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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

Syncing data in-store and with WooCommerce

In this chapter, we looked at two very different POS systems and learned how they work differently. WooCommerce POS is simple and fast to set up, whereas Square has a lot more flexibility when it comes to which data you want to sync, how often you want to sync, and which database should be the master. As your e-commerce business grows, you’ll integrate with dozens of different systems. One of the WooCommerce stores I worked on recently has close to 100 integrations with other systems and they also need to share product data with two other WooCommerce stores. When systems get that complex, it’s worth looking into all of the ways you can sync data so you understand which works best for you and your business. We’ll look into simple systems such as a single database, having one master database, and manually syncing data.

Single database systems

One of the most robust systems you can use is a single database. This is...