WooCommerce
- Plugins
- Ecommerce
Free open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress with a large ecosystem of extensions and payment integrations.
Overview
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform maintained by Automattic for WordPress. The core plugin provides products, carts, checkout, orders, customer accounts, taxes, shipping foundations, and extension points for payments and store operations. A large ecosystem of official and third-party extensions adds subscriptions, bookings, memberships, complex shipping, marketing, accounting, and regional requirements. This flexibility makes WooCommerce suitable for many store types, but the total solution depends on hosting, theme quality, extensions, maintenance, security, and operational processes. Store owners should evaluate the complete stack and ongoing cost rather than treating the free core plugin as the full project. Performance and update testing become increasingly important as catalogue and extension complexity grows. WordPress.org currently reports 7+ million active installations for WooCommerce, a rounded count for the core plugin rather than every paid extension.
Best for
Selling products or improving ecommerce checkout and conversion workflows on WordPress.