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+# WooNooW Settings Tree - Implementation Plan
+
+## 📋 Overview
+
+This document defines the complete settings structure for WooNooW Admin SPA, including what needs to be built, priorities, and implementation approach.
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 Strategy: Option A - Everyday Use Dashboard
+
+**Philosophy:**
+- Focus on most-used settings (80/20 rule)
+- Bridge to wp-admin for advanced/rarely-used features
+- Extensible for 3rd party plugins
+- Coexist with WooCommerce (no replacement)
+
+---
+
+## 🌲 Settings Tree Structure
+
+```
+Settings
+├── 🔧 WooNooW (Plugin Settings)
+│   └── /settings
+│
+├── 🏪 General (Store Settings)
+│   └── /settings/general
+│
+├── 💳 Payments (Payment Gateways)
+│   └── /settings/payments
+│
+├── 📦 Shipping (Zones & Methods)
+│   └── /settings/shipping
+│
+├── 📦 Products (Inventory & Downloads)
+│   └── /settings/products
+│
+├── 💰 Tax (Tax Rates & Classes)
+│   └── /settings/tax
+│
+├── 👤 Accounts & Privacy
+│   └── /settings/accounts
+│
+├── 📧 Emails (Templates & Settings)
+│   └── /settings/emails
+│
+├── ⚙️ Advanced (Bridge to wp-admin)
+│   └── /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=advanced
+│
+├── 🔌 Integration (Bridge to wp-admin)
+│   └── /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=integration
+│
+├── 🔍 Status (System Status)
+│   └── /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-status
+│
+└── 🧩 Extensions (Marketplace)
+    └── /wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-addons
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Implementation Priority
+
+### **Phase 1: Core Settings (HIGH PRIORITY)** 🔴
+
+#### 1. General Settings (`/settings/general`)
+**Purpose:** Store address, currency, units  
+**Complexity:** Medium  
+**Estimated Time:** 4-6 hours
+
+**Fields:**
+- Store Address (address 1, address 2, city, country, state, postcode)
+- Selling Location (sell to all countries, specific countries)
+- Shipping Location (ship to all countries, specific countries, disable shipping)
+- Default Customer Location (shop country, geolocate, no location by default)
+- Currency (currency, position, thousand separator, decimal separator, decimals)
+- API Settings (REST API enabled)
+
+**UI Components:**
+- Text inputs
+- Country/State selectors
+- Currency selector
+- Radio groups
+- Checkboxes
+
+---
+
+#### 2. Payment Settings (`/settings/payments`)
+**Purpose:** Enable/disable payment gateways, configure settings  
+**Complexity:** Medium-High  
+**Estimated Time:** 6-8 hours
+
+**Features:**
+- List all available payment gateways
+- Enable/disable toggle for each gateway
+- Gateway-specific settings (expandable panels)
+- Drag-and-drop ordering
+- Test mode indicators
+
+**UI Components:**
+- Sortable list
+- Toggle switches
+- Expandable panels (accordion)
+- Gateway-specific forms (dynamic based on gateway)
+
+**Gateways to Support:**
+- Direct Bank Transfer (BACS)
+- Check Payments
+- Cash on Delivery
+- PayPal (if installed)
+- Stripe (if installed)
+- Other 3rd party gateways (extensible)
+
+---
+
+#### 3. Shipping Settings (`/settings/shipping`)
+**Purpose:** Shipping zones, methods, and classes  
+**Complexity:** High  
+**Estimated Time:** 8-12 hours
+
+**Features:**
+- **Shipping Zones:**
+  - List all zones
+  - Add/edit/delete zones
+  - Zone regions (countries, states, postcodes)
+  - Zone methods (flat rate, free shipping, local pickup)
+  
+- **Shipping Classes:**
+  - List all classes
+  - Add/edit/delete classes
+  - Class descriptions
+
+- **Shipping Options:**
+  - Enable/disable shipping calculator
+  - Hide shipping costs until address entered
+  - Debug mode
+
+**UI Components:**
+- Zone list with drag-and-drop
+- Region selector (multi-select countries/states)
+- Method configuration forms
+- Shipping class manager
