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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

Summary

If you only have one store, you shouldn’t have to worry too much about syncing data between multiple systems. But as your business grows, you’ll likely need to share data between systems.

In this chapter, we learned how to export and import CSV files from and into your WooCommerce site. That means you can connect any system to WooCommerce, and that is incredibly powerful. By importing and exporting the right data, you can test any piece of software and see whether it works for you and your business.

We also learned how to use an ERP system that can keep all of our data in one place. With an ERP in place, you don’t need to sync data with CSV files, and preventing human error should help your business run more efficiently. This is not to mention that many ERPs have advanced e-commerce functionality, such as forecasting demand and managing the purchase order process. Now, we’re ready to share data with other systems.

In the next chapter, we...