Online stores, checkout, payments and PCI basics.
Running a shop rather than a website. Setting up WooCommerce, keeping a cart fast when the catalogue grows, taking payments safely, and the specific things that break stores — session handling, checkout caching, stock and tax settings — that never come up on a brochure site.
Almost certainly yes in some form, but how much work that means depends entirely on whether card data ever touches your own server.
How to add PayPal to your storePayPal brings its own customers who already trust it — here is how to add it without duplicating or confusing your existing checkout.
How to add product structured dataStructured data is what lets a search result show a price and stock status without a customer ever clicking through.
How to back up a store without losing ordersRestoring a store to yesterday sounds fine until you remember every order placed since then just disappeared.
How to choose an ecommerce platformThe right platform question is not which one has more features — it is how much control you want and what you already know.
How to connect Stripe to WooCommerceInstalling the plugin takes minutes — getting from test mode to a live payment without a mistake is where this guide actually helps.
How to fix a WooCommerce checkout that failsA broken checkout loses money every hour it stays broken, so work through the common causes in order rather than guessing.
How to get HTTPS working on a storeA checkout page half on HTTPS and half on HTTP is not a minor warning — most payment providers simply will not process on it.
How to import products in bulkA CSV import can populate hundreds of products in minutes, or duplicate your whole catalogue in the same amount of time if the file is wrong.
How to keep stock in sync across channelsSell the same product in two places without a single source of truth for stock, and overselling is a matter of when, not if.
How to keep an online store fast as it growsA store that was fast on launch day slows down for specific, fixable reasons as the catalogue and the order history grow.
How to make order emails actually arriveAn order email that silently fails to arrive looks fine from the admin screen and generates a support ticket from everywhere else.
How to migrate a store without losing ordersA store never stops taking orders just because you are moving it, so the migration has to account for orders placed mid-move.
How to prepare a store for a sales rushThe traffic your store handles fine on a normal Tuesday is not the traffic it needs to survive on the one day everyone shows up at once.
How to secure an online storeA store is a bigger target than a brochure site because there is more to steal and more ways in — here is where to focus first.
How to sell in more than one currencyMulti-currency is not one setting — it touches pricing, payments, tax and your own bookkeeping all at the same time.
How to set up shipping in WooCommerceShipping is zones and rates, but the order you set them up in decides whether a customer sees a price at all.
How to set up tax in WooCommerceWooCommerce can calculate tax automatically — what rate to charge whom is a question for an accountant, not a setting.
How to set up WooCommerceInstalling the plugin is the easy part — this is the order to configure it in so nothing important gets skipped.
How to stop caching breaking your cartCache the wrong page and one customer starts seeing another customer's basket — here is exactly what to exclude and why.
How to take payments on your websiteHosted checkout, embedded fields, or building your own form — the choice affects your security workload far more than your conversion rate.
How to test a store before you launch itA store looking finished and a store being tested are two different things, and the gap between them is where launch-day problems live.
What hosting does an online store need?Broadly the same hosting a brochure site needs, but with less tolerance for the things that go wrong when you skip on any of it.
What to do about abandoned cartsNot every abandoned cart was ever going to convert — the ones worth chasing are the ones lost to friction you can actually fix.
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