Imagine this: You’re a WooCommerce store owner in full control of your business, ready to cash in on the holiday rush by expanding to Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Etsy. But managing inventory, orders, and product listings across multiple platforms? That’s an operational nightmare. To stay ahead of the curve and keep your business in control, you need the right tools in your arsenal. That’s where the Multichannel Integration for WooCommerce comes in. This game-changing solution lets you maintain the same control over your WooCommerce selling operations while you expand seamlessly to leading marketplaces. In this blog, we’ll give you a quick overview of how the Multichannel plugin for WooCommerce makes your selling journey easier.
5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Multichannel Integration for WooCommerce
Backed by CedCommerce’s 14+ years of experience in serving eCommerce businesses with industry-leading integration solutions, the Multichannel for WooCommerce integration is trusted by merchants for scaling their business on global marketplaces. This innovative WooCommerce app was created to bring the capabilities of individual integrations for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Etsy, trusted by thousands of merchants – in a single integration.
Simplified Workflow
Save time and ensure accuracy: You can sync your product inventory levels and orders (for starters) via the multichannel integration for WooCommerce, ensuring that your stock levels are synchronized across all platforms. This eliminates the need to maintain and keep track of product levels manually. The integration smoothly syncs your operations across multiple marketplaces with WooCommerce to establish a smooth workflow.
Expanding to Multiple marketplaces in a cost-effective way
Global expansion in a cost-effective way: The multichannel plugin for WooCommerce is highly advantageous for SMBs as it consolidates all your targeted marketplaces’ listings, orders, and inventory in place. This helps you save time and manage global-level selling operations with fewer resources. This WooCommerce app also comes with pricing plans suitable for businesses of all sizes.
Automated Settings to make your life easier
Auto Product syncing and order creation: Stay ahead of your competition with automatic settings for products, inventory, and orders. You also get functions for different product settings for your targeted marketplaces, categorizing products, importing orders and products, and advanced mapping capabilities. All of these are developed to help you achieve operational efficiency and scale your business.
Easily Accessible Scalability
The integration that scales along with your business: Multichannel integration for WooCommerce demystifies complexities associated with integration solutions. This is done with an easy-to-understand user interface and highly simplified workflows within the integration. The plugin also supports the growing demands of your business and scales with it as you bring in more products and receive more orders.
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Data Security
Sell easily and securely with CedCommerce: Like all the other integration solutions by CedCommerce, the Multichannel Integration for WooCommerce also complies with the standard encryption protocol. It follows the latest iteration of Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3) and robust AES 256 encryption. This means that you can focus on growing your business while the integration securely handles your data and operations.
Getting Started with the Multichannel Integration for WooCommerce
Installation and Adding the Integration to WooCommerce
You can download the integration for free from WooCommerce.com. Once you’ve signed up for the integration, follow these steps:
a) Installing automatically – You can directly add the integration to your store by simply clicking on the ‘Add to store’ button after your purchase.
Or, you can visit your WooCommerce Active Subscriptions section to add it to your store. Follow the below steps in the image for reference:
b) Installing manually – You can manually upload the multichannel integration to your WooCommerce store by following these steps:
- Go to your WooCommerce dashboard and navigate to Plugins → Add New
- At the top of the page, click the Upload Plugin button.
- Choose the Multichannel for WooCommerce .zip file from your computer’s local files.
- Click the Install Now button to start the installation.
- Once the installation is complete, you’ll see a message saying “Plugin installed successfully.”
- Click the Activate Plugin button to finalize the process.
Choosing Pricing Plan and Your Targeted Marketplace
After installing and activating the plugin, you can access it by clicking or hovering on the WooCommerce menu and selecting CedCommerce.
You’ll be taken to the Multichannel for WooCommerce’s dashboard where you can select the pricing plan for your targeted marketplaces.
The best part about this WooCommerce plugin is that you pay considerably less for selling on multiple marketplaces from a single place. Additionally, you also get a 7-day FREE trial for all the pricing plans.
Connecting Marketplace Seller Account
Once you’ve made your purchase, you must connect your marketplace seller account to this WooCommerce app. If you choose Etsy as your targeted marketplace in the pricing section, you will have to authorize and connect your Etsy seller account. After a successful account connection, you can find and manage your account actions on the ‘Home’ section itself.
Finalizing Onboarding Settings
After connecting your marketplace seller account to the WooCommerce app, finalize the “Global” and “General Settings” for the integration. These settings contain functions for mapping your products via category rules and automatic syncing functions. After you complete these settings (which can be changed later), you’ll be redirected to the integration overview.
From here, you’re all set to begin your streamlined selling journey via the Multichannel for WooCommerce integration. For further information and a detailed breakdown of the integration’s capabilities, please refer to this user guide for multichannel integration.