List of WooCommerce Development Mistakes that can cost you

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List of WooCommerce Development Mistakes that can
cost you
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• Every business owner loves to see the business
  flourish be it online or offline.
• But somewhere they make mistakes which cost them
  their prosperity. One such mistake occurs when
  mishandling your WooCommerce store.
• WooCommerce is a tool, designed by WordPress with
  elegant themes and efficient plugins, to help you
  sell products online.
• According to WooCommerce, with 51M downloads, it
  powers over 28 of all online stores and the
  number can be changing with time.
• But, most of the times, many store owners miss
  some important points and make huge mistakes with
  their WooCommerce website design.
• Today, we will roam our eyes to the possible
  mistakes that happen in WooCommerce Development
  that can charge the business thrice the cost of
  its development.

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• 1. Forgetting A Staging Site
• First of all, for my fellows to whom staging site
  is an alien, it is a complete reflection of your
  live website which is built to test the site
  before making it live. It helps you test the
  themes, plugins, and custom codes and rectify any
  errors found.
• For the online stores, it is quite essential to
  have created a staging site to keep the sites
  back safe.
• Many times at 21Twelve Interactive, which is one
  of the Best E-commerce Magento and WooCommerce
  development company, we come across the client
  issues where websites have lost orders due to the
  negligence of the staging site before making the
  store live.
• At those times, we see our clients suffering
  because of the money and the time it costs to
  them in resolving that error.
• This error can substantially be avoided if a
  staging site is developed with a proper help by
  hiring a WooCommerce Development Company which is
  highly recommended as staging site has got your
  WooCommerce stores back.
• Anything foul with your online store cannot be
  tolerated as it can directly affect your
  business.

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• 2. WORKING ON AN OUTDATED WOOCOMMERCE VERSION
• When owning an online business, keeping it
  updated must be on 1 on your to-do list.
  WooCommerce is a framework with a very active
  update release cycle and while possessing one,
  you need to be active with the updates too.
• While running an outdated version can make itself
  and your business exposed to all sorts of
  attacks. It lacks the latest security features,
  which can bring lots of cyber-threats to your
  online store.
• Also, an outdated version wont help you provide
  the best User Experience to your users. It cannot
  provide all the usability that the framework can
  offer with the updated version. And ultimately,
  it leads to an unhappy user experience, which you
  would definitely not prefer to accept.
• While people think that old version helps them to
  use the third party plugins and themes, the truth
  is something else!
• First, if WooCommerce experts do not update the
  version and ensure the compatibility with the
  update within a short while after the release, it
  opens the doors to all the risks discussed above.
• Secondly, WooThemes and most third-party
  developers support the current version of
  WooCommerce and one version back. It means that
  running an older version than those will not help
  you get the official support for the plugins and
  themes.

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• 3. SECURITY CAN BE CHECKED LATER.
• Can security be checked later? Well, the answer
  is a big NO!
• These are the days when people go for a thousand
  checks to see if they are updating their crucial
  information on a secure platform.
• If by any chance, the site seems to be missing on
  the security, it is likely to lose the
  credibility of visitors turning to loss of the
  customers.
• Thus, good website security is a prime factor to
  be considered to increase the customers
  confidence in buying from your online store.
• This makes it necessary for the store owners to
  keep the security updated before anything else.
• There are ways to achieve the security highness
  on the store, such as making key areas secure,
  like My Account area, checkout process, and
  payment page area, with an SSL certificate.
• Furthermore, if your site is not HTTPS enabled,
  it would be marked as non-secured as per the
  update from Google Webmasters. Which says, if
  your site collects crucial information like
  passwords or credit/debit card credentials, the
  whole site needs to have HTTPS enabled.

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• 4. NOT CHECKING SYSTEM STATUS REPORT
• When developing an online eCommerce store, there
  are possibilities of getting the
  misconfigurations to happen in the system.
• Misconfigurations, which are so common with
  WooCommerce, can cause a big hazard to your
  WooCommerce system.
• So to avoid that, WooCommerce team has included a
  System Status Report within the plugin listing
  several useful points on information about the
  site, versions of the plugin, active themes, PHP
  version, web server version and lots more.
• This helps the owners notice the issues easily as
  the details causing trouble to your system is
  colour coded with red. Also, every red will have
  an explanation following it about what the
  problem is.
• Not checking on to this report can make you miss
  on many resolutions which later can cost you a
  huge amount of time, efforts and money.
• Also, hiring a Woocommerce development company
  helps you get trained in all these aspects making
  you independent enough to take the basic care of
  your store.

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• 5. DID NOT SET THE SELLING LOCATIONS
• WooCommerce has come up with a feature Selling
  Locations allowing you to set the targeting
  countries of the sale. You can set them in the
  General tab under Settings.
• You can also restrict the countries available on
  Billing and Shipping Address forms on the
  Checkout page. You can get it done in the
  Shipping tab under Settings
• You may end up receiving orders from countries
  which may seem like Jupiter and Mars to you if
  you miss out setting specific locations.
• Which may later result in you apologizing to the
  customers for being unable to deliver the
  products to their place and refunding the money
  collected, sometimes losing extra on the
  processing fee.
• A better option can be called out by keeping
  an eCommerce Development Company on your side to
  avoid all these hassles and get it done as
  desired.

