Exercise 2: Which Price Actually Gets Charged — Possible Solution ==================================================================== THE ANSWER: THE NEW, HIGHER 2PM PRICE ------------------------------ Per this chapter, the customer pays the price in effect at the moment checkout is actually submitted (3pm) - the raised price - not the price that was in effect when the item was originally added to the cart (1pm). WHY: CHECKOUT RE-VALIDATES AGAINST LIVE, CURRENT VALUES ------------------------------ Per this chapter, when checkout is submitted, WooCommerce re-validates the cart by checking each item's current stock and price against what is actually configured right now, not what was cached when the item was added. The chapter states this explicitly: "a product's price or stock level can change between 'added to cart' and 'checkout submitted' - WooCommerce always uses the live, current value at the moment of checkout." WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ It correctly identifies the 3pm (post-change) price as the one actually charged, and correctly grounds that answer in this chapter's own explicit statement that checkout always re-validates against current live pricing rather than whatever price was displayed when the item was first added to the cart.