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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

Importing products via CSV

One of my first WooCommerce projects was for a large furniture company that had its own proprietary database, where it kept all of its product information. This database was where it added new products, updated prices, added photos, and placed products into categories.

The company wanted its website to reflect what was in the database. So, we had two options:

  • Integrate with WooCommerce so that every database change is mirrored on the website
  • Export products into a CSV file and import it into WooCommerce

Functionally speaking, both approaches achieve the same results. However, having to maintain integration with an unfamiliar proprietary database sounds like a lot of work and a potential headache. Conversely, exporting products into a CSV file is easy, and it’s equally easy to import that CSV into WooCommerce.

We’re now going to look at how you can import a CSV file into your WooCommerce store.

Importing a CSV

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