Selling Products

On WordPress Websites

See in this article an easy method to start selling products on your WordPress website. The ease and low overhead of starting an online store is a wonderful feature of our current digital world. It’s understandable that so many people want to offer products for sale on their own website, where they have control over the content and purchase process. Not to mention, selling on your own website helps keep costs down.

Given the popularity of e-commerce, it’s not surprising that there are so many options out there for running your own online store. It can be confusing to navigate the landscape of plugins and services, so that’s where I come in to help!

WooCommerce integrates nicely with most themes I’ve tried, is easy to use and looks great. The base plugin is free, but you’ll need to pay extra for extensions with specific functionality.

Whether you are selling digital downloads or physical products, WooCommerce can handle the entire customer experience.

To set up WooCommerce, first install and activate the plugin in your WordPress admin dashboard via Appearance>Plugins. You will then be taken through the setup steps, where you can tell WooCommerce various things about your store, like which currency you will be selling in, whether you’ll be charging tax, and which payment gateway you want to use.

The free version of WooCommerce supports several payment gateways. I would recommend Stripe if it’s available in your country. I have found it to be the easiest to set up and use. If it’s not available, the second-best option is PayPal.

Products are added in the same way you would create a page or post in WordPress. You can enter the product image, description, price, and so on. If it’s a digital download, you can check the box for “Downloadable,” and add the file URL.

So that’s the basics, but of course, there are many more advanced ways to enhance your online store. Some extensions I’d recommend looking into are:

Do you have an online store? Comment below to let me know about it!

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