WooWeekly #561: Negative Fees | Online Ordering | Checkout Summit 2026

Hello there,

Welcome back to WooWeekly! I’m glad you’re here for another round of WooCommerce insights. Every week, I curate tips and tutorials for you to help you sharpen your WooCommerce skills.

The past few days have been full of driving — partly because of a tennis tournament that I thankfully lost after two rounds (too hot!), and partly because of a ridiculous dispute with the gas company over a wildly wrong bill due to a reading error on their end. Long story short, I haven’t had much time to work! And apparently, I’ll have a repeat of this chaos next week and the following one, so I’m a little worried lol.

On the business side, my time and schedule were very irregular, so I focused almost exclusively on the Checkout Summit website and planning. Today, I’m finally able to work on the “Attendees” forms and page, because the first early bird tickets will be released in mid-September. You can sign up for the waiting list to be the first to know — the news will go out via email to them first.

Finally, a shoutout to everyone at WCUS this week! In the meantime, I’m trying to concentrate for a couple more hours before my short working day ends.

Anyhow, here’s your weekly round-up of WooCommerce tips and tricks. Enjoy!

Rodolfo Melogli

WooCommerce Tips, Snippets & Tutorials

Here is a collection of posts to answer your biggest WooCommerce questions. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced store owner, these resources will help you optimize your WooCommerce store and grow your online business.

Are Negative Fees Allowed at WooCommerce Checkout?This approach may seem like a convenient way to apply a discount without relying on coupons—but is it safe, reliable, or even allowed? [Business Bloomer]
How to Create an Online Ordering System for Your Small BusinessIf you’re looking to take orders online and have full control over your ordering system, delivery, and more – then this guide is for you. [Orderable]
Should Clients Add WooCommerce Products Themselves?We discussed the best approach when onboarding a client to a newly built WooCommerce store. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce Cart Discounts Without CouponsStore owners and developers often want to apply a quick, programmatic discount without needing to set up a coupon. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Redirect Empty Paginated Category Pages (404)A WooCommerce developer faced a common but frustrating issue: their website was generating 404 errors for paginated product category URLs. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Add a Free Subscription After SSOA member asked whether it was possible to programmatically assign a free WooCommerce Subscription right after single sign-on. [Business Bloomer]

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Missed a class? No worries — you can catch up anytime with our growing archive of 25+ recorded sessions packed with WooCommerce insights.

WooCommerce Videos

How to Copy Products Between WooCommerce Categories
Want to quickly copy products from one WooCommerce category into another without manually editing each item? In this short tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to bulk add an additional category to your existing products. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]
I Tried WooPayments So You Don’t Have To (2 episodes)
In this playlist, I walk you through the entire WooPayments setup process — from installation and test payments to going live and managing transactions. As someone who was initially skeptical about WooPayments, I test everything firsthand so you don’t have to. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]
Setting Up Shoptimizer (3 episodes)
In the first 3 episodes of my Shoptimizer setup series, I kick things off by building the foundation of CheckoutSummit.com — a real, live event website — using the Shoptimizer WooCommerce theme by CommerceGurus. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]
Ditching a WooCommerce Plugin (3 episodes)
Tired of using bloated WooCommerce plugins when you only need a small part of their functionality? In this 3-part series, I walk you through the full process of replacing a WooCommerce plugin with clean, custom code — from planning to writing to testing. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]

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You don’t want to purchase yet another bloated, expensive plugin? Great! Because Business Bloomer mini WooCommerce plugins come without the usual hassles. One feature. Lifetime license. No annoying subscriptions. 1 plugin file. A few lines of code. No banners. No up-sells. No WP notifications. Use it on as many websites as you like. Lifetime support. 1-page documentation. A single and easy admin dashboard.

ICYMI: WooCommerce Insights

WooCommerce: Move “Orders” to Top-Level Menu @ WP Admin
By default, WooCommerce keeps the “Orders” screen buried under its own top-level “WooCommerce” main menu item, alongside settings and other options. [Business Bloomer]
5 Order Confirmation Page Designs That Boost Sales (With Examples)
If you’re looking for some fantastic real-world examples of order confirmation page designs, you’re in the right place. [IconicWP]
WooCommerce: Send Payments to Different Bank Accounts
A member asked whether it’s possible to send payments for specific products to one bank account, and all other payments to a different one. [Business Bloomer]
Why Is There Still No Wise Payment Gateway for WooCommerce?
How is it possible that, in 2025, there is still no direct integration between WooCommerce and Wise? [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Completing Orders Without Triggering Hooks
When you mark an order as “completed” from the WooCommerce dashboard, various hooks are triggered. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Notify Admin of Abandoned Carts?
Woo stores cart session data only temporarily, and that too mostly for logged-in users. There is no built-in feature to notify administrators or trigger actions when a cart is left behind. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Order Meta with HPOS and API
If the current implementation uses functions like $order->update_meta_data(), would that still work seamlessly with HPOS? [Business Bloomer]

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  • Rodolfo Melogli

    Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

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