Fulfilling orders

When people take out their credit cards to pay for things with their hard-earned cash, they expect you to ship their order quickly and safely. Getting a package from your warehouse to a customer’s home is called fulfillment, and there are a bunch of smaller steps included. They are as follows:

1. Receiving a new order notification
2. Viewing customer shipping information
3. Picking items in the warehouse
4. Packing items into boxes
5. Printing shipping labels
6. Dropping off packages
7. Marking orders as complete

Exploring new order notifications

The whole process starts with a notification, which WooCommerce has automatically enabled. You can view the notification email under WooCommerce | Settings | Emails, as shown in the following image:

Figure 5.1 – Control WooCommerce email notifications

By default, these emails will be sent to the site admin. You can click Manage to change the recipient or add...