{"id":9,"date":"2024-02-01T01:21:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/?post_type=hd_products&#038;p=9"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:59:25","slug":"hdcommerce","status":"publish","type":"hd_products","link":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/product\/hdcommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"HDCommerce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HDCommerce is our very own eCommerce solution for WordPress, designed and developed entirely in-house. It has all the bells and whistles that an eCommerce platform needs \u2014 payment gateways, shipping, taxes by region, coupon codes, product variations, automated emails, order management \u2014 so we\u2019re not going to waste your time going over the basics. Instead, let\u2019s focus on what makes HDCommerce so special, and why our clients choose it over the \u201cbig box\u201d alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/hdcommerce-documentation\/\">Documentation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Intuitive by design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HDCommerce was designed and developed from the ground up, to not just be a great experience for your customers, but to be a <em>fantastic<\/em> experience for you \u2014 the store owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creating and managing your products is a delight. Every product is managed from a single, clean editor: pricing, stock, shipping, categories, images, and variations all live in one place. Product variations are a particular point of pride \u2014 add a variation type like \u201cSize\u201d or \u201cColour\u201d, and every possible combination is generated for you automatically, each with its own optional price, SKU, stock level, and images. Reordering options is literally drag-and-drop. Eat your heart out, WooCommerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We believe that the best thing we can do is to <em>get out of your way<\/em>, automate everything that can be automated, and allow you to focus on the things that really matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Subscriptions &amp; recurring payments, built in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selling subscriptions on WordPress usually means buying a stack of expensive add-on plugins and praying they cooperate. With HDCommerce, recurring payments are a core feature, not an afterthought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any product (or even an individual product variation) can be made recurring: charge weekly, monthly, or yearly, take an up-front deposit, run a fixed payment plan (\u201c5 payments of $20\u201d), or bill indefinitely until cancelled. Renewals are charged automatically to your customer\u2019s saved payment method, every renewal creates its own order so your records are always complete, and the whole thing runs itself \u2014 renewal reminder emails go out before each charge, failed autocharges trigger an email with a one-click link for the customer to pay manually, and subscriptions can be cancelled immediately or at the end of the paid period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And here\u2019s the kicker: HDCommerce supports <em>mixed carts<\/em>. A customer can add a subscription product and a regular one-time product to the same cart, check out once, and HDCommerce handles the rest automatically. To our knowledge, no other WordPress solution does this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advanced features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HDCommerce grants you far more power and control than other eCommerce solutions, right out of the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Payments your customers actually want<\/strong> \u2014 Stripe, PayPal, and Square are included. Through Stripe, that means credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and Buy Now Pay Later services like Afterpay and Klarna.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Smart coupons<\/strong> \u2014 percentage or fixed-amount discounts, expiry dates, usage limits, minimum cart amounts, stacking rules, and even coupons that apply directly to specific products rather than the whole cart.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Order management that respects your time<\/strong> \u2014 one-click printing of orders and shipping slips, CSV exports for your accountant, a full activity log on every order, and a \u201cSet tracking code\u201d action that marks the order as shipped and emails your customer their tracking link automatically.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Taxes done right<\/strong> \u2014 region-based tax tables with country and province\/state rates, tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive pricing, and per-product tax overrides for the edge cases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Addon-style variations<\/strong> \u2014 alongside traditional variations, products can run in \u201caddon mode\u201d, where options like engraving or gift wrap simply add to the price. Perfect for upsells without SKU bloat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also have complete control over shipping calculations. Want to charge a different price for shipping on Mondays? What about charging a different price if the customer\u2019s name starts with a D? Or if the weather is currently under 20\u00b0? Or, more realistically, if you need to ship from different warehouses or pull live rates from your carrier. With HDCommerce, we can build anything in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extendable, customizable, perfect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With complete control over the entire stack, we can extend HDCommerce to do <em>anything<\/em> you need. The plugin is riddled with developer hooks \u2014 custom payment gateways, custom shipping methods, custom checkout fields, custom coupon rules, custom order actions and statuses, custom emails \u2014 which means your feature request is an enhancement, not a workaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, one of our clients wanted different pricing for \u201cPremium Members\u201d. So we built that in. Any logged-in user with Premium Membership status automatically gets 10% off, reflected on both product pages and the final cart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One client wanted a \u201cChoose three items\u201d picker that would only add the selected products to the cart if there were exactly three. So we built that in, along with a validator to keep the cart honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another client had a list of \u201cconsultants\u201d and required customers to select a consultant before adding a product to the cart \u2014 with the selection added to the New Order email, and dynamic links in the customer\u2019s confirmation email depending on what was purchased. So we built that in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why clients choose HDCommerce<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The honest answer is that most eCommerce platforms aren\u2019t built for you \u2014 they\u2019re built for a marketplace of paid add-ons. The base plugin is free, and then subscriptions cost extra, decent coupons cost extra, and before long you\u2019re paying hundreds of dollars a year to a dozen different vendors, each update a fresh chance for something to break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HDCommerce is the opposite. One codebase, built and maintained by the same people who build your website. No add-on roulette, no plugin bloat slowing your site down, no support tickets bouncing between vendors pointing fingers at each other. When you need something, you talk directly to the developers who wrote every line \u2014 and it either already exists, or we build it for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If that sounds like the way eCommerce should work, <a href=\"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/contact\/\">get in touch<\/a> and let\u2019s talk about your store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HDCommerce is our very own eCommerce solution for WordPress. It has all the bells and whistles that an eCommerce platform needs such as payment and shipping gateways, coupon codes, product variations, etc. So I&#8217;m not going to waste your time going over the basics, and will instead focus on what makes HDCommerce so special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-9","hd_products","type-hd_products","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/hd_products\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/hd_products"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/hd_products"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmonicdesign.ca\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}