Summary

If you only have one store, you shouldn’t have to worry too much about syncing data between multiple systems. But as your business grows, you’ll likely need to share data between systems.

In this chapter, we learned how to export and import CSV files from and into your WooCommerce site. That means you can connect any system to WooCommerce, and that is incredibly powerful. By importing and exporting the right data, you can test any piece of software and see whether it works for you and your business.

We also learned how to use an ERP system that can keep all of our data in one place. With an ERP in place, you don’t need to sync data with CSV files, and preventing human error should help your business run more efficiently. This is not to mention that many ERPs have advanced e-commerce functionality, such as forecasting demand and managing the purchase order process. Now, we’re ready to share data with other systems.

In the next chapter, we...