Does WooCommerce work ok with Toolbox wordpress child theme? - wordpress

I'm going to be using WooCommerce and I need to figure out whether my best bet is to create a child theme of twentytwelve or to create a child theme of toolbox.
It's a difficult one to research due to the generic name of toolbox, so I was wondering if anyone had any toolbox/woocommerce experience and could maybe give that combination the green light.
Am fairly new to wordpress development, so any advice would be much appreciated.

The answer is 'almost'.
I only ran into one issue - described and solved here: woocommerce_cart shortcode not working

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