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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

Setting up WooCommerce POS

WooCommerce POS is a plugin built on top of WordPress. It’s similar to WooCommerce, the core plugin, which is free and available on GitHub (https://github.com/kilbot/WooCommerce-POS). It also has premium features that you can unlock by buying a license.

We’re going to explore the free version that anyone can experiment with. Follow these steps to set up the POS:

  1. In your WooCommerce site, go to Plugins | Add New.
  2. Search for WooCommerce POS. The plugin is shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 7.1: WooCommerce POS on WordPress.org

Figure 7.1: WooCommerce POS on WordPress.org

  1. Now, you can install and activate the plugin.

Testing WooCommerce POS

WooCommerce POS uses the same database as your WooCommerce site. This is great in many ways but it also means that if you experiment with WooCommerce POS, it’s easy to clutter up your database. So, if you experiment with this POS system, I recommend you do so with a test site...