Description

WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution.

Our core platform is free, flexible, and amplified by a global community. The freedom of open-source means you retain full ownership of your store’s content and data forever.

Whether you’re launching a business, taking brick-and-mortar retail online, or developing sites for clients, use WooCommerce for a store that powerfully blends content and commerce.

Create beautiful, enticing storefronts with themes suited to your brand and industry.
Increase revenue with an optimized shopping cart experience that converts.
Customize product pages in minutes using modular product blocks.
Showcase physical and digital goods, product variations, custom configurations, instant downloads, and affiliate items.
Sell subscriptions, bookings, or memberships, with our developer-vetted extensions.
Rise to the top of search results by leveraging WordPress’ SEO advantage.
Build on a platform that scales. Get flexible eCommerce for high-volume stores.

Built-in tools and popular integrations help you efficiently manage your business operations. Many services are free to add with a single click via the optional Setup Wizard.

Choose how you want to get paid. Conveniently manage payments from the comfort of your store with WooCommerce Payments (Available in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy). Securely accept credit cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers, and cash thanks to 100+ payment gateways – including Stripe, PayPal, and Square.
Configure your shipping options. Print USPS labels right from your dashboard and even schedule a pickup with WooCommerce Shipping (U.S.-only). Connect with well-known carriers such as UPS and FedEx – plus a wide variety of delivery, inventory, and fulfillment solutions for your locale.
Simplify sales tax. Add WooCommerce Tax or similar integrated services to make automated calculations a reality.

Grow your business, add features, and monitor your store on the go

WooCommerce means business. Keep tabs on the performance metrics most important to you with WooCommerce Admin – a powerful, customizable central dashboard for your store.

Expand your audience across marketing and social channels with Google Ads, HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Facebook integrations. You can always check out the in-dashboard Marketing Hub for fresh ideas and tips to help you succeed.

Enhance store functionality with hundreds of free and paid extensions from the official WooCommerce Marketplace. Our developers vet each new extension and regularly review existing extensions to maintain Marketplace quality standards. We are actively looking for products that help store builders create successful stores.

Manage your store from anywhere with the free WooCommerce mobile app (Android and iOS). Spoiler alert: Keep an ear out for the slightly addictive “cha-ching” notification sound each time you make a new sale!

Own and control your store data – forever

With WooCommerce, your data belongs to you. Always.

If you opt to share usage data with us, you can feel confident knowing that it’s anonymized and kept secure. Choose to opt-out at any time without impacting your store.

Unlike hosted eCommerce solutions, WooCommerce store data is future-proof; you’re free to export all your content and take your site to any platform you choose. No restrictions.

Why developers choose (and love) WooCommerce

Developers can use WooCommerce to create, customize, and scale a store to meet a client’s exact specifications, making enhancements through extensions or custom solutions.

Leverage hooks and filters to modify or create functionality.
Integrate virtually any service using a robust REST API and webhooks.
Design and build custom content blocks with React.
Inspect and modify any aspect of the core plugin code.
Speed up development with a lightning-fast CLI.

The core platform is tested rigorously and often, supported by a dedicated development team working across time zones. Comprehensive documentation is updated with each release, empowering you to build exactly the store required.

Be part of our growing international community

WooCommerce has a large, passionate community dedicated to helping merchants succeed – and it’s growing fast.

There are WooCommerce Meetups in locations around the world that you can attend for free and even get involved in running. These events are a great way to learn from others, share your expertise, and connect with like-minded folks.

WooCommerce also has a regular presence at WordCamps across the globe – we’d love to meet you.

Contribute and translate

WooCommerce is developed and supported by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com and Jetpack. We also have hundreds of independent contributors, and there’s always room for more. Head to the WooCommerce GitHub Repository to find out how you can pitch in.

WooCommerce is translated into multiple languages, including Danish, Ukrainian, and Persian. Help localize WooCommerce even further by adding your locale – visit translate.wordpress.org.

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

Filter by Rating Controls Enable customers to filter the product grid by rating.
Filter by Stock Controls Enable customers to filter the product grid by stock status.

Installation

Minimum Requirements

PHP 7.2 or greater is recommended
MySQL 5.6 or greater is recommended

Visit the WooCommerce server requirements documentation for a detailed list of server requirements.

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handle the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of WooCommerce, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click “Add New.”

In the search field type “WooCommerce,” then click “Search Plugins.” Once you’ve found us, you can view details about it such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by! Click “Install Now,” and WordPress will take it from there.

Manual installation

Manual installation method requires downloading the WooCommerce plugin and uploading it to your web server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.

Updating

Automatic updates should work smoothly, but we still recommend you back up your site.

If you encounter issues with the shop/category pages after an update, flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting “Save.” That should return things to normal.

Sample data

WooCommerce comes with some sample data you can use to see how products look; import sample_products.xml via the WordPress importer. You can also use the core CSV importer or our CSV Import Suite extension to import sample_products.csv

FAQ

Where can I find WooCommerce documentation and user guides?

For help setting up and configuring WooCommerce, please refer to Getting Started and the New WooCommerce Store Owner Guide.

For extending or theming WooCommerce, see our codex, as well as the Plugin Developer Handbook.

Where can I get help or talk to other users about WooCommerce Core?

