How to create a WaaS like Shopify with WordPress and WP Ultimo

Welcome to our free course “How to Build a Multitenant eCommerce Platform with Wildcloud”.

In this course, we will show you how to build your own WaaS (Website as a Service) platform to sell subscriptions and allow your clients to create online stores, using Multitenant WordPress and Wildcloud.

Usually, building a platform like this requires a lot of technical knowledge like managing servers, networks, sites, SSL certificates, databases… in short, you must be an experienced programmer and developer.

But in this free course, you’ll learn how to build an ecommerce platform akin to Shopify using Wildcloud and WordPress. The best part? We’ll do it using only no-code tools! So, everybody can follow this course without technical knowledge.

Why take this course?

If you dream of creating an ecommerce platform that will generate recurring revenue, gain some experience as a web application developer, or add these web applications to your portfolio, this course is for you.

Course structure

We have structured this course in 7 lessons that will guide you step by step to build your eCommerce platform using Wildcloud.

Lesson 1 – How to create the necessary Wildcloud applications for your platform.

Lesson 2 – List of WordPress plugins to build your WaaS platform.

Lesson 3 – How to create tenant roles and deploy version updates.

Lesson 4 – How to build the global front-end dashboard for your online stores platform.

Instead of having your clients use the normal wp-admin dashboard, you can build your own custom user interface so that your users manage their online stores from a completely different frontend dashboard. With this frontend dashboard, your users will be able to:

Create and manage products
Set up different payment gateways to process order payments
Create and manage product taxonomies like categories and attributes
Create and manage variable products and variations
Create and manage discount coupons
View and manage customer orders
Manage customer and user profiles
Manage the store settings
Manage the site settings
View and manage their account details
And everything needed to manage their online store

Below you can see the Elementor frontend dashboard templates that we have designed for you to easily import and save a lot of time creating your frontend dashboard:

Lesson 5 – Building prebuilt websites to sell as site templates.

You will learn how to create prebuilt sites so that your customers don’t have to spend days designing their sites. The prebuilt sites will be automatically cloned to the new sites when they purchase a membership plan on your platform: