Credit Purchase Products – Using The WooCommerce Store Credits

In this tutorial, we’re diving deep into how to set up products that can be purchased with credits using the FastCredit Pro plugin. If you’re looking to leverage credits as a form of currency in your WooCommerce store, this tutorial will guide you through the entire process, step-by-step.

Part 1: Understanding Credit Balance and Products

Before setting up any products, it’s important to understand how the FastCredit Pro plugin interacts with your WooCommerce store. This part will cover how your users’ credit balance works and how it can be used to make purchases.

Steps

1. Navigate to a Product: Go to a product that you’d like to enable for credit purchases.
2. Check Credit Availability: Note that each product displays the number of credits required for purchase. Make sure your test user has a sufficient credit balance for the test purchase.

Part 2: Making a Credit Purchase

This part explains how to purchase a product using credits. We’ll go through the process of adding the product to the cart and completing the transaction.

Steps

1. Add to Cart: Click the ‘Add to Cart’ button on the product you’d like to purchase.
2. View Cart: Proceed to your cart and confirm the items.
3. Checkout: Click on ‘Checkout’ and finalize your purchase.
4. Order Confirmation: After completing the checkout, you’ll see that the credit balance gets reduced according to the number of credits spent on the purchase.

Part 3: Setting Up a Product for Credit Purchases

In this part, we’ll delve into the backend of your WooCommerce store and configure a product to be purchasable via credits.

Steps

1. Edit Product: Go to your WooCommerce dashboard and select the product you’d like to set up for credit purchases. Click ‘Edit’.
2. Enable Credit Purchase: Scroll down to find the ‘Credit Purchase Option’. Enable it.
3. Set Credit Value: A new input field will appear, allowing you to specify the number of credits needed to purchase this product.
4. Set Optional Currency Value: Depending on your tax and currency settings, you may also need to input a monetary value for the product.
5. Save Changes: After inputting the necessary details, click ‘Update’ to save the product settings.

Part 4: Additional Settings

This section is dedicated to advanced settings like making your product virtual or downloadable, which might be crucial depending on what you are selling.

Steps

1. Select Options: Choose between ‘Virtual’ or ‘Downloadable’ as per your product requirements.
2. Save Changes: Make sure to click ‘Update’ to finalize these settings.

Conclusion

That’s it! You’ve now successfully configured a product to be purchasable with credits using the FastCredit Pro plugin. With this setup, your customers will have an alternative and flexible way to spend their credits on your WooCommerce store.

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