Looking for an easy guide to set up WooCommerce push notifications?
We’ve got just the thing for you! It’s hard enough to grow an eCommerce business without having to get slowed down by technical details. That’s why you chose WooCommerce in the first place, right?
But WooCommerce doesn’t come with built-in push notification functionality. That didn’t stop us and it won’t stop you either. In this article, we’re going to show you how to install WooCommerce push notifications with zero code and in 10 minutes.
Sounds good? Let’s dive in.
Why You Should Use WooCommerce Push Notifications
Push notifications can be a powerful tool to increase your repeat traffic, engagement, and sales. You can use WooCommerce push notifications to grow your business rapidly. The best part about WooCommerce push notifications is that they are easy to set up and quite easy for even startups to afford.
There are three primary goals of any e-commerce business:
- Increase push notification subscribers
- Get repeat traffic on autopilot
- Improve conversions
And you can do all of that fairly easily if you’re running a WooCommerce store. Here’s an example from WickedWeasel:
WickedWeasel Makes $2K-4K a week using eCommerce push notifications. There’s absolutely no reason why you can’t do it too.
Launching WooCommerce push campaigns can be a pain. There are tons of details that you have to take of manually such as variables and tags that help trigger the campaigns. And then, you’d have to manually insert the code into your website’s code without wrecking it.
But eCommerce push notifications are incredibly powerful tools to grow your revenue and average order value at very low costs. Unless you have to hire a developer to do it for you, of course.
Good news, though: PushEngage has a WooCommerce integration so that you don’t need a developer to integrate our API into your WooCommerce store anymore. Anyone can create and launch WooCommerce push campaigns now.
How to Set Up WooCommerce Push Notifications
It’s super simple to launch WooCommerce push campaigns now. Here’s a quick video tutorial to help you get started:
Or, if you prefer step-by-step written instructions, you can simply follow along.
Head over to Settings » Integrations » WooCommerce and set up the integration in a single click by clicking on the Connect Integration button.
Next, simply enable the campaign by switching the Enable Cart Abandonment toggle button and selecting the trigger from the Select Trigger dropdown.
The same goes for your Browse Abandonment campaign. Simply create the trigger and then activate the campaign by switching the Enable Cart Abandonment toggle button and selecting the trigger from the Select Trigger dropdown.
If you don’t have a browse abandonment campaign or a cart abandonment campaign built, you can go ahead and do it now.
With any other WooCommerce push notification plugin, you’ll need a developer to create eCommerce campaigns. But PushEngage comes with a direct WooCommerce integration. All you need to do is create a new campaign under Triggers.
Next, go ahead and create your Browse Abandonment and Cart Abandonment campaigns.
Finally, hit the Save button. And that’s it! PushEngage will automatically recover your lost sales for you now.
But these aren’t the only WooCommerce push notifications you can send. Next, we’ll talk about all the different types of push campaigns that can help you grow your WooCommerce store traffic and sales.
The Most Powerful WooCommerce Push Notifications
Let’s check out some of the most powerful WooCommerce push notifications and how you can set them up quickly.
It doesn’t matter how big your push notification subscriber base is. You can still use WooCommerce push notifications to grow your business. Your push notifications can redirect your subscribers to:
- An abandoned shopping cart
- New blog post, podcast, or video
- New offers or sales
- Surveys, polls, and feedback forms
If you’re looking to create WooCommerce push notifications or Shopify push notifications, we recommend getting started with PushEngage.
PushEngage is the #1 push notification software in the world. And it’s super easy to set up welcome notifications using PushEngage. You can check out the full list of features in our review of PushEngage. Or, you could also take a look at the best push notification services in the world and choose the right one for you.
Or, you can simply get started right away with PushEngage.
#1. Welcome Push Notifications
Whether you have a new store or an established one, website welcome messages are absolutely essential. Welcome push notifications are great for:
- Confirmation: You want to confirm that your new subscriber is indeed subscribed to your web push notifications.
- Re-engagement: Welcome campaigns are a great way to get your subscribers to come back to your site.
- Sales: You can give your new subscribers a welcome offer with discounts, freebies, and coupons.
Let’s create a welcome push notification campaign now. Head over to your PushEngage dashboard and go to Campaign » Drip Autoresponders » Create New Drip Autoresponder:
Give your drip campaign a name that you can easily remember. Then, set the first push notification to go out immediately after a visitor subscribes to your push notifications.
You can edit the notification to create custom content for your welcome message. When you’re done, click the Add New Notification button to add more notifications to the sequence. You can edit the new notifications and set a custom delay between each notification.
You can add as many notifications as you like, but we recommend creating a welcome drip with 5-7 notifications.
After that, select your audience in Drip Settings:
You can send different welcome drips for different segments by using the Send to Specific Audience Group option. This is especially useful when you’re segmenting visitors when they opt for push notifications. When you’re happy with your targeting, click on the Activate Autoresponder button. And you’re done!
#2. Cart Abandonment Push Notifications
Shopping cart abandonment is when a potential customer adds a product to the shopping cart and doesn’t complete the checkout process. In other words, they abandon your products for some reason and simply move on.
Online shopping cart abandonment can be due to a significant problem in the user interface or a lack of trust, or even some hidden charges. If you’re running a new store, then you should check out our article on how to reduce shopping cart abandonment.
