New on the blog: WooCommerce Telemetry: What’s Collected, What’s Default, and How to Turn It Off.
WooCommerce’s usage tracker sends a weekly snapshot of your store — revenue totals, admin email, installed plugins, a 40-order sample, and around a hundred other fields to tracking.woocommerce.com. It’s off by default, but the setup wizard’s “share my data” box is pre-checked, and connecting a store to WordPress.com (required for WooPayments and the Woo mobile app) silently flips the option to yes.
The post walks through what’s actually in the payload, why revenue data leaving your server matters, and four ways to turn it off.