WooCommerce is a free open-source e-Commerce website platform.
The platform is used by millions of online stores around the world.
Technically speaking, Woocommerce is a WordPress plugin.
Why Choose WooCommerce Development?
- you could customize your eCommerce store with the official Woocommerce Extensions
- Multilingual support, for example, using the WPML plugin
- good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plugins provide a high level of internal optimization and indexation by search engines Google, Yandex and Bing
- convenient for merchant product management
- integrated various payment gateways and shipping options
- WooComerce provides regular releases and upgrades to ensure the maximum security of websites and bugs fixing
Advantages of using WooCommerce
- Open Source Solution and so is free
- you can modify your store freely
- WooCommerce supports mobile ready theme with modern designs
- You have control over your data
- You can sell an unlimited number of products
- You can create/use coupon codes and discounts
- It is possible to accept a different form of payments via PayPal, Stripe, checks, bank transfers, cash on delivery.
- WooCommerce and Worpress supports multiple languages via third-party plugins, for example, WPML plugin
Technical Requirements
WooCommerce requires hosting and a working WordPress installation to run.
To host you own WooCommerce site you need
- have your own Domain name
- have Web Hosting in any hosing provider
- SSL Certificate
Server Recommendations:
(we recomend)
WooCommerce
- PHP version 7 or greater
- MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.0 or greater
- WordPress memory limit of 128 MB or greater
- HTTPS support
WordPress
- PHP version 7.2 or greater.
- MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.0 or greater.
- HTTPS support
- Nginx or Apache with mod_rewrite module
Once you have Web hosting you should at least do the following
WooCommerce site installation steps
- to install Wodpress
- to install WooCommerce plugin
- if necessary, make necessary customisations in WordPress and WooCommerce
- if necessary, make necessary changes in desing in WordPress and WooCommerce
- to install other necessary plugins for WordPress and WooCommerce
- to make necessary configaration for Worpress, WooCommerce and installed plugins
- if necessary, to arrange integration with accounting system
- if necessary, to arrange integration with payment gateway(s)
- if necessary, to arrange integration with 3-rd party solutions like, CRM, Reward systems
- to install SSL Certificate
