 The session is called sell smarter use a headless starter because I just want to go over some scenarios when it comes to the commerce and when it comes to automation and challenge the norm of what we've been doing and what we've been using so far in the WordPress world. I only started my WordPress journey in 2018. So I'm not as well senior than some of you are in this situation. However, because I came from a marketing background and other technical aspects, I was able to gravitate towards WordPress pretty quickly and then start to understand it's a system of systems. And those systems can create a lot of bloat when you're looking to get where you need to go and do what you need to do. So this option in this situation will help eliminate some of that bloat and give you back some performance without having to compromise on the outcome that you're looking for. The two tools that I need to do this are short part a short trigger so I'm just curious by a show of answers anybody heard of these plugins or these tools or platforms. Okay cool so it'll be something new for pretty much everybody here. So these are two plugins. They have plugins with their actually platforms and that's the reason why I use the word platform before because they are platforms that are awful for a press. And they connect with WordPress and give you what typically like a little commerce would give you or it's a deal would give you, but without having to, again, use a lot of bloat have to do with a lot of blow or have to deal with a very expensive tool because they've been a sheet job we all know WordPressers can be a little sheet but keep it real. So, I'll quickly go over like the technical definition of my breakdown with this. Thank you. I had this plug in for WordPress is like a kind of seems helper that does his job without telling you where your website will handle important hack and data management in the background, while letting other tools take care of how everything appears on the screen. This way your website can work faster and more efficiently as the plug in focuses on its specific job without getting mixed up with the websites design. And basically it's really just a fancy way of saying that you letting something else do the work for you, because anybody got time for that. We got other things that we need to do and get done, and you need to have helpers help you out so you can get where you got to go. So, with that being said, that's what this is all about is helping you get what you got to go a little faster again without compromising what it is that you're looking to get. Now why automation integration using automation integrations and WordPress makes it easier to manage your website, save your time and helps you create a better experience for people who visit the site. By properly connecting different tools and making tasks automatic, you can avoid mistakes and keep everything running smoothly. This allows you to focus on more important things like promoting your website and handling other business matters. I know for a lot of developers out here and people in that such area that is hard for you to hear, because we like to get in the weeds sometimes we like to have control sometimes. Sometimes we don't want to let it go sometimes. Sometimes you got to let it go. And that's hard. So when we talk about automation and integration is letting it go, letting something else take care of things. Now you got to check it out sometimes it's not a set it and forget it scenario. But hey, it's going to let you get to a quicker destination and that's what automation integration is supposed to be doing, in my opinion, in a very simplistic or overly simplistic standpoint. So let's dive in a little bit of that first platform plugin that I mentioned before called Shortcard. So here's a couple of features of Shortcard and overview as well trying to hit two bars of one stone. So first of all Shortcard gives you a very simple setup and customization. The way that you would set up this plugin I'm going to go into a demo of it but the way that you would set this up is not necessarily the same way you would set up WooCommerce. WooCommerce is very heavy when it comes to the end of the road. WooCommerce comes at a cost but it's a great plugin for specific reasons and specific needs. However, what people don't talk about is when you get into that WooCommerce world you're going to have some moves and some woes that follow you afterward because you got extensions and you got data management and optimization and people don't like that. All that stuff that you're doing, I feel like for the average people, and this is what I was talking to Ben and Ron about last night because you know, they be trying to challenge you when you get an idea. He tried to challenge me, he hit me up with that. Hey, Ron set me up for failure. Ron was like, hey Mike, tell Ben what your idea? What is it going to end up like? I told him what it was and we talked and by the end of it all he agreed with me. We need to simplify this stuff. I tell people all the time I love having the ability to serve clients for the last session. He was talking about at the end of his session how he was helping people within the business and everything like that. And I love doing that but there's that part right there where you have to understand that there's the education part and then there's the profit part. And there's the control part and then there's the empowering part. And when you are making people have to use WooCommerce in order to sell something and they don't need all that stuff. You're not empowering them to do what they need to do on their own. So you're making them dependent on developers and other people like that. Again, I like money. You know what I'm saying? I like to use what I got to use to get where I'm trying to be. And money helps you do that a little faster than doing that on two feet. You can get in the car or something. I skateboard, I