It is a major measure to plan your own online store. This is a greater measure when you operate in a country/region that are not in the United States or Canada, or in English is not the first choice language.
If you are an international WOOCOMMERCE user or you will have international customers, then you need to consider some special things when building a store . These influences from your language to the currency you accept to the taxes you receive. Although this requires the preliminary work of , the final result is definitely worth it.
The following is our best suggestion for those who are about to open their own Woocommerce stores globally or extend to the international field.
The first thing to do: Get woocommerce in your language
If you want to sell it to people, you need to speak their language. Common sense, OUI
By default, Woocommerce offers English versions. To switch to other languages, you can the translation version of the plug -in from wordpress.org.
After adding basic language support, please take a few minutes to browse WordPress.org to find other plugins that may help you are using a specific language or region. For example, WooCommerce for Japan adds additional address fields at the checkout, and a field that writes the name of the recipient with simple characters rather than more complicated characters -most Japanese stores are available.
Select the currency you will use -and the content you want to display
Woocommerce only allows accepting one basic currency
as payment as paymentpayment. The system will require you to define this currency during the setting period, but you can make other changes from the setting \u0026 gt; directory \u0026 gt; conventional screen, and adjust the display option from the directory \u0026 gt; pricing option.
The pricing option allows you to move the position of the currency symbol to the left or right to the right, move thousands of positions and thousands of positions Decimal separators, etc. Because the writing methods of currencies in various countries are very different, this is an important detail of the correct treatment.
Other pricing options set for international stores.
. If your store will become a real global destination, try it.
Find the payment gateway suitable for your country … and
Customer preference
What is an unacceptable shop? (Answer: Catalog.)
When you choose to pay the gateway, the most important thing to find is the compatibility with your region and currency. But there are some other things to consider:
site or non -scene
- -s in some countries, being guided to external sites and entering your payment information may be considered as as Unsafe, unless the provider is a trusted provider. But in other circumstances, this redirection is trusted to be actually
- . Do some research before deciding whether to integrate or redirect. The trusted name
- SSL, PCI compliance and security
- In essence -it is not just currency.
—— Continue this idea, some gateways are well known (even may even be the first choice), while others are not. What does your client look forward to? What do they trust most?
-If if you want to integrate the payment gateway, you need to ensure that all data stored on your website is safe and reliable. This page on the PCI Security Standard Committee website is a good starting point.
This is what your client says \”Yes, I believe this store\” instead of \”this looks strange, I will shop elsewhere.\”
The following are more matters that need to be considered when choosing a payment gate Information and pages with useful links. Add appropriate taxes and value -added tax
Although WooCommerce aims to make the process of setting taxes as simple as possible, you still need
to abide by the tax rules and regulations you will sell ].
Note that you study the taxes of the jurisdiction of the judicial jurisdiction you plan to transport the product, and then set the rules of the site to appropriately apply taxes. You may only need one rule … or you may need a lot.
Be careful about these taxes!
If your product price will list non -tax or VAT (very common in some countries/regions), but you will be transported to areas where more common prices include value -added tax, you may may be It needs
so that all customers know that they are not surprised by the extra costs at the checkout.Finally, according to the type of store you operated, customers in European countries/regions may request (even expect) to provide invoices with your VAT registration number after purchasing. You can expand this file in a PDF format with WooCommerce, and place your VAT number (or other tax information) in a custom field.
I hope to buy it from an enterprise exempt from VAT? We also expanded this. Before setting the corresponding option Test transportation method
It is easy to assume what you know the best transportation choice, especially if you live in a country you will sell /area.
But if you don’t do this?
Even if you live near the location where your product will be transported to the location, you should still test multiple operators and speed before setting the corresponding options in the store
. After all, what uses you is not necessarily useful for your customers.
Applicable to your way of transportation does not necessarily apply to your store. (Picture source: Servint)
Of course, you will want to see how fast the parcel is reached, and also to see how their condition and the handling of the package. You also need to understand the speed that generates tracking information and send it to you, and the integrated type of each operator and your store.
Test is the best way to try to be familiar withHow do you test the transportation method before opening the store?
Some ideas:
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Contact may be willing to receive some test packages Friends and family members For places, please set contact with other business owners
on LinkedIn
- , etc., to see if you can exchange benefits -for example, they let you know how your transportation method is executed, you can try some tests The product is to complete all other tasks on your website for them
- , and set the group settings for a small group to provide feedback on the way they choose closed test version
- [ 123] Add product information or website content in appropriate language
- all customers, not just most customers. The content is something often ignored on international websites, but it is essential to provide a good experience for shoppers
Is there a multi -language store? Think about the method of appease
.
If you don’t have many products, it may be worth spending time to add product names, specifications and descriptions to the page. If some customers use public systems without other customers, please pay attention to re -calculating any measurement value.
If there are many types It will not be able to solve the problem. In this case, WordPress
automatic translation plug -in like this can solve the problem. Note that the holidays and special seasons of each country Once your store starts operation, you still need Pay attention to the differences between the country or region and its people
. This is particularly important when it comes to any marketing you may.
For example, many countries celebrate Christmas on December 25. But in Russia, Christmas will not be celebrated until January 7. This means that any store transported to Russia may issue orders before the 25th (or even more than 25 days), and your store may close.
The following are some suggestions on when you carry out special promotion in your store, depending on the celebration festival or your target country/region. (There is even a able calendar, you can use it to plan everything!)
You you Where can I use WoOOCOMMERCE?
You have it: the technique of establishing a successful international store.By following these prompts (of course, reading our useful documents), you will start creating a successful e -commerce website, which is famous for the world. Now we have done it, we want to know: Where do you build your store? Joking us in the comments, sharing where you build a store, or which country/region you will be sold.We are happy to listen to your opinions.
Where do you use WOO?
If you are looking for more ideas, we have collected some incredible examples of the Woocommerce store from all over the world.Visit the Woocommerce display cabinet to get the inspiration and stories of the same shop owner.After completion, you can even submit your store!
