{"id":311,"date":"2017-10-11T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=311"},"modified":"2017-10-31T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T08:08:32","slug":"running-and-maintaining-a-successful-online-store-using-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/running-and-maintaining-a-successful-online-store-using-woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Running and Maintaining a successful online store using WooCommerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a type of case study on a newly launched website that has reached R 1 million sales on a WordPress and WooCommerce site in 1 year September 2016 (launch month) &#8211; September 2017.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our website has some products that have over 100 variations on 1 product= 123 Variants is our biggest product. Basically I can pack out an entire room or 2 rooms&#8217; floors using only the same 1 product in different colours and sizes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Managing stock on WooCommerce,<br \/>\n&#8211; managing the WooCommerce and WordPress platform with Flatsome Theme.<br \/>\n&#8211; Building plugins to enhance this theme and our store-front!<br \/>\nSo this will be about running a successful store using Woocommerce. Tips about what to do, what not to do. Tips on what to use, how to market, how to provide excellent customer service, and provide a remarkable shopper experience online.<br \/>\nSome more topics I can cover.<br \/>\n&#8211; Simplifying the website layout, using new tools and old tools.<br \/>\n&#8211; The advantages of a UX Builder in your theme.<br \/>\n&#8211; Integrations of mailchimp, payfast, i-pay and several other.<br \/>\n&#8211; The challenges we faced with over 8000 products.<br \/>\n&#8211; Hosting solutions and problems we faced etc.<br \/>\nThose are some of the information. If it should be a case study what we used and how we made it successful that would be great too.<br \/>\nThis topic can be beneficial for both developers and users.<br \/>\nI believe that developers sometimes need to see what the cosmetic side of what they do should look like too, and how to provide a great customer experience by simplifying the look of the website for your &#8216;average joe&#8217; to navigate it.<br \/>\nHanna Partridge Managing Director<br \/>\nHorze-South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be a type of case study on a newly launched website that has reached R 1 million sales on a WordPress and WooCommerce site in 1 year September 2016 (launch month) &#8211; September 2017. &#8220;Our website has some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/running-and-maintaining-a-successful-online-store-using-woocommerce\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Running and Maintaining a successful online store using WooCommerce<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15717545,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1510323300,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[310],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[4057],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-311","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-talk-day-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8sybv-51","session_date_time":{"date":"November 10, 2017","time":"2:15 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"310","slug":"hanna-partridge","name":"Hanna Partridge","link":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/hanna-partridge\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/311\/revisions\/549"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/310"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/neohanna"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannesburg.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}