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
And this is fine for small stores, but as you grow it becomes a lot to remember. For example, you sell 10 bicycles a month and you have 11 bikes left. A customer buys a bike and WooCommerce sends you a low-stock notification. You go to your vendor and ask for a quote/invoice. 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 into WooCommerce so 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...