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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)

Exporting out of WooCommerce

If you create a brand new company for your store, you might be able to store all of your product data in WooCommerce and use it as your singular source of truth. If so, you're lucky.

If you ever need to copy data to another system, you should set up a direct integration, such as the WooCommerce Square integration (which we will set up in the next chapter), that automatically syncs products and product data between both systems. However, if you don't have a direct integration, then you'll need to export data manually under WooCommerce | Products | Export and Import it into the new system as follows:

Alternatively, you could use a tool such as Zapier (https://zapier.com/home) that lets you connect your WooCommerce store with hundreds of other online applications. You can configure Zapier to watch for product updates and to update another...