II Part Two
Running your store
Payments, shipping, tax, emails — the operational layer beneath the storefront.
For merchants configuring a real store.
- 01 Payments & Gateways How money moves from customer to you. What a gateway does, how to evaluate your options, and the operational realities nobody talks about.
- 02 KYC, MCC Codes & Account Verification The invisible layer beneath payments. Get this wrong and your money stops moving — or never starts.
- 03 Shipping Zones, methods, live rates, and the matching logic that confuses everyone at least once.
- 04 Tax: US Sales Tax & Nexus The concept of nexus, how automated tax works, when $0 tax is correct, and the setup that fixes the most common tax confusion.
- 05 Tax: EU VAT, Cross-Border & B2B The reality of selling within and into the EU. VAT on digital goods, intra-community supply, reverse charge, OSS — and where WooCommerce's tooling doesn't keep up.
- 06 Emails How WooCommerce sends emails, why they vanish, and the diagnostic path that saves hours of troubleshooting.
- 07 Orders & Statuses The order lifecycle, what triggers each status change, and the operational details that affect your daily workflow.
- 08 Checkout: Block vs Classic The transition from shortcode-based checkout to Block Checkout — what's different, what breaks, and how to decide which to use.