WooCommerce Product Settings

General Subcategory

• options for item weight
• options for item dimensions
• ratings:
  • Enable ratings on reviews.
  • Ratings are required to leave a review.
  • Show “verified owner” label for customer reviews. If a customer is logged in with their account and have purchased this product on their account they will be labeled as a ‘verified owner’.
  • Only allow reviews from “verified owners”. Only customers that are logged in with the account they used to purchase the product can leave a product review.

Display Subcategory

• Shop Page / Product Archive
  Select what page you would like to be the default shop page.
• Shop Page Display
  Select to show products, subcategories or both.
• Default Category Display
  Select to show products, subcategories or both.

  Default product sorting (custom ordering + name)

• • Popularity (sales)
  • Average rating
  • Sort by most recent
  • Sort by price (asc/dec)Default Product Sorting
    Select the default product sorting, options include:

    Add to cart behaviour

  Options include:

  • Redirect to the cart page after successful addition – this will automatically take your customer to the cart page upon adding a product.
  • Enable AJAX add to cart buttons on archives – this will add the ‘Add to Cart’ option to your shop archive pages.

Inventory Subcategory

• Hold Stock (minutes) – Hold stock (for unpaid orders) for x minutes. When this limit is reached, the pending order will be cancelled. Leave blank to disable.
• Enable low stock notifications
• Enable out of stock notifications
• Notification Recipient – set the email for low and out of stock notifications.
• Low Stock Threshold – set the number of products to trigger the low stock notification.
• Out Of Stock Threshold – set the number of products to trigger out of stock status.
• Out Of Stock Visibility – Chose to hide out of stock items from the catalog.
• Stock Display Format – Options include:
  • Always show stock – eg. “12 in stock”
  • Only show stock when low – eg. “Only 2 left in stock” vs. “In stock”
  • Never show stock amount

Downloadable Products Subcategory

• Force Downloads – Files are ‘forced’ to download via a PHP script. The files shouldn’t be accessible to anyone but purchasers and direct links are hidden.
• X-Accel-Redirect/X-Sendfile – This is similar to ‘forced’ above, however it has much better performance and can support larger files. This option requires that your hosting provider supports either X-Sendfile or X-Accel-Redirect so you will need to check with them first.
• Redirect only – Download links simply link the user to the file. Files are not protected from outside access.

Most stores will want to use one of the top 2 methods as these keep your files safe from outside access. Redirect should only be used if you encounter problems or don’t mind downloads being insecure.

Video: https://support.woothemes.com/WooCommerce-101-Part-3