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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
Book Image

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By: Robbert Ravensbergen

Overview of this book

Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress and is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. It provides a strong e-commerce solution to set up your own online store in just a couple of hours. This easy and practical book will help you make the most of WooCommerce to be able to set up and run your online store yourself. Installing WooCommerce is an easy task, but this book will explain in detail all the possible settings. After that you'll be adding products, different payment methods, and shipping solutions to your store. You will then customize your store by adding themes to change the look and feel. Once your store is running, you'll learn how to use discount coupons, process your orders, look at reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins. By the end of the book, you will learn everything you need to add a fully functional online store to you WordPress website and start running an online business.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adjusting the notification e-mails


Assuming that, up to this point, you've been setting up your store in a development environment, you're now almost ready to deploy your store.

A topic that we didn't fully discuss during Chapter 1, Setting Up WooCommerce, is e-mail messages. We discussed the basic settings, but what if we wanted to do additional changes? Let's first go back to the WooCommerce Settings page and click on the Emails tab.

Under Email Options, there's a link available that shows a preview of your current e-mail template. We added a logo during Chapter 1, Setting Up WooCommerce and changed some of the colors. Our example currently looks as follows:

Note that, besides the general e-mail settings, every e-mail that WooCommerce can send has its own form with settings. You may use this to disable the e-mail completely or change its subject and title.

Tip

WooCommerce seems to offer an invoice possibility because it shows a couple of settings for the invoice e-mail. However, real invoice...