kick push. I was Lupe Fiasco before Lupe Fiasco. But at the same time now I could drive places because I spent some money. The simple setup is huge and speaking of the money, multiple payment gateway. See, again, you've got to add things to it to, you know, it comes out the box. Does it come out with PayPal? Does it not? It's like double Dutch. I don't know if I'm jumping in, jumping out. Like, what is it? It's somewhere. It depends on the website I got. Sometimes it has a PayPal. Sometimes it doesn't. I got to use 15 strike plug-ins. Which one does what? You're going to conflict with what? Listen, I'm telling you it messes up your money when stuff goes wrong. People are having conflicts. We don't think about that, but it does. The short part, it has Stripe that has PayPal. We all know through Stripe you get other currencies and connections. And then they just got a model as well too. And then they're doing more as well. But the thing is, is they're baked inside the plug-in. You're not adding an extension to it. So that is the difference maker with it. Product management. In short part, you're able to do product management. You're able to do over versus food commerce versus the short part or comparison so that you guys can see that they're both needing automated taxes. So that's another thing too. When it comes to taxes, y'all know we got to take care of that. Y'all know we got to take care of that. You got to take care of that. And if you're doing international transactions, whether or you're doing local transactions, depending on what you're doing, you got to have, you got to take care of your taxes. So what's good about short part is that it has automated taxes baked inside of the plug-in and taken care of for you because they have a, they pay for, that's a better word to say, they pay for tax jar, which is one of the biggest automated tax companies in the world. Like I said before about affordability, tax jar and cheap. So if you want to do it on your own, then you're going to have to pay that toll. And I had to pay some tolls. As a matter of fact, I got to pay the toll before I leave here today. They got that new thing when you're driving. They don't even tell you what the money. I'm like, what the heck is, I see signs coming through. You're going to call this number. I'm like, oh shoot, do I call it now? Do I wait till I get to the thing? My destination? I've never seen that. I'm just being real with y'all. That had me in a panic at first. I thought I was about to crash or something trying to pay the toll while I was driving here completely. Automated taxes, that whole scenario is with short part again, it takes care of it with tax jar, with WooCommerce. People don't think about it this way. When you want to start taking care of taxes, you got to either do it manually and know all your territories and all, know all the details and all this stuff that we don't really want to talk about. Think about, or you got to do it automatically and you got to use what they call jet pack. And the jet pack connects with tax jar. And for those of us who know what jet pack is, we know what that comes with. You don't know what you're doing. Once again, you're adding more complexity to your situation for no reason. That's what I'm trying to share with people throughout the process. I don't care what you use and how you use it, just what you're going to be adding, what you're giving and what you're taking from the situation. These days we got everybody doing this thing. I could have it all. I could have nobody came. You got to know what you got to do. You have to give and take. That's what life is. Choices and consequences. Look, I'm going to keep it real with y'all. I might not like some of the realness, but I'm going to keep it real with y'all. We're not just here to talk about workers. We talk about life. This is life. Discounting coupons. We all love a good discount. We all love a coupon. Discounting coupons is not something new. We've commerce has done it, but I'm just letting you know, ShortCart has it too. And then reports and analytics is very important as well. ShortCart has very simplified reports and analytics right now. Maybe they'll get more complex later, but they at least have it. So these are the key features when it comes to ShortCart. And as I mentioned before, we have PayPal and we have Stripe, and we have Maui as well. As far as the payment gateways today, I don't want to tell you what's on the roadmap because that's just that's not important. You know, we want to see what they're going to do. We all been tricked by the roadmap before. Do you have a question on this? Yes, it has the Apple Pay and Google Pay. Has it already connected with it? Absolutely. Through Stripe. So integrations-wise as well, it has LearnDash and this is just the native integrations. There are other ways you can integrate into it, but I'm just going to give you all the native integrations. LearnDash, MemberPress, ShoreMembers, Lyftr, LMS, and BuddyBoss are the current ones that it integrates with natively. Meaning when somebody makes a payment, it can do something in this platform next. You've got to break it down sometime. You've got to be waving terms. What did he talk about when he says integrations? We talk about connections, which we're all here for. Technically, we're all integrated here at WordCat Buffalo, aren't we? Performance optimizations. I told you I was going to warm up, y'all. Y'all thought I was playing. Y'all are like, this fool said he was going to warm up. Performance optimization tips. Store settings. So in it, you can connect to a honeypot. That's for spam, for those of you all who know about that spammer. How many people are tired of when they start a new site? And then for those of us who don't know, I told you I came in here in 2018. I'm thinking I'm using it for my business. They said, no, you could use it for free, personal stuff. What? You're saying for