<h2>Increase Security with Extended Admin Tools</h2>
<p>Use the <strong>Admin Tools for WooCommerce extension </strong>to increase security for you store and your customers.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
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<td style="border: none"><strong>Security first</strong></td>
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<li>Protect unauthorized access to the files on your webserver.</li>
<li>Prevent editing plugin and theme code.</li>
</ul>
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<td style="border: none"><strong>Test and debug</strong></td>
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<li>Inspect the internal data stored in the WordPress DB tables for products and orders.</li>
<li>Test your store’s checkout without actually charging customers.</li>
<li>Route all emails to yourself on a local/staging site.</li>
</ul>
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<td style="width: 110px;border: none"><img style="max-width: 100px" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-icon-tweaks.png" alt="Tweaks" /></td>
<td style="border: none"><strong>Improve the user experience</strong></td>
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<li>Hide Related Products and Breadcrumbs.</li>
<li>Enable browser cache to improve performance.</li>
<li>Hide ×1 quantity.</li>
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<h3>Security settings</h3>
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<li><strong>Disable Plugin File Editor and Theme File Editor</strong> – This feature allows you to disable the Plugin and Theme File Editors in your WordPress admin. This can help to improve security by preventing unauthorized access to your site’s files.</li>
<li><strong>Deny access to certain files</strong> such as SQL, ZIP, and BAK – a particularly important security setting, which normally requires editing the .htaccess file.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Settings for posts and pages</h3>
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<li><strong>Revisions</strong> – Specify whether to keep revisions of posts and pages, and how many,</li>
<li><strong>Auto-date</strong> – Automatically update the date when saving posts, pages and products,</li>
<li><strong>Page excerpts</strong> – Enable the Excerpt metabox for Pages, which is hidden by default.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Geolocation simulation/spoofing</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Overwrite IP/Country</strong> – With these features, you can enter a specific country code or IP address to overwrite the geolocated information. This is useful for testing purposes when you want to simulate a different location for your website.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WooCommerce store tweaks</h3>
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<li><strong>Hide Related Products on Single Product pages</strong> – This can be useful if you want to streamline the product page and remove distractions for your customers.</li>
<li><strong>Hide breadcrumbs</strong> – Check if you need them. Breadcrumbs may not be necessary to help users understand their location within the site, or they do not fit with the overall look and feel of the site.</li>
<li><strong>Hide ×1</strong> – When quantity is 1, do not show ×1 on Checkout and Order Review pages.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Block Editor for products</strong> – Use the Gutenberg block editor for product descriptions instead of the classic editor.</li>
<li><strong>Disable product image zoom</strong> – Turn off the magnifying glass zoom effect on Single Product pages. Also prevents loading the related JS and CSS, improving page performance and Google PageSpeed score.</li>
<li><strong>Disable product gallery lightbox</strong> – Prevent product images from opening in a lightbox overlay. Also prevents loading the related JS and CSS.</li>
<li><strong>Disable product gallery slider</strong> – Turn off the image slider/carousel on product galleries. Also prevents loading the related JS and CSS.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Email settings</h3>
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<li><strong>Custom “From” name and address</strong> – Override the default sender name and email address for all outgoing WordPress emails.</li>
<li><strong>SMTP configuration</strong> – Send emails through an external SMTP server instead of the default PHP mail function, with configurable host, port, authentication, encryption, and SSL verification settings.</li>
<li><strong>Email Tester</strong> – Send a test email directly from the settings page to verify that your email configuration is working correctly.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Performance</h3>
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<li><strong>Enable browser cache</strong> – This is an important setting that can help to improve the performance of a website. By setting a “cache max-age” parameter, web browsers will request a new version of the page less frequently, which can reduce the load on the server and improve the speed at which pages are displayed to users.</li>
</ul>
<h3>PHP and Apache settings</h3>
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<li><strong>PHP settings via .htaccess</strong> – Configure PHP time limit, max input vars, memory limit, post max size, and upload max size directly from the admin panel, without editing server configuration files.</li>
<li><strong>Apache Hardening</strong> – Deny access to sensitive file types (SQL, ZIP, BAK, etc.) and enable additional server-level security rules.</li>
