{"id":73265,"date":"2016-07-14T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=73265"},"modified":"2016-09-13T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:07:11","slug":"can-i-sell-services-using-woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/can-i-sell-services-using-woocommerce.html","title":{"rendered":"Can I sell services using WooCommerce?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can obviously sell all kinds of products and services with WooCommerce.<\/p>\r\n<p>Unlike traditional shopping carts, <strong>WooCommerce<\/strong> does a whole lot more than sell physical products. You can use WooCommerce to sell anything from your website.<\/p>\r\n<p>Consultants and professionals can use it to sell their services online.<\/p>\r\n<p>You don&#8217;t even need a special extension to sell your services with WooCommerce. WooCommerce plugin supports virtual products out of the box.<\/p>\r\n<p>When you create a product or service, you will see that the page looks very similar to creating a post in WordPress. But this is what is called a custom post type, so it has additional options.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_1-300x285.png\" alt=\"wocommerce_virtual_products_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_1-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_1-150x143.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_1.png 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p><strong>Simple Product<\/strong> &#8211; this is a single physical product that has no variations.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Simple Product Virtual<\/strong> &#8211; an example of this would be a service, such as hourly consulting.<\/p>\r\n<p>Obviously, if you choose virtual for your Simple Product, you will no longer have the shipping option.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_2-300x149.png\" alt=\"wocommerce_virtual_products_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_2-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_2-150x74.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_2.png 870w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p>You can add Product Name, Product Short Description and other settings, disable the inventory and stock management for the product.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_3-300x88.png\" alt=\"wocommerce_virtual_products_3\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_3-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_3-150x44.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/wocommerce_virtual_products_3.png 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woothemes.com\/products\/woocommerce-bookings\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WooCommerce Bookings extension<\/a>, you can take things to the next level by letting your customers book specific blocks of time.<\/p>\r\n<p>This can also be used to reserve and charge for time-based resources (for example: studio time, personal trainers, yoga lessons, or any resource that requires booking in advance).<\/p>\r\n<p>This could be great for service businesses that have offerings like installations, coaching, appointments (i.e., hair salons), and other products that require set time commitments.<\/p>\r\n<p>If you offered subscription-based products &#8211; you can create and manage products with recurring payments \u2014 payments that will give you residual revenue you can track and count on.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woothemes.com\/products\/woocommerce-subscriptions\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WooCommerce Subscriptions<\/a> plugin offers multiple billing schedules available to suit your needs.<\/p>\r\n<p>Have a nice day. More hacks are coming ;)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;ll consider the way of selling services with WooCommerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":73271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1556],"tags":[2350,2050,2366,2418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}