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A guide to the essential settings that control how your WooCommerce store behaves — currency, location, checkout options, and more.

WooCommerce's general settings control the foundational behavior of your store — what currency you sell in, where you're based, and how customers can shop. This guide walks through the most important settings to know.

Quick summary

Go to WooCommerce → Settings to manage your store settings. The most important tabs are General (location, currency, selling options), Products (display and reviews), Shipping, Payments, Accounts & Privacy, Emails, and Advanced (page assignments). Most of these you set once and rarely change.

Getting to WooCommerce settings

Log in to WordPress.

Go to WooCommerce → Settings in the left-hand menu. The settings are organized into tabs across the top.

General tab — the most important settings

Store address

Enter your business's physical address. WooCommerce uses this for tax calculations (as your base location) and shipping origin.

Selling location

Choose where you sell:

Sell to all countries — open to everyone.
Sell to all countries, except for… — exclude specific countries.
Sell to specific countries — restrict to a list you define.

Also set your Shipping location — whether you ship everywhere or to specific countries/regions only.

Default customer location

WooCommerce uses this to estimate shipping and taxes before a customer enters their address:

No location by default — no estimate until they enter an address.
Store base address — uses your location as the default.
Geolocate — automatically detects the customer's country from their IP address.

Currency settings

Set your store's currency, position (before or after the number), separator characters, and number of decimal places.

Changing currency doesn't convert prices

Switching your store currency only changes the symbol and code displayed. It does not convert your existing product prices. Update product prices manually after changing currency.

Accounts & Privacy tab

Key settings here:

Setting	What it does
Allow customers to create an account at checkout	Lets customers register when they place an order
Allow customers to log in to an existing account during checkout	Shows a login prompt on checkout
Allow customers to place orders without an account	Enables guest checkout — recommended ON
Customer data retention	How long to keep personal data (for privacy compliance)

We strongly recommend keeping guest checkout enabled. Many customers abandon purchases when forced to register.

Products tab

Key settings:

Setting	What it does
Shop page	Which WordPress page is your main shop/product listing
Shop page display	Show products, subcategories, or both
Default product sorting	How products are sorted by default
Enable reviews	Turn product reviews on or off
Stock management	Enable inventory tracking across all products
Low stock threshold	When to trigger a low stock notification

Advanced tab — page assignments

This is where WooCommerce links its functions to your actual WordPress pages:

Setting	Page it references
Cart page	Your cart page
Checkout page	Your checkout page
My Account page	Customer account area
Terms and conditions	Your T&C page (shown at checkout if set)

If any of these are blank or pointing to a deleted page, checkout will break. See the guide on your store's key pages.

Common questions

Need a hand?

If you're stuck, email support@chykalophia.com and we'll help. Include your website address and a screenshot if you can.

Learn more

WooCommerce Settings documentation

General store settings