# What is WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is a Wordpress plugin to allow you to sell products with your web site. With WooCommerce you can turn your site into a shopping site and sell different types of products.

# How To Install WooCommerce?

WooCommerce can easily be installed via your Wordpress. If you haven't installed WooCommerce before, you can install it easily by following these steps ;

- Go to Wordpress Admin Dashboard
- Go to "Plugins > Add New"
- There you will see a search input. Enter "woocommerce" and click on "Search Plugins"
- It will search and display the results. There you will see a plugin named "WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce" click "Install Now"
- After installation click to activate
- When it's activated, it will ask you install pages. Click on it and it will install required Pages.
- Now you have succesfully installed WooCommerce

# Configuring WooCommerce

When you have installed and activated the WooCommerce you can start to sell your products. But before adding products, you will need to configure some options. Go to "WooCommerce > Settings"

There are different sections. In "General" settings tab you will be able to set up your country and currency options.

!Important : WooCommerce requires higher Memory limit. If you want to use WooCommerce you may need to increase your PHP and Wordpress Memory Limit. You can contact to your hosting/server for more details.

# How to Add Product?

There are different product models of WooCommerce. You can choose different models according to your needs. Here is an example of how to add a simple product

- In Wordpress go to "Products > Add Product"
- Enter a title for your product and enter the details of your product
- Choose "Simple Product" for your product Data under the content area
- Enter your product price.
- You can enter different values such as stock and shipping. Edit them as you like
- Set your product a featured image.
- You can also add more images by clicking "Add product gallery images" button at the right side.
- Scroll down the page and you will see "Product Short Description" text area. Enter a short description for your product
- Click Publish.

You can learn more about WooCommerce here ;

http://docs.woothemes.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/