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What You’ll Learn

  • Monitoring WooCommerce store status from MainWP Dashboard
  • Understanding the WooCommerce Status widgets
  • Installing the extension and WooCommerce plugin

Integration Add-on - This add-on extends MainWP to work with WooCommerce. Requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated on your child sites.
MainWP WooCommerce Status Extension provides you the ability to see the WooCommerce status right from your MainWP Dashboard site. It enables you to monitor all your stores from one place.

WooCommerce Status Dashboard

On the MainWP > Sites > Monitoring > WooCommerce Status page, you can see all your child sites with the WooCommerce plugin installed and active. Here you can see for each child site:
  • Income for the current month
  • Top Seller product for the current month
  • Number of orders awaiting processing
  • Number of orders on hold
  • Number of products low on stock
  • Number of products out of stock
By clicking the metric links in the table, the extension opens the corresponding WooCommerce page on the child site.

WooCommerce Status Widgets

The extension adds a WooCommerce Status widget to the MainWP Overview page and to each individual child site overview. The individual child site widget shows Sales This Month, Top Seller, Awaiting Processing, On Hold, Low in Stock, and Out of Stock, with links that open the related WooCommerce screen on that child site. WooCommerce Status widget showing sales, orders, and stock information The global Overview widget does not mirror the full per-site widget. It shows combined totals for Awaiting Processing, On Hold, Low in Stock, and Out of Stock, plus separate Top Sellers and Sales sections that break the data down by child site.

Install and Set the WooCommerce Status Extension

Installation of the MainWP WooCommerce Status Extension requires two important steps:
  • Installing the Extension itself on your MainWP Dashboard site
  • Installing the WooCommerce Plugin on Child Sites

Installing the Extension

The MainWP WooCommerce Status Extension needs to be installed only on your MainWP Dashboard site. You can install it as any other MainWP Extension.

Installing the Plugin

For the proper use of the MainWP WooCommerce Status Extension, you need to install the WooCommerce Plugin on your child sites.

Install from MainWP Dashboard

1

Login in to your MainWP Dashboard

2

Go to the MainWP > Plugins > Install page

3

In the Search field, enter the plugin name (WooCommerce)

4

Press enter on your keyboard

5

After the search results appear, locate the plugin

6

Select the Install this Plugin option

7

Select your child sites

8

In the Installation Options box, make sure that the Activate after installation option is selected

In the Installation Options box, make sure that the Activate after installation option is selected
9

Click the button to complete the installation

10

Once the installation is complete, Sync your MainWP Dashboard

For additional help with installing WordPress plugins from the MainWP Dashboard, please review this help document.

Install directly on Child Site

1

Login into your child site

2

Go to the WP > Plugins > Add New page

3

In the Search field, enter the plugin name (WooCommerce)

4

After the search results appear, locate the plugin

5

Click the Install button

6

Click the Activate button

For additional help with installing WordPress plugins, please review this help document.

Important Note

After installing and activating the WooCommerce plugin, synchronize your sites so your MainWP Dashboard detects it and refreshes the stored WooCommerce status data.