Knowledgebase

Ecommerce & WooCommerce

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.

Does my store need to be PCI compliant?

Almost certainly yes in some form, but how much work that means depends entirely on whether card data ever touches your own server.

FAQ Ecommerce 6 min
How to add PayPal to your store

PayPal brings its own customers who already trust it — here is how to add it without duplicating or confusing your existing checkout.

Guide Ecommerce 7 min
How to add product structured data

Structured data is what lets a search result show a price and stock status without a customer ever clicking through.

Guide Ecommerce 7 min
How to back up a store without losing orders

Restoring a store to yesterday sounds fine until you remember every order placed since then just disappeared.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to choose an ecommerce platform

The right platform question is not which one has more features — it is how much control you want and what you already know.

Article Ecommerce 9 min
How to connect Stripe to WooCommerce

Installing the plugin takes minutes — getting from test mode to a live payment without a mistake is where this guide actually helps.

Guide Ecommerce 7 min
How to fix a WooCommerce checkout that fails

A broken checkout loses money every hour it stays broken, so work through the common causes in order rather than guessing.

Guide Ecommerce 9 min
How to get HTTPS working on a store

A checkout page half on HTTPS and half on HTTP is not a minor warning — most payment providers simply will not process on it.

Guide Ecommerce 7 min
How to import products in bulk

A 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.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to keep stock in sync across channels

Sell the same product in two places without a single source of truth for stock, and overselling is a matter of when, not if.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to keep an online store fast as it grows

A store that was fast on launch day slows down for specific, fixable reasons as the catalogue and the order history grow.

Article Ecommerce 9 min
How to make order emails actually arrive

An order email that silently fails to arrive looks fine from the admin screen and generates a support ticket from everywhere else.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to migrate a store without losing orders

A store never stops taking orders just because you are moving it, so the migration has to account for orders placed mid-move.

Guide Ecommerce 9 min
How to prepare a store for a sales rush

The 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.

Article Ecommerce 9 min
How to secure an online store

A 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.

Guide Ecommerce 9 min
How to sell in more than one currency

Multi-currency is not one setting — it touches pricing, payments, tax and your own bookkeeping all at the same time.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to set up shipping in WooCommerce

Shipping is zones and rates, but the order you set them up in decides whether a customer sees a price at all.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to set up tax in WooCommerce

WooCommerce can calculate tax automatically — what rate to charge whom is a question for an accountant, not a setting.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to set up WooCommerce

Installing the plugin is the easy part — this is the order to configure it in so nothing important gets skipped.

Guide Ecommerce 9 min
How to stop caching breaking your cart

Cache the wrong page and one customer starts seeing another customer's basket — here is exactly what to exclude and why.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to take payments on your website

Hosted checkout, embedded fields, or building your own form — the choice affects your security workload far more than your conversion rate.

Guide Ecommerce 8 min
How to test a store before you launch it

A store looking finished and a store being tested are two different things, and the gap between them is where launch-day problems live.

Article Ecommerce 9 min
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.

FAQ Ecommerce 5 min
What to do about abandoned carts

Not every abandoned cart was ever going to convert — the ones worth chasing are the ones lost to friction you can actually fix.

Article Ecommerce 8 min

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