Wordpress with civicCRM and WooCommerce

[Nilda]

What suggestions do you make to develop the relationship between civiCRM and WooCommerce?

civicCRM use contacts and WooCommerce use Users.

[Hershel]

One item that is probably needed is to be able to see the WooCommerce purchases from within CiviCRM. One way to do that is to create a tab for each Contact in CiviCRM to display their purchase history.

Another item is for WooCommerce to "see" the address from CiviCRM so that if I am a User making a purchase, when I checkout, WooCommerce will pre-populate my address fields with the data from my Contact.

Regarding the existing synchronization between Users and Contacts, see here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Synchronize+Users-to-Contacts

[Nilda]

Thank you for your response. 

My question is when I populate a client using contacts from civicrm, the  synchronization doesn't work in opposite way from contacts to users.

when I use WooCommerce access wp_users table, but it is not update from the contacts table from civicrm.  What do you suggest for this action to do?.

Thank you

Nilda

[Hershel]

My question is when I populate a client using contacts from civicrm, the  synchronization doesn't work in opposite way from contacts to users.

Correct, but if I user creates an User account in WordPress and his email exists in CiviCRM, then CiviCRM will link that User to that Contact.

when I use WooCommerce access wp_users table, but it is not update from the contacts table from civicrm.  What do you suggest for this action to do?.

I'm not certain as I don't know the internals of WooCommerce at all, but one idea would be to write custom code to pre-populate the address/phone fields when the user checks out, from his Contact data.

[Jordan]

I would love to sell memberships and create new donors upon sale of a Woocommerce product/subscription. Is there anyone working on something like that?

[Nilda]

Now I integrate Woocommerce with civicrm, I need advice how to use permissions to access some of the civicrm menu, becacuse I have contacts and users, now the permissions only works for users but not for contacts.

Thank you

Nilda

[JoeMurray]

Hi Nilda,

Users is term for Wordpress user with account that will have one or more roles and thus have permissions associated with it. CiviCRM contacts do not necessarily have Wordpress users associated with them. It would help to understand how the contact is getting into CiviCRM but not becoming a user. Generally, you can use Advanced options on profiles to allow or require creating a User account when submitting a form with profiles on CiviCRM. Perhaps that will solve your problem.

In general, you will need to get a user logged in before the permissions they have will be used in the session.

To set up permissions (just in case you haven't): go to Administer > Users and Permissions > Permissions (Access Control), then click on » WordPress Access Control.

Jordan, you could redirect user from wooCommerce completion page to a CiviCRM contribution page that includes both memberships and donation option.

If you want to sell the membership and donation from with WooCommerce page and when complete to post the transaction(s) back to CiviCRM I have a potential client doing some of this. First I will be working on creating an API for CiviCRM to accept the order.