Symptoms

What's going wrong

Any of these means you're potentially losing sales right now.

Checkout not completing or throwing an error
Payment gateway or plugin conflict
Order confirmations not reaching customers
Email deliverability issue
Cart showing wrong prices or items
Caching or plugin conflict
Payment gateway failing after an update
API change or plugin conflict
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Slow store pages or timeouts at checkout
Performance issue under load
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Stock levels not updating correctly
Database or plugin issue
Our process

How we fix it

WooCommerce issues are complex — we diagnose systematically, not by guessing.

01
Replicate the issue

We reproduce the problem in a staging environment — exactly as your customers are experiencing it.

~30 mins
02
Diagnose root cause

Error logs, plugin isolation, payment gateway testing, and database queries reviewed.

~1 hr
03
Fix and test

Fix applied to staging. Full checkout flow tested — add to cart, payment, confirmation, admin notification.

1–3 hrs
04
Deploy to live

Fix deployed to live site. Live checkout tested. Monitoring set up to watch for recurrence.

~30 mins
Root cause

Why WooCommerce breaks

Common causes in order of frequency.

Plugin update conflicts
WooCommerce, payment gateways, and related plugins update frequently. A version mismatch breaks the checkout flow.
Caching misconfiguration
Page caches that don't exclude cart and checkout pages cause customers to see stale data.
Payment gateway API change
Stripe, PayPal, and others update their APIs periodically. Plugin updates that aren't applied break the integration.
Email delivery failure
PHP mail unreliability means order confirmations go to spam or don't arrive. SMTP setup fixes this permanently.
Not broken, just want it looked after?

Most of the WooCommerce stores we look after aren't in trouble when they come to us. Stores need more careful handling than a standard WordPress site: updates tested against a live checkout, extensions that don't always agree with each other, and downtime measured in lost orders rather than pageviews. That's ongoing work rather than a one-off fix, and it's covered by our Build and Partner care plans.

See Build & Partner plans →
Your fix, sorted

Fix your WooCommerce issue

Get it fixed as a one-off — scoped and quoted before we start, no plan required. Or put it on a care plan and the same team keeps it sorted going forward.

Want it handled long-term?

A care plan keeps the same team on your site — updates, backups, security and support, so this doesn't happen again. From £49/mo +VAT.

Move onto a plan within 30 days and your fix cost comes off your first month.

No contracts · UK support team · 3-month minimum

FAQ

Common questions

No — we work on staging and only deploy the fix once we're confident. Your store stays live throughout.

Yes. Stripe, PayPal, Klarna, Worldpay, and most major WooCommerce payment plugins. Let us know which you're using.

Yes — Build and Partner both cover WooCommerce sites. Both plans include quarterly support hours for WooCommerce queries, troubleshooting, and small changes, with Partner adding dedicated account management and more dev capacity for larger store work.

Store broken? We'll fix it today.

Get in touch and we'll fix your WooCommerce problem — fast, with full testing before deploying to live.

UK team · 2-hr response · WooCommerce specialists