Introduction

Jet Industrial Supplies approached me to build a website that would allow them to sell their Industrial and Construction supplies. In the long term, they expected to have several thousand products and whatever was created needed to cater to that, as well as making the management of products easy.

The site would be built in WordPress and we decided to use WooCommerce as the shopping cart.

After talking further with the customer, we agreed on the following specifications:

Solution

Our approach in creating this site was to minimise the number of Plugins that are required and ensure the ones that are in use work effectively, to reduce the resource load on the website and maintain security.

We created a customised solution in the form of a plugin that allows for the Products added to WooCommerce to be synced with Xero.  This solution works to ensure that exceeding the API request limits are minimised during the Product Sync process.

In addition, we created a custom Request For Quote function, that allows visitors to add items to a separate "Cart" to be processed when needed.  The emails that are sent for the RFQ process are integrated with the WooCommerce Email system and appear in the management screen. 

Product Imports are achieved using the WP All Import for WooCommerce addon.

Here are some Screenshots of the final solution.