WooCommerce
Purpose
A WooCommerce shop becomes a sales channel. Woo is the simplest of the shop connections — and the one with the most honest gap: WooCommerce has no tracking.
Scope
- REST API v3 over HTTP basic auth with the supplied credentials — no bespoke access code.
- Items, prices and stock outbound; stock handling sets
manage_stock, otherwise WooCommerce
silently ignores the quantity.
- Orders page by page: Woo delivers 10 per page and reports the total only in a header; an empty
page is the end.
- Fulfilment: the order is set to
completedand the tracking number is attached as a
customer-visible note — which the buyer actually sees.
- Three settings per channel: shop address, target order status and publication status of new
items.
Interplay
The channel is a sales channel in the sense of Channels — not a special path beside the document. Items, prices and stock come from the product catalogue and stock; incoming orders become regular sales orders and travel through warehouse, shipping and invoicing like any other order. Credentials live as an integration under Integrations in the encrypted store. Flows and mappings at the system boundary — which field goes where, when a sync runs — belong to OctiConnect; conditions and waiting times remain the business of automations.
Limits
- No field for tracking. Instead of inventing a field no plugin reads, the number goes out as a
customer note.
- The real run is still outstanding. What is verified is that we ask correctly and read the
answer correctly — not that WooCommerce accepts the request. A real seller account is missing.