WooCommerce happy engineer’s holiday list

In all the productive forces and preparations of the holiday, some important elements of your business may be subject to neglect. In the happiness of WoOCOMMERCE.com, we have identified four key areas -two physical fields, two technical areas -sometimes may cause some bumps on the road, and put the list together to let you understand.

Therefore, in order to allow your store to operate smoothly during this holiday, there are four aspects that need attention.

1. Analyze the operation of your store

On your website, search engine list (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) and social media pages ( Update your holiday business hours on Facebook, Pinterest, etc.).
• If you want to leave the operation during vacation and suspend operations, try to activate Woo Store Vacation to let people know that you have left for a while.

Check if you have enough holiday inventory, you don’t want to run out! Our bulk inventory management extension makes inventory overview and management easier -know more.

Check whether you have enough packaging for transportation.

Make sure you have a plan to manage return.

• Regardless of whether you accept the return, make sure that the customers on your website know this and the details of the return policy (such as: 30 days limit, must be opened, etc.).

  Woocommerce has built -in \”terms and conditions\” options, which can help you clear the terms.

  If you do accept the return, make sure that the return and refund steps are clear and easy for your customers. Return and Warranty Requests expansion helps to manage the process and also relax you.

Set up a limited period of time for your product

If you are not familiar with running online stores, or you provide new choices (product/payment/transportation) during this holiday, complete the entire order process from checkout to delivery. This will help you get familiar with every step of the process and prevent problems caused by accidents.

The checkout process

Check whether all pages (shops, products, checkouts) are loaded correctly.
• Check whether the \”Add to the Shopping Car\” button is valid, and you can add and delete the product in the shopping cart and checkout page.
  • Payment processor

If you have no orders, it is best to take a few test orders to ensure that your payment processor is normal Work. Most payment providers have a \”test mode\” option that allows you to order without actual payment. For more information, see your payment option/extension document.

• Try to order by login account and try to check out as a visitor (if you enable the settings).
  Check to ensure that the tax calculation is correct. Try to calculate and deduct taxes at the checkout of the Taxjar of Woocommerce. If you are not sure which taxes you need to charge, please consult the tax professionals.
  • Delivery options

Make sure you have set up all transportation areas correct Order to correctly calculate your freight. If your rate is incorrect, make sure you check whether the weight and size settings of the product are correct, and the address you are testing is correct and belongs to the area you transport to.

• If you have not shipped, you need to ensure that your available packaging is correct. In addition, make sure you understand any restrictions (weight, distance, size, residential/commercial, etc.) related to the transportation method you use.
  • 3. Intelligent update

  Update is essential for maintaining your website at the highest efficiency, but if it is not handled proper website.

Before updating on your real -time site, test the update update on the temporary storage site first Essence Unthically on the temporary storage site, the update may collapse your site, or cause the hidden problems you will hear from the customer later. Ask your hosting service provider, whether the temporary site is part of your host service package. If so, they will be able to help you set. If your host cannot help set up temporary sites, WP Staging is very suitable for fast cloning your real -time site.

• Updated before the holiday peak, not during the period.

  If you are not sure if you need to update, you can check your system statusEssence

  See if your theme or any plug -in needs to be updated.

Check if your theme has outdated template files. The document here will help fix the outdated template files, but it is best to contact your theme developer directly to get help to update first, because using the default file may change the appearance and/or functions of your website.

• Check the outdated PHP/MySQL/Server version. Make your server component latest. In addition, if you have not reached PHP 7, it is time to update to PHP 7. Seek help from your hosting service provider to solve any server problem you see.
  • If it is an emergency repair, it is updated during the holidays. If your website runs normally, please do not update before the end of the holiday. Ideally, you don’t want any shutdown in the busiest season of the year.

    You can determine whether the update is important and necessary by viewing the update detailed information in the expansion update log. By clicking the corresponding \”View Version XXX Detailed Information\” link, you should access the log in the plug -in update page. If you are not sure where it is, you can directly contact the plug -in developer and ask for the link to update the log.
  • • 4. Prepare the support plan

    It is very important that if you need it, you know where to find where to help help for help. Essence If X occurs, please contact Y and so on. In addition, if you encounter a problem, please do not wait until the last moment before contacting the supporters. Give them as many as possible to investigate the problem.

Host If if You are not sure if there is a backup, please contact your hosting service provider to help you set up and guide you to complete how to quickly restore backup. Make sure to run a complete backup every day.

If your hosting service provider is not helpful, we recommend that you check Jetpack Backups for automatic backup.