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Mastering WooCommerce - Second Edition

By : Patrick Rauland
Book Image

Mastering WooCommerce - Second Edition

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

Author Patrick Rauland is a WooCommerce expert with a deep-rooted passion for the platform. Drawing from his multifaceted experience as a customer, WooCommerce support team member, core developer, release leader, and conference planner, he presents the latest edition of this guide to help you master every facet of launching and managing a successful WooCommerce store. From initiation to seamless integration of essential components such as payments, shipping, and tax configurations, this book takes you through the entire process of establishing your online store. You’ll then customize your store's visual identity, optimizing for search engines and advanced sales management through Point of Sale (POS) systems, outsourced fulfillment solutions, and external reporting services. You’ll then advance to enhancing the user experience, streamlining reorders, and simplifying the checkout process for your customers. With this new edition, you’ll also gain insights into secure hosting and bug fixing and be prepared for updates. That’s not all; you’ll build a promotional landing page, ensure store safety, contribute to the WooCommerce community, and design custom plugins for your unique needs. By the end of this WooCommerce book, you'll emerge with the skills to run a complete WooCommerce store and customize every aspect of the store on the frontend as well as backend.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Exploring the essentials of an ECommerce Store
6
Part 2: Managing an Online Store
12
Part 3: Customizing the Appearance and Functionality of Your Store

Sending and updating shipping information

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of fulfillment companies. There are a few very well-known companies, but there are also hundreds of local fulfillment companies.

The bigger companies that have direct integrations with WooCommerce should automatically retrieve and update order data, but if you’re working with a smaller company, it’s important to know what you have to do to send them data and update data on your end.

We’re going to be looking into how you send shipping information to any company and how you can update your shipping data.

Sending shipping data

Fulfillment companies need your data to do their job. They need to know who the order is being sent to, their address, what goes in the order, and how the business wants to ship the order. Without this data, they can’t do their job and your packages will just sit in their warehouse.

Some of the biggest fulfillment companies, such as Shippo...