A plant information party has launch a plugin to make its depository library of flora photos and information available in the industriousness ’s favourite webshop chopine WooCommerce .
Joy of Plants has range and descriptions for more than 14,800 UK plant life and retailer can add up the plugin to right away populate their WooCommerce on-line shops to help make and improve online sales .
Terri Jones , Managing Director of Joy of Plants in Twyford , explain : “ During the COVID-19 lockdowns this yr , we were able-bodied to facilitate garden centres determine up online stock and/or click&collect systems , which have been extremely popular .
“ They were a vast assistant to many of their customers , specially the elderly and vulnerable , who appreciated this new point of service and it ’s been very lucrative for Peter Sellers too . We predict that the popularity of webshops and click&collect Service will continue to climb up through 2021 .
“ We realised we could make the process of creating and update webshops gentle and quick for retailers by developing a solution that allows an online shop to use our photo and text library . As we all know , pictures sell plants .
“ Our WooCommerce plugin , for the industry ’s pet webshop platform , is quick to install from the official WordPress plugin directory and wanton to employ . Even non - technical stave can set it up . We manage the indexing and copyright control of all images supplied via our subroutine library . Retailers can use them with confidence , cognize they have the right image for each plant and that they have permission to employ each image , so there ’s no danger of copyright misdemeanour or unexpected fees for use of image .
“ This plugin is the latest innovation in our services for webshops and websites , as we now support retailers using WordPress / WooCommerce , Shopify and Bluepark ecommerce platforms with our subroutine library .
“ In addition to tot up images and text to the single pages , the plugin can be used to sum our Plant Finder to the site , seamlessly linking to the pages to put up a plant finding front - end , extra plant descriptions , and Care Product recommendations for individual plant , to increase sales of sundries as well . ”
Stratford Garden Centre is one retail merchant that has benefitted from using Joy of Plants ’ Image and Text Library and Plant Finder on its own webshop athttps://stratfordgardencentre.co.uk/shop/product-category/plants/shrubs-trees/roses/.
Helen Lloyd , Managing Director at Stratford Garden Centre , say : “ We have work closely with Joy of Plants for the last few months to develop a plugin to support our new WooCommerce on-line shop .
“ The Joy of Plants plugin provides us with high quality plant images and plant life description for the majority of plants that we stock up and the Plant Finder is an excellent pecker and really assists the customer when buying plants from us online .
“ Terri is gravid to work with , we were able to have some of import input signal into the growing of the plugin and I believe this is just the start of a great relationship to ensure the winner of Stratford Garden Centre ’s new webshop . ”
Joy of Plants has spent the past 25 years photographing and documenting UK plants to provide information in many bod include bed card printing , website plug - inch , touchscreen kiosks , and an image and text library for use in e - commerce internet site .
For more information : Joy of Plants07717 532 323www.joyofplants.com
