Basic ecommerce (Woocommerce)

In this course, you learn to create a Woocommerce store within Pantheon; develop your idea for an online store and the products it offers; create physical (both simple and variable) and digital products; design the front page of your store; create individual pages for each of your products; use variables and attributes for product details; customize and experiment with themes; set up payment, taxes, shipping; back up your WooCommerce site.

Your WooCommerce site will be located in Pantheon free-access. However, to go live with your WooCommerce site, you will need to pay Pantheon a monthly fee or find and migrate to another web service.

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In this course, you:

• read about ecommerce and Woocommerce; visit Woocommerce sites to understand how it us used
• create your own free Pantheon site and WooCommerce site that exists within Pantheon
• develop ideas for your own WooCommerce site and the products it offers
• create physical and digital products with descriptions and settings such as costs, inventory status
• create variable products that depend on amount ordered, size, color, etc.
• design an inviting, attractive front page for your WooCommerce store
• create attractive pages for each of your products
• set up your payment method, taxation, shipping
• try out different available themes or customize your own
• back up your WooCommerce site in case of crash

You use links, videos and transcripts of those videos to learn these tasks, e-mail your instructor when you have questions, and notify your instructor when you have parts of your WooCommerce site ready for review.

Example units from this course:

• WooCommerce Add Products
• Create Variations and Attributes for Your Products and Services

Course cost: McMurrey Associates $175 US; no other purchases necessary.

Here are the policies for this course:

• You have 93 days to complete the units of this course.
• You are welcome to work ahead of the schedule you see on your schedule page for this course. If you foresee needing extra time, contact admin@mcmassociates.io
• You can choose whether to take this course for a letter grade or pass–fail.
• No refunds will be granted after the third day that you have access to this course.
• Unless results are automatic, your instructor will review, comment on, and return your work within three days of receipt. Expect an e-mail confirmation that your instructor has received your work.
• Your instructor is available many hours per week to answer your questions and provide other help. Setting up an appointment works best.
• The topics in this course are the most important at beginning and intermediate levels. You can request units on other topics; your instructor will consider adding them.
• Your instructor will gladly provide you with a letter describing the quality of your work in this course.
• Your instructor will make reasonable efforts to ensure your success in this course but can make no guarantees concerning your writing or career success outside of this course.

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