+- Cost calculator inputs
+
+---
+
+### **Phase 2: Product & Customer Settings (MEDIUM PRIORITY)** 🟡
+
+#### 4. Product Settings (`/settings/products`)
+**Purpose:** Shop page, inventory, downloadable products  
+**Complexity:** Medium  
+**Estimated Time:** 4-6 hours
+
+**Sections:**
+- **General:**
+  - Shop page
+  - Add to cart behavior
+  - Placeholder images
+  
+- **Inventory:**
+  - Manage stock
+  - Hold stock (minutes)
+  - Notifications (low stock, out of stock)
+  - Low stock threshold
+  - Out of stock threshold
+  - Hide out of stock items
+  
+- **Downloadable Products:**
+  - File download method
+  - Access restriction
+  - Grant access after payment
+
+**UI Components:**
+- Page selectors
+- Number inputs
+- Checkboxes
+- Radio groups
+- Select dropdowns
+
+---
+
+#### 5. Tax Settings (`/settings/tax`)
+**Purpose:** Tax rates, classes, and options  
+**Complexity:** Medium-High  
+**Estimated Time:** 6-8 hours
+
+**Features:**
+- **Tax Options:**
+  - Prices entered with tax
+  - Calculate tax based on (customer address, shop address)
+  - Shipping tax class
+  - Rounding
+  - Additional tax classes
+  
+- **Standard Rates:**
+  - Country/State/Postcode
+  - Rate %
+  - Tax name
+  - Priority
+  - Compound
+  - Shipping
+  
+- **Tax Classes:**
+  - List all classes
+  - Add/edit/delete classes
+
+**UI Components:**
+- Tax rate table (sortable, editable)
+- Country/State selectors
+- Percentage inputs
+- Checkbox groups
+- Tax class manager
+
+---
+
+#### 6. Accounts & Privacy (`/settings/accounts`)
+**Purpose:** Guest checkout, account creation, privacy  
+**Complexity:** Low-Medium  
+**Estimated Time:** 3-4 hours
+
+**Sections:**
+- **Guest Checkout:**
+  - Allow customers to place orders without account
+  - Allow customers to log in during checkout
+  
+- **Account Creation:**
+  - Allow customers to create account during checkout
+  - Allow customers to create account on "My Account" page
+  - Automatically generate username
+  - Automatically generate password
+  
+- **Privacy:**
+  - Privacy policy page
+  - Registration privacy policy text
+  - Checkout privacy policy text
+  - Remove personal data (retention period)
+  - Remove access to download (retention period)
+
+**UI Components:**
+- Checkboxes
+- Page selector
+- Textarea for policy text
+- Number inputs (retention periods)
+
+---
+
+### **Phase 3: Communication (MEDIUM PRIORITY)** 🟡
+
+#### 7. Email Settings (`/settings/emails`)
+**Purpose:** Email templates and settings  
+**Complexity:** Medium-High  
+**Estimated Time:** 6-8 hours
+
+**Features:**
+- **Email List:**
+  - New Order (admin)
+  - Cancelled Order (admin)
+  - Failed Order (admin)
+  - Order On-Hold (customer)
+  - Processing Order (customer)
+  - Completed Order (customer)
+  - Refunded Order (customer)
+  - Customer Invoice
+  - Customer Note
+  - Reset Password
+  - New Account
+  
+- **Email Settings (per email):**
+  - Enable/disable
+  - Subject
+  - Heading
+  - Additional content
+  - Email type (plain text, HTML, multipart)
+  
+- **Global Settings:**
+  - "From" name
+  - "From" email address
+  - Header image
+  - Footer text
+  - Base color
+  - Background color
+  - Body background color
+  - Body text color
+
+**UI Components:**
+- Email list with enable/disable toggles
+- Email editor (per email)
+- Color pickers
+- Image uploader
+- Text inputs
+- Textarea
+- Email preview
+
+---
+
+### **Phase 4: Advanced (KEEP IN WP-ADMIN)** ⚪
+
+These settings are rarely used and can remain in wp-admin:
+
+#### 8. Advanced Settings (Bridge)
+- Page setup (cart, checkout, my account, terms)
+- REST API
+- Webhooks
+- Legacy API
+- WooCommerce.com account
+
+#### 9. Integration Settings (Bridge)
+- MaxMind Geolocation
+- Other integrations
+
+#### 10. System Status (Bridge)
+- System status report
+- Tools (clear cache, regenerate thumbnails, etc.)
