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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)

Reporting


By navigating in the main menu to WooCommerce | Reports we'll be able to take a look at the reporting capabilities that are available in WooCommerce. It delivers a number of standardized reports that already gives a lot of information. But unfortunately there isn't much flexibility in this area. Just use what is available to find alternative reporting methods.

When opening the reporting function we'll see four main areas, divided by tabs:

  • Sales

  • Coupons

  • Customers

  • Stock

The Sales and Coupons areas have a submenu holding different types of reports. Just check them one-by-one to see which reports fit your needs.

Interesting reports to have a closer look at are:

  • Sales Top sellers and Top earners, to check which items are sold most or bring in the largest revenue

  • Coupon Overview report (if you're using discount coupons)

  • The Stock report to check which items are low on stock or sold out

If you need more than what is available by default, additional extensions might help you out. In the next, final...