personal? I'm like, how many people out here are really paying for the business side? I'm looking at some people right now in your eyes. He probably was using it on some other people's sites. And this says you're supposed to use one site for personal. No judgment, right? Recapture. So we got recapture three. We do that right there. For those of us who want to keep some of the bots away, you got to keep the bots away, like the bugs away, like bug spray, but for the internet. Then we got fraud monitoring. So yeah, if we're using Stripe, because that was the good question with the Apple Pay and the Google Pay, you have fraud monitoring as well too, because we all know there's some tricksters out there. So it just has some features that are just already natively within the tool that unlike WooCommerce or WooCommerce, you don't have to add. You have to add all these extra extensions and stuff. I don't know if somebody in here is WooCommerce heavy. He's like, it's bad. We also have a driver's script, ESM loader for all of us nerds out there. And I think that's most of us out here. So yeah, it'll help now. This is a different one because sometimes it does good. Sometimes you have to turn it off. But most of the time you want to turn this on just to help with more performance to help mitigate those scripts running. We want to keep those scripts from doing all that. I ain't gonna say the word. This is family friendly. I got y'all. Disable slide card out. And that's another one too. WooCommerce has the cart slide out when you go to the site and the cart comes out. So if you can turn it on and off and the great part is with this thing when you turn it off and you don't need it, guess what it does? It gives you more performance. So we're all talking about performance while I'm up here performing. I don't need tips, but I appreciate it. And then let's go to a little, let me show you a little demonstration real quick. So it's so you what it looks like underneath the hood. I apologize for the angle. I apologize too much. This ain't my projector. But at the same time, I know it's a little blurry on the side. So this is a short cart right here. What it looks like. Now, I think because of the pro project, you might, there may be some words that's something like great. It's that contrast thing. So this is the dashboard right here. You can see revenue orders, average order. I'm in a guest demo site. So I don't want y'all to see how much money I'll be making. We're gonna be asking you stuff afterward. So this is my guest account that I made right here. You can make one for free. The best part about short cart, you can start it for free. All that stuff I just told y'all that seems a free account. That should have been a hand clap. Y'all never been in a comedy show before. Yes, I told y'all that seemed a free account. All right, now we got let's go to the dashboard. I was in the dashboard. So let's go to the products right here. So this is orders. Excuse me. This is orders. I'm gonna see if I can move this so I wish I could see a little bit right there. Okay, boom. So orders, then we have products right here. So we like make some test products right here and then we have the coupons. I told y'all to do coupons. And then here's we have subscriptions. And then the best part about this is it comes with subscriptions. So we all know was it woo subscriptions. Come on man 200 dollars for the year for the book subscriptions which are doing this. You already know we got paid $200 for everything else we gotta do and we gotta do that. And you don't get integrations when it comes to other things because everything when it's the great integrates with woo subscriptions. And so it just gets crazy when you start talking about WooCommerce and really trying to build out a fast efficient transactional e-commerce ATM. I'm saying ATM machine. I'm talking about you put one in you get 20 out. You know I'm saying that's how we should want it to be. I'm showing y'all something that does that subscriptions and then your customers right there. And then you have your cart right here. What I like is that you can customize your cart as well too. And they let you customize your cart basically with Gutenberg. So now you're using two birds with one stone. And that's another thing with short cart. It uses Gutenberg when you build out your forms and you're building out your cart. And that's something that it gives you more performance benefit because you don't have to use something like the element or beaver builder. Say that five times fast. What else is out there at Divi etc. etc. You're using where WordPress is technically heading and WordPress is heading in the Gutenberg era and that's just it is what it is. Now I'm not saying that you have to or don't have to use it. I'm saying that's where WordPress is headed. You ain't got to go WordPress is going WordPress that we going this way. And you can be saying I'm going that way. And see how it goes. But again, just the whole concept of this plugin is meant to actually optimize your website while helping you make money. What commerce ain't meant to optimize your website. I'm looking at heads right now the money is on different. No, it's not. So this thing is meant to optimize your website. What I love about it too is for example, I'm going to just do this right quick. And then just to show you like the whole pricing part. This is one of the magic right here is being able to add your different type of payment type so you can do one time payments. You can do installments. You can do subscriptions. You can do free trials. You can mix and match this stuff to do like a page trial setup right here. That one I've actually thrown one. You can do the free trial here and then the allow customers to pay what they want so you can turn it into a donation. So you can turn this thing into darn near office prime. You know what I mean? You can get into that whole transformer scenario. You