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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
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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

Working with sales orders


Now, we will create a couple of sales orders using our own details just to test the process, whether our payment methods are working, and if the e-mails that we're sending are all working as expected.

An order can be created as well from the frontend as from the WordPress administrative panel. Your customers will order from the frontend, of course. After creating an order, a typical confirmation page will look as follows. Besides the information shown on the screen, the customer and store owner will also receive an e-mail:

Once we create a couple of orders, we can find them in the WordPress administrative panel by navigating to WooCommerce | Orders. You will be notified of new orders directly in the menu. A small circle behind the Orders submenu shows the number of new orders:

The Orders screen shows all the sales orders that you received, regardless of their order status. From here, you may continue to process your orders.

Note the following points when working from...