New Theme Templates
Here you go, more Shopify themes that we have converted to Tradelr for your pleasure.
Moving to Tradelr from Shopify and wanting to use your existing Shopify theme? Contact us and we will convert your theme for you for free!
Selling Digital Goods
As an independent producer, artist or writer, selling your digital products online can be a daunting process.
There are a number of things to consider when selling digital products online. For instance, you will need to
- be able to secure your download links to prevent the buyer from sharing the download link with everyone else on the internet
- provide a secure and quick checkout process where payment can be quickly verified
- be able to embed buy links on your other sites, eg. blogs, forums, social networks to help advertise or market your goods.
There are a number of services that will allow you to sell your digital products. However, these tend to just cater for either digital or physical products.
With tradelr, we provide a facility for you to sell both physical and digital products all from one location while addressing all the above concerns.
And the great thing about tradelr is that we do not charge any commission for each sale.
What can you sell?
With tradelr, you can sell digital goods such as videos, video games, ebooks, software, art, music, fonts and other downloadable products as long as you have the rights to do so.
How to start selling digital goods with tradelr?
Selling digital products on tradelr is no different from selling any other physical product.
- When adding a new product, click on the digital products tab
- Select and upload your digital file that you’re selling
- Once your file has been uploaded successfully, you will be presented with the following optional fields that can be edited anytime
| download limit | The number of times a file can be downloaded by a buyer. |
| expiry date |
The date that all download links will expired. Basically, this sets the expiry date for the product. |
Also, on this same tab you will be presented with 3 links which can be embeded externally into your other sites.
What happens when a buyer checksout?
Compared to physical products, when a digital product is purchased, a shipping address will not be required.
However, a shipping address will still be requested if the buyer’s shopping cart contains both physical and digital products.
If the buyer’s shopping cart contains digital products, the download links will only be emailed to the buyer once payment has been confirmed.
This is automatically done if the buyer has purchased using paypal. If the buyer had paid using a custom payment method, then you will need to review and accept their payment once you received a notification that a buyer has entered a payment.
Allow Facebook users to shop without leaving Facebook
Yes, we have outdone ourselves again. It looks like we were still able to squeeze in one last feature before 2012.
You are now able to use our Facebook app to allow customers to directly purchase goods without leaving Facebook.
To help promote your page, add a discount coupon which will be revealed to users who like your page.
Google Base is now Google Merchant Center
Due to recent changes to how Google Base works, you may have noticed that you are now unable to post products to Google Base.
Google Base is now known as Google Merchant Center. With this change, they have also been stricter on who is allowed to post products using their new Google Merchant Center.
You will now need to get Google’s permission to post products using their Google Merchant Center. To do this, go to
http://support.google.com/merchants/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=item_noshow
Please select ‘Scheduling’ as “Submission method” and ‘Other’ as “Issue you are experiencing”. “Additional information” will be: “Please enable use of Content API for Shopping for my account.”.
Get your own domain
Looks like we were able to squeeze in some more updates before 2011 ends.
Get Your Own Domain Name
We have added the ability to register your own domain name directly from your dashboard. To get your own domain, just follow the following simple steps
- Check the availability of your domain name
- Determine how long you want to own the domain for. This can be renewed.
- Complete your payment
And you will be redirected to your domain name within minutes.
December Platform Updates
We have replaced the store wide on/off inventory tracking feature with per product inventory tracking.
Once inventory tracking is enabled for a product, its inventory movement is tracked via 4 counters.
| Counter | Description | When does this change? |
| Available | Number currently in hand | When a purchase order is marked as received. When the amount in stock is updated manually. |
| On Order | Number being ordered | When a purchase order is created |
| Selling | Number being sold | When an invoice is created |
| Sold | Number sold | When an invoice has been fully paid |
Transactions
Transactions have been simplified further. Interdomain transactions has been removed. Basically, there are 2 types of transactions; purchase orders and invoices.
Invoices are sent to other people to record a sales transaction, ie. products sold to a customer or services rendered. For example, everytime someone buys something from your online shop, an invoice will be created.
Purchase orders are used to record purchases from suppliers. You create a purchase order to increase the number of available stock in hand.
Themes Update
There have been some updates to existing themes. You can update to the latest version by selecting a theme from the theme gallery.
Unfortunately, this will also overwrite any changes you have made to your current theme. Therefore, backup your current theme if necessary.
And we have added 2 more themes.
Mobile Device Theme Support
With increasing number of shoppers using mobile devices to shop online, it is only natural that every online store owner should be able to properly facilitate these transactions.
We are therefore excited to announce support for mobile themes for tradelr. You can now customize a separate theme to be displayed on iPhone and Android devices.
The customer checkout process has also been updated appropriately.
Mobile Device Theme Support
With increasing number of shoppers using mobile devices to shop online, it is only natural that every online store owner should be able to properly facilitate these transactions.
We are therefore excited to announce support for mobile themes for tradelr. You can now customize a separate theme to be displayed on iPhone and Android devices.
The customer checkout process has also been updated appropriately.
Converting Shopify Themes to Tradelr Themes
Tradelr uses the open-sourced liquid templating engine originally created by Shopify.
Tradelr themes are very similar to Shopify themes. However, Shopify themes will not work on tradelr without some changes.
A couple of things which are different in Tradelr includes
- we do not support vendor types
- we do not support product types
- we do not support customer templates
- our product variants are structured differently from Shopify
- we do not support compare at prices
- we support discount coupons
Theme Changes
To modify Shopify themes so that there will work correctly on Tradelr, you will need to carry out the following changes
- rename shopify_asset_url to tradelr_asset_url
- rename link_to_type to link_to_category, and product.type to product.category
- remove link_to_vendor
- remove product.vendor
- product.compare_at_price_min and product.compare_at_price_max
- rename product.compare_at_price to product.price
- rename product.featured_image to product.default_image
- remove shop.money_format and shop.money_with_currency_format. Tradelr uses currency variable for formatting money values
- rename variant.weight to product.weight
- in your contact and comment forms remove input name brackets from form tag input fields
- remove customer templates
- remove input name brackets from cart.liquid
- add {{ login_for_store }} just before <body> to add links for customers to login
- In the template cart.liquid, add discount input field if you want to support discount codes. Also, add cart.subtotal_price (before discount), cart.discount_amount, and update usage of change cart.total_price which is not the price after discount.
- rename item.line_price to item.total_price
Beautiful themes, templates, blogs and whatnot
We are excited to announce some major changes to the tradelr dashboard and online ecommerce platform.
Beautiful Store Themes and Templates
All storefronts are now 100% fully customizable via the liquid templating language. With the new system, you can now create custom pages, blogs, navigation structures and customize the look and feel of your online store as much as you want. A few themes have been included with this latest update and more will be forthcoming.
Member-only stores
With the new platform you are now able to create exclusive member-only stores for selected contacts.
Group Pricing
Are you a supplier or wholesaler? Use our group pricing feature to create different pricing for different groups of customers.
For example, visitors to your shop will see retail prices. Customers and contacts with accounts can view their respective special prices once they sign into their accounts.
This gives a simple way to track what prices have been agreed upon to different customers.
Coming Soon
Some of the major features we plan to have are allowing customers to shop without leaving Facebook and to allow customers to shop directly from their mobile devices.
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