{"id":747,"date":"2018-09-25T11:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.capetown.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=747"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T09:07:52","slug":"maintaining-running-a-successful-online-woocommerce-store","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/capetown.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/maintaining-running-a-successful-online-woocommerce-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining &amp; Running a Successful Online WooCommerce Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a type of case study for an interesting website on WordPress and WooCommerce. It will not be intense coding but a basic knowledge of WordPress and WooCommerce. The case study is based on our 2016 launched website that has reached R 1 million sales on a WordPress and WooCommerce site in 1 year September 2016 (launch month) \u2013 September 2017, and then did another million in the next 7 months again.<br \/>\n\u201cOur website has some products that have over 120 variations on 1 product= 123 Variants is our biggest product. Basically I can pack out an entire room or 2 rooms\u2019 floors using only the same 1 product in different colours and sizes. Coverage of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basics you need to build an online store<\/li>\n<li>Implementing integrations like Facebook,Mailchimp on WordPress ( and why we do it)<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining and running the store.<\/li>\n<li>Using paid memberships pro and running parallel sales with Dynamic Pricing for public,gold members and wholesalers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So this will be about running a successful store using WooCommerce. Tips about what to do, what not to do. Tips on what to use, how to market, how to provide excellent customer service, and provide a remarkable shopper experience online.<br \/>\nSome more topics I&#8217;ll cover.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simplifying the website layout, using new tools and old tools.<\/li>\n<li>The advantages of a UX Builder in your theme.<\/li>\n<li>Integrations of MailChimp, PayFast, i-pay and several other.<\/li>\n<li>The challenges we faced with over 8000 products.<\/li>\n<li>Hosting solutions and problems we faced, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are some of the information. It can be a case study what we used and how we made it successful.<br \/>\nThis topic can be beneficial for both developers and users.<br \/>\nI believe that developers sometimes need to see what the cosmetic side of what they do should look like too, and how to provide a great customer experience by simplifying the look of the website for your \u2018average joe\u2019 to navigate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a type of case study for an interesting website on WordPress and WooCommerce. It will not be intense coding but a basic knowledge of WordPress and WooCommerce. 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