ComSi WooCommerce product synchronization between unlimited webshops

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1 ComSi WooCommerce product synchronization between unlimited webshops Start date: Author: Berend de Groot Description: Documentation for WooCommerce product synchronization unlimited webshops Version: 1 Status: Final 1

2 1. ABOUT THIS PLUGIN 3 2. FEATURES 3 3. PREVIEW PARENT WEBSITE: WEBSHOPS OVERVIEW PARENT WEBSITE: ADD NEW CHILD WEBSITE PARENT WEBSITE: SHARED PRODUCTS IN PRODUCT OVERVIEW PAGE PARENT WEBSITE: SHARED WEBSHOPS IN EDIT PRODUCT PAGE CHILD WEBSITE: PRODUCT OVERVIEW CHILD WEBSITE: LIMITED ACCESS IN OVERVIEW CHILD WEBSITE: LIMITED ACCESS IN EDIT PRODUCT PAGE 7 4. INSTALLATION PARENT WEBSITE CHILD WEBSITE 8 5. LIMITATIONS 9 6. FUTURE FEATURES 9 7. SUPPORT 9 2

3 1. About this Plugin The best solution out there to synchronize WooCommerce products between multiple websites. This plug-in is not limited to just two websites, instead an unlimited amount of websites can be added. You can choose for each individual product to which websites the products will be shared and it is done with only a few clicks. 2. Features Connect an unlimited amount of child websites to your parent website. Websites can be hosted on entirely different locations due the use of the WooCommerce REST Api. Categories, attributes and terms are always synchronized immediately. Decide yourself which products you share to each website, draft products are never shared. Bulk actions to push multiple products to a website. Action to push a product to multiple websites. All product information is pushed to the child website. Variable products are pushed to child websites. Downloadable products and files are pushed to child websites. Featured images are pushed + any extra images added to the product. Newly created tags and attributed in the create product screen are pushed to child websites. Column which shows on which website the product is shared. Add percentage to the price on a child website. Plug-in for both the parent as the child website. Attribute, tags and term cannot be deleted from a child website. Access to edit shared products on the child website is limited. Description and short description can be changed on child without being overwritten by the parent webshop. Debug errors are printed on the screen so they can be send to the developers. 3

4 3. Preview 3.1. Parent Website: Webshops Overview 3.2. Parent Website: Add new child website 4

5 3.3. Parent Website: Shared Products in product overview page 3.4. Parent Website: Shared Webshops in edit product page 5

6 3.5. Child Website: Product overview 3.6. Child Website: Limited access in overview 6

7 3.7. Child website: Limited access in edit product page 7

8 4. Installation This Plugin comes with a plug-in for the parent website, and a plug-in for the child website Parent Website Install the plugin on the parent website. Enable the Plugin. Go to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Api and enable the REST API Go to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Api -> Keys/Apps and generate a new customer key and secret pair. Save these two keys somewhere on your PC. Go to the installation of a child website first in 4.2 When the child installation is done go to the newly added menu item Webshops Click on Add New at the top of the overview. Give your Webshop a name and fill in the following fields: o Description (Optional) o Consumer Secret (Required) o Consumer Key (Required) o Webshop URL (Required) o Name Shop Owner (Optional) o Shop Owner (Optional) o Add percentage to Price (Optional) Save the Webshop. All done, you can now start sharing your products Child Website Install the plugin on each child website. Enable the Plugin. Go to the newly added menu item Parent Webshop. Enter the URL of your parent website. Enter the WooCommerce Consumer Key of your parent website. Enter the WooCommerce Consumer Secret of your parent website. Click Save Changes. Continue with the parent installation. 8

9 5. Limitations If the shop already contains categories, attributes, tags and terms before the Plugin is activated each category/attribute/tag/term needs to be saved so it will be pushed to the child websites. Customers and orders are not shared. 6. Future Features Notifications to store owners when products are shared from parent to child. Support multiple languages. Ability to choose which fields can be changed on the child website. Ability to synchronise all products in a certain category to a website. Overview of products shared on which website. 7. Support We are always ready to help with any questions you might have regarding our plug-in, on workdays we will always reply within 24 hours. This is just a first version and we have a lot planned for in the future. Feature requests and suggestions are always welcome. Feel free to contact us at any time on our plug-in page or mail to wordpress@comsi.nl! 9