WooCommerce 4 released – Here’s what you need to know!

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• WooCommerce is a renowned plugin when it comes to
  WordPress eCommerce online store. It is a
  revolutionary plugin that has the power to
  convert a WordPress website into a full-fledged
  eCommerce site. And on March 10th, 2020,
  WordPress released the latest version,
  WooCommerce 4.0 for the entire eCommerce business
  community. There were speculations about the
  release and finally the company made it official.
  Since 2018, the development of the new version
  was in process and a long wait two years has come
  to an end.
• Are you excited to unleash the features of
  WooCommerce 4.0? Pixlogix is here to share the
  latest features in the new version
• PS WordPress has recommended testing the upgrade
  on a staging site copy before upgrading your live
  store as the version is not fully backward
  compatible with sites running on different
  versions of WooCommerce 3x.
• Now lets start with the features of WooCommerce
• WooCommerce Admin
• If youve been constantly reading all the updates
  WordPress WooCommerce development blogs, then you
  might have witnessed the early announcement and
  later expected release of the feature plugin. As
  per reports, the plugin has been actively used by
  1million stores and finally, WooCommerce is all
  set to make a mark in the WooCommerce core to
  bring a set of enhancements for every store
  owner
• New and improved reports
• New dashboard
• Improved notification experience
• New store management tools

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The enhanced WooCommerce admin provides much
superior reporting capabilities than prior
versions of reports and facilitate comparisons,
filtering, and outline how the store is
performing in terms of revenue, sales ads
capabilities for better customer management and
analytics, and which products are popular/highest
grossing. PS The previous versions of reports
are not removed as WordPress will inform all the
businesses and developers with prior notice
before taking any step. WooCommerce custom
development export of data from the reports has
become easier as CSV enables smooth
interoperation with other systems. Now
WooCommerce theme development will become simple
as along with admin a new activity panel is added
with revised order management workflow and
flexibility between the desktop and mobile. Due
to the JavaScript requirements, this experience
will be accessible to all stores running
WordPress 5.3. Moreover, the stores running
older versions of WordPress will find WooCommerce
Admin automatically disabled from their
site. Action scheduler 3.1 The underlying
technologies that allowed WooCommerce Admin is
Action Schedulerthe background job runner
previously used in the WooCommerce core. The 3.1
version that has been included in the WooCommerce
4.0 is a unique, more performing version of
Action Scheduler which uses custom tables,
offering a great experience even on stores with
large amounts of orders and posts in the database.
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• Unique onboarding experience
• Starting an online store can be a bewildering and
  confusing experience, but with WooCommerce
  development services, things could be seamless.
  The new version and the right company can help
  you start your store that runs faster and with
  great ease. Many of you may feel an onboarding
  experience with WooCommerce 4.0.
• Additional updates
• Along with the new WooCommerce admin, you will
  find the following improvements in 4.0
• Latest fixes of WooCommerce Blocks package
• Enhancement to the Order edit screen
• Updates related to Brexit and VAT
• Optimizations for Cash on delivery payment
  gateway and saving variations
• Improvements to email handling
• Upgrading to 4.0
• WooCommerce 4.0 is a fresh better version which
  as mentioned, is not fully backward compatible
  with prior WooCommerce versions. However, the
  breaking innovation that has been introduced is
  only on the database level of Action Scheduler
  and hence the upgrade should run well for most
  customers.

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• You need to be aware of a few post-update
  database upgrade cycles that need to run after
  updating. On very large databases, running the
  upgrade routine with the WP CLI command wp WC
  update rather than the admin interface is better.
• Deprecated functions and methods
• countries_using_vat has been replaced with
  WC_Countriesget_vat_countries
• Template file changes in 4.0
• In the below table, the updated template files
  have been mentioned

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