Online selling is one of the best methods to market your products online to large number of audience. Every business now a days prefers to sell online as users tends to buy online more rather than visiting shops.
Here we will be discussing on how you can sell online using WordPress in 9 easy steps!
- Buy Domain
- Buy Hosting
- Download & Install WordPress on your hosting
- Setup theme
- Setup Online selling WordPress plugin
- Add products
- Add payment methods
- Add Shipping Method!
- Enjoy the setup!
Buy Domain and hosting
You need to buy domain for your online store. It can be your business name or any name which you wanted to choose. Once the domain is bought, Next step would be choosing the hosting. There are hundreds of hosting companies in the market. You can choose any of them depending on the server’s quality and your budget.
Download & Install WordPress
Once your hosting is ready. You need to install WordPress on it. WordPress is open source CMS and its free to use by anyone! You can click and install WordPress from your hosting panel.
Setup Theme
Now you need a theme for your online store. There are hundreds of themes available which have excellent online selling layout. They look great and easy to navigate as well. Make sure the theme you chose should be easy to navigate for buyers so they can buy anything from the store without any hassle.
Premium themes for WordPress are recommended as they are more mobile friendly and now days 60% traffic on the site is from mobile devices so you have to make sure the website looks perfect on mobile phone.
Setup Online Selling WordPress Plugin
Now we have to look for the best online selling plugins in WordPress. There are multiple options available. We would recommend WordPress as it’s the best one available and it’s a Free Plugin. It comes with massive functionalities and lot of updates very few days! You will get huge payment gateways options and also shipping can be made dynamic by adding the shipping rules you want.
You can enhance the features of the wooCommerce by adding more plugins to it and customize it as per your requirements.
Add Products
After wooCommerce installation. You need to add products to it. You can add products in it with both short and long description and also can add multiple images for the product. Product can be made with variations as well, users can select the product variations as per their choice.
Add payment and shipping methods
The last two steps can be adding payment gateways and shipping methods.
WooCommerce in WordPress comes with multiple payment gateways that can be added for free. You can install the payment gateway of your choice and click save! Some payment gateways need API integration as well so you need to learn on how to extract APIs from the online portal of the payment system.
The second and last thing is adding shipping method to the store. By default WordPress have multiple types of shipping system installed. You can chose and run any of them. It can be flat rate, can be dynamic rates depending upon the products weight, size and distance etc
That’s it! These are the basic steps for making an online store on the WordPress. You can customize the store upto your requirements and WordPress is much customizable cms!