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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
Book Image

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)

Chapter 7. Running Your Online Store

During the former chapters we've learned to work with WooCommerce themes and to start making changes to them. We even had a look at creating our own themes, although this is a subject that requires deeper knowledge of web design and coding techniques.

Once we set up our store, payment methods, products, and theme we are able to start doing business! But what happens next? As a store owner it's important to test the purchase process completely. Not only to check what your customers will see and receive, but also to know what will happen once your first orders start rolling in. In this chapter we'll learn to:

  • Adjust notification e-mails

  • Work with sales orders

  • Look at the available sales reports

To keep things clear and prevent that the functions built into our theme will confuse you, we'll continue to use the default Twenty Thirteen theme in the remaining part of this book.