How do I make a specific checkout page? (I'm completely new)
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I’ve been trying to find a way to make a website to sell my services on. This is my first time ever attempting anything related to web design and WordPress. I don’t know if the website I want to make should be made from scratch or not, but I could still use any others options available as long as they fit what I need. What I’m focused on right now is how to make the website look and function exactly how I want it to, so I’m not really paying attention to other things like hosting, domains, and all that yet. If anyone could help me out on getting started, it would be greatly appreciated.
So what I want to sell isn’t a physical product, and I don’t have a physical building for the business. Everything will be online, basically. It’s still like a store, just not to sell physical products. So far that’s simple, which can be found on most website builders for online stores. But the thing is, I want a web page that’s a little more specific for what I’m doing. I don’t think I’ll have an issue with making a home page, FAQ page, Help page, About page, and all that. What I’m worried about is the checkout page.
The service is related to video editing. Here’s an example: if a customer wants a video edited a certain way, the cost will be, for example, $1 per minute of the video(s) submitted. My first issue is finding a website builder that lets me add that kind of function into the checkout process (the part where a certain amount is charged per minute of the video). The second issue is another function I want which is the customer being able to submit their video as a link or a file. The last function I want is being able to view, on some other page, whatever videos were submitted (that only employees could view, obviously). Once I edit the video, I want to be able to send the video back to the customer (with them being notified exactly when it’s finished.) After they review it, I want there to be something like three buttons they can press: Approve, Redo, or Refund. Something like that. I didn’t fully decide yet. But honestly, that last part doesn’t really matter. As long as customers can submit videos, I can view the videos submitted, get paid successfully and send the video back to the customer, that’s really all that matters, and I’d worry about the extra things later.
Now, I may not have searched hard enough to find website templates like that (it doesn’t have to be exactly what I described, just something that can get the job done), but I still wanted to see if anyone could help me out with this. The closest representation to what I want is a website called “Rev” but it’s for captioning. If you look at their checkout process, you can submit the video as a file, link, etc. So Rev is basically the best example on what I need, I just don’t know how to design a web page like that or how to use WordPress for that.
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Hi there,
The good news is that there are several options you have here.
This is all something you could definitely do with WooCommerce: http://woocoomerce.com. It is a free plugin that you can install to a self-hosted site. If you want to use it here at WordPress.com, you’ll need to purchase the Business Plan:
It’s the only plan that allows the installation of plugins on WordPress.com.
First, when using WooCommerce with the pricing setup you need, you can use the dynamic pricing extension, which will allow you to adjust the price depending on the size of the product:
https://woocommerce.com/products/dynamic-pricing/
In regards to uploading video, the product add on extension allows the user to upload files when purchasing a product:
https://woocommerce.com/products/product-add-ons/
FYI, these forums are for WordPress.com hosted websites. If you want to know the difference between the two, you can find more information in this document:
If you want more information on WooCommerce and how it can accommodate your needs, please fill out the presales form here:
https://woocommerce.com/contact-us/#sales-form
Or, you can seek assistance from the WooCommerce forums which can be found at:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce
Hope that helps.
Thanks!
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Thank you for taking the time out to link each extension. I’m completely new to making websites, so this was extremely helpful.
So from what I can see, it seems like specific website functions are influenced heavily by plugins, correct? I’m guessing that WooCommerce would probably be the best plugin for me to use that’s compatible with WordPress.
There’s only one reason I might not try out WooCommerce first. It’s mainly because using WordPress.org might be less expensive. I know that it’s basically more work on my if I used org instead of com, but I think I could make it work. And I know this isn’t .org, but do you think that it’s possible for me to use .org for exactly how I want the website to function using plugins or whatever else? If I can’t then it’s likely I’ll just WooCommerce.
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You can use WooCommerce on WordPress.com or WordPress.org, it’s a plugin created for WordPress sites in general.
So from what I can see, it seems like specific website functions are influenced heavily by plugins, correct?
Well, it all depends on what exactly would you like to do but creating an online store or any membership site would always require plugins.
If you need recommendations for specific features, I’d suggest posting to the community forums at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ :)
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Thank you, I searched for WordPress forums and chose this one because I didn’t think org had one. I’ll check it out.
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