Learn How To Make Soy Candles at Home

How to make soy candles at home. Simple instructions for amazing results. It's Candle Making Time!

Learn how to make incredible soy candles at home. Simple instructions for amazing results. It's Candle Making Time!

Set up Shipping in Woocommerce-Build a Web Store Part 4

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In this 4th video in the series about building a web store for your candle business (this certainly pertains to other businesses as well!), I show you how to set up shipping in Woocommerce with a real time shipping calculator by the company AuctionInc. This calculator works with Woocommerce to give you real shipping rates.

For candles, a real time shipping calculator is very important. Without one, you would have to set up zones and figure out how much it might cost to ship items to different zones, and then specify the weights, and in what increments the shipping price will go up and so on……..

It’s a big pain in the neck! lol

With a real time calculator, you just set up the weight for each item and dimensions, and a few other things, and then when someone purchases, the shipping calculator gets the shipping price straight from USPS, UPS or whoever your preferred carrier is!

How To Setup Woocommerce in WordPress-Web Store Part 3

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First off, if you haven’t watched the first 2 videos in this series, you can click one below:

If you already have a WordPress site up and running, you can probably skip the first two videos in the series and go right into this one.

*And, like I talked about in the first video in this series, if you don’t have a web host yet you can check out Bluehost . Yes, it is an affiliate link, and I do make a commission if you sign up using that link (thank you in advance if you do!), but I have been with them for over 8 years and they have been great!

In this video, How to Setup Woocommerce in WordPress, I will take you through installing a theme that works well with Woocommerce called Storefront. It is a free theme made specifically to work with Woocommerce. I decided to switch themes after the second video since this theme works much more smoothly with the Woocommerce plugin and I wanted to make things as simple as possible for you!

I will also walk you through installing the Woocommerce plugin and setting it up to get ready to start selling your products! I go through most of the setup, except for shipping. We will talk about setting up shipping in the 4th video.

Since this is the first time I’ve done a series like this, I am not certain how many more videos there will be, but I am anticipating 2 more before we are done and ready to start getting traffic to your store!

Some things I still need to cover in the next couple videos:

  • Setting up shipping with real time shipping costs
  • Adding useful widgets
  • Customizing site colors, background and text
  • Adding header image/logo
  • Cleaning up any other loose ends!

I hope these videos are helping get your website/web store up and running, and please let me know if you have questions or if I’ve left anything out! I can take constructive criticism too 🙂  It will help me learn how I can improve future videos.

Thanks for watching, and if you like these videos, please be sure to click over to Youtube and click like on the video, as well as subscribing to my channel if you haven’t already!