Wonderful World of WooCommerce

Presentation at WordCamp Sydney to show off WooCommerce, the software and the community. Packed full of examples of WooCommerce being used as a foundational tool for all sorts of wild and wonderful entrepreneurial ideas.

Transcript

1. The Wonderful World of Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
2. @thenbrent http://brent.io
3. WooCommerce Stats Source: http://trends.builtwith.com/ Top Million Sites
4. WooCommerce Stats Source: http://trends.builtwith.com/
5. What is WooCommerce? ! What can you do with WooCommerce? ! How is WooCommerce used? Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
6. free (as in beer) WordPress shopping cart + open-source - free to do anything with it + community developed 280+ contributors + backed by a respected company + rapidly growing user base + hundreds of extensions
 ______________________ = DREAM COME TRUE What is WooCommerce? Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
7. WooCommerce 1.0 0 downloads
 1 x free theme
 6 x official themes
 9 x official extensions Today A Brief History +1 month Sept. 2011 2,350,000 downloads
 40+ official themes
 200+ 3rd party themes
 200+ official extensions
 400+ 3rd party extensions Oct. 2011 14,000 downloads 10 x official themes 20 x official extensions Sept. 2012 January 2014 4,500,000 downloads
 530+ five star reviews
 300+ available themes
 300+ official extensions
 400+ 3rd party extensions WooCommerce 2.2 +3 years 310,000 downloads
 24 x official themes 
 145 x official extensions
 30+ third party themes
 50+ third party extensions
 $500,000+ of extension sales +1 year WooCommerce 2.1 Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
8. What can I do with WooCommerce? Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
9. Publish Your Products
10. Publish Your Products
11. Simple Products
12. Variable Products
13. Variable Products
14. Variable Products
15. Grouped Products
16. Grouped Products
17. Grouped Products
18. External/Affiliate Products
19. Shopping Cart
20. Shopping Cart
21. Checkout
22. Checkout
23. Payments
24. Braintree Bitcoin Payment Extensions Stripe
25. Payments
26. Payments
27. Orders
28. Add/Edit Order
29. REFUND!!!!!111 Order
30. Customer’s Order View
31. Coupons
32. Shipping
33. Australia Post UPS FedEx Shipping Extensions
34. Reports
35. WooCommerce Theme
 200+ Or Your Existing Theme 3000+ … YMMV Themes
36. How is WooCommerce used?
37. STORES FOR BETTER
 EATING
38. MAKING IT EASIER TO GET THAT COFFEE FIX www.brownbear.co
39. FOOD FOR ELITE ATHLETES www.thefeed.com
40. FOR RESTAURANT ORDERS www.shanghaigardenbtn.co.uk
41. CALORIC CONTROLLED FOOD DELIVERY www.flexfoods.co
42. FOOD CONDIMENTS FOR OUR FURRY FRIENDS TOO www.mypetchup.com
43. START YOUR DAY YOUR WAY www.yousli.com.au
46. STORES FOR SERVICES
47. TRAINING REAL NINJAS IN A REAL DOJO www.hakkoryu-kennin.org Ninja beget Ninja Huzzah!
48. ADDING SPICE SALSA TO LIFE www.gottasalsa.com
49. HELPING BUSY PEOPLE KEEP A CLEAN HOME www.kisscleaners.com
50. MAKING LIVES MORE MUSICAL www.hdpiano.com I can’t thank you enough for the Subscriptions plug-in. It’s really making a dream come true.
51. STORES FOR THE ESSENTIALS
52. SOAP THAT SAVES THE WORLD www.soapboxsoaps.com
53. ECO-FRIENDLY NAPPIES FOR BUSY PARENTS www.nappy.ch
54. A CLEAN, HEALTHY SMILE FOR ALL www.smilesforthepeople.com
56. It was an ultra-lean startup, so I spent as little money as possible on it. As I got deeper, I learned that WooCommerce was really, really easy to learn.
57. REALLY
 BIG
 STORES
58. 60,000 BOOKS FOR KIDS KINDERS www.kinder-book.de
59. “HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS” OF ORDERS www.woothemes.com
60. 30,000 GROOVY TRACKS, ON VINYL www.soulbrother.com
61. REALLY
 LITTLE
 STORES
62. JUST THE ONE TWO PRODUCTS www.designerfounders.com
63. STORES IN ANY
 LANGUAGE
64. PARTS FOR ROBOT MAKERS IN TURKEY www.robotus.net
65. PANTYHOSE, IN NETHERLANDS www.pantyabonnement.nl
66. SECURITY SYSTEMS, IN RUSSIA www.mircamer.com
67. STORES THAT TURN
 WOOCOMMERCE
 UPSIDE DOWN
68. DESIGN A ONE PAGE CHECKOUT, WITH
 ONE PROBLEM www.designerfounders.com
69. PARKING SPOTS MAPPED TO A PRODUCT www.tailgatersparking.com
70. START YOUR DAY
 YOUR WAY www.yousli.com.au
71. We could just do whatever we wanted to do.
72. STORES FOR ALL THE THINGS
73. RENTING THE POWER TO WALK AGAIN www.flexleg.com
74. THE GIFT OF EDUCATION www.greenkidcrafts.com
75. KEEPING YOUR BAIT BOX STOCKED www.tacklegrab.com
76. PREVENTING CLIMATE CHANGE www.terrapass.com
77. AMERICA’S LOCAL COMIC BOOK STORE www.comiccartel.io
78. It was like “holy crap” that we can actually do this with WooCommerce, whoa.
79. The best thing about iPhone 
 is not iPhone
80. The best thing about iPhone 
 is not iPhone it’s the games Apps
81. The best thing about WooCommerce 
 is not WooCommerce
82. The best thing about WooCommerce 
 is not WooCommerce it’s the extensions ... and themes ... and support ... but mostly the extensions
83. Stripe, Authorize.net, all the PayPals and 100 more Payments Accounting Shipping Marketing Functionality Xero, Quickbooks, Freshbooks Australia Post, USPS, FedEx, UPS, Canada Post and dozens more Bookings, Subscriptions, Pre-orders,
 Product add-ons Gravity Forms, Name your Price, Email marketing, SMS marketing, Twitter Product Cards
84. Freshbooks Xero Quickbooks Accounting
85. Follow Up Emails MailChimp SMS Notifications Email & SMS
86. Bookings Pre-orders Checkout Fields Miscellaneous
87. The best thing about WooCommerce 
 is not WooCommerce it’s the extensions community ... and themes ... and support ... but mostly the community
88. WooConf Slides: http://bit.ly/1bh73HF
89. Meetups San Francisco Los Angeles Sydney? Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
90. WooThemes www.woothemes.com/woocommerce WordPress.org www.wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce Learn More Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
91. Sell with WP www.sellwithwp.com Patrick’s Blog speakinginbytes.com Learn More Prospress prospress.com/blog Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
92. www.packtpub.com/building-ecommerce-solutions-with-woocommerce/book Learn More
93. Thank you! Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG
94. Using WooCommerce? Slides: http://bit.ly/1rz0oEG