WooCommerce troubleshooting guides

These are the failure modes that cost stores money quietly, the ones that keep running long after the sales have slipped. Each guide is a complete fix you can work through yourself, no signup needed.

WooCommerce orders suddenly stopped? Work through these 7 checks

Seven plain-language checks to find why the orders dried up, from testing checkout yourself to a stalled WP-Cron.

WooCommerce checkout not working: find the cause in 15 minutes

A step-by-step way to pin down a broken checkout, from browser console errors to plugin conflicts and the hidden error log.

WooCommerce order emails not sending: fix it in 20 minutes

Why order confirmations and new-order notices go silent, and how to fix it with SMTP so you stop flying blind on sales.

How to get alerted the minute a WooCommerce payment fails

How to make sure you actually see a failed payment fast, with a Gmail filter, the mobile app, Slack, and monitoring services.

Stop failed WooCommerce orders from cluttering your dashboard

Why WooCommerce piles up failed orders, and how to quiet the emails and trash old unpaid ones automatically.

WooCommerce card testing attack: stop it and clean up

How to recognize a card testing attack, stop it fast with gateway filters and a checkout challenge, and clear the failed orders it leaves behind.

Google for WooCommerce products not syncing? Find the actual error

The dashboard says Not Synced and nothing else. The real errors are in Merchant Center Diagnostics, Action Scheduler, and the plugin log. Here is how to read them.

WooCommerce stock not updating after sales? Six places it breaks

Sales come in but counts don't move, or sold-out items keep selling. Inventory settings, stuck orders, WP-Cron, caching, sync plugins, and the hold-stock timer, in the order to check them.

Two quiet tools, if you want them

Want a fast read on whether checkout is loading right now? Run the free checkout checker, no signup. And if you'd rather find out the next time this happens without testing by hand, Store Guardian is free in beta and emails you within minutes when orders stop.