Introduction

Running an e-commerce store still involves quite a bit of work to manage the store and fulfill your orders. You'll have to know how to communicate with customers, how to refund orders, and how to give away sample products. The first set of recipes in this chapter tells you how to perform all of those essential functions.

WooCommerce is very flexible and there are plugins to help you customize your order numbers to match an existing system, to send order notifications to third parties for drop-shipping, and to import orders from an existing store.

The last set of recipes in this chapter is all about taxes. There are recipes to help you set up taxes yourself and there is also a recipe that shows you how to integrate with a third-party service that will handle all of the taxes for you.