WooCommerce development for a WordPress store you can edit

What we do on the store

WooCommerce is a plugin on WordPress. A new store gets products, variations, attributes, shipping zones, tax classes, a gateway, and the cart, checkout, and account pages. The order email has to send. Staff can add a product later without a code editor.

A fix, including on a store we did not build, is usually one stubborn fault: a product template, a fee, a gateway that fails for one country, or a plugin that died on update. We read the theme, the plugins, and block checkout versus classic shortcode pages before proposing a rebuild. Rules live in a plugin you own. Template overrides live in a child theme. An extension that already fits gets configured.

Checkout, shipping, tax, and currency

Customisation starts with the order rule: product attributes, a minimum quantity, an optional fee, a download or account-specific pricing. We test that rule through the chosen checkout and gateway.

Checkout repairs can involve incompatible fields, coupons, tax configuration or guest-account rules. We reproduce the affected order on staging and trace the platform, theme and plugin boundaries before changing them.

Canada and the United States get two shipping tests: an address you serve, and one you refuse, using zones you provide. Tax rates come from you or your accountant, as GST, HST, PST, or US state registrations. We enter those rates and place a test order. That is the technical side. We do not decide whether you must register, and we do not certify compliance.

The store has one base currency. Showing a second currency is not the same as charging it, and charging needs an extension your gateway will settle. A switcher that rewrites the dollar sign is a label. If a price could be CAD or USD, the cart and the order email show the currency code.

How the project runs

Send the address if you have a store, what you sell, the fault or the launch, and a date tied to a real event.

A fault we can reproduce is hourly. A new store, template work across several pages, or a migration is a fixed quote once the scope is written. A note that only says the shop should be better starts as paid discovery. You can stop when that writeup is done, and you keep it.

Your business controls hosting, the domain, gateway and extension purchases. Custom code and handoff terms are agreed upfront. We work on staging, test the relevant orders and identify the publish owner. Handoff includes the changed templates or plugins and recovery steps.

Plugins, PHP, and WooCommerce speed

Tools include WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, the database, WP-CLI and Git. Order integrations may use the REST API or webhooks. We inspect delivery logs and background jobs when an update fails; a stuck task alone does not establish whether an order or payment was created.

Next.js, React, and TypeScript on the Store API are for a front end the theme cannot hold. Most stores should stay on the theme, so changing a product photo is not a deploy.

Performance work investigates images, fonts, scripts and slow queries before adding a cache. Cart and checkout must preserve dynamic order behaviour. Updates run on staging from a usable backup, and custom order code is checked against the store’s configured storage model.

WooCommerce to Shopify, or not

WooCommerce can fit when WordPress and hosting control serve the business and maintenance has a clear owner. A move to Shopify is a separate comparison of catalogue, order and editing requirements. Trial imports identify which records transfer and which account, password or subscription workflows need another approach.

Owners and agencies can commission a complete store or one checkout, theme or integration feature beside their developer. Include who maintains plugins and approves changes so the quote covers the actual handoff.

hehe.software is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Pacific Time. The work is remote, with businesses across Canada and the United States.

What we can show, and what to send

Our portfolio includes nine App Store apps and this website, all products we own. In-app purchases in our apps are a different system from a WooCommerce gateway. A store project therefore includes its own reviewable evidence: product and checkout checks, gateway results and an update plan for the theme and plugins. The handoff explains what was tested and what staff must maintain.

Send the store address, the host, the theme, the payment and shipping plugins, and whether checkout is blocks or classic pages. Include a product export, the zones you ship, the base currency, and which GST, HST, PST, or US registrations to enter. Administrator access can wait until we agree to look.