with pakmail, a regional distribution store that joined as a fulfillment partner. Starting from several shelves of about 10 products, it has now become an overall space of a small room with SCM products from ceiling to floor.
SCM also allows the pakmail team to log in and process orders directly,
Add a sales notice. Yoast SEO and yoast woocomerce SEO: add SEO features and product details. WP rocket: improve page loading time through good image caching in cooperation with woocommerce. Email sent by WP: record the email to solve the problem and resend it. Wpmandrill: reduce server load by routing orders and customer notification emails through services. I’m curious about Doug’s hosting experience. Over time, the requirements have also changed, and the host has also changed. At this point, they are with liquid web on a dedicated server, but they are always looking for other options.
Male woocomerce expansion we are woocomerce. I always want to know what the extension function of the com market place store builder is. Doug outlines the woo extensions currently used by SCM. Amazon S3 storage: handles the delivery of able items. Woocommerce composite products and woocommerce product bundles: products are usually provided as key groups and bundles to further clarify the product family. Woocommerce Dynamic Pricing: create suggestions and discounts for specific groups, such as volume buyers. Subscriptions: sell subscriptions to online schedulers and schedulers and integrate them through rest APIs. Strip: add credit card payment processing. Google Analytics: merge sales data into web statistics. Woocommerce gravity forms product add-on features: the ability to add custom forms to select products or collect required information. Order status manager: adds other order statuses to the company workflow. Delivery query: add the delivery query number and send it to the customer automatically along with the delivery notice. URL Coupons: instead of using coupons in the URL, you can remove the coupon field so that customers can search for coupons without abandoning the shopping basket. In particular, Amazon S3 storage solves many problems of SCM. Before switching to this service for ebook delivery, customers regularly contact damaged files. They realized that this was due to timeout, especially on slow connections. Adding this extension can greatly reduce errors and reduce the burden of support. The file can now be transferred normally. Woocommerce gravity forms products add ons is used to register events on the woocommerce products page. They created a form that uses extensions to collect other attributes. For example, you can let them choose who will attend for one or two days, capture the name and city for the tag, and choose whether to attend with their spouse. Integrate with e-commerce and business services. Com integrates with various cloud services, including help scout, MailChimp, Xero, deal inventory and square, and can take advantage of small teams. For curious people, here are the details of how these services are provided: Help Scout is used for customer communication. SCM provides a query form to collect specific information required for order support. This is provided in help scout, where SCM teams can assist and respond. Doug’s favorite for help Scout is the woocommerce extension. When viewing customer messages, the help scout sidebar displays order and account information. It also integrates with MailChimp to display the list of subscriptions that customers are subscribing to. SCM team sends weekly blog posts via MailChimp via email. MailChimp is also an order and customer
It is well integrated with woocommerce and can automatically send messages according to sales information. For example, if you purchased a first grade course last year, SCM may send a message that you can go to the second grade. Xero is a cloud based accounting system that can be integrated with woocommerce to automatically transfer sales data. Dear inventory is a cloud based multi location inventory system. Integrate with woocomerce and square to import all orders into one location. It also integrates well with Xero accounting. Square POS is used for face-to-face sales of SCM at events and meetings. It also provides a woomerge extension because it does not handle multiple square locations. Interesting fact: Doug benefited from the woommerce stool plug-in simplycharlottemason. I think com can become the first home school course provider to introduce bitcoin (and apple pay). Woo! Learn more about woocommerce Apple pay. \
I find podcasts very popular in the homeschool community.
