Summary

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. It is designed for small to large-sized online merchants using WordPress.

Availability

In most countries.

Account setup

• Create a free account on WooCommerce.com
  • Sign-up for an account on WordPress.com and WooCommerce.com
  • Select from:
    • A pre-installed solution with a trusted host
    • Auto-installing WooCommerce if you have a WordPress site already
    • Download the zip file and do it yourself
• Download the WooCommerce plugin
  • Download the plugin
  • Go to your website
  • Go to: Dashboard > Plugins > Add New > Upload
  • Select the downloaded plugin
  • Install
  • Activate
• Search for the WooCommerce plugin from within your website
  • Go to your website
  • Go to: Dashboard > Plugins > Add New > Search Plugins
  • Search for “WooCommerce”
  • Install
  • Activate

Integration

Available features

Access

CrescoData is integrated with wooCommerce via the following integration methods:

wooCommerce API

Please follow the following steps in order to obtain the WooCommerce API. 

(https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-rest-api/)

1. It’s required turn on the WordPress permalinks on Settings > Permalinks.
2. Enable REST API

To enable the REST API within WooCommerce, visit the WooCommerce > Settings > API tab and tick the Enable REST API checkbox.

Generate API Keys

The WooCommerce REST API works on a key system to control access. These keys are linked to WordPress users on the website. To create or manage keys for a specific WordPress user, go to WooCommerce > Settings > API > Keys/Apps.

1. 
2. To get started, select Add Key:
   
3. Select the User you would like to generate a key for in the User field and add a Description. Choose the level of access for this API key, which can be Read access, Write access or Read/Write access. Then select the Generate API Key button and WooCommerce will generate API keys for that user.
   
4. Now that keys have been generated, you should see two new keys, a QRCode, and a Revoke API Key button. These two keys are your Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.
5. Place your consumer key and consumer secret in the application that uses the WooCommerce API (the application should request your URL as well).

Feed export

The required fields for the csv file can be found below. Or you may download the sample template here.

• post_title – specify the name of your product;
• post_content specify the product description;
• post_status – specify whether you wish to enable or disable the product, such as publish;
• regular_price – specify the product price. This field should not be empty;
• visibility – specify where you want to display your product(s), such as visible;
• manage_stock – such as yes or no;
• Image – should contain the URL to your image(s). For example: http://domain.com/images/name.jpg
• tax:product_type – specify the type of your product, such as simple;
• tax:product_cat – specify the category name;
• tax:product_tag – specify your product brand or manufacturer.

Step-by-step guide

It is recommended to use openoffice to process your product file.

1. When you are done with your file, go to "File > Save As". Check the Edit filter settings option.
2. Click save.
3. Keep current format
4. Make sure to select Character set as "UTF-8", comma delimiter.

Rate limits and update frequency

WooCommerce throttling and rate limits can be configured for each installation separately.

Features

Taxonomy

Categories

Category attributes

Images

Custom features

History

Known issues

CrescoData Requirements

Required details to integrate with WooCommerce by CrescoData

NOTE - It is important to note that WooCommerce does not allow for a tracking number or carrier to be specified and these are required values when updating most marketplaces.

You will need to install of of these plug-ins in order to provide this information to sync to a Marketplace. Without this plug-in, order shipment updates will not work:

• Option 1
• Option 2