Store Operations
WooCommerce order not reducing stock: only three statuses move it
WooCommerce reduces stock only when an order enters Processing, On hold or Completed. Why yours didn't, and how to move it without double-counting.
WooCommerce
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Store Operations
WooCommerce POS: the built-in point of sale, and every other route
Yes, WooCommerce has a POS mode since 9.6 - on a tablet, in ten countries. What it needs, what it will not scan, and the honest limits of every till.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Variation Image Not Changing: Find Your Symptom First
They pick Blue and the photo stays red. Match the symptom first, then work the causes in cost order — from a missing image to the 30-variation threshold.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Variable Product Price Range: Show “From”, or One Price
Two free ways to change it: price every variation the same, or add one snippet so it reads "From £15". Plus why an edited price will not update.
Product Catalog
How to Add a New Variation to Existing WooCommerce Products
Add a new size to one WooCommerce product or eighty: the exact steps, the CSV columns, and why Generate variations won't delete what you have.
Product Catalog
“Please Select Some Product Options”: WooCommerce Variations Not Showing
No dropdowns, no Add to Cart, “please select some product options”, or an empty Variations tab: four symptoms, four causes, and which to check first.
Product Catalog
How to Create a WooCommerce Variable Product (and Where It Quietly Stalls)
Attributes, generate, fill, save — plus what nothing warns you about: commas that don't split, generation that stops at 50, and 15 rows to a page.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Attributes vs Variations (and Global vs Custom)
Attributes describe, variations sell. One test for which attributes should become variations, and the widely repeated claim that is not true.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Variation Limit: How Many Variations Is Too Many?
WooCommerce has no hard limit on variations — 30 is only a display threshold. Where the slowdown really starts, and how to shrink a matrix that got away.
Product Catalog
WooCommerce Variation Stock: Parent-Level or Per-Variation?
Parent-level or per-variation stock: what ticking Manage stock does in each place, how to tell which you're on, and how to switch without overselling.