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Mastering WooCommerce 4

By : Patrick Rauland
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Mastering WooCommerce 4

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

WooCommerce is one of the most flexible platforms for building online stores. With its flexibility, you can offer virtually any feature to a client using the WordPress system. WooCommerce is also self-hosted, so the ownership of data lies with you and your client. This book starts with the essentials of building a WooCommerce store. You’ll learn how to set up WooCommerce and implement payment, shipping, and tax options, as well as configure your product. The book also demonstrates ways to customize and manage your products by using SEO for enhanced visibility. As you advance, you’ll understand how to manage sales by using POS systems, outsource fulfillment, and external reporting services. Once you’ve set up and organized your online store, you’ll focus on improving the user experience of your e-commerce website. In addition to this, the book takes you through caching techniques to not only improve the speed and performance of your website but also its look and UI by adding themes. Finally, you’ll build the landing page for your website to promote your product, and design WooCommerce plugins to customize the functionalities of your e-commerce website. By the end of this WooCommerce book, you’ll have learned how to run a complete WooCommerce store, and be able to customize each section of the store on the frontend as well as backend.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Setting up Square

If you've stepped into a coffee shop in the last decade, you've probably used Square. It's one of the most popular and general-purpose POS systems. It's designed for small businesses and excels at that role. They have competitive pricing and integrations with major platforms, and the product itself is really easy to use.

We'll look into how we can connect our store with Square, set up the integration, and sync data between Square and WooCommerce.

Connecting with Square

To integrate with Square, you need a Square account, and you need to download the free Square extension for WooCommerce (https://woocommerce.com/products/square/). Let's start by installing the Square extension...