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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By : Robbert Ravensbergen
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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce - Second Edition

By: Robbert Ravensbergen

Overview of this book

Building an online store is often considered to be a difficult, complex task. Using the combination of WordPress and the WooCommerce plugin, this is no longer the case. WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce platform for WordPress and is being rapidly developed by WooThemes. It provides a strong e-commerce solution to set up your own online store in just a couple of hours. This easy and practical book will help you make the most of WooCommerce to be able to set up and run your online store yourself. Installing WooCommerce is an easy task, but this book will explain in detail all the possible settings. After that you'll be adding products, different payment methods, and shipping solutions to your store. You will then customize your store by adding themes to change the look and feel. Once your store is running, you'll learn how to use discount coupons, process your orders, look at reports, and even expand the functionality further with additional plugins. By the end of the book, you will learn everything you need to add a fully functional online store to you WordPress website and start running an online business.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reporting


By navigating in the main menu to WooCommerce | Reports we'll be able to take a look at the reporting capabilities that WooCommerce has available. It delivers a number of standardized reports that already give a lot of information. But unfortunately, there isn't much flexibility in this area. Just use what is available or find alternative reporting methods. More on reporting possibilities will follow in the next chapter.

When opening the reporting page, we'll see four main areas that are divided by tabs:

  • Orders

  • Customers

  • Stock

  • Taxes

Sales reports

Every main area contains several reports. By default, the reporting section always opens with the Sales by date report of the last seven days. The following reports of sales orders are available:

  • Sales by date (default)

  • Sales by product

  • Sales by category

  • Coupons by date

For every Sales report, it is possible to select the date range. By default, this is the Last 7 days, but other possibilities are This Month, Last Month, and the current Year. Besides...