<li><strong>ModExpires</strong> – Set browser cache expiration headers for static assets to improve page load times.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>WooCommerce Subscriptions</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Set Subscriptions Staging Mode</strong> – This feature allows you to set Subscriptions into the Staging/Duplicate Site mode. This can be useful for testing out new subscription products or for a staging site for your WooCommerce store.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Development and debugging</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Show protected metas</strong> – Allows you to see and edit metadata that is normally hidden in the Custom Fields section of the WordPress editor when editing Products, Posts, and Pages. This can be useful for developers who need to access this information for debugging or customization purposes.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/admin-tools-for-woocommerce/disable-heartbeats/">Disable heartbeats</a></strong> – Heartbeats are a feature that enables real-time communication between the server and the browser of a logged-in user through regular “heartbeat” requests. These requests allow for features like auto-saving, post locking, and login expiration warnings. If the Heartbeat API is causing problems while you are debugging your site, disable it here.</li>
<li><strong>Disable cron</strong> – In WordPress, the “cron” is a built-in task scheduler that is used to perform routine tasks such as checking for updates, publishing scheduled posts, and sending email notifications. You may want to disable it on a development/local version of your site.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Data Inspector</strong> – This will show internal data for posts, pages, products, and orders as it is stored in the WordPress database tables.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Fake Payments</strong> – The Fake Payment gateway can be activated at checkout for testing or development purposes. When enabled, it will simulate the processing of an order without actually charging the customer. Supports both classic checkout and WooCommerce Blocks.</li>
<li><strong>Override “To:” for all emails</strong> – Route all outgoing emails to a specified address for testing.</li>
<li><strong>Bcc: for all emails</strong> – Send a blind copy of all outgoing emails to a specified address.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>…and ever more coming with each new release!</em></p>
<h2>Screenshots</h2>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734001375527 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-settings-subtabs.png" alt="Subtabs" width="975" height="117" /></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734001375554 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-security.png" alt="Security" width="900" height="458" /></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734000974189 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-geolocation.png" alt="Geolocation" width="980" height="340" /></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734001380479 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-subscription-staging.png" alt="Subscriptions" width="980" height="332" /></p>
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<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/admin-tools-for-woocommerce/">Documentation</a></p>
<h4>TIV.NET INC., based in Toronto, Canada, develops and supports the following WooCommerce extensions:</h4>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/admin-tools-for-woocommerce/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Admin Tools</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">A set of utilities for WooCommerce shop owners, administrators, and developers to secure, tune, and debug their store.</td>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/multi-currency/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Multi-currency</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Lets customers pay in the currency of their choice.</td>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/paywall-for-woocommerce/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Paywall</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Enables the monetization of various types of content, including videos, documents, etc., by allowing the sale of access to it.</td>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/tiv-sales-assistant/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Sales Assistant</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Manage store-wide sales from one place – schedule discounts by category, tag, and country instead of editing products one by one.</td>
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Admin Tools

<p>A set of utilities for WooCommerce store owners, administrators, and developers to secure, tune, and debug their stores.</p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The official Zapier integration for WooCommerce. It syncs orders, products, customers, coupons, subscriptions, memberships, and bookings with 9,000+ other apps in both directions. To build a new automation, type what you want in plain English and Zapier sets it up for you. Drop AI steps into any workflow that has to handle order notes, support messages, or anything else where the input isn’t predictable. Or skip the dashboard entirely and run store tasks from Claude or ChatGPT through the Zapier MCP.</span></p>
<h2>Powerful Automation Features for WooCommerce</h2>
<h3>Deterministic Zaps plus AI steps</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">For predictable jobs like sending paid orders to Xero or syncing stock from your ERP, a Zap with mapped fields is exactly what you want. For the parts that aren’t predictable, like a customer’s order note asking for gift wrap or “leave on porch”, drop an AI step inside the same Zap. The accounting stays exact. The AI handles only what AI is good at.</span></p>
<h3>Build automations by typing what you want</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Tell Zapier “when I get a paid WooCommerce order, create an invoice in Xero and add the customer to Mailchimp.” It sets up the Zap for you. Work that used to take an hour of clicking through field mappings now takes a minute of typing.</span></p>
<h3>Manage your store from Claude or ChatGPT</h3>
<p>Connect Zapier’s MCP to whichever AI chat tool you already use, then run store tasks in conversation. “Mark yesterday’s orders as completed.” “Add tracking 1Z999AA1 to order #4521 and email the customer.” One MCP connection covers every WooCommerce action you’ve enabled, so you don’t have to configure a separate MCP for each tool.</p>
