Sell Stuff Online Using Woocommerce

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)

Documentation

• https://docs.woothemes.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/getting-started/