can make your whole do whatever you want. I'm showing y'all a real time. This ain't trade. I'm giving y'all a demonstration inside WordPress right now. This ain't no snapshots. We not in the matrix. So at the same time, you can do this whole thing, but just add to what price you want. As I mentioned before, you got the integrations. You can do down those digital downloads. It just the options are endless. So let me go back to the slide, but I basically just wanted to show you all that you can do a lot with that. And that was a short card, but a nutshell as far as building out the pages and stuff. Just for the sake of time, I'm not going to show you all that, but hopefully you get the gist right with WooCommerce. That was like 10 different plugins y'all. That's what I'm trying to do. Like I'm telling you that was extensions. Everything I showed you with another extension, another extension with another extension. That came in the free account. So let's talk about short cards, short cousins, short triggers. Short triggers is an automation plugin. So obviously I'm hoping I don't have to tell y'all that it's made by the same company. But if anybody here is not sure it is made by the same company. Yeah, I did come off that with the top of the head. I'd be freestyling y'all. In practice, none of this. Maybe I'll share. He was drinking some things last night. Overview key features. Let me go back more over real key features of short triggers. So short triggers is a savior alternative. One of the great parts about short triggers is you have the visual builder and multi steps. So multiple steps to be specific. So you can visually see the automations you're building out when you're trying to connect different apps together, different plugins together. And you can do it with multiple steps. And again, this is right within WordPress, or you can just do it on their platform. The best part about this plugin is you can just choose whether or not you want to do the automations and creations and WordPress or if you want to do them on just the platform itself. You also have multiple plugin and app integrations savior still the king of that. This is more of a new plugin. They only have the free plan right now. And they have been out for I think about a year or so don't pull me to that. But there they are new. One of the best parts about short triggers is that you have site to site integration capabilities. And that's not really easy to do in a seamless way. The thing that I think that most people don't understand when you're trying to connect multiple WordPress websites until you have a solution like this. So for instance, there's a tool called WP fusion. I'm not sure if anybody's heard of WP fusion out there, but it was a way as you can connect sites through tagging through a tagging system. Right now there's uncanny automator. There's other ones where you can share the login access. So when somebody comes in, I forgot what the plug in is called, but you can share like the credentials from one site to another. However, it doesn't always share all the information like the tags and say you have certain tags and people in certain lists and you want to share that it gets complex. This tool helps eliminate all that because it's not based on your WordPress website. It connects to your WordPress website, but it's not based on your WordPress website. So it just allows you to easily say, Hey, I want to transfer all this information from this WordPress website to this other WordPress website very simply so smooth like baby's bottom smooth. Then you have filters and conditions. This is where you just want to say I want to do basic certain things based off of certain criteria you have scheduling and delays. As you can say, I want to hold off on doing this task or I want to do this task at a certain time or a certain day, and then API webhooks. And I don't know why I forgot to decay, but it's supposed to say webhooks. And again, that's where connections as well too. So this is just an example of some plugin and acts that it has so far. I think it has currently 150 and their goal is to get about 300 relatively soon. They have everything from active campaign to affiliate WP and a sauna Amelia fluent CRM fluent forms easy to download Twitter, Femio spectra list goes on so MailChimp and a lot of these are common tools that we've heard of. I'm sure everybody in this room has heard about few tools on here and how we use the few tools on here. So it does connect with those and it's getting more and again the whole purpose of me telling you about this is it's about simplicity and it just it keeps things simple. And then we have the interface itself. I'm a big fan of a very clean and user friendly interface and I think that short triggers offers that it offers a clean interface. As well to I like Zapier a lot. There are other tools like Pavley. I was a big fan of Integra Matt and then they turn to make and they have a more complex interface. So when you're using automation tools, you have to think is it something that you're going to be wanting is it functional and efficient but at the same time is it something you're going to be wanting to be spending time and connecting things and doing things because if it's something that turns you off or something that kind of gets in your nerves, you're going to do it less. And then you're going to have less automation setting up. So just got to be careful with that. And then here are a couple of workflow automation tips. So when it comes to automations, I think that you should properly name them. That's a big thing. Because if you start to compile automations to the dozens at a time or hundreds at a time and you don't have a proper naming convention things to start getting confusing, especially what other people are there to manage it on your behalf. Then you really can get confused or you're going to get somebody else confused. At the same time, you want to check