Is WooCommerce Down? Current Status, Outage Reports & User Feedback

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Incident History

Resolved Incidents

We have detected a potential outage for WooCommerce.
Started: 2025-05-20 16:09 Resolved: 2025-05-20 16:20

We have detected a potential outage for WooCommerce.
Started: 2025-05-20 13:18 Resolved: 2025-05-20 13:24

We have detected a potential outage for WooCommerce.
Started: 2025-05-20 09:57 Resolved: 2025-05-20 10:06

Frequently Asked Questions

Checkout problems may be caused by plugin conflicts, theme compatibility issues, or server resource limitations. Try disabling other plugins temporarily to identify conflicts, switch to a default WordPress theme to check theme compatibility, and verify your hosting has sufficient resources for processing WooCommerce transactions.

Image display issues can result from caching problems, file permission errors, or server configuration limitations. Try clearing your site cache, check file permissions on your image directories, and verify your server's PHP memory limit is sufficient for handling your image sizes.

Payment processing failures may be caused by payment gateway connectivity issues, SSL certificate problems, or server timeouts. Verify your payment gateway API credentials are correct, check your site's SSL certificate is valid and properly installed, and confirm your server timeout settings allow sufficient time for payment processing.

Dashboard performance issues can stem from database size problems, server resource constraints, or plugin conflicts. Try optimizing your WordPress database, check your hosting resource usage, and temporarily disable non-essential plugins to identify potential conflicts.

Shipping calculation problems may be caused by shipping zone configuration issues, API connectivity failures, or plugin conflicts. Verify your shipping zones are correctly configured, check if shipping carrier APIs are responding properly, and test shipping calculations with a default theme and minimal plugins.

Tax calculation issues can result from configuration errors, caching problems, or plugin conflicts. Verify your tax settings and rates are correctly configured, clear your site cache after making tax changes, and check if any tax-related plugins might be conflicting with WooCommerce's native tax functionality.

Resource limit errors occur when your site exceeds PHP memory or execution time limits. Increase your PHP memory limit and max execution time in your wp-config.php file or through your hosting provider, optimize database queries with proper indexing, and consider upgrading your hosting plan if resource constraints are frequent.

Email delivery issues may be caused by email configuration problems, server limitations, or plugin conflicts. Verify your WordPress email settings are correct, consider using an SMTP plugin for more reliable email delivery, and check if your hosting provider is blocking outgoing emails from your server.

About WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress that transforms websites into online stores with product management, shopping cart, and checkout capabilities. The platform provides essential e-commerce functionality including inventory management, shipping calculation, payment processing, and order tracking, while offering extensive customization through themes and extensions to adapt to various business models and industry requirements. Small businesses use WooCommerce to add online selling capabilities to their existing WordPress websites, managing products, orders, and customer accounts through an integrated dashboard. Digital creators implement WooCommerce to sell downloadable products like e-books, music, or online courses with automated delivery. Retail stores leverage the platform for omnichannel selling, synchronizing inventory between physical and online presences, while subscription-based businesses utilize WooCommerce extensions to manage recurring billing and membership access to products or content. Store owners may encounter various types of issues when using WooCommerce, including temporary payment gateway connection problems, occasional plugin compatibility conflicts after WordPress updates, or performance slowdowns on high-traffic stores with insufficient hosting resources. Order notification emails might sometimes be delayed or filtered by spam systems, while inventory synchronization across multiple sales channels could experience timing inconsistencies. Theme customizations might require adjustments following major WooCommerce version updates, and checkout flows could occasionally encounter validation errors with specific payment method combinations. During exceptionally high traffic events like flash sales, users might experience slower page loading, temporary cart processing delays, or increased server resource consumption requiring optimization.
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