If you’re looking for a good online store plugin for WordPress, WooCommerce is a great option. In Woocommerce, any language is easy to set using the localization settings. As the developers themselves state, WooCommerce runs about 30% of all online stores on WordPress, and that’s more than any other platform. WooCommerce has a forum, which, by the way, is updated quite often. People communicate there a lot, and even if you have not found the answer to your question, ask it, and with a high probability you will be answered.
Functionality
There are not so many tabs in the admin part, but each of them contains a wide range of functionality. Let’s analyze them in order.
- Orders. Here will be stored all orders made, to which you can add the status (completed, canceled, returned, waiting for payment, etc.), the amount of payment, delivery address, discount. Taxes can also be automatically calculated here;
- Coupons. Here you can generate coupons for your customers to get discounts. In Woocommerce, discounts can be grouped by coupon type, size, product group, validity time, as well as set free shipping on coupon;
- Reports. There are three tabs in this section – orders, customers and stock. And accordingly, in each of them reports on the current status. Here you can see the total amount of all orders with delivery and taxes, the number of customers, the number of goods in stock, as well as other reports on sales and goods;
- Settings. The name of this section speaks for itself, and here we can see the settings of everything we can: goods, taxes, payment, delivery, accounts, e-mail newsletters, as well as the basic settings – location, countries, currency;
- System Status. Here you will find information about WordPress version, server and database. Here you can also find tools for clearing cache, deleting data or resetting settings;
- Addons. You can install extensions and add-ons for WooCommerce right from the admin area. The WooCommerce plugin has a lot of extensions – about 350 by my count. They are mostly paid – from $13 to $399, but you can find some good ones among the free ones as well. You can see all extensions here. With the help of addons you can change different Woocommerce settings – the number of products on the page, payment gateways, connect social networks and much more.
- Products. The most important part of the online store is goods management. Here you can add and edit products and product categories, add product tags, as well as attributes that determine the color and size of products.
WooCommerce gives the impression that you can do everything and a little more with it. And if you look at the number of additional extensions to this plugin, the confidence that nothing is impossible with WooCommerce is only strengthened. Of course, a plugin with such functionality will, by definition, create quite a heavy load on the server. That’s why you may need VPS hosting instead of regular shared hosting. When choosing hosting, an important factor will be the number of products and site traffic – usually at the start it is enough to use shared hosting.