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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

In this chapter, we learned how to set up two different POS systems: WooCommerce POS, which is built on top of WordPress, and Square, which is an independent system with a ton of settings. We also looked into how you can best sync data between your WordPress site and other systems.

You should now be familiar with the basics of setting up a POS system for your WooCommerce store. This will allow you to sell your products in person at a convention or in a brick-and-mortar store. As you complete orders in one system, they’ll be synced to the other system, keeping all of your inventories in sync and reporting accurately while also making new product launches no more difficult than creating a product in WooCommerce.

Depending on the POS system you choose, you might also be able to manage hourly employees who clock in and out of their shifts. There’s a lot of power in connecting your WooCommerce store to a POS system. Now that you know how to do this, your business...