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Accounts and Privacy Settings
Clicking on the Accounts and Privacy tab at the top of the WooCommerce > Settings page takes you to the accounts and privacy Settings. These settings are where you can enable or disable guest checkout, control customer account creation, decide how personal data is retained or removed from your shop, and set your privacy policy […]
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Advanced Settings
The “Advanced” settings area is where you set WooCommerce pages like the cart and checkout, create access tokens to integrate external applications with the REST API, add custom webhooks to your store, and enable new or experimental features like high performance order storage and the new product editor. Find them at: WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced. […]
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Approved Download Directories
Approved Download Directories is a feature that helps manage which directories are allowed for the storage of downloadable product files. Introduced in WooCommerce 6.5, it’s of particular use if you already sell, or plan on selling, downloadable products, and especially if there are multiple users on your site with the ability to create and modify […]
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Email Settings
WooCommerce has a variety of built-in emails to help communicate your store’s operations. This guide provides a detailed overview of the email settings in WooCommerce, including: Find these settings on your site at: WooCommerce > Settings > Emails. The video below provides a brief overview of the settings available. Email notifications For each WooCommerce email […]
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General Settings
When you first navigate to WooCommerce > Settings, you’ll see the general settings for your store. Here you can enter your store’s address, define where you will sell and ship orders to, enable features like tax calculations and coupons, and select the currency your shop will use for sales. The general settings sections include: Below […]
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Product Category Shortcodes
These two shortcodes will display your product categories on any page. Available Product Category attributes Examples of Product Category Scenarios Show Top Level Categories Only Imagine you only wanted to show top level categories on a page and exclude the sub categories, well it’s possible with the following shortcode. [product_categories number=”0″ parent=”0″]
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Products Settings
Clicking on the Products tab at the top of the WooCommerce > Settings page takes you to the Product Settings. These settings are for products and how they are displayed, measured, inventoried, and downloaded from your shop. Below you’ll find a general overview and explanation of the settings. If you need more information about adding […]
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Products Shortcodes
While WooCommerce primarily uses blocks to offer interactive and customizable display settings for products, you can still use legacy product shortcodes on your store by adding them to a shortcode block. This document lists and explains the available WooCommerce product-related shortcodes. Here’s a video overview of how product shortcodes can be used. The [products] shortcode […]
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Related Products, Add-to-Cart, and Notification Shortcodes
On this page are shortcodes for adding a related product section, an add-to-cart button with price, and showing shop messages/notifications on non-WooCommerce pages. Listed below are each shortcode and their attributes. Related Products If you want to show the related products (products with similar tags or categories) on a single product page to encourage cross-sells/up-sells […]
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Troubleshooting Shortcodes
On this page, you’ll find a few common issues for why WooCommerce shortcodes might not work as expected. Shortcodes Cannot be Embedded between <pre> tags If you correctly pasted your shortcodes and the display looks incorrect, make sure you did not embed the shortcode between <pre> tags. This is a common issue. To remove these […]
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WooCommerce Coming Soon Mode
Coming soon mode allows you to control the visibility of your site or store while it’s under construction. This feature is managed through the “Site Visibility” tab in the WooCommerce settings, providing flexibility and control over who can access your store during the setup phase. Site Visibility Settings In the Site Visibility Settings located under […]
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Configuring WooCommerce Settings
On this and the following pages we walk through explanations of the settings available to you in WooCommerce. When you go to WooCommerce > Settings you’ll see there are tabs across the page for the different kinds of settings. The settings tabs included in the WooCommerce plugin are: General Settings WooCommerce general settings include your […]
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Setting up Taxes in WooCommerce
A step-by-step guide to setting up Tax Rates for your store
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Shop Currency
Currency Settings WooCommerce has a number of different currency options to choose from when setting up your store. This page will guide you through the following information: Setting a store’s base currency Each WooCommerce store can set one base currency. This currency will be displayed throughout your store and is the currency in which you […]
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How Taxes Work in WooCommerce
There are more challenging tax configurations where an understanding of how taxes work in WooCommerce help with configuration and troubleshooting. Let’s take a look at a few nuances. Related guides for additional reference: Defining Prices Product prices can be defined as either: When we say defined including tax, we are referring to the taxes of […]
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How to configure specific tax setups in WooCommerce
The tax scenarios in this document are step-by-step guides that show how to configure specific tax setups in WooCommerce. They provide all the steps needed to achieve a particular outcome but without going into detail. Due to the uniqueness and variety of stores out there, the scenarios are not exhaustive and for illustration purposes only. […]
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Product Reviews
Product reviews are a powerful tool for online conversions and establishing loyal relationships with your customers. WooCommerce allows customers to create reviews with star ratings and for the shop owner to moderate and reply to customer reviews. Studies show that a product review or a recommendation from another shopper, has a large effect on a […]
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EU VAT July 2021 changes, eCommerce, and WooCommerce
Overview The European Union (EU) introduced new regulations related to Value Added Tax (VAT) on July 1, 2021. Merchants selling across borders within the EU or importing to the EU need to comply. In this documentation we will provide key changes and scenarios for the new changes, although this is not exhaustive. For general advice […]
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WooCommerce Menu Items
Activating WooCommerce adds 4 main menu items to the WordPress admin dashboard. Click here for a closer look.