+- Logs
+- Scheduled actions
+
+#### 11. Extensions (Bridge)
+- WooCommerce marketplace
+- Browse extensions
+- My subscriptions
+
+---
+
+## 🔧 Technical Implementation
+
+### Backend (PHP)
+
+**Files to Create/Modify:**
+1. `includes/Admin/Rest/SettingsController.php` - REST endpoints
+2. `includes/Compat/SettingsProvider.php` - Settings data provider
+3. `includes/Compat/NavigationRegistry.php` - ✅ Already updated
+
+**REST Endpoints:**
+```php
+GET  /wp-json/woonoow/v1/settings/general
+POST /wp-json/woonoow/v1/settings/general
+GET  /wp-json/woonoow/v1/settings/payments
+POST /wp-json/woonoow/v1/settings/payments
+GET  /wp-json/woonoow/v1/settings/shipping
+POST /wp-json/woonoow/v1/settings/shipping
+// ... etc
+```
+
+**Data Flow:**
+1. Frontend requests settings via REST API
+2. Backend reads from WooCommerce options
+3. Backend returns structured JSON
+4. Frontend displays in form
+5. User submits changes
+6. Backend validates and saves to WooCommerce options
+7. Frontend shows success/error
+
+---
+
+### Frontend (React/TypeScript)
+
+**Files to Create:**
+```
+admin-spa/src/routes/Settings/
+├── index.tsx              ✅ Done (WooNooW settings)
+├── General.tsx            ✅ Placeholder created
+├── Payments.tsx           ✅ Placeholder created
+├── Shipping.tsx           ✅ Placeholder created
+├── Products.tsx           ⏳ To create
+├── Tax.tsx                ⏳ To create
+├── Accounts.tsx           ⏳ To create
+├── Emails.tsx             ⏳ To create
+└── components/
+    ├── SettingsForm.tsx       ⏳ Reusable form component
+    ├── SettingsSection.tsx    ⏳ Section wrapper
+    ├── SettingsField.tsx      ⏳ Field renderer
+    ├── PaymentGatewayList.tsx ⏳ Payment gateway manager
+    ├── ShippingZoneList.tsx   ⏳ Shipping zone manager
+    ├── TaxRateTable.tsx       ⏳ Tax rate editor
+    └── EmailTemplateList.tsx  ⏳ Email template manager
+```
+
+**Shared Components:**
+- Form wrapper with save/cancel
+- Field renderer (text, select, checkbox, radio, textarea, color, image)
+- Section headers
+- Help text/tooltips
+- Validation messages
+- Loading states
+- Success/error notifications
+
+---
+
+## 🎨 UI/UX Guidelines
+
+### Layout
+- Two-column layout on desktop (sidebar + content)
+- Single column on mobile
+- Sticky save button
+- Breadcrumb navigation
+- Section anchors (jump to section)
+
+### Forms
+- Clear labels and help text
+- Inline validation
+- Required field indicators
+- Default values shown
+- Reset to defaults button
+- Unsaved changes warning
+
+### Feedback
+- Loading spinners during save
+- Success toast notifications
+- Error messages with details
+- Confirmation dialogs for destructive actions
+
+### Accessibility
+- Keyboard navigation
+- Screen reader support
+- Focus indicators
+- ARIA labels
+- Color contrast compliance
+
+---
+
+## 📝 Implementation Checklist
+
+### Phase 1: Core Settings
+- [ ] General Settings page
+  - [ ] Store address fields