Now, it’s time to create your cart abandonment campaign. Head over to Campaigns » Triggered Campaigns and click on Create New Triggered Campaign:
Then, from the campaign templates, select Cart Abandonment and click on Create New:
If you need a detailed tutorial on creating an abandoned cart campaign, check out this article on how to set up cart abandonment push notifications.
#3. Browse Abandonment Push Notifications
A browse abandonment notification is an automated push notification that gets sent when someone browsing your website decides to bounce without taking any action. Sending the visitor a reminder that they were interested in something on your website can hugely increase your conversion rates.
Browse abandonment campaigns are most commonly used by eCommerce sites. But that’s not to say that a travel portal or a news site (or any website, really) can’t use them.
A browse abandonment notification ends when your visitor adds something to their cart. After that, a cart abandonment notification takes over to convert them into paying customers.
That’s where browse abandonment campaigns come into play. Using the browse abandonment email examples in this article, you can target, convince, and convert:
- Customers who added a product to a Wishlist, but not their Cart
- Customers who viewed a product more than once
- Customers who browsed more than 3 products in the same category
- Customers who searched the site for a specific product
- Customers who stayed on a product page for at least 3 minutes and didn’t buy
Head over to your PushEngage dashboard and go to Campaign » Triggered Campaigns. Then click on Create New Browse Autoresponder:
And then, select the Browse Abandonment Campaign type from the list of campaign types and click on Create New:
By now, you should be able to see a campaign setup dashboard. Create your campaign under Content:
Most of this is straightforward. Give your campaign a name and create a sequence of browse abandonment push notifications. When you’re done, click on Trigger Settings.
It’s time to set up the trigger for browse abandonment:
These are default values for the browse abandonment campaign template. So, you don’t have to change anything here.
You can set Trigger Limits based on how often you want to send push notifications:
And you can also set up UTM parameters here:
And enable Goal Tracking as well:
If you’re new to push notification analytics, check out our guide to goal tracking for push notifications.
#4. Cross-Selling eCommerce Push Notifications
Cross-selling is selling related or complementary products to a customer. It’s one of the most effective methods of marketing. You can easily increase your Average Order Value (AOV) using cross-selling campaigns.
According to Amazon, 35% of its sales come from cross-selling. Cross-selling push notifications are campaigns that automatically cross-sell products to your customers. Cross-selling push notifications help you increase sales as you’re 60-70% more likely to sell to an existing customer.
It’s also super easy to set up a cross-selling campaign for your eCommerce site using push notifications.
- Create segments based on product categories and add a customer to the relevant segment when they make a purchase
- Identify products to cross-promote under each segment
- Create a drip notification for each segment and send the relevant product or product list to cross-promote
It’s as simple as that.
Head back to your PushEngage dashboard and go to Audience » Segments and create your segments:
You’ll want to segment your visitors when they visit a product in a specific category:
Then, find a product to cross-sell for each segment and create a drip autoresponder to promote it.
#5. Recurring Sales for Your eCommerce Store
You can schedule push notifications to keep repeating every week. Or every few days. Loads of PushEngage customers use repeat scheduling and they absolutely love this feature. It’s made an especially significant difference for eCommerce sites.
Why would you use repeat scheduling?
Imagine that you have a weekly sale for a flea market. Or a weekend sale. Or a stock clearance sale. Or even a monthly flash sale.
These are live events that keep repeating like clockwork.
Do you honestly want to create a different push notification every week? Especially if you know ahead of time that these sales are going to be a major part of your marketing strategy?
Or, would you rather just create the notification once and schedule it to fire off every week at a fixed time?
That’s exactly what recurring push notifications can do for you. It’s the perfect way to save a lot of time and energy. Instead of wasting time with new notifications, you can simply keep optimizing the existing campaign.
It’s also really easy to do. Just head over to the PushEngage dashboard and create a broadcast under Broadcast Push:
Then, create a new push notification to send. Customize the content under the Content tab:
Next, select your audience under Audience:
And finally, under Send/Schedule, you can schedule the notification as a recurring push notification:
You can easily create any schedule you like for your push notifications including custom days, dates, and times.
What to Do After You Set Up WooCommerce Push Notifications
Now that you know how to send WooCommerce push notifications, you should start setting up the marketing campaigns immediately. The worst thing for you to do is sit on the idea and wait for your traffic to grow all on its own.
As you’ve already seen, push notifications are a great tool for growing traffic, engagement, and sales.
Not convinced? Check out these amazing resources on push notification campaigns:
- How to Convert Subscribers To Buyers Using Web Push Notifications
- How to Notify Subscribers of New WordPress Posts
- How to Send Back-in-Stock Notifications to Get More Sales
- How to Clean Up Push Notifications Subscriber Lists (Easy)
- How to Automatically Send RSS Push Notifications
- How to Use Push Notifications to Promote a News Site
- How to Use Cross Selling Push Notifications to 2x Your Sales
- How to Use Browse Abandonment Push Notifications (4 Steps)
We recommend using PushEngage to send your push notifications.
PushEngage is the #1 push notification software in the world. So, if you haven’t already, get started with PushEngage today!
