Why take your restaurant online with WooCommerce?
If you own a restaurant or café these days, it’s almost a given that you need to offer online ordering to compete. In fact, the online food order market has more than doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to the previous annual growth rate of 8 percent.
You may have recently looked into taking your restaurant online and found plenty of third-party solutions that give customers the ability to create orders and arrange for pickup or delivery. You might be surprised to learn that all of that is possible by creating a WooCommerce restaurant. It’s not difficult to set up using WordPress.
First, let’s talk about how WooCommerce compares to using one of those third-party apps.
Comparing WooCommerce with third-party apps
While the most popular online ordering apps can offer good solutions for marketing, you typically pay a high percentage of fees for each order that goes out your door. In addition, the information they take from each order is used to generate repeat orders – which would be great, except that they’re also showing offers from competing restaurants. It’s almost impossible to create a direct relationship with individual customers.
In comparison, WooCommerce gives you full control over your site, and most importantly, your customer relationships. There are also zero commission fees involved, so you keep the profits from your orders. You set up your preferred payment methods and manage everything through your WordPress site. There are no third parties handling the order transactions.
While WooCommerce is a fantastic option, it can’t do it all alone. The good news is, you can use one plugin to take care of the rest. It’s called Orderable.
In this article, I’ll show you how to set up an online restaurant that’s just as robust as one of those third-party apps – while you maintain total control.
The Orderable plugin helps create your online restaurant
Setting up your WooCommerce restaurant website with a full menu and the ability to accept orders can be a complicated process. It can also be an expensive prospect. You need to hire a developer, find a third-party app to handle your orders, and integrate it seamlessly into your site.
There’s an easier way.
Orderable is an all-in-one plugin that’s designed to work with WooCommerce. It handles pretty much everything for your online restaurant. It will even install WooCommerce for you, if necessary. Once you have it installed, you only need to add your menu items, process orders, and deliver them. It’s surprisingly easy because Orderable does the heavy lifting for you.
If you’re a restaurant owner who likes to DIY your website, you’ll be able to set everything up without writing any code.
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This article was written by DJ Billings and originally published on WP Mayor.