WooCommerce Cookbook

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WooCommerce Cookbook

By : Patrick Rauland

Book Image

WooCommerce Cookbook

By: Patrick Rauland

Overview of this book

WooCommerce Cookbook

WooCommerce Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

WooCommerce Basics

WooCommerce Basics

Installing WooCommerce

Setting your store location and currency

Finding documentation on WooThemes.com

Installing WooCommerce plugins

Installing official WooThemes plugins

Manually creating WooCommerce pages

Creating a WooCommerce plugin

Adding a currency to WooCommerce

Adding Products

Adding Products

Adding a simple product

Adding an image gallery to a product

Changing image sizes in WooCommerce

Adding a downloadable file to a product

Adding global product attributes

Adding a variable product

Adding an extra fee to a product with the Product Add-ons plugin

Adding a product bundle with the Product Bundles plugin

Bulk-uploading products with a CSV File

Removing product tabs

Reordering product tabs

Changing the Product Organization

Changing the Product Organization

Changing the number of products per page

Changing the number of columns on the Shop page

Adding filtered navigation with the Layered Nav widget

Making the Add to Cart button go straight to the checkout page

Adding a custom tab to the product page

Adding social media sharing icons to your product page

Adding a Product Search widget

Allowing users to search by SKU

Adding extra sorting options on the Shop page

Sorting products from the oldest to the most recent

Adding a site-wide notice

Displaying the amount saved for on-sale products

Displaying the amount saved as a percentage

Changing the breadcrumb separator

Running a Membership Site

Running a Membership Site

Adding a subscription product with the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin

Creating pricing tables with the Easy Pricing Tables plugin

Adding member-only pricing with the Dynamic Pricing plugin

Displaying special pricing for logged-in users with the Conditional Content plugin

Creating members-only content

Creating a members-only store

Making subscription payments more consistent

Customizing the subscription price string

Creating a custom subscription interval

Exporting subscription orders

Setting Up Shipping Methods

Setting Up Shipping Methods

Setting a minimum order amount to unlock free shipping

Configuring Flat Rate Shipping

Creating shipping classes

Getting live shipping quotes with USPS

Creating a table of shipping rates with Table Rate Shipping

Allowing shipping only to the continental US

Enabling free shipping on a per product basis

Tracking your shipments with Shipment Tracking

Exporting orders for fulfillment to ShipStation

Getting Paid

Configuring the PayPal gateway

Configuring the Simplify Commerce gateway

Configuring the Stripe gateway

Enabling HTTPS on checkout

Enabling HTTPS on specific pages

Tracking e-commerce transactions with Google Analytics

Creating an invoice

Adding a fee per gateway using the Payment Gateway based Fees extension

Modifying the Checkout Process

Modifying the Checkout Process

Adding a Terms & Conditions page

Opening the Terms & Conditions page in a pop-up

Adding a newsletter signup to the checkout page

Adding or removing checkout fields

Modifying the image size of related products

Adding an Empty Cart button to the cart page

Hiding all checkout fields for virtual products

Adding banners to remind customers of upgrades

Hiding the Coupon field

Skipping the cart and going straight to checkout

Creating a one-page checkout

Adding a default country and state to the checkout page

Managing Orders and Taxes

Managing Orders and Taxes

Sending a note to a customer

Refunding an order

Importing orders from another store

Sending order information to third parties with the Advanced Notifications plugin

Making the order numbers sequential

Giving away products

Manually entering tax rates

Automatically calculating tax rates with the TaxJar plugin

Setting a post code for correct taxation with the Local Pickup setting

WooCommerce Theming

WooCommerce Theming

Declaring support for WooCommerce

Displaying the accepted credit cards

Adding a cart icon to the menu

Overriding WooCommerce templates

Using WooCommerce hooks

Displaying an image on the category archive page

Writing CSS to customize the Add to Cart button

Creating a product slideshow

Removing a product category from the Shop page

Exploring More with WooCommerce

Exploring More with WooCommerce

Enabling WooCommerce Reviews

Hiding reviews from the Category/Shop page

Displaying positive reviews in the product description

Cloaking an affiliate link

Creating a regular expression for a cloaked affiliate link

Creating a coupon with restrictions

Bulk-generating coupons with the Smart Coupons plugin

Changing the default e-mail's from address

Sending follow-up e-mails after purchase

Index

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Configuring the PayPal gateway

PayPal is a place where people who frequently spend money online can park their money until they need to spend it. Accepting money online via PayPal is very common, and some users prefer to spend money on PayPal rather than share their credit card details with an unknown site. PayPal can also work for people who don't have a PayPal account and want to use a credit card.

Getting ready

You need to sign up for a PayPal account at https://www.paypal.com/signup/account.

How to do it…

There are quite a few steps to setting up PayPal. Luckily, not all of them are required. The first part will allow you to capture payments immediately. In order to configure the PayPal gateway, go through the following steps:

From the WordPress admin, go to WooCommerce | Settings | Checkout. From here, you can access all of the WooCommerce payment options.
Click on PayPal.
Check Enable PayPal standard:
You must fill out the PayPal Email field.
Scroll down and click on Save changes.
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