Create a Restaurant Online Ordering System with WordPress & WooCommerce [2024]

Need an UberEats alternative? Create your own restaurant ordering system with WooCommerce for a fraction of the cost by following this tutorial!

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Uber Eats is certainly a convenient way for restaurants to offer online delivery... but it also charges 20-30% of every order! In this video, you'll learn how to get the best of both worlds by using WordPress and WooCommerce to create your own restaurant ordering system to act as an Uber Eats alternative (or a Just Eat alternative, Gloriafood alternative, Doordash alternative, GrubHub alternative... it's up to you!).

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Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:10 Uber eats commissions
0:25 What you will learn
1:30 Tutorial steps
1:53 Get hosting (Kinsta)
2:20 Install WordPress
3:00 Install WooCommerce
3:18 WooCommerce Setup Wizard
5:00 Change WooCommerce Currency
5:33 Set up payments in WooCommerce
6:37 Shipping (delivery) settings
7:22 Order notifications (emails) settings
8:18 Add food (menu) categories in WooCommerce
9:26 Add products (food items) in WooCommerce
10:29 Adding variable products
13:21 Install WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin
14:31 WRO setup wizard
16:48 Add opening hours
17:20 Test the plugin and configure more settings
22:00 Optional plugins overview
22:28 WooCommerce Product Options plugin
23:42 WooCommerce Fast Cart plugin
25:12 Better order notification plugins
26:22 Plugins for delivery and drivers
27:32 Final thoughts

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[BarnPlugins]

Do you think WooCommerce offers a better alternative to the big delivery apps like Uber Eats?
We certainly think so!

[lordfungusiii]

Thank you so much for the awesome tutorial. I am already using the plugin but am running into an issue. What if too many orders for the restaurant to handle arrive at the same time? I can´t find a good solution yet, which allows me to notify the customer of increased waiting time or restricting further orders. It would be great to showcase estimated waiting time somewhere on the website, which is calculated according to current processing orders.
Thank you!

[NitRevolution]

Good option, just need to pay drivers extra emploey, so maybe beter to use uber eats or dordash

[nayomimaria]

Hi there, I installed the plugin but also ran into an issue: when adding the information in settings (openings hours etc.) I am unable save the information and proceed. I get the following notification: ''there has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.'' Do you know why this happens? Thank you in advance :)

[ikaay]

Hey this is an awesome tutorial, I’m trying to follow up step by step but my woo commerce interface is a bit different from yours

[jojoyoyo]

This is great! Uber eats is so expensive sometimes! ❤

[StriverHamza]

Thanks for such a detailed video. I had a question, do you think offering to set this up for small restaurants would be a good business idea?

[lucasss]

Restaurant opening hours not working as expected, my site is supposed to be opened now according to my settings but on the front end it’s still showing that it’s closed

[HOLBAG]

thanks
why no option to try this plugin before buying it?

[florentinog.]

but who delivers after the order is made?

[luckof]

Thank's this is great ! is there multi location option?

[Arafatcenter-ynxe]

hey man I can see that works only for one site Does that work for multi-vendor restaurant

[beginwithsense]

But how do we print out order for kitchen?