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Understanding the WooCommerce System Status Report
The WooCommerce System Status report is useful for troubleshooting issues with your store. Containing a wide variety of information and tools, you can check software versions, server settings, and more from within. System Status To view your System Status report: WordPress Environment This provides general information about your site and WordPress installation and features you […]
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MaxMind Geolocation Integration
WooCommerce allows shop owners to automatically geolocate customers and display tax rates and shipping methods specific to a customer’s location. In order to determine the correct location for a customer, as of version 3.9+, WooCommerce uses an integration with MaxMind Geolocation. This document covers: Enabling Geolocation To enable the MaxMind Geolocation Integration: After geolocation is […]
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Roles and Capabilities
WooCommerce registers two user roles once activated, and grants additional capabilities to the Admin: Customer role People become Customers when they register via the checkout or sign-up process. Customers: Shop Manager role Shop Manager is a role you can give someone to manage the shop without making them an Admin. They have all the rights a customer […]
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Translating WooCommerce
WooCommerce is already translated into a few languages and is translation-ready out of the box. All that is needed is a translation file for your language, which is automatically installed for the languages on this list by changing the site’s language. On this page you’ll learn: Set up WordPress in your language The first step to […]
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The My Account Page
Overview Customers who have an account with your store have access to a menu called My Account . My Account is the central customer dashboard in a WooCommerce store. Customers can view past orders, edit addresses, and payment details through their account page. This guide provides an overview of what your customers can do in […]
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High-Performance Order Storage
High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) (previously known as Custom Order Tables) is a solution specifically designed for ecommerce needs that provides a simple-to-understand, solid database structure. It uses Woo’s Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) design to store order data in custom tables optimized for WooCommerce queries, with minimal impact on the store’s performance. What’s new with High-Performance Order […]
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Shortcodes included with WooCommerce
WooCommerce has traditionally utilized shortcodes to easily add dynamic content and features to WordPress pages. With the evolution of WordPress towards the Gutenberg block-based editor, focus has shifted from shortcodes to more interactive and visually integrated blocks. While the block editor offers interactively customizable blocks and enhanced editing capabilities; you can still use the legacy […]
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Permalinks
Permalink is short for permanent link. Permalinks are the URL structures used to help organize the content of your website which can be pages, posts, or, in the case of WooCommerce, products. A good URL structure can be efficiently navigated, shared, and referenced by potential customers and search engine crawlers. On this page you’ll learn: […]
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Customizing WooCommerce: Best Practices
The best thing about WordPress and WooCommerce is code and content can be changed to suit — modify and customize your website entirely. Flexibility is one of the greatest benefits to using WooCommerce to sell online. Plugins, extensions and themes can be used to fulfill requirements, then adjusted and coded to tailor the look and […]
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SSL and HTTPS and WooCommerce
This document gives an overview of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and HTTPS, explaining their importance for securing your WooCommerce store. You’ll learn why SSL is essential for protecting customer data and boosting consumer trust, as well as where to look to set up SSL on your site, including both free and paid options. Additionally, we […]
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Webhooks
In this guide we explain in more details what webhooks are and how they are used. What are Webhooks? A Webhook is an event notification sent to a URL of your choice. Merchants (or their developers) can configure a webhook that are triggered by events on one site, to invoke behavior on another site. Webhooks are useful […]
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Widgets included with WooCommerce
Several widgets come with WooCommerce that help you display products in a multitude of ways in your themes widgetized areas. Although, in modern themes, adding WooCommerce Blocks to widget areas is a more versitile and flexible approach. Included Widgets The default included wigets below, now referred to as Legacy Widgets, are still available to add to […]
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Woo Marketplace Suggestions Settings
Overview The Marketplace Suggestions settings in WooCommerce empower store owners with the flexibility to customize their experience by managing the types of recommendations and suggestions they receive. This document provides a comprehensive overview of the settings available, how they work, and best practices for customization, including the use of a new filter to disable suggestions […]