What is WooCommerce All About (25+ FAQs Answered)

I am confused about choosing a lightweight, easy-to-manage, responsive, and Elementor-supported WooCommerce theme.

The answer comes from a professional with extensive experience designing websites. They have worked on many clients’ projects and achieved certain successes.

They have suggested themes like Woodmart, Porto, XStore, Flat, Martfury, etc.

Using ‘Product Addons’ allows you to add boxes such as dietary requirements, ages, etc., but these do not appear on the product page.

Just add some CSS to hide it.

Use Jotform or Fluent Forms plugins.

To achieve this, you can add custom fields using the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin or a combination of the Product Add-Ons Ultimate plugin and the Product Table Ultimate plugin.

The former can set the custom fields of location, date, and so on, while the latter lists them in a table format. 

You can manage inventory for WooCommerce product variations by setting stock quantities individually for each weight option.

You might also consider using plugins for more advanced inventory control, such as WP Inventory Manager, Bulk Variations Manager, and Stock Sync for WooCommerce. 

The ELEX WooCommerce Catalog Mode, Wholesale & Role Based Pricing plugin makes it easy to manage how taxes are displayed.

While WooCommerce’s standard tax options allow you to hide taxes from the shop or cart page completely, they don’t let you select specific user roles for this feature.

Thankfully, this plugin allows you to exclude tax based on the WooCommerce user roles, making it even easier to tailor your customers’ experience.

Using YayMail – WooCommerce Email Customizer, which offers a list of email templates to customize the appearance of email marketing, including logo, color, text, images, buttons, etc.

WPBookster is a fantastic plugin that empowers store owners to effortlessly set up their booking appointment systems and login forms in real time, complete with a handy booking calendar!

Whenever customers make a new appointment, store owners can approve it manually.

Plus, it sends friendly auto-reminders to staff and customers when appointments are approaching, ensuring everyone stays on time!

Create a category called on sale, add products, and then loop through that category.

To create product labels, you can refer to some plugins such as WooCommerce Product Labels, Advanced Product Labels, and YITH WooCommerce Badge Management. 

Check out the “WooCommerce Lead Time by Barn2” plugin.

You can create a page with product thumbnails from a specific category using Elementor or WooCommerce shortcodes.

Use the [products] shortcode with the category slug, like `[products category=”your-category-slug”], or Elementor’s WooCommerce widgets, and filter by category.

No custom coding or plugins are needed!

Yes, adding videos to the default WooCommerce product gallery is possible without a plugin. You can add a custom function to your theme’s functions.php file.

You can connect it to a service or CRM like MailChimp and create a marketing email campaign with YayMail to trigger that email on registration. 

My go-to for all Anti-Spam is CleanTalk. It’s only $12 a year, works seamlessly with WooCommerce, and bots hate it.

OOPSpam supports WooCommerce. It doesn’t load any JS or cookies like reCaptcha and clean talk. It’s pretty effective against both manual and automated bots. OOPSpam is more expensive than other alternatives, though.

No, that is handled by the payment gateway. However, you need a valid address for the invoice (and order) to be valid.

No merchant would allow that, as all the customer would do is force a chargeback and say they canceled. It’s all legal.

Be careful if it’s for adult content or something similar, as most merchant processors, such as PayPal/Stripe, don’t allow it.

Ensure you have clear contracts outlining services and payment terms, use secure payment systems with fraud protection, document all communications and transactions, offer excellent customer support and maintain regular backups of your sites.

Check out these plugins: SliceWP and AffiliateWP. 

Installed an SMTP plugin, such as YaySMTP—a powerful tool that allows users to connect with many popular sending services. It has an unlimited email log, and users can track opened and clicked emails.

You can use a plugin or cPanel.

Try Sure Triggers. It is an excellent plugin for integrating various plugins, services, etc.

WooCommerce supports shipping a single order by multiple packages.

There are different ways to break an order into these packages, but it usually works by shipping class.

You can customize the logic that splits an order into packages with small plugins or a small amount of PHP. It just depends on how you want to break up the order.

If you want to keep SEO value but just stop the checkout process, switch off all the payment gateways. Then, enable the built-in WooCommerce store notification option in the Customiser.

To temporarily close the WooCommerce store, you can use a plugin like “Maintenance” or “Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode” to set up a landing page while keeping the store offline.

These plugins allow you to display visitors a custom message or landing page while keeping the store inaccessible.

This way, you can manage your products and website without affecting your store’s visibility. Make sure to test the plugin to ensure it works as expected.

Install a “Coming Soon” or “Maintenance Mode” plugin (like SeedProd or WP Maintenance Mode)

Set the entire store to “Private” or “Draft” mode in WooCommerce settings.

Alternatively, use the “WooCommerce Store Closed” plugin to temporarily disable purchasing.

For 3000+ products, use bulk edit to set all products to “Draft” status. To disable purchasing temporarily.

Consider using the Polylang plugin to display the language switcher flags.

I highly recommend the Brandy theme—a creative theme for building your business website. It provides professional pre-design templates and dynamic content sections, which allow you to build your WooCommerce website in any niche.

I highly recommend “Smart Coupons For WooCommerce Coupons.” It is not 100% free, but the free function allows an automatic coupon once the condition is met. Many other plugins require a pro or premium version to use this.

There are two ways of making your ‘Out of Stock’ badges more eye-catching or aligned with your website’s overall look: by installing a suitable WordPress plugin such as FooGallery PRO Commerce for Out of Stock Badges, Sold Out Badge, etc., or by using custom code.

Setting up payment gateways in WooCommerce is a breeze. After activating WooCommerce, you can access the payment settings from the WooCommerce settings menu.

Here, you’ll find options for various payment methods, including credit/debit cards, PayPal, Stripe, and more. Select the gateways you wish to enable, fill out any required fields, and save the changes to start accepting payments.