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WooCommerce for shop staff

For people running an online shop day to day: orders, refunds, products, stock and promotions.

Everything you need to run the shop day to day, in the order you’ll usually need it: finding and sending orders, handling refunds, keeping products and stock up to date, and running promotions.

New to editing the website itself? Start with Editor onboarding.

  1. How to Login to your WordPress Website

    To Login to your WordPress website, follow these steps: In a browser window, navigate to the login screen at http://[your-domain]/wp-admin Replace [yo

    Getting in: your own login, never a shared one.

  2. Accessing the WordPress Dashboard

    Getting access to your WordPress dashboard is a simple task using our step by step guide Enter Login URL in Browser address bar The WordPress administ

    Where the shop sits in the dashboard (WooCommerce and Products).

  3. View More Items Per Page in WordPress Dashboard

    If you have a lot of pages, posts or products on your WordPress website, you may wish to view more the default 20 items at a time in the Dashboard index.

    See more orders and products on one screen.

  4. Find a WooCommerce order or customer

    Find an order by number, name or email, filter orders by status or date, and see a customer's order history.

    Orders: finding an order when a customer gets in touch.

  5. Process a WooCommerce order

    What each order status means, and how to move an order from paid to completed, with notes for your team and the customer.

    What each order status means, and sending an order out.

  6. Resend WooCommerce order emails

    Send a customer their order details again, or resend the new-order notification to your team.

    When a customer says they never got their confirmation.

  7. Refund a WooCommerce order

    Refund all or part of an order, put the items back into stock, and know whether the money is returned automatically.

    Full and part refunds, and putting items back into stock.

  8. Add a product in WooCommerce

    Add a new product to your shop: name, description, price, stock, images and categories, then publish it.

    Products: adding a new product.

  9. Providing Images or Video for your website

    When providing images or videos for your website please consider the following guidelines Image License Most importantly, you must hold a license for

    Preparing product photos so the shop stays fast.

  10. File Exceeds the Maximum Upload Size

    When uploading an image or other media to the WordPress Media Library, you may receive an error: File exceeds the maximum upload size for this site.

    If a photo is too big to upload.

  11. Update WooCommerce prices and stock

    Change a product's price, put it on sale or update its stock level quickly, without opening each product in full.

    Changing prices, sales and stock levels quickly.

  12. Change WooCommerce Product Order

    Ordering WooCoomerce products within the product catalogue (Shop, Category and tag pages) is quite straightforward.

    Choosing the order products appear in.

  13. Add Featured Products in WooCommerce

    Featured Products are a useful tool in WooCommerce for giving certain products additional visibility on your site.

    Highlighting products on the home page.

  14. Creating a WooCommerce Coupon or Voucher

    Creating a discount or promotional coupon in WooCommerce is very simnple and built into the core system.

    Promotions: discount codes and vouchers.

  15. Enable WooCommerce Vacation or Store Message

    If you are going away on holiday or need to display a message on your website that will appear on all pages, WooCommerce has built in a sitewide “St

    Closing the shop for a holiday, or showing a notice.

  16. How to Fix “Pardon our dust! We’re working on something amazing”

    WooCommerce 9.1 introduced a Site Visibility feature which allows you to take your website offline and hide it behind a Coming Soon style page.

    If the shop shows "Pardon our dust" instead of your products.

  17. Changes to Website not Showing

    To speed up web browsing, your browser will download and keep copies of your webpage locally on your device.

    If a change you made isn't showing yet.

  18. How to find the URL of a Webpage

    When submitting a support request, we will usually need to have the URL of the webpage you need help with.

    Send us the exact address of the page or order you need help with.

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