SELL · COMMERCE · HOW IT WORKS
From a shopper's cart to your own Stripe account, and back again when you refund. This page describes how the store behaves, step by step, as of October 2026.
The cart applies the store's coupons and shipping rates. Checkout creates a draft order holding both addresses and the shopper's note. Guests can buy, and their orders join their account once they prove the mailbox is theirs.
Praxis creates a Stripe-hosted checkout page with your own Stripe key: one payment, one line for the whole total, by card. The card is typed on Stripe's page, never on yours.
Stripe sends a signed event. Praxis checks the signature, and only then marks the order paid, exactly once. The stock drops, never below zero, and any coupon use is spent. A payment whose amount or currency does not match the order never pays it.
The shopper's return page and your order screen both ask Stripe about the order's checkout session, and confirm it through the same single step. If Stripe's event arrives later, the order is already right, and nothing happens twice.
"Mark as shipped" with the carrier and tracking, "Mark completed", or "Cancel order", which puts the stock back and refunds nothing. Each act carries an undo.
| Feature | On a store moved from WooCommerce | On a store started on Praxis |
|---|---|---|
| Tax | Tax tables by class and address, with priority and compounding; shipping is never taxed | Tax worked out by Stripe Tax at checkout. Coming soon. |
| Shipping | Flat-rate, free and pickup rates from your WooCommerce zones | Your own shipping zones and rates. Coming soon. |
| Coupons | Spend limits, usage limits, product rules and expiry, applied at checkout | Coupons you create yourself. |
| Variations | Products and their variations, such as sizes and colours, sold at checkout | Variations you create, such as sizes and colours. Coming soon. |
Everything in the first column arrives with a WooCommerce import and is honoured at checkout.
An article or a file is public, members-only, or in a package. Access is decided from the shopper's signed-in session, never from the visitor profile, and it fails closed: when anything is unclear, the answer is no. The gate covers the links you share after you set it.
On a members-only article, the withheld part is removed from the page before it leaves the server, so it never reaches the browser.
A membership is a monthly or yearly Stripe subscription; a package is one payment. Buying either needs a shopper account.
A full refund of a package removes its access; a partial refund does not.
A shopper whose browser sends Global Privacy Control keeps everything they paid for.
It goes from Stripe to your account.
Cards are typed on Stripe's own page.
Only a signed event, or Stripe's own answer, makes a card order paid. An order paid offline is marked paid only by you.
An order becomes paid exactly once.
No copilot tool takes a secret such as a Stripe key.
Every order act the copilot proposes waits for your approval.
The shopper's return page and your order screen ask Stripe directly, and confirm the order through the same step the notification would have used.
The order becomes paid exactly once, and a payment that does not match its amount and currency never pays it.
No. The commerce code has no Stripe Connect and no application fee.
"Cancel order" puts the stock back and refunds nothing; any refund is its own act, through Stripe.