WooCommerce

WooCommerce Overview

WooCommerce is a great plugin for running a web store on WordPress, however, it is not just a web store, it is quite a versatile plugin that can be used for a variety of other purposes. You can select any WordPress theme for your e-commerce store and work with WooCommerce Plugin to bring your online store into existence. 

WooCommerce is one of the most simple, popular & yet powerful eCommerce system. The credit goes to its versatile payment system and host of compatible plugins. Many ideas that you think are impossible with other eCommerce platforms, you can do it smoothly with WooCommerce. 

Let’s understand a bit more about WooCommerce.

  • WooCommerce Plugin Helps You With Social Media & SEO

There are several good third-party plugins that help you with SEO of your site. You can effectively manage, analyze and tweak all your SEO efforts to get better results. You could also use dedicated WooCommerce plugins like Yoast WooCommerce SEO which help you on social networking sites like Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook and help you with the backend too.

  •  Auctions

This plugin allows you to run one or more auctions for your products, including bid history and countdown timer. After a winning bid is decided, the bidder can pay for their article right away, of course, all managed by WooCommerce. There’s even a ‘My Auctions’ section so bidders can keep track.

  • Pre-update extension version checks

Before minor and major updates, It will check these versions and display either an inline warning or modal window warning (for major updates) to advise the user.

With this feature, a user will easily know the status of your current theme with the new versions of WooCommerce.

  •  WooCommerce Provides You With Great Analytics

WooCommerce has its own inbuilt analytics. It provides you with neat data and pie graphs. You can get data on daily sales, individual customer statistics, average order totals and more. It is easy for you to know how your website is performing on day to day basis.

You can, however, integrate other analytical solutions to your WooCommerce site. You can add Google analytics. You can get more from it if you add WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro extension. You can use other tools like Kissmetrics, Mixpanel, and Hotjar too.

  •  WooCommerce API

Woocommerce comes with a very extensive APIs. Any experienced WordPress developer can use the WooCommerce hooks and actions to create plugins, extensions, and themes. WooCommerce is in itself a mini-economy enabling developer to an work solely on developing Woo based products.

  • It plays well with other systems through KloudConnectors
  • KloudConnectors is a cloud integration platform. It integrates various saas applications. WooCommerce plugin connects seamlessly with Zoho CRM, Zoho Inventory & Zoho Books through KloudConnectors. You can find more information about these connectors here. 
  • Out of the Box Functionality

You can begin selling immediately without making any major changes to WooCommerce settings. The plugins works as expected with minimal setup and minimal changes to the default settings. This makes it easy to test WooCommerce with your web theme.

There is minimal work to do to get WooCommerce working with any theme. You simply need to

a) Declare WooCommerce support in your functions.php file

b) Add a WooCommerce.php file in your theme. This file can simply be a copy of page.php with this code replacing the WordPress loop:

For more about theme, integration see https://docs.woothemes.com/document/third-party-custom-theme-compatibility/

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