fun with woocommerce

July 21, 2013

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Fun with WooCommerce July 21st, 2013 Sallie Goetsch

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Why Woo? At our last meetup about e-commerce plugins (March 2011), WooCommerce didn’t exist. Since then it’s been downloaded more than 1 million times. http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/stats/

WooCommerce is a Fork of Jigoshop

http://jigoshop.com/

Want the Dirt?

http://yoast.com/open-source-forking-branding/

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/43683/jigoshop-and-woocommerce-differences

Don’t Care about the Dirt?

• Try both plugins—both are free, with paid add-ons.

• They still have many similar features.

• The two continue to diverge.

• Some claim Woo provides better support and documentation.

• Pick the one you like best, or a different plugin entirely.

What Can You Sell with WooCommerce?

• Physical Products

• Downloadable (Virtual) Products

• External (Affiliate) Products

• Grouped Products

• Variable Products

• Classes (with $99 Sensei add-on)

• Subscriptions (with $99 add-on)

http://docs.woothemes.com/document/managing-products/

Payment Gateways

Built-In

• PayPal Standard

• Mijireh

• COD

• Check

• BACS

Extensions

• 2 CheckOut

• Amazon Payments

• Authorize.net

• Bitcoin

• FirstData

• Infusionsoft

• PayPal Express/Pro

• Stripe

• WePay

• …and more

Welcome to WooCommerce

Notice this button. It’s very important.

Read the Docs. You Need Them.

http://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce/

Settings: Tons of These

Expect to spend time setting this up, and expect it to be different from site to site.

Auto-Generated Pages…

…And What’s on Them

Taxes

Rates Not Included

Get tax rates from http://www.taxrates.com/. There’s also a WooCommerce tax plugin at http://www.pnw-design.com/wordpress-plugins/

OMFG SHIPPING! UPS & USPS $49 each. Time to configure 15-30 min each.

Shipping from the Front End

Adding a Simple Product… Product Name

Product Description

Price & Tax Status

Excerpt

Product Categories

Gallery Images

Featured Image

…Almost Simple

External (Affiliate) Products Get this from your Amazon Associates page.

Affiliate Product Page

Variable Products

Variable Product Page

Downloadable Products

Download Page

Cross-sells & Up-sells

Single Product Page

Image Gallery

Product Description

Featured Image

Price/ Purchase Options

Product Page Shortcodes

Product Page from Shortcodes

Simple Products

Variable Products

Checkout Pages

PayPal Stripe

Shipping Calculation

Free Shipping

Account Page

WooCommerce Receipt

Email can be customized with templates. (This wasn’t.)

Receipt includes information collected via Gravity Forms and stored in a cookie (custom work for client)

WooCommerce Extensions

39 Free extensions

261 Extensions on 7/20/13

Prices from $29 - $99 for a single site license

WooCommerce + Gravity Forms

http://www.woothemes.com/products/gravity-forms-add-ons/

Coupons (Smart Coupon Extension)

Sell Subscriptions

http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/

$99 Single Site License

Manage Subscriptions

Sell Classes Sensei Plugin $99 single site license

This Is Not an API

The Good, Bad, & Ugly

Pros

• Base plugin is free & powerful

• Handles many types of products, including CSV import

• Works with most themes

• Decent documentation

Cons

• Cost of extensions adds up fast

• Doesn’t do donations

• API is display-based, not function-based

• Many Woo Themes interfere with CSS

• Not intuitive enough to use without docs

Bonus: The New Kid in Town

http://ithemes.com/exchange/