Displaying the total number of products sold in your online store is a good marketing method to convince customers to buy from your store. It serves as social proof that shows the customer that there are other people who have also bought this product and therefore this product must be good and useful.
If you want to display the number of items sold for each product in your WooCommerce store, WooCommerce does not include this feature by default. Fortunately, there are several ways that enable you to easily add this feature.
So in this article, we will explain how to activate this feature in your WooCommerce store through the Sales Count Manager for WooCommerce add-on, which enables you to do this easily without the need to write any programming codes.
Steps to use the Sales Count Manager for WooCommerce add-on
This add-on is considered one of the best WooCommerce add-ons that provides the advantage of displaying the number of items sold in your store. It gives you the advantage of displaying the total number of items sold for each product on the product details page, on the store home page, and on the product categories page.
The add-on also provides the feature of adding social media buttons such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn. It is available in a free version and a paid professional version supported by more features such as the feature of specifying the number of items sold specifically for each product separately, and the ability to display the number anywhere. On the site, the price of the paid version starts from $40, paid once.
In this paragraph, we will explain in detail how to use the free version of this add-on to show the number of items sold for each product in the WooCommerce store. After creating and setting up your online store, follow these steps:
Step 1: Install the add-on in the store through the Add-ons control panel > Add New and search for the name of the add-on in the search box. After the add-on appears, click the Install Now button , then click the Activate button to activate the add-on on your site.
Read more: How to install a WordPress plugin and activate it on your site correctly
Step 2: After installing the add-on in your store, you must now set it up by returning to the Control Panel < and choosing the WooCommerce tab < and clicking on the Sales Manager option <. The add-on settings window will appear as follows:
The same window can be accessed through the Control Panel > Add-ons > Installed Add-ons> to view the list of add-ons installed on the site and click on the Settings link located under the add-on name as shown in the following image.
Explanation of the add-on settings:
The plugin’s settings are very easy and simple, and here’s how to customize each one:
1.Enable Sold Count Activate this option to show the number of items sold for each product on its page.
2.Text color Through this setting, you can change the color of the text displayed in the number of products item. When you click on this option, an additional field will appear for you as shown in the following image.
Here you can enter the exact hexadecimal value of the color in the color field or choose the appropriate color from the displayed color field, and be sure to choose colors that are compatible with the template you use in your store.
3.Count color is used to change the color of the number of products sold, so you can enter the exact hexadecimal value of the color in the text field, or choose the appropriate color from the displayed color field.
4.Background Color From here you can specify a background color for the item that displays the number of products sold.
5.Enable Social Share Buttons Activate this option if you want to display social sharing buttons.
6.Message In this text box you can write a custom message to display if there are no sold items for this product, for example (Be the first to buy the product or buy the product now and enjoy its benefits or any message you want).
7 . Text In this text box you can write the text that will appear before displaying the number of items sold.
8.Display sold item number after text: By activating this option, you can make the text you entered in the previous field appear after the number of sold items and not before it.
9.Inline CSS If you have good knowledge of CSS language, here you can add CSS code to customize the format of the number of products the way you want. For example, to make the number appear in bold, we write the following code:
.wc-scm .wc-scm-count
{font-weight:bold;}10. Product bottom tagline In this text space, you can write a descriptive line for your products, or what is known as a tagline. This provides you with a marketing benefit and enables your customers to learn about your product or service and know the main benefit that they will get if they buy your product or service.
For example, you can write (We have the finest materials on the market, or Buy now and benefit from our special discounts, or any phrase that distinguishes you and encourages the customer to buy..)
After changing all the settings as per your requirements, click the Save Settings button at the bottom to save the changes.
Step 3 : After completing setting up the add-on, all you have to do now is visit your store, view the page of any of the products that were previously sold, and you will notice that the number of sold products appears as shown in the following image:
If you have not previously sold this product in the store, the message you designated for this case will appear instead:
Conclusion
In today’s article, we learned about an easy way to display the number of products sold in your WooCommerce store using the WooCommerce Sales Count Manager add-on. Try this add-on in your store now and benefit from it to increase your store’s sales.
If you use another method to display the number of products sold in your own store, share it with us in the comments below the article.
