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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

Fulfilling orders

When people take out their credit cards to pay for things with their hard-earned cash, they expect you to ship their order quickly and safely. Getting a package from your warehouse to a customer’s home is called fulfillment, and there are a bunch of smaller steps included. They are as follows:

  1. Receiving a new order notification
  2. Viewing customer shipping information
  3. Picking items in the warehouse
  4. Packing items into boxes
  5. Printing shipping labels
  6. Dropping off packages
  7. Marking orders as complete

Exploring new order notifications

The whole process starts with a notification, which WooCommerce has automatically enabled. You can view the notification email under WooCommerce | Settings | Emails, as shown in the following image:

Figure 5.1 – Control WooCommerce email notifications

Figure 5.1 – Control WooCommerce email notifications

By default, these emails will be sent to the site admin. You can click Manage to change the recipient or add...