What is Woocommerce?
- a free, open source eCommerce toolkit for WordPress
- can be installed from the WP admin > Plugins > Add New page
- powers over 30% of all online stores.
- allows you to sell anything, beautifully
Features
- integrates with thousands of free & premium/paid WordPress themes
- provides easy to use product management
- creates customer accounts and automated followup
- integrated sales reporting
- provides standard shipping options (additional shipping extensions available for a small fee)
- provides a few standard payment gateways, such as PayPal, Check, Cash on Delivery, Credit Card, etc
- iOS app available
Extending Woocommerce
- over 108 payment gateways available
- over 27 shipping methods
- many product add-ons available
- provide subscription services to your customers
- Marketing tools
- Signing users up to a newsletter, such as Mailchimp
- Following up after purchase
- Reporting
- KISSMetrics
- Segment.io
- Mixpanel
- Google Analytics (free)
References
- http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/ (primary website)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/ (WordPress plugins page)
- http://www.woothemes.com/storefront/ (Storefront theme, offers deep integration with Woocommerce)
- http://www.woothemes.com/product-category/themes/ (themes from Woocommerce)
- https://wordpress.org/themes/search/woocommerce/ (Woocommerce WordPress themes)
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