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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce

By: Robbert Ravensbergen

Overview of this book

<p>Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult and complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is built using WordPress best practices both on the frontend and the backend. This results in an efficient, robust, and intuitive plugin. Learn to use this strong e-commerce solution and set up your own web shop in just a couple of hours.</p> <p>Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce is a practical guide that delivers the knowledge you require to set up and get going with WooCommerce. This book also shows you how to choose a WooCommerce theme and set up different payment methods, in addition to helping you to keep a bird’s-eye view of incoming sales and reviews, stock levels, general store performance, and statistics from the WordPress dashboard.</p> <p>You will start by installing WooCommerce and exploring the WooCommerce settings. Then, you will move on to creating and adding simple and complex products, and also set up payment and shipping methods. Once your store is up and running, you will learn how to process your orders, look at the reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins. Finally, the book shows you how to choose a WooCommerce theme and adjust the theme settings.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Payment methods


Earlier in this book, in Chapter 1, Setting Up WooCommerce, we skipped the areas of handling payment and shipping methods. These are both important subjects for your online store that deserve additional attention. Let's start with the payment methods you'll offer to your customers.

Payment methods to be used

First of all, there isn't a best answer to this question. Looking at the payment solutions that are available worldwide you might be surprised. There are literally hundreds of possibilities. The methods that you need to offer to your customers will differ from country to country. Especially if you're selling locally (within a specific country), you need to prepare your store for that market. If you're not sure which payment methods you should offer, just look at the methods the other online stores in your market are offering. Here are some, possibilities, but be aware that the following list only covers the most important, widely used payment possibilities:

  • Credit card

  • Debit...