Woo for international shop project?

  • joernr

    (@joernr)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    what do you mean? Does WooCommerce is the right choice for a b2b project with the following features?

    – Up to 20 different languages and countries (usa, europe, asia)
    – Product availability differs from country to country
    – approx. 4,000 products
    – Prices differs from country to country and client to client (registration required)
    – Single cLient data administration incl. list of all client side installed machines (required to offer parts for this machines)
    – Ordered products will be delivered from within the selected country
    – Product data will be administrated inside the countries own SAP or NAV installation
    – Exchange of data between the shop and the ERP system at night via im-/export (i.e. csv)
    – Technical administration at one place
    – Content administration (i.e. offers, teaser) from within each country

    Can handle one WooCoomerce installation this scenario? How is the backend usability of such a system?

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  • Joel Williams

    (@joelwills)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there!

    I’ll try to answer your questions:

    – Up to 20 different languages and countries (usa, europe, asia)

    WooCommerce is fully translatable. If you want to allow users to switch languages then a multilingual plugin will be needed. There are several like WPML, MultilingualPress, Polylang and so on.

    – Product availability differs from country to country

    You can use a plugin to do this like Conditional Shipping and Payments to restrict shipping or products to different countries. There are other options out there too.

    – approx. 4,000 products

    This all depends on your hosting setup rather than WooCommerce itself. There isn’t a limit in WooCommerce.

    – Prices differs from country to country and client to client (registration required)

    You can use a plugin like Dynamic Pricing or Role Based Pricing to change price based on a variety of factors. Multilingual plugins often have multi-currency add-ons to allow for different prices per currency.

    – Single cLient data administration incl. list of all client side installed machines (required to offer parts for this machines)

    I’m not sure what this means, sorry.

    – Ordered products will be delivered from within the selected country

    By default WooCommerce only has one base address, so customization would be needed here or multiple installations.

    – Product data will be administrated inside the countries own SAP or NAV installation
    – Exchange of data between the shop and the ERP system at night via im-/export (i.e. csv)
    – Technical administration at one place

    These will all depend on what systems you’re using and whether integrations (API or plugins) already exist or you may have to create them

    – Content administration (i.e. offers, teaser) from within each country

    Again there are ways to do this with multi-lingual plugins.

    Hope that helps!

    Thread Starter joernr

    (@joernr)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    @joelwills
    Thank you for this detailled answere. Meanwhile I’ve collected several statements which says: “Yes, you can do a lot with PlugIns – but this huge plugin party can result in unexpected problems.” Maybe this could be real.

    Joel Williams

    (@joelwills)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    6 years, 3 months ago

    That sounds about right 🙂

    Anything can be done, but it requires testing with the solutions you find and any custom code you write in order to check it all works the way your specific scenario requires.

    All the best!

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