2. Agenda
• WooCommerce history
• Installation and configuration (pages, sample data)
• How to set up your shop
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• How to add products
3. Agenda (2)
• How to set up payment gateways (e.g Paypal)
• How set up up tax, shipping and notifications
• WooCommerce reports
• Customising your store (catalogue page, using woo
commerce shortcodes)
• 6 top WooCommerce extensions
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4. WooCommerce
• Created out of a fork of jigoshop
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• Built by WooThemes
• Now the biggest commerce platform (over 2.5m
downloads, approx. 70k per week)
• Core product is completely free
• Business model based on selling extensions (over
100 available)
5. Your training website
• Go to http://www.pootlepress.com/wc
• Download training images
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• username: adminxxx
• password: bonkyboo12?
6. Getting started
• Installation of WooCommerce
• Sample data within the download
• Pages are created automatically for you
• Base pages to be aware of (e.g shop, checkout)
• How to change your base pages
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9. The 4 types of product
• The Simple product type covers the vast majority of any products you
may sell. Simple products are shipped and have no options. For
example, a can of drink.
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• A Grouped product is a collection of related products which can be
purchased individually and can only consist of simple products. For
example, a simple product for a PS3 could be a grouped product as
there are 80GB, 120GB and 200GB variations of that same parent
product.
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• An External or Affiliate product is one which you list and describe
on your web site, but is sold elsewhere.
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• A Variable product is a product which has several different variations,
each of which may have a different SKU, price, stock options etc. For
example a t-shirt available in several different colours and/or sizes.
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11. Exercise: add a simple
product
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• Add Product Woo Hoodie
• Add Product title
• Add long description
• Add price
• Add a sale price (optional)
• Add stock management
• Add a product image
• Publish
12. Exercise: add a virtual
simple product
• Add Product Pootle MP3
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• Add Product title
• Add long description
• Add price
• Add a product image
• Publish
13. Exercise: Add 4 more products
• Fender Guitar (£1000) 12 in stock
• Guitar Amp (£200) 16 in stock
• Woo Hoodie (£20) 12 in stock
• Apogee Microphone (£100) 12 in stock
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14. Product Categories
• Product Categories help you create different
sections of your shop so your customers can
navigate to the types of product they are interested
in e.g. music, clothing
• Step 1: Create product categories!
• Step 2: Apply categories to products!
• Step 3: Add product categories to your navigation
(typically either in menus or in sidebar widgets)
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16. Exercise: Create the following categories
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1. Music
2. Clothing
• Now categorise your products
• Now add to your menu
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17. Grouped Products
A Grouped product is a collection of
related products which can be purchased
individually and can only consist of
simple products.
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19. Exercise: Grouped Products
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• Step1: Create a Parent Product called ‘the best of Pootle’
• Step 2: Add 2 new simple products - you must assign each child
product to the parent (found in Linked Products)
• Pootle Single 1 (£1)
• Pootle Single 2 (£1)
20. External and Affiliate
Products
An External or Affiliate product is
one which you list and describe on
your web site, but is sold elsewhere.
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22. Exercise: Create an affiliate
product
Create a Kindle Fire affiliate product from
Amazon
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CTVTJ4Q/ref=amb_link_180306547_1?
ie=UTF8&nav_sdd=aps&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1C1W8ZDY1
CTN4ADP67VR&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=477426287&pf_rd_i=468294
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23. Variable Products
A Variable product is a product which has
several different variations, each of which
may have a different image, SKU, price,
stock options etc.
For example a t-shirt available in several
different colours and/or sizes.
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25. Exercise: Variable Products
• Variable products have Attributes and Terms
• Example = Hoodie
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• Attribute is Size
• Terms are small, medium and large
26. Exercise: Variable products
Create a product with these attributes and terms!
Add Woo Hoodie product with the following variations
• Size (small, medium, large)
• Colour (black, red, grey)
• Costs (small=£10, medium=£20, large=£30)
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27. Exercise: Variable products
Create a product with these attributes and terms!
Add Woo T Shirt product with the following variations
• Size (small, medium, large)
• Colour (grey, blue, green, black)
• Costs (small=£10, medium=£20, large=£30)
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28. Up-sells and cross sells
• Up-sells are products which you recommend instead of the currently viewed product
• Cross-sells are products which you promote in the cart, based on the current
product
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29. Featured products
• Featuring a product allows you to show a product
in a particular area on your website
• This is somewhat theme dependant
• However you can show featured products using the
in built WooCommerce short codes
[featured_products per_page="12" columns="4"]
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37. How to set up your customers
My Account Page
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38. Design
• There are many WordPress themes that now
support WooCommerce (e.g WooThemes,
ThemeForest)
• You need to use a theme that declares
WooCommerce support
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41. Checkout pages
• How to customise your checkout pages
• How to analyse your checkout drop out rates
• How to create distraction free checkout pages
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43. Tweaking your shop
• How to alter the base shop page (catalogue)
• How to make sure images are not fuzzy
• How to alter the order of products
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44. SEO
“WooCommerce markup adheres to
Schema vocabulary to fully assist your
search engine rankings and is, of course
written in fully semantic HTML5 markup”
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45. Testing customer orders
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Paypal Sandbox!
• Step 1: Set up Sandbox Merchant Account on Paypal
• Step 2: Put Merchant Account email into your
WooCommerce paypal settings
• Step 3: Enable Sandbox mode in WooCommerce
checkout settings
• Step 4: Place test orders
48. WooCommerce
Subscriptions
• Offer products and services that require recurring
payments in your WooCommerce Store
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49. Product Add ons
Allow your customers to customise your products by adding new options
such as input boxes, dropdowns or checkboxes. With the Product Add-ons
extension, gift messages, donations, laser engraving and any other product
which may require user input in some way is now an option for your customers
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50. Table rate shipping
Table rate shipping makes it possible for you to create complex shipping
rules for shipping your products all over the world. You can define multiple
rates based on the product’s destination, have multiple rates per zone, and add
rules based on product weight, number of items, shipping class, and price.
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51. Product CSV Import Suite
The Product CSV Import Suite WooCommerce
extension lets you import and export products to
and from WooCommerce.!
You can import hundreds, even thousands, of
products using one file.
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52. Product Vendors
• The Product Vendors extension for WooCommerce
allows you to turn your store into a multi-vendor
marketplace (such as Etsy, Ebay or Creative Market).
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53. Composite products
• Build dynamic, complex product kits and build-to-order
assemblies by compositing existing
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products.
• With “Composite Products”, WooCommerce allows
you to create sophisticated, dynamic product kits
by compositing existing products.
54. Catalog Visibility Options
• Transform WooCommerce into an online catalog by
removing eCommerce functionality
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