<h3>Two-way sync across your whole store</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Orders, products and variations, customers, coupons, subscriptions, membership plans, user memberships, and bookings all flow in both directions between WooCommerce and 9,000+ apps. That includes the ones you’d expect (Xero, QuickBooks, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Slack, Google Sheets) plus a long tail of the ones you probably haven’t heard of until the day you need them.</span></p>
<h3>Real time, not scheduled</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Zaps fire the instant something happens in your store. A paid order becomes an invoice in Xero; a subscription cancels and your CRM gets the news. The work happens even when your laptop’s closed.</span></p>
<h3>Set it up once, forget it forever</h3>
<p>Most merchants spend the first month building automations and the next five years just watching them run. Pick a trigger, map the fields once, and the job keeps doing itself.</p>
<h2>What you can build</h2>
<h4>Smart order processing</h4>
<p>Paid WooCommerce orders go straight to Xero, QuickBooks, or FreshBooks as invoices. An AI step inside the same Zap can read the customer’s note (“leave on porch”, “gift wrap, no receipt”, “delay until Monday”) and route the order differently from there.</p>
<h4>Natural-language store management</h4>
<p>With Zapier MCP connected to Claude or ChatGPT:</p>
<ul>
<li>“Mark yesterday’s orders as completed.”</li>
<li>“Add tracking number 1Z999AA1 to order #4521 and email the customer.”</li>
<li>“What’s my best-selling product this month?”</li>
</ul>
<p>You decide which actions can run freely and which need your approval first. Useful for merchants who rarely log in to WooCommerce and just want to mark orders shipped from their phone.</p>
<h4>CRM and email marketing</h4>
<p>Sync new customers and order data to HubSpot, Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, ActiveCampaign, Zoho CRM, PipeDrive, or any of 50+ other systems. Use an AI step in between if you want to enrich the customer record or assign them to a segment before the data lands.</p>
<h4>Inventory sync</h4>
<p>Keep WooCommerce stock levels in lockstep with Xero, QuickBooks, your warehouse system, or a spreadsheet. No more “I ordered it but it turns out you’re out of stock for two months” emails to angry customers.</p>
<h4>Notifications</h4>
<p>SMS, email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams alerts when an order status changes, stock drops below a threshold, or a subscription renews. Filter so only the people who need to act get pinged.</p>
<h4>Help desk</h4>
<p>Auto-create tickets in Zendesk, Help Scout, or Freshdesk when a refund or dispute status fires. An AI step can summarise the issue before the ticket opens, so your support team gets context rather than just an order ID.</p>
<h4>File management and reporting</h4>
<p>Push order data into Google Sheets, Dropbox, or Google Drive. Generate monthly reports automatically on the first of the month. This is the kind of task that feels “not worth automating” until you realise it then runs forever for free.</p>
<h2>The Latest Zapier Capabilities</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI-Powered Zap Creation</strong><br />
Create Zaps with plain English prompts (e.g., “Sync WooCommerce orders to Google Sheets”) for instant automation.</li>
<li><strong>Zapier MCP</strong><br />
The fastest way to let your AI assistant(s) interact with WooCommerce and thousands of other apps.</li>
<li><strong>Zapier AI Actions</strong><br />
Enable AI platforms to perform 30,000+ actions (e.g., send Slack messages, update HubSpot) using natural language.</li>
<li><strong>Zapier Agents</strong><br />
Build AI agents to automate tasks like lead enrichment or customer support across 9,000+ apps.</li>
<li><strong>AI Chatbots</strong><br />
Create custom chatbots in Zapier Interfaces to answer queries and automate tasks like CRM updates.</li>
<li><strong>Zapier Canvas with AI</strong><br />
Map processes visually, with AI suggesting optimizations and converting diagrams into Zaps.</li>
<li><strong>AI-Driven Formatter</strong><br />
Auto-formats data in Zaps (e.g., reformat WooCommerce orders for Google Sheets) with AI suggestions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ready to Supercharge Your WooCommerce Store?</h3>
<p>Join thousands automating with Google Sheets, HubSpot, MailChimp, and more. Try Zapier Integration risk-free with our 30-day money-back guarantee.</p>
<h3>Screenshots</h3>
<h4 style="text-align: center">Available Triggers</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734003120224 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/woocommerce-zapier-triggers.png" alt="Available WooCommerce Zapier Triggers" width="3450" height="1580" /></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center">Order Trigger Events</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734003120223 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/woocommerce-zapier-order-trigger-rules.png" alt="WooCommerce Zapier Order Trigger Events" width="3452" height="1970" /></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center">Example Zap: New Subscribers Get a Unique Coupon Code Automatically</h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18734002155881" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/woocommerce-zapier-new-subscriber-coupon-2023.png" alt="Example Zap: New Subscribers Get a Unique Coupon Code Automatically" width="980" height="709" /></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center">Easy Zap Management</h4>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734002155884 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/woocommerce-zapier-easy-zap-management-2023.png" alt="Easy Zap Management" width="980" height="408" /></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center">Zapier Task History in Your WooCommerce Dashboard</h4>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734003120225 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/woocommerce-zapier-task-history-wordpress.png" alt="WooCommerce Zapier Task History Screen" width="2520" height="1864" /></p>

Zapier Integration

<p>WooCommerce connected to 9,000+ apps, with AI steps inside your workflows and plain-English store management through Claude or ChatGPT. No code required.</p>

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