WooCommerce Subscriptions is designed for recurring payments. It lets you sell products or services billed weekly, monthly, or yearly (like a subscription box, maintenance plan, or SaaS-style access). It handles renewals, upgrades/downgrades, trials, sign-up fees, and automated billing. WooCommerce Memberships controls access. It restricts content, products, discounts, or pages to members based on plans (like “Gold Members”). Memberships can be sold as one-time or recurring, but recurring billing typically uses Subscriptions. In short: Subscriptions = how you charge repeatedly; Memberships = what access/benefits customers receive.

WooCommerce includes a “Default sorting” dropdown on shop and category pages. The standard options are: Default sorting (custom ordering + name), Sort by popularity (sales), Sort by average rating, Sort by latest (newest first), Sort by price: low to high, and Sort by price: high to low. Store owners can also change the default order in Appearance settings, reorder products using menu order, or add/remove sorting choices with small code snippets or plugins. Sorting works with pagination and filters, helping shoppers quickly find items by relevance, freshness, or budget. For variable products, price sorting follows your catalog price display settings.

Divi can be good for eCommerce, especially if design control and speed of building pages matter to you. It helps you create branded product pages, promotional landing pages, and custom shop layouts without custom coding. Divi’s Theme Builder lets you design templates for products and categories, improving consistency across the store. It works well for small to mid-size WooCommerce shops that need marketing-focused design. However, for very large catalogs or high-traffic stores, you must focus on performance, clean layouts, and strong hosting. With proper optimization, Divi can support conversion-friendly WooCommerce stores effectively.

Authorize.Net isn’t automatically cheaper than Stripe—it depends on your volume and plan. Stripe’s standard online card rate is typically 2.9% + $0.30 per successful transaction with no monthly fee. Authorize.Net’s “All-in-One” style pricing commonly adds a $25/month gateway fee (and may also have setup/other fees depending on provider) plus per-transaction pricing often in the same ballpark. If you process low volume, Stripe often costs less due to no monthly fee. If you process higher volume, the $25 fee may be negligible, so costs can be similar.

To create or set up a checkout page in WooCommerce, first ensure WooCommerce is installed and activated on your WordPress site. By default, WooCommerce automatically creates a Checkout page during setup. To verify, go to Pages and look for a page named “Checkout.” Open it and confirm it contains the shortcode [woocommerce_checkout]. Next, navigate to WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced and ensure the correct page is selected as the Checkout page. You can customize fields, payment methods, and shipping options under WooCommerce settings. For advanced customization, use a page builder, custom code, or a checkout plugin to enhance design and functionality.