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5 Outdoor Business Ideas for Nature Lovers
Do you love spending time in the great outdoors? Do you enjoy nothing better than being in nature? If yes, here are 5 outdoor business ideas to make a living out of your passion! Indeed, what if we told you that you can step out of that cubicle, regain your...
How to Link Facebook Commerce to your Online Store
Did you know you can link your Portmoni online store with Facebook Commerce and Instagram? Using Portmoni, you can link the products in your online store to your Facebook Commerce Catalog, and automatically add your products to Facebook Page shops, Instagram Shopping...
How to Link Google Shopping to your Online Store
Link Google Shopping to your Portmoni online store and let millions of shopper's find your products Google offers a way to easily load your products to Google Shopping, and in this guide we are going to see exactly how to do that. All your products are already...
The Best Courier Companies in South Africa
In South Africa, delivery will be done by courier companies. The courier company you select will pick up the goods at the location you want (typically your warehouse, office, or home), and deliver it to your customer. But there are a lot of courier services out there! To get you started easily, here are some recommendations and tips to choose the best courier company in South Africa.
How to Start your Online Store (in 4 easy steps)
Learn how to start your online store in South Africa: find products to sell, select an ecommerce platform, choose your courier company, and start selling!
How to Sell Online and Make your First Online Sales
Let’s dive into how to sell online and make your first sales on your online store. Your site is ready, your products loaded? Let’s get started!
The Best eCommerce Platform for your Online Store: Which One Should you Use?
Let’s look at how to find products to sell on your online store: learn how to find product ideas, evaluate them, and pick the BEST ones!
How to Find the Best Products to Sell on your Online Store
Let’s look at how to find products to sell on your online store: learn how to find product ideas, evaluate them, and pick the BEST ones!
How to Add Options for your Products, like Different Sizes or Colors
In this guide we describe how to create different options for your products, like different sizes or colors, including examples and videos.
How Expat Micro Credit uses its website to get more customers and increase legitimacy
Tolerant, the founder of EMC, chose Portmoni to start his website. The results? His site is now getting him more customers, and it increases the legitimacy of his business! Let’s hear his story.
How to Get Your Website to Show At the Top on Google
See how Google decides which sites it shows when people make a search, and how you can make your site show up on Google.
How to add a form to your website
To add a form on your website, you can very easily embed a Google Form directly on your site. This gives you the flexibility of using a Google Form, without having your visitors needing to leave your site. Here is how to configure this on your site 1. Create your...
How to configure your email account with POP and SMTP
To send and receive emails from your own email account, you need to configure an email client on your device. This article describes the configuration to be done. Incoming server settings (POP) Server hostname: mail.portmoni.org Port: 995 Require SSL: Yes, SSL/TLS...
How to add a YouTube video to your website
To add a Youtube video to your site as an embedded video, it is an easy two steps process. 1. Get the link to the Youtube video you want to add by following these steps: Navigate to the YouTube video you want to embed Click on the "Share" button Copy the link that...
Send email from your own custom domain
Portmoni doesn't provide email hosting, but if you buy a domain through Portmoni, or transfer your domain to Portmoni, then we can set up forwarding email addresses for your custom domain for free. For example, if your custom domain is my-own-domain.com, we can set up...
How to display ads on your website using Google AdSense
In this guide we describe the steps to add Google AdSense to your website, to start making money from your website by displaying ads to your visitors. Google AdSense is a program run by Google that allows you to serve ads from other organizations on your own website....
How to Accept Visa and Mastercard on your Site with Payfast (South Africa)
In this guide we describe the steps to enable payments by Visa, Mastercard and instant EFT on your website in South Africa, using the payment provider PayFast. Setting this up will enable the following payments methods on your site: Credit & cheque cards Instant...
How to increase traffic and promote your website
In this article, we cover several techniques to increase traffic to your website and get more visitors. We especially focus on how to promote your site using social media marketing, online advertising, getting links to your site, as well as email and SMS marketing...
The top benefits of having a website for your business
You are a small business owner in Ghana, Kenya or Nigeria, and you are wondering what would be the benefits of having your own website for your business? Having a website actually brings several unique and interesting advantages to your business. First, your website...
How to Add Audio or Video Files to Your Website
In this post we describe the steps to add audio or video media files to your website using your website editor at https://builder.portmoni.com. The video below illustrates the detailed steps to add a new media file. The full process is also available at the bottom of...