Webhooks is a term used for sending data to a URL when an event happens. An example is when someone subscribes to an email marketing list, the service that manages the list can send data like the subscriber’s name and email to another system like a Customer Relationship Manager. WooCommerce Webhooks were added to the WooCommerce 2.2 codebase in July of 2014.
Recently I had a talk with Jai from SellWithWP.com. We talked about my background with WooCommerce, working on client projects here at Grow Development, and selling commercial WooCommerce plugins at ShopPlugins.com.
Check out the interview here.
In April I gave a workshop at WooConf titled RESTful WooCommerce.
The first part of the workshop was recorded and is available to watch over on the WooConf site. You can view the video here.
The workshop introduced attendees to the WooCommerce REST API. Here are some of the topics covered:
Then we had three exercises where the workshop attendees were able to connect to a site, pull order data, and update products on the site all through the API.
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In today’s show, I answer questions about removing checkout blocks, and I review a new plugin in the WordPress.org repository.
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In today’s show, I answer questions about exporting orders to a custom CSV format, offering half-price shipping, and filtering out zero total orders from the WooCommerce Orders page.
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Today I was joined by Gabor Javorszky from Prospress.
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Today I relaunched the WooCommerce Office Hours show. The show is an hour long hangout, where I answer questions about running an ecommerce store with WooCommerce. The show airs every Tuesday at 2pm EST.
By default, WooCommerce 2.2.8 ships with five payment gateways:
If you want to have only one payment gateway available on the Checkout page, the unused payment gateways can be disabled in the admin settings.
After a few years of selling the Store Locations Pro Magento extension, I’ve decided to retire it as of 6/1/2014. I will be focusing on different ecommerce platforms instead of Magento. It was a good run but with the latest Magento version, 1.9, being released and the new 2.0 version on the horizon I don’t want to keep up with the codebase.
If you are a license holder and need access to a zip, contact me.
UPDATE: This plugin is now owned/maintained by our friends at WooThemes
If you have a Xero account, you know how it organizes your businesses accounting simply and elegantly. Now with Xero for WooCommerce, you can seamlessly integrate the sales data from your ecommerce site into your Xero account.
After you purchase and install the Xero for WooCommerce extension, the sales in your store will be automatically exported to Xero as invoices as they happen. Corresponding payments will also be created for the invoices.
The administrator can set up accounts for each of the sales items to be posted to using the Xero account number.
Line items from your orders are moved over to Xero with quantity and unit price. Shipping charges and discounts are added as line items.
All of this saves you time from doing data entry and allows you to access sales data for your ecommerce site, along with the rest of your accounts.
You can purchase Xero for WooCommerce here, and access the documentation for the product here.