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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

Integrating with an ERP

As your store grows, it’s natural to slowly piece together different pieces of technology to solve the day-to-day challenges of running a business. You’ll likely have different systems for the following:

  • Accounting
  • Taxes
  • Shipping
  • Inventory

This is fine for small stores, but as you grow, it becomes a lot to remember. For example, you might sell 10 bicycles a month and have 11 bikes left. A customer buys a bike, and WooCommerce sends you a low-stock notification. You ask your vendor for a quote/invoice and wait to hear back. You pay the invoice and log it in your accounting system. You receive the bicycles, and you have to mark the order as received. Then, you log the bicycles in WooCommerce so that new users can buy them.

This is a delicate process and breaks the single-source-of-truth principle we talked about earlier because, at certain points, you have to remember to log the same event in multiple systems.

Luckily...