SETTING UP AN ONLINE STORE WITH WOOCOMMERCE

“Everyone lives by selling something.– Robert Louis Stevenson

▸ Online stores…… ▸ LMS (Sensei)▸ Subscription sites (WooCommerce

Subscriptions)▸ Paid Membership Sites

(WooCommerce Memberships)▸ Digital stores (music, video etc.)

WHAT CAN WE DO WITH WOOCOMMERCE?

Firstly, install WordPress.

There are a ton of ways to install WordPress and most web hosts support some sort of one-click install.

Thanks, Captain Obvious!

3 ways (best to worst):1.Via the plugin dashboard in

WordPress. Search “WooCommerce”.

2.Download the zip from WordPress.org and add via the plugin dashboard.

3.Download the zip and upload via FTP.

WAYS TO INSTALL WOOCOMMERCE

Log into WordPress running on your machine and let’s get going.

We’ll look at the setup wizard and then some settings later.

LET’S INSTALL WOOCOMMERCE.

There are a ton of themes that support WooCommerce - make sure you use one.

We’ll be using Storefront (made by WooCommerce). Let’s install it.

THEMES

PAYMENT

There are a lot of payment providers. PayFast, PayPal, VCS, Peach Payments, I-Pay, Stripe :(

We’ll be using PayFast!

Sandbox merchant id: 10000100Sandbox merchant key: 46f0cd694581a

SETTINGS

PRODUCTS

There are so many different ways to use WooCommerce.

Let’s import some products and then look at the different options.

THANKS!Any questions?You can find me on https://www.seagyndavis.com or @seagyn in most places.Also, Slack (http://wpsouthafrica.org)