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• 6. JUMPING OVER THE BACKUPS
• There may be some unknown reasons but people
  oversee taking backups which is not at all a
  saviour.
• If you have an online store, security and backups
  NEED to be the highest on your priority list.
• No matter what method you use, but it is
  essential to take backups of your WooCommerce
  store daily and retaining them for at least 7
  days.
• There are businesses those still run their online
  stores, without taking backups, successfully with
  a good number of customers. For such businesses,
  all it may take is one dreadful security incident
  to sweep off everything. That thought itself is
  like a nightmare.
• Nowadays, you can find millions of WordPress
  backup options those are free also, the ones
  that can provide you support with a payment
  structure for a specific period. One such good
  option is to hire a Woocommerce development
  company to assist you all with it and take the
  pain for you.
• One more aspect of the WooCommerce development
  services is eCommerce platform migration.
• We all know how fast and developing this online
  business has become. The module that produced
  millions for your business previous year may not
  be the best player this year.
• It is very essential to be on the top of the
  update cycle if you wish to pursue in the
  competition and win every day. Some updates are
  like a plaything which can be made easily but
  some need be taken a keen eye on them in order to
  get it done properly.

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• So, e-commerce platform migration comes with a
  good option as you have to preserve all your hard
  work while accepting the change. These are the
  times when you should hire WooCommerce developer
  to help you with the platform migration.
• Platform migration can affect the SEO ranking,
  daily visitors count, website traffic and most
  importantly the company revenue. It also is a
  pain sometimes to go through the list of top
  eCommerce development companies who can assist
  you with this task.
• But, nothing to go on the pills because of this
  stress. This Woocommerce development company
  India, USA is up with the WooCommerce development
  and customization services to safely migrate your
  store from one platform to another.
• If migration is something that recently came upon
  your mind, I would suggest you to remember
  avoiding the following mistakes.
• 7. MAKING THE STORE LIVE WITHOUT VALIDATION AND
  TESTING
• Platform Migration is an important aspect but not
  the only parameter to be looked after.
• It comes with lots of things to be checked after
  the completion of the migration process in order
  to manage the new portal effectively.
• But most of the times, people make a slip by
  throwing the new website live before properly
  validating and testing its efficiency.

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• 9. GIVING A SURPRISE TO YOUR CUSTOMERS, ALL OF A
  SUDDEN
• We may like magic tricks, but some may become
  tragic ones for the business.
• It is when you when you launch your new website
  without informing your customers of the change.
• They are your hard earned customers who
  maintained a long-term relationship with your
  business, loved your products and services. They
  are familiar with your website and like its
  functionalities.
• It becomes your moral responsibility to make your
  customers aware of before launching the new
  website, explaining to them your plans and the
  reason to change along with the advantages and
  benefits they can get from that platform.
• You need to have a trained team to make that
  effort for you by your side. You can also hire a
  WooCommerce agency who is expert in this.
• 10. MIGRATING PLATFORM WITHOUT A PROFESSIONAL
  DEVELOPMENT COMPANYS HELP
• Out of many, one of the most pinching effects is
  the decrease in the sales number after the
  website migration.
• This pain can be avoided if you choose to work
  with a faithful and a Best E-commerce Magento and
  WooCommerce development company with the proven
  history in the development skills.
• Remember, not all WooCommerce developers can
  restore SEO Ranking, Google authorities, daily
  visitor counts, website traffic and the profit.
• Just make sure that you are working with a
  WooCommerce agency who is well proficient and
  cautious of the risks so as to keep your store on
  the track and flourish even more with good
  business numbers.

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• This is one of the vital processes to validate
  and test the set-up, framework, plugins,
  customised codes, and overall functionality of
  the new WooCommerce store well before making it
  live.
• If you would have kept an eCommerce website
  development company by your side during the
  migration process, they will make all the
  parameter checks and validation before the site
  live so as to avoid any major problems such false
  updates on the live website, etc.
• 8. COST CUTTING ON PROFESSIONAL SEO HELP
• Your stores SEO performance is the significance
  of the health of your eCommerce store.
• Many wounded store owners go for the SEO
  renovation after facing the damage to their
  previous SEO ranking.
• Any changes must not be affecting your business
  health thus, it is a fundamental step to hire
  WooCommerce experts to take care of your SEO
  while migration.
• As my team here deals with many WooCommerce
  websites in India, USA, we know how important SEO
  rankings stand for an online business and hence,
  pertaining to the fact, we have our hands trained
  for all the sorts of SEO help a business may
  require.

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• ConclusionWe read about a few possible
  mistakes these are ten, there can be even more
  behind the bushes to harm your business. You are
  ought to take all the anchoring steps that will
  hold your business profits intact and help them
  grow.
• Better it is, whenever you think of moving to an
  online store newly for your business or if you
  have an online store but thinking of the platform
  migration, give a shout out to this Woocommerce
  development company India, USA who is proficient
  and able to sweat out to retain your business
  profit the same way as you are.
• This article is originally published on 21Twelve
  Interactives Blog Page.

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