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Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

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

Building E-Commerce Solutions with WooCommerce, Second Edition

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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.
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Deploying your WooCommerce store


Once you've set up your store, added products, and changed e-mails if needed, you're ready to start the deployment process of your store. Assuming that up until now, you've been working in a development environment, there's one more important thing that you need to do before bringing live your online store: test it!

Just use your store as if you are a customer. Is everything clear for the visitor? Are the links to conditions and shipping information easily available? Is it clear what payment methods you're offering? But above all, does the order process work? It's very important to spend some time in your own store and actually create orders yourself. So you are sure that it is working and that the e-mails that the customer receives are clear and correct.

If everything is okay, you can start the deployment process. There are many ways to deploy a website from development to live, but, in this example, we use a basic, simple technique to do it. Note the steps...

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