Main content: + E-commerce trends and statistics + Examples of global and Vietnam sites using WooCommerce + Why WooCommerce plugin is the best solution for building online stores with WordPress + General steps to be done to set up a simple store using WooCommerce plugin and an existing theme Saigon, April 19, 2014 Event: http://www.meetup.com/Saigon-WordPress/events/172553212/

1. WooCommerce
E-Commerce solution for WordPress

2. About me and the company
Dat Hoang
● Community & Support
of OnTheGoSystems
● Marketing Online
OnTheGoSystems
● WPML
● Toolset plugins
● ICanLocalize

3. Agenda
● Real world statistics
● Examples
● Features
● 5 steps to install
● Discussion

4. WooCommerce stats
Top
Million
Sites
Source: http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/WooCommerce

5. WooCommerce stats
Source: http://trends.builtwith.com/shop/
Top
Million
Sites

6. How are people using WooCommerce?
- Global sites
- Vietnamese websites

7. kinder-book.de
60,000 books for kids

8. WPML.org
Hundreds of thousands customers

9. pinkypinky.vn
All kinds of products for kids

10. xuonghuyhieu.com
A small badge shop with 4 products

11. freakvn.com
Simple and elegant clothing store

12. What I can play with WooCommerce
● Products
● Categories, tags, attributes
● Shipping
● Checkout/Payments
● Coupons
● Reports
● Orders

13. Simple product

14. Variable product

15. Grouped product

16. Digital product

17. External/Affiliate Product

18. Categorize products

19. Shipping

20. Checkout/payment

21. Coupons

22. Orders

23. Reports

24. Other features
● Support Vietnamese currency and language
(from version 2.1.2 ), not all strings but the
front-end is good enough.
● Add-ons: many extensions, free (wordpress.
org with tag ‘woocommerce’ ) or premium
(woothemes).
● Themes: woothemes, marketplaces
(ThemeForest, CreativeMarket, MojoThemes).

25. How to build a store with WooCommerce
Steps
1. Install WooCommerce plugin
2. Choose and install a theme which supports
WooCommerce
3. Set up general WooCommerce settings
4. Add and set up your products
5. Test

26. 1. Install WooCommerce plugin
1. Install
WooCommerce
plugin from
your WordPress
Dashboard
2. Install
WooCommerce
Pages

27. 2. Choose and set up your theme

28. 3. Set up general WooCommerce Settings
Basic settings:
1. Base Location
2. Selling
locations
3. Currency
4. Shipping
5. Payment
Gateways

29. 4. Add and set up your products
1. Create
product
categories
2. Add products
● title
● description
● category
● product type
● product data

30. 5. Test
To test PayPal gateway
without making real
payments use Sanbox
Test Account
A useful tutorial:
http://clickwp.
com/blog/woocommerce
-paypal-sandbox/

31. Discussion
Q & A

32. Big Thanks!
Dat Hoang
Community & Support Vietnam
E: dat.h@icanlocalize.com
W: wpml.org | wp-types.com | icanlocalize.com
Saigon, April 19, 2014