connections, actions in your triggers. So that's what a short triggers it calls. It's different way that I guess activities the connections is what the apps actions is what happens first and then the trigger is what happens next. And then keep it simple. So keeping it simple as possible. We get over a conflict when it comes to sometimes these automations, you just got to keep it simple. Okay, they say KIS keep it simple. Sometimes you just got to stop being so complicated with life and what's the published automation when you're done. So once you're done, you just want to remember to publish automation. Sometimes we forget to publish our WordPress pages after we just built one same concept. Just remember to actually hit that publish button after you done all that work. You want to also test your automation multiple times after you publish it. So again, same thing when you're building out your WordPress pages, you want to test go to the page see does everything work well work how it's supposed to work. It's the same thing with automations. I think a lot of people sleep on that process right there as far as testing the automations when they're done they just think that it's just going to work. I can't tell you how many times I've sat with people and I had to remind them hey you need to test this need to test it three times four times five times, because they would come to me and say hey this is not working. The first thing I'm saying is that you test it. And then we go from there testing is very important, and then pausing or deleting unneeded and unused automations. And it's the same thing as when you clean out your closet or you spring cleaning or you are cleaning out your database, you're cleaning off your computer, you want to have a good method of knowing when you need to put a stop to something, or when you just need to get rid of something. And that's basically what I'm saying with that. So once you stack enough all these automations, you want to keep a monitor on which ones are actually useful. Because if it's not useful, just let it go and I can see a lot of us here, probably have a lot of stuff on our computers, or Google Drive or Dropbox that we haven't seen in years, yet we just don't want to delete that sucker. You guys just let it go sometimes because I know it's the only one in here. And then as far as a demo just like with the shore part, you should share with you guys real quick just what shore triggers looks like on the inside. Okay, so this was one of the screenshots I had shared before as far as just what the dashboard looks like. I think it's pretty clean. It just gives you the information exactly what you need. And then from there, you can dive deeper into it, but I like having a very clean and nice looking dashboard that doesn't feel over confusing or overwhelming. And then you can see your workflows right here. So workflows are all your automations. And what I like about this too is when you hover over an automation, it just shows you which what it is. These are little things that I appreciate. I want the tool that I'm using to give me these indicators as I'm moving about and navigating through my way because it saves me time to try to think about it. I don't want to be thinking about everything all the time. So can you give me a proper visual indicator of what it is I'm looking at. So I don't take these little things for granted. I think that helps out a lot. So when you hover over the number here, you can see, oh, you have two more automations in this workflow. Again, those are the little things that matter in life. It's little things. And then as far as turning them on and off, you can easily just click the click this toggle here so they may be very easy. And I guess from a nerd standpoint, I don't know what is that like the Ajax type stuff, you know what I mean, like that, where don't refresh the page. I don't know what I'm talking about over here. Come on now. But yeah, we have to refresh it in my nerves and I click the button and I got to refresh. I'm like, we still got to refresh. I put on the other one this morning. That's the only refresh and I'm trying to do after. Maybe I'm just too, I don't know, too modern times for y'all WordPress. I don't know. Y'all tell me history. So you know, you got your history. I like that. I like having transparency. We all need to know our history in America and the world. We all need to know our history and we need to know our history and automations as well too. Apps. So we have apps here. So now you get to see, okay, he was talking about the apps integrations. How do I actually connect them? Well, this is where we go down the yellow brick road. Okay, Alice. I guess that was I messed that one. I messed that one up. Who's going to correct me? Y'all don't even know that one Alice wasn't. Yes, I was waiting for her. See, I've got to see if he wanted to tell sometimes that I can call myself out accountability. But if y'all call me out with me, what are we doing here right now? I'm supposed to be teaching me to some. So yeah, whether you Alice or your Dorothy, look, we buy a Kansas or the yellow brick, whatever it is, wherever we are, I don't know. This is how you integrate into that. This is how you add your integrations and automations into short triggers. You do it through the apps. And so you just connect the apps. You connect the app right here. And you just click it. I'm not going to click it right now, but you see how, you know, the hand is over it. So you would just click it and then you would just connect very easily with your account for the situation. And this is a combination of plugins and it's a combination of apps and as well to which is really nice. So I like that. That's very clean. And then you can see which I have connected here. Even open AI. So for those of us getting into the AI, and especially dealing with chat GPT and open AI, boom, you got that right there as well too. Okay, and