Care PlansMaintenance built for stores

A broken checkout is lost revenue you can’t get back.

WooCommerce stores aren’t ordinary WordPress sites — an update that’s harmless on a blog can silently break a payment gateway or a tax rule on a store. We maintain stores the way they need it: staged updates, payment-gateway monitoring, order-flow testing, and extension-compatibility checks before anything ships.

Checkout tested after every update Payment-gateway monitoring
store health — yourstore.com LIVE
Checkout
OK
test order passed
Gateways
3/3
connected
Extensions
22
compat checked
Stripe + PayPal test charges passed
Tax + shipping rules intact verified
Order emails firing delivered
WooCommerce 9.x staged update… testing
No update goes live until checkout passes on staging.
Silent
the worst checkout failures don’t error — they just quietly stop taking orders

A WooCommerce update can break a payment gateway without throwing a single visible error.

WooCommerce, its extensions, payment gateways, tax and shipping plugins, and WordPress core all update independently — and a conflict between any two can mean failed charges, broken tax calculation, or order emails that never send. Generic maintenance doesn’t test the order flow. We do: a real test order through checkout after every update, before it reaches your customers.

Sources: WooCommerce extension-compatibility and update best-practice guidance, 2026.
Store care plans

Maintenance that respects how much a store has to lose.

Every plan starts with a free store audit. Prices are starting points; we confirm after reviewing your extension stack.

Store Care
from $99/mo
Smaller catalog
  • Staged updates with post-update checkout test
  • Daily off-site backups + 1-click restore
  • Extension-compatibility checks
  • Monthly store-health report
High-Volume
from $399/mo
High-traffic / large catalog
  • Everything in Growth, real-time monitoring
  • Emergency response priority for outages
  • B2B portal upkeep supported
  • Quarterly performance & conversion review
How store updates run

Test the money path before anything ships.

The difference between WordPress maintenance and store maintenance is the checkout.

01

Back up & clone

Fresh off-site backup, then a staging clone of the store — products, orders, extensions, and payment config included.

02

Update on staging

WooCommerce core, extensions, and WordPress updated on staging first, watching specifically for extension conflicts that break commerce features.

03

Place a test order

We run a real test transaction through checkout — payment, tax, shipping, and the order-confirmation email — to prove the money path still works.

04

Ship & watch

Only after checkout passes do changes go live. Then gateway and order-email monitoring keeps watching, so a silent failure gets caught fast.

Why store-specific care matters

Generic maintenance vs. WooCommerce care.

Illustrative of the operational difference for an active store. Real impact depends on order volume and extension complexity.

Generic maintenance
?
updates ship, checkout untested
WooCommerce Care
test order passes before go-live, every time
FAQ — WooCommerce Care

What store owners ask before signing up.

How is this different from regular WordPress maintenance?
Regular maintenance updates and backs up the site. Store care adds the commerce layer: we test a real order through checkout after updates, monitor payment gateways and order emails, and check extension compatibility before anything ships. The checkout is the part that actually makes you money, so it gets verified specifically.
Will you test with real payments?
We use your gateways’ test/sandbox modes where available, and carefully validated low-value live transactions when a sandbox can’t fully replicate your setup (refunded immediately). The goal is to confirm the real money path works without disrupting your books.
My checkout is also slow / converting poorly. Can you help?
Yes — maintenance keeps it working; WooCommerce CRO makes it convert better, and speed engineering makes it faster. Many stores run care plus one of those as a bolt-on, since a fast, working, high-converting checkout is the whole game.
Do you handle subscriptions and bookings?
Yes. WooCommerce Subscriptions, Bookings, and Memberships add recurring-billing and scheduling logic that’s especially update-sensitive. We test renewal and booking flows as part of the order-flow checks on the relevant tiers.
What if my store gets hacked?
Stores are higher-value targets. We can pair store care with security & malware protection, and if you’re actively breached, emergency recovery handles it with checkout-integrity and customer-data checks built in.
Free store audit

We’ll pressure-test your store before you commit.

A WooCommerce engineer reviews your checkout, gateways, extension stack, and update risk, then sends a store-health report and the right care tier. No call required.

Checkout + gateway health check
Extension-conflict & update-risk review
Yours to keep, even if you never hire us
Free Store Audit
Store-health report + plan · 48 hrs
No spam. No upsell calls. Just the report.
On it — your store-health report lands within 48 hours.
Protect the money path

Keep your store taking orders — through every update.

Free store audit first. Then staged updates with a checkout test before anything goes live.

Checkout tested every update
Gateway & email monitoring
Month-to-month, no contract