WooCommerce
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What is Wordpress?
WordPress is used for allowing the users for building dynamic blogs and websites, it is the most popular blogging system on the web and allows in updating, customizing and managing the website from the backend CMS and components.WordPress is a website builder and content management system as it is an open source software that can be used by anyone for making the website imaginable.
What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is used for adding e-commerce functionality in our WordPress website so we can have online store.It is the most popular website builder on the market, and also allows the users for building an e-commerce website from scratch or by adding shopping cart functionality to an existing website.WooCommerce is an open source which is used for customizable e-commerce platform for entrepreneurs worldwide and also it confines traditional eCommerce solutions, and be limited only by your own imagination.
What are the Features of WooCommerce?
Powered by trust - WooCommerce is used for powering software more than 34% of the web and is regularly audited by Sucuri, an industry leader in security, we are in good hands.
Content at the core - WooCommerce helps in integrating commerce with the content.
A modular system - WooCommerce helps in adding options we want and also our favorite WordPress plugins, so we can keep the features we already love.
Sell anything - Used for downloading physical and digital products for subscriptions, content and even appointments, we can sell anything with WooCommerce.
No limits - Used for modifying and customizing everything and have control in adding unlimited products and users, and take unlimited orders.
Worldwide community - All the developers come from all over the world.
What are the Benefits of Woocommerce?
Benefits of WooCommerce are as follows:
Huge Flexibility
More Than Ecommerce
Familiar Friendliness
Vast Customization Options
Professional Yet Simple
Analytics Made Easy
Apps Galore
Room For Growth
What is WooCommerce plugin?
WordPress plugin that adds e-commerce functionality to your WordPress website so you can have an online store. With just a few clicks, your WordPress website turns into a fully-functional e-commerce website. WordPress Plugins are functionality used for our WordPress Website so we can have an online store.WordPress website turns fully functionality into e-commerce website.
Explain the online procedure of WooCommerce?
Configuring WooCommerce Settings
On this page, we walk through all settings available to you in WooCommerce.
You’ll find information about configuring General WooCommerce settings as well as Product, Tax, Payments, Shipping, Accounts, Email, API, and Webhooks.
To get started, go to WooCommerce > Settings.
General Settings
Store address
Defines your shop’s address country and state, where you are based as a seller. It determines default tax rates and customer locations.
General options
Selling Location(s) Choose to sell to all countries or to specific countries. You can choose multiple specific countries / regions.
Shipping Location(s) Choose to ship to only those countries you sell to or a subset of countries. You can also disable shipping and all shipping-related functionality.
Default Customer Address Choose the location we assume site visitors are in, before they enter it, to calculate tax and shipping.
Shop base address tells the system to assume they are in the same location as your shop.
No address gives them no location, so no taxes are calculated until they provide an address.
Geolocate address verifies where their current location and calculate taxes accordingly.
Geolocate with page caching support is the same as above, but does the geolocation via Ajax. You may notice your website URLs have a ?v=xxxxx appended to them. This is normal to prevent static caching of prices.
Enable Taxes Enable or disable taxes on your store. Disabling taxes hides the tax settings page.
Enable coupons Enable or disable coupons on your store. Coupons can be applied from the admin edit order screen (for unpaid orders), cart and checkout pages.
Enable the use of coupon codes – Select to enable the use of coupons in your store.
Calculate coupon discounts sequentially – Changes the coupon calculation logic to apply coupons in sequence on top of one another, rather than basing them on the original product prices.
Default Currency options
Options that affect how prices are displayed on the frontend.
Currency Choose the default currency for the store. Only one may be selected.
Currency Position Choose the default currency position for prices: Left, Right, Left/Right with space
Thousand Separator Choose the symbol to use for the thousand separator: 1,000 or 1.000
Decimal Separator Choose the symbol to use for the decimal separator: 100.00 or 100,00
Number of Decimals Choose how many numbers to display to the right of the decimal when displaying prices: 100.00 or 100
Products Settings
Settings for products and how they are displayed, including image sizes, inventory and downloadable product settings.
General
In the General section are Shop Pages, Measurements and Reviews, allowing you to control checkout settings, select units of measurement, and enable/disable product reviews and ratings.
Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Products > General:
Shop pages
Shop Page Select what page you want to be the default shop page. Need not be the Shop page that WooCommerce installed, or can be skipped if you use another method to display products.
Add to cart behavior
Redirect to cart page after successful addition – Automatically takes the customer to the cart page upon adding a product.
Enable Ajax add to cart buttons on archives – Adds the ‘Add to Cart’ option to shop archive pages.
Placeholder Image
Set a default ‘placeholder’ image to appear on the front end when no other image is available. This could be your brand logo or an image of a signature product or service.
Measurements
Select a unit of measurement for weight and dimension of products from the dropdown.
Reviews
Enable Reviews
Enable product reviews
Select whether to display if the reviewer bought the product
Control if anyone can leave a review or only buyers
Product Ratings
Enable stars on reviews.
Select whether it’s required or optional
Inventory Options
To edit your shop’s inventory options, go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory.
Manage stock
Hold Stock (minutes) – Hold products (for unpaid orders) for X minutes. When limit is reached, the pending order is canceled. Leave blank to disable. Please note that this will work for orders in the “Pending payment” status, but not “On hold”.
Notifications
Enable low stock notifications
Enable out of stock notifications
Notification Recipient – Enter email address for notifications.
Low Stock Threshold – Number of products to trigger low stock notification
Out Of Stock Threshold – Number of products to trigger out of stock status.
Out Of Stock Visibility – Choose to hide out of stock items from catalog.
Stock Display Format
Always show stock – “12 in stock”
Only show stock when low – “Only 2 left in stock” vs. “In stock”
Never show amount
Downloadable Products
Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Downloadable products.
File Download Method Controls how your store provides downloadable files to purchasers.
Force Downloads – Files are ‘forced’ to download via a PHP script. Files are not accessible to anyone but purchasers, and direct links are hidden.
X-Accel-Redirect/X-Sendfile – Similar to ‘forced’ above, but it has better performance and can support larger files. It requires that your hosting provider supports either X-Sendfile or X-Accel-Redirect, so you need to check with them first.
Redirect only – A download URL links the user to the file. Files are not protected from outside access.
Most stores should use one of first two methods to keep files safe from outside access. Redirect should only be used if you encounter problems or don’t mind downloads being non-secure.
Access Restriction
Select if downloads require login – Does not apply to guest purchases.
Grant access to downloadable products after payment – Enable to grant access to downloads when orders are Processing, rather than Completed.
Payments Settings
Go to: WooCommerce > Settings > Payments to control which payment gateways are enabled.
Installed gateways are listed and can be dragged and dropped to control the order in which they display to customers on the checkout.
Clicking the name of the payment gateway will take you directly to a screen to set up or adjust your settings.
Another way to configure settings is to select Set Up or Manage. You can also use the Enabled toggle to turn a gateway on or off:
If you try to enable a payment method that needs extra configuration, it will redirect you to the payment methods setup screen.
From start to finish this series of videos will help you create and run a successful WooCommerce power store. Watch from front to back or cherry pick the topics you need to learn more about.
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