then settings wise. You can export, you can import. And then this is where I said that because hopefully this makes more sense. Where I said that this is not just a plugin. This is a platform because right here is a setting that says display short triggers interface inside your WordPress site. So right now we're connecting to the platform through a plugin, but it's not based on the actual plugin that is headless in the sense of using it in WordPress right now. And I'm saying that that's important for you understand because that's what Ben was challenging me on what headless is to him and then what headless is in this situation and he understood oh okay in this situation this is headless right here because it says turn this sucker off let it let turn it off let it go I can turn it off right now it's not gonna show up but my automations don't stop. So you have the toggle right here I can just turn that off and then once I do you won't see it here anymore and it's not that it goes away and it doesn't come back you would just go to the platform you go to the website with the website you log in, and then you would check check it again turn it on and then it would appear back in your WordPress website just like that that fast. So then as far as the benefits of using them both together. You have a unified automation solution when it comes to that I specifically mean that you go back to the apps, and then you go to connection, you can see here, it connects the shortcut. Of course they should that would make sense that they would have a connection with themselves that would be pretty crazy if they did. And so you have a connection right there and then once you have a connection right there. This is, let's go to an example of what it looks like under the hood. As for example, and it was the trigger that comes first in an action that comes second, as far as just the order of events just to go back to that real quick. I want you to know, you know, exactly what it is so trigger right here you would start the flow with your trigger, and then with shortcut you see see that right there. What I like about this though is I can always change this out at any time but if I wanted to just update this right now I can update this easily through here and then I can choose based on what type of event that this automation or this workflow is going to start so we have everything from purchasing to refunding processing order processing customers created subscriptions. So types of subscription stuff, more refund order fail as we just mentioned before in our introductory panel that I was laid at and don't judge me I don't want I see your eyeballs rolling at me. People fail all the time so you got to sometime you're going to have some orders fail you're going to have to so what happens next. When that order fails, what do you do next that's important because that's how you sometimes get to keep your money. So those are just examples of how much power you have how many options you have to create scenarios based on something happening. What is that something happening that you want to create a scenario on. Most likely it's there and if it's not you can add you can request it, but again this is something that you don't get with WordPress without me will commerce without using some another tool and when you do get that will commerce. The other tool, sometimes it's not as efficient. And there could be a lot of issues and glitches so it's even think of it almost an Apple ecosystem scenario to a degree where yeah you can use it with other product use Apple with Microsoft. But are you really going to mix venerable water on a time like we can we know we can make it happen but it's going to be some separation at some point in time. So in that that that equation, I'll put it like that. Sometimes I got to use the big word job calculations and equations and technical infrastructure to the data man I'm just saying, what we doing here. So unified automation solution and then we have increased productivity and efficiency. So it just as I talked about earlier as far as just making sure that you are doing the things that you can and the best way you can without having to exert a lot of energy. And that's what these two tools when you're combined together, you increase your productivity and your efficiency by using them as one. And then you also save time you save money, because all those activities happening typically are things that back in the day people will have to do on their own you have to hire somebody do these things now we have technology and we have automation tools, where we can just have the tool do it for us. So it just save a lot of time and it does save a lot of money through commerce is costly as I keep explaining, whether you pay for it based on who you're hiring or you're paying for it based on the money that you're losing. You're paying for it based on the time you're giving for you paying for something is not going to be a free scenario. And then we have improved customer experience as well so the forms of shortcut are very very. They're beautiful out the box they have a really modernize checkout experience that who commerce does not have who commerce to check out experience is terrible unless you actually enhance it through other plugins and through other tools. And that matters a lot. Because of the fact that people that are on your website they don't care about what you use and how you use it and what you did to get where you wanted to be and you know how many kids you have and how long it took you to get through college and you know how long it took you to work camp buffalo and care about none of that stuff they want to get what they want and get out quickly and we be caring too much about what we did and how we did it to tell our story and we all got a story and we don't think about the customer and other size I don't care. I just want to buy that thing you got on your website. You make it