eCommerce Development in Colorado

You connect a gateway — Stripe, PayPal, Square, or Authorize.net are the common choices — and pay that processor's rate, typically around 2.9% plus a fixed amount per transaction. That processor fee exists on every platform, because someone has to move the money. What WooCommerce removes is the second cut some hosted platforms take on top of the processor's fee for not using their own payment product. Card data never touches your server; the gateway handles it, which is also what keeps your PCI compliance scope small.

Abandonment is heavily driven by things visible at checkout: unexpected shipping cost, a forced account registration, too many steps, and slow page transitions. Technically that means showing shipping estimates before the final step, offering guest checkout, collapsing checkout to a single page where possible, and making sure the checkout pages aren't the slowest on the site — they frequently are, because caching is hardest to apply there. Recovery emails to logged-in users who abandon are worth adding once the basics are handled.

Each product page should carry Product structured data with name, image, description, SKU, brand, and an Offer containing price, currency, and availability. Where genuine customer reviews exist, AggregateRating can be included — but only if those reviews are visible on the page, since claiming ratings that aren't shown violates Google's rich-results policy and risks a manual action. Correct Product markup is what makes price and stock status appear directly in search results.

Temporarily out of stock: keep the page live, keep it indexable, and mark availability as OutOfStock in the structured data — deleting it discards whatever ranking it earned. Permanently discontinued: 301 redirect to the closest replacement product or its category, so the accumulated authority transfers somewhere useful. Letting discontinued product URLs return 404 in bulk is one of the more common causes of a store's organic traffic decaying over time.

Yes. Products with their titles, descriptions, images, prices, variants, and categories migrate, as do order history and customer accounts. The store is built on a staging URL first so you can check the catalogue product by product before anything goes live. The part that needs planning is URL mapping — platforms structure product and category URLs differently, so every old URL needs a 301 to its new equivalent or the migration costs you the store's existing rankings.

Far less than people expect, provided card details never reach your server. Using a hosted gateway field or redirect — which is how Stripe and PayPal integrate by default — keeps you in the simplest self-assessment category. What you are still responsible for is serving the whole site over HTTPS, keeping WordPress, the theme, and plugins patched, enforcing strong administrator credentials, and restricting who has admin access. Storing card numbers yourself moves you into a dramatically more demanding compliance regime, and there is almost never a reason to.