If you get stuck, you can ask for help in the WooCommerce Support Forum by following these guidelines, reach out via the WooCommerce Community Slack, or post in the WooCommerce Community group on Facebook.

Where can I get help for extensions I have purchased on WooCommerce.com?

For assistance with paid extensions from the WooCommerce.com Marketplace: first, review our self-service troubleshooting guide. If the problem persists, kindly log a support ticket via our helpdesk. Our dedicated Happiness Engineers aim to respond within 24 hours.

I’m having trouble logging in to WooCommerce.com – what now?

First, troubleshoot common login issues using this helpful step-by-step guide. Still not working? Get in touch with us.

Will WooCommerce work with my theme?

Yes! WooCommerce will work with any theme but may require some additional styling. If you’re looking for a theme featuring deep WooCommerce integration, we recommend Storefront.

How do I update WooCommerce?

We have a detailed guide on How To Update WooCommerce.

My site broke – what do I do?

Start by diagnosing the issue using our helpful troubleshooting guide.

If you noticed the error after updating a theme or plugin, there might be compatibility issues between it and WooCommerce. If the issue appeared after updating WooCommerce, there could be a conflict between WooCommerce and an outdated theme or plugin.

In both instances, we recommend running a conflict test using Health Check (which allows you to disable themes and plugins without affecting your visitors) or troubleshooting the issue using a staging site.

Where can I report bugs?

Report bugs on the WooCommerce GitHub repository. You can also notify us via our support forum – be sure to search the forums to confirm that the error has not already been reported.

Where can I request new features, themes, and extensions?

Request new features and extensions and vote on existing suggestions on our official feature request board. Our Product teams regularly review requests and consider them valuable for product planning.

WooCommerce is awesome! Can I contribute?

Yes, you can! Join in on our GitHub repository and follow the development blog to stay up-to-date with everything happening in the project.

Where can I find REST API documentation?

Extensive WooCommerce REST API Documentation is available on GitHub.

My question is not listed here. Where can I find more answers?

Check out Frequently Asked Questions for more.

Reviews

vadimpetrenko July 13, 2023 1 reply

Having woo commerce site sucks. To have multicurrency and multilingual sites is overcomplicated. You have to have many plugins and they often conflict with each other. The site becomes slow and event experts cannot find a solution. Simple functions as Price with VAT Additional order statuses etc. requires separate plugins, that costs and might have issues. Some of the plugins in the market even for payments may not work with multiple currencies. And even if you have solved all the issues, simple system updates ruin everything

musojo July 13, 2023 2 replies

I think this is a great plugin and once I get through all the teething problems and get it working properly I'm hopeful that it will do everything that I want it to do. As a novice to WordPress, I've found WooCommerce problematic and have had to ask for a lot of support with a lot of different issues. The fastest way that I've had feedback has been through the forum and most of the time someone will respond with suggestions quite quickly.

wadi80 July 4, 2023 1 reply

Simply the best.

madearjana June 25, 2023 1 reply

keep up the good work

pten111 June 24, 2023 1 reply

I purchased the Subscriptions extension of the plugin, paid 239 usd (, but I have received no invoice, no order number, just a link to download it. In order to download the invoice I have to login to woocommerce.com, but in order to to that you have to create an account with wordpress.com. I did all of that but when I log in I see no order, nothing. The assistance forwarded me a generic list of instructions which was not very useful in my case. Watch out before you buy…

petschko June 22, 2023 1 reply

This Plugins calls itself "eCommerce solution", which is half true. At start it seems simple and like a "solution", but over time you notice a lot features lacking, which should be there in the first place. We are talking about the standalone Plugin and not "extensions", which of some should be shipped with it in the first place. Examples: - Some of the most common Payment-Gateways (They even removed "default" Paypal for new installs) - An Invoice System - Easy Data Import/Export (Products/Orders & Users) - Separate Database-Tables for all Orders and not using the messy wp_posts & wp_postmeta Tables (They slows down over time, due to the size, since everything goes in there sadly) - A default theme which is also responsible and not barely working with a lot of tweaks I was once hired for a shop, which should be build with WooCommerce. I didn't knew it would turn out that bad over time else I had given the client the hint, they should use something else. Problem of the lacking features is, that you have to either program your own plugins which do that kind of stuff or rely on 3rd Party plugins. The more features are missing, the more Plugins you need... All that makes your site more likely to break on updating or plugins are abandoned/bought by other companies which try to sell you stuff then. Not talking about the overall speed they may eat. At some Point you're forced to hire someone to keep that site updated and look which plugins breaks/revert or fix stuff (or disable unwanted new features). The other thing is that WooCommerce think its cool to squish all its orders into the wp_posts & wp_postmeta tables. This sucks, because its mixed with all other content, like sites, blog entries etc. Over time these tables grew and become slow. Its also fun to exporting the data from them, thanks to the nature of the structure of these tables. You can make it work, but why is there no export and import feature? Isn't that the most basic feature a eCommerce "Solution" should have? Yes you can use Wordpress own import/export feature, but it sucks, it changes IDs of the Orders and doesn't even exports everything you need, its a mess to do it. So even for export and import you have to rely on 3rd party plugins or do it yourself with SQL. So overall: Yes this Plugin does what it says, but you probably end up with a lot of tinkering to give it basic functionality, which other eCommerce solutions already have. Plus you get all the "benefits" of the Wordpress system (the technical debt and vulnerability)

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