+  - [ ] Currency settings
+  - [ ] Location settings
+  - [ ] Save/load functionality
+  - [ ] Validation
+  
+- [ ] Payment Settings page
+  - [ ] Gateway list
+  - [ ] Enable/disable toggles
+  - [ ] Gateway configuration
+  - [ ] Drag-and-drop ordering
+  - [ ] Save/load functionality
+  
+- [ ] Shipping Settings page
+  - [ ] Shipping zones list
+  - [ ] Zone editor
+  - [ ] Region selector
+  - [ ] Shipping methods
+  - [ ] Shipping classes
+  - [ ] Save/load functionality
+
+### Phase 2: Product & Customer Settings
+- [ ] Product Settings page
+- [ ] Tax Settings page
+- [ ] Accounts & Privacy page
+
+### Phase 3: Communication
+- [ ] Email Settings page
+
+---
+
+## 🧪 Testing Requirements
+
+### Functional Testing
+- [ ] All fields save correctly
+- [ ] Validation works
+- [ ] Default values load
+- [ ] Changes persist after reload
+- [ ] Bridge links work
+- [ ] Mobile responsive
+
+### Integration Testing
+- [ ] WooCommerce compatibility
+- [ ] 3rd party gateway support
+- [ ] Plugin conflict testing
+- [ ] Multi-currency support
+
+### User Testing
+- [ ] Intuitive navigation
+- [ ] Clear labels
+- [ ] Helpful error messages
+- [ ] Fast performance
+
+---
+
+## 📚 Documentation
+
+### User Documentation
+- Settings overview
+- Field descriptions
+- Common configurations
+- Troubleshooting
+
+### Developer Documentation
+- API endpoints
+- Filter hooks
+- Extension points
+- Code examples
+
+---
+
+## 🔄 Migration Notes
+
+**No data migration needed!**
+- All settings use WooCommerce's native options
+- Deactivating WooNooW restores wp-admin settings
+- No data loss risk
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 Success Metrics
+
+### Phase 1 Complete When:
+- ✅ General, Payments, Shipping pages functional
+- ✅ All fields save/load correctly
+- ✅ Mobile responsive
+- ✅ No console errors
+- ✅ User testing passed
+
+### Phase 2 Complete When:
+- ✅ Products, Tax, Accounts pages functional
+- ✅ All validations working
+- ✅ Performance acceptable (<2s load)
+
+### Phase 3 Complete When:
+- ✅ Email settings functional
+- ✅ Email preview working
+- ✅ Template customization working
+
+---
+
+## 📅 Timeline Estimate
+
+| Phase | Pages | Estimated Time | Priority |
+|-------|-------|----------------|----------|
+| Phase 1 | General, Payments, Shipping | 18-26 hours | 🔴 HIGH |
+| Phase 2 | Products, Tax, Accounts | 13-18 hours | 🟡 MEDIUM |
+| Phase 3 | Emails | 6-8 hours | 🟡 MEDIUM |
+| **Total** | **7 pages** | **37-52 hours** | |
+
+**Note:** Times include design, implementation, testing, and documentation.
+
+---
+
+## 🔗 Related Documents
+
+- `PROGRESS_NOTE.md` - Development progress
+- `SPA_ADMIN_MENU_PLAN.md` - Menu structure
+- `PROJECT_SOP.md` - Development standards
+- `STANDALONE_MODE_SUMMARY.md` - Mode documentation
+
+---
+
+**Last Updated:** November 5, 2025  
+**Status:** 📋 Planning Complete, Ready for Implementation  
+**Next Step:** Implement Phase 1 - General Settings