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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

Exporting out of WooCommerce

If you need to import data into another system, the first step is knowing how to correctly export that data out of WooCommerce. You can use WooCommerce as your singular source of truth, update all data in WooCommerce, and then export the data out of it into other systems.

If you need to copy data to another system, you should set up a direct integration, such as WooCommerce and Square integration (which we will set up in the next chapter), which automatically syncs products and product data between both systems.

However, if you don’t have a direct integration, then you’ll need to export data manually under WooCommerce | Products | Export, as follows:

Figure 6.1: Exporting products from the Products screen

Figure 6.1: Exporting products from the Products screen

And you can import this data into different systems. We’ll cover the ins and outs of a comma-separated value (CSV) file shortly.

Alternatively, you could use a tool such as Zapier (https://zapier...