hard for me. I could be a r&b song. year because they are, you're making it hard. So you got to improve your customer experience, you prove your customer experience, you prove them dollars, you prove them pockets. And I'm telling you, I know I'm oversimplified and I'm making jokes around it, but that's how people can easily win. No Charlie Sheen. Winning comparisons. Yeah, I don't know what a couple people say. I'm 36, y'all, but I got to owe so. Comparisons. So, Short Carton versus Wu Commerce. We all know about the Wu. Y'all learned about the Shore. Let's see where we are. So, Short Carton is a headless platform and a plugin. And a custom checkout experience, as I told you before, you could use Gutenberg to actually customize your forms and your checkout experience. It has multiple payment processing types. Also, it has automated taxes. As I mentioned, they have a, or they pay for tax jar. I was going to say they have an account, the tax jar, but either way, they take care of the tax jar dollars for you and then multiple native payment gateways as well too. And then Wu Commerce is a hosted plugin where you host it on your WordPress website. It has inventory management. And so that is what's different between Short Carton and Wu is right now it doesn't have inventory management. Commerce also has physical and digital products. It has a mobile app. The mobile app is okay. I wouldn't say it's the best as far as usability, but it's better than nothing. And then extensions and integrations. Commerce does have a lot of extension integrations, which is some people that's a positive, but at the same time, depending on what you do and how you do it, it could become a negative. So that's some examples of Short Carton versus Wu. Then we have Short Carton versus Easy Digital Downloads. I've already mentioned the things about Short Carton. When it comes to Easy Digital Downloads, it is a plugin solution like Wu Commerce. It also has extensions and integrations. Easy Digital Downloads has advanced reporting. And then it also does digital products only. And Short Cart right now does digital products only, but Short Carton is getting ready to do physical products very soon, whereas Easy Digital Downloads will always only do easy digital download. Oh, come on, man. I keep thinking I'm going to let y'all sleep on me. Y'all look y'all got my sounds right now. We was in one of my sessions online. I'll be hitting my soundboard waking y'all up for real. That's part of my session, but I couldn't do it here, so I didn't know what was going on. Y'all left me. But you're going to learn today. Short Triggers and versus Sapier. So let's go to Short Triggers. Short Triggers is a headless platform and plugin. It connects to WordPress websites. It has affordable pricing and it's made for WordPress. Same thing with Short Cart. Sapier is a SaaS app software service. It integrates with thousands of apps. As I mentioned, Sapier is the key of automation and integration. Most popular connector app, and it has established a well-established customer to support, depending on your experience. Some of y'all may like that. Some of y'all may not, because sometimes Sapier support be tripping, but they do have support. And then there's another automation integration plugin on WordPress. It was one of my favorites. Before I got introduced to Short Triggers, it is a plugin solution. It integrates with hundreds of apps. I would say that it's more built, and they would say it's more built for developers, even though the average person can use it. And it has unlimited automations, which Short Cart does not. You have automation limitations based on your plan. But right now they only have a free plan. Getting started. Free versus paid. When it comes to Short Cart, here's just, I just wanted to share a quick chart with you all about some of the comparisons between the free version and the paid version of Short Cart. You have subscriptions like the standard on the free, but you have advanced on the paid. Then when it comes to installments, they both have installments. They both have sale tax. You both have free and paid trials. Support is a little bit different when you're paying for product amount. You have 100 on the, so that is a limitation. You have 100 on the free, unlimited with the paid storage is a difference 500 megabytes versus two gigs and plus order bumps. So when we talk about sales funnels and actually building out like marketing funnels and sales funnels, we got to think about order bumps and up sales because that matters. Most people don't buy the first time. And if you can increase your order value with when it comes to your journey, I think that's going to help you make more money. Short Cart does not have that in the free, but it does have that in the paid. There's a plug-in for WooCommerce called cart flows. Cart flows is basically the click funnels for WooCommerce. So when you think about click funnels and how that all works, cart flows is native scenario was to be able to have a connection with WooCommerce. And then you have cart abandonment as well too and the free, not in the free in the paid, but not in the free. Then here are some support and resources. You have your, they have a blog, they both have a knowledge base and they both have a change log as well too. And then like I mentioned before, if you want to do some feature requests, you can always go to one of their future request pages and request and roadmap and they have a roadmap as well too. So in conclusion, I would say that Short Cart and Short Triggers is just a great way for you to be able to optimize your website's performance without compromising on all the features and benefits that having a robust e-commerce solution and automation solution will give you using a headless OA versus using a plug-in web. Thank you very much. My name is Marshall Stevens again. You can find me on LinkedIn and here's some of my social media stuff.