Reasons Why You Should Use WordPress In 2024

WordPress is a excellent Content Management System (CMS) 

WordPress is a web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites, mailing lists and Internet forum, media galleries, membership sites, learning management systems and online stores.

WordPress is extendable to different business

With different plugins like Woocommerce, Newsmatic, PayPal, WP-Members, you can easily expand your business to these:

• Company / Business websites 
• Ecommerce / Online Shop and Online Payment
• Blogs / News websites
• Membership System
• Portfolios and Galleries 
• Integration with stock inventory and multi-channel sales.

WordPress is great at SEO.

WordPress is optimizing SEO by free plugin like Yoast SEO, All in One SEO for WordPress (AIOSEO) and many keywords analysis / generation tools.

WordPress is free. WordPress is Open Source.

Download is available freely and freely installation on your existing hosting. WordPress is always update automatically from time to time.

WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway

Accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, Diners Club, SEPA, Sofort, iDEAL, giropay, Alipay, and more directly on your store with the Stripe payment gateway for WooCommerce, including Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Microsoft Pay for mobile and desktop.

TAKE CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS EASILY AND DIRECTLY ON YOUR STORE

The Stripe plugin extends WooCommerce allowing you to take payments directly on your store via Stripe’s API.

Stripe is available for Store Owners and Merchants in:

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

Ireland

Italy

Japan

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malaysia

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States

with more being added

Stripe is a simple way to accept payments online. With Stripe you can accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, and Diners Club cards, even Bitcoin, directly on your store.

WHY CHOOSE STRIPE?

Stripe has no setup fees, no monthly fees, no hidden costs: you only get charged when you earn money! Earnings are transferred to your bank account on a 7-day rolling basis.

Stripe also supports the WooCommerce Subscriptions extension and re-using cards. When a customer pays, they are set up in Stripe as a customer. If they create another order, they can check out using the same card. A massive timesaver for returning customers.

APPLE PAY SUPPORT

WooCommerce Stripe includes Apple Pay support, which means customers can pay using payment details associated with their Apple ID. Checkout is now just an authorization (Touch ID or Face ID) away on both mobile and desktop. Only supports simple, variable, and Subscription products for now. More support to come.

WEB PAYMENTS API SUPPORT

WooCommerce Stripe includes Web Payments API support, which means customers can pay using payment details associated to their mobile devices, in browsers supporting the Web Payments API (Chrome for Android, amongst others). Checkout is now just a few taps away on mobile. Only supports simple, variable, and Subscription products for now. More support to come.

Create a PayPal Donate / Payment Button in Wordpress

Here we will guide you how to create a PayPal Donate / Payment Button and put in Wordpress

Step 1: Open PayPal Donate button page

Open the PayPal Donate Button page. Visit paypal.com/donate/buttons.

Sign up or log in to your PayPal Business or Premier account. You can also create a Donate button with a personal account, however, features will be limited.

Select Put a button on your wordpress website.

Step 2: Choose button style

Customize how your button looks on your site and see a preview of your choices in the Button Preview pane.

Choose your country.

Choose your language.

If you select to use the PayPal button style, choose to use either the large or small size and whether to show accepted card logos.

If you select to use your own image, upload a button image. The image file must be .jpg, .png, .gif, or .bmp.

Select Continue.

Step 3: Set up donation page

Customize your donation page by adding your organization’s logo and a cover image. Also choose how you want your donation page to be displayed.

Your organization's name is pre-filled based on your login information.

Upload your organization’s logo and a cover image. The image file must be .jpg, .png, .gif or .bmp.

Optionally, enter your organization's purpose.

Select between a full page or pop-up donation experience.

Select Continue.

Step 4: Customize donation details

Set the currency, donation amounts, programs the donation can benefit, and other options for your donors.

Select the currency in which you want to receive donations.

Choose whether donors can give any amount, an exact amount, or specific preset amounts. If you select the last option, enter amounts for each of the fields. Donors will also have the option to put in their own custom amount.

Choose whether to let donors make recurring monthly donations.

Choose whether to give donors the option to increase their donation to help offset the cost of fees.

Choose whether to let donors select specific programs for their donation. If yes, list one to ten program names.

Select Continue.

Step 5: Use your Donate button

After creation, use your Donate button in any of these ways:

Insert the HTML code into your Wordpress site. The Donate button will take donors to your Wordpress donation page.

Use the shareable URL in social media, emails, and other notifications.

Print a QR code to use on physical materials or at events.

coronavirus covid 19 impact e-commerce business

The corona virus is spreading around the world rapidly in past months. Countries and cities has been lock-down and there is delay or even suspension for stock delivery. However, online sales expected to have over 50 % growth due to the change of shopping habit. Health product is one of the major category in the growth. Establishing online sales with online payment, logistics configuration become the hot topic since the start of 2020.

Please contact us for the latest updates / ask for quotation for online shop e-commerce setup or schedule a demo at http://www.ic.com.hk/contact-us/

Web-based Online Auctions Management / Listing Showcase for NGO / Charity

Asia Art Archive - Fundraiser 2012

- AAA's annual auction / ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE
- Link to http://www.aaa.org.hk/fundraiser2012/

Asia Art Archive Annual Fundraiser 2012

Asia Art Archive - International Art Biennials
- Content Management System CMS
- Link to http://www.aaa.org.hk/onlineprojects/bitri/en/index.aspx

PayPal – The easier, safer way to donate online
- The world today is unfortunately fraught with disasters, both natural and man made. Extend a helping hand to those in need by donating to the charities that partner PayPal and be the ray of hope in somebody's life. There's never been an easier, safer way to donate online.
- Link to https://cms.paypal.com/hk/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=microsites_apac/home

Accept Donations Online and Nonprofit Fundraising PayPal
- Boost your fundraising with our affordable solutions.
- Accept credit cards and more, online and beyond. However you collect funds, we have affordable options trusted by nonprofits everywhere.- Discounted rates for registered 501(c)(3)s (See pricing)- Easy setup, no programming skills required- Your donors don’t need a PayPal account
- Link to https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donations