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What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress, developed by WooThemes (recently acquired by Automattic). Like WordPress, it is designed to be an extendable, adaptable, open-sourced platform. WooCommerce allows merchants to sell physical products, downloadables, or services.
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What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress, developed by WooThemes (recently acquired by Automattic). Like WordPress, it is designed to be an extendable, adaptable, open-sourced platform. WooCommerce allows merchants to sell physical products, downloadables, or services. The free core includes: Storefront, a free WordPress theme designed for eCommerce, 5 pre-installed payment gateways (including PayPal and Direct Bank Transfer), coupons, shipping and cart calculators, product listing management and customer account registration, among other features. Many many extensions are available, such as WooCommerce Bookings, for e-merchants selling appointments, services, or rentals.
According to WooThemes (per Builtwith.com), WooCommerce has > 9,524,908 downloads and powers > 30% of online stores.
According to WooThemes (per Builtwith.com), WooCommerce has > 9,524,908 downloads and powers > 30% of online stores.
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What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress, developed by WooThemes (recently acquired by Automattic). Like WordPress, it is designed to be an extendable, adaptable, open-sourced platform. WooCommerce allows merchants to sell physical products, downloadables, or services.
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- Inventory Management.
- Sales Reporting.
- Processing eCommerce Orders.
- Integration with WordPress.
- WooCommerce can be dependent on other plugins.
- While the base is a good start, you need to purchase lots of additions.
- WooCommerce is not very customizable out of the box.
May 28, 2021
Woohoo, Commerce!
- Very fast to implement if you have an existing website, especially WordPress.
- Offers a well-rounded suite of tools.
- Competitive pricing makes it attractive to small businesses.
- The UI/UX feels a bit behind other product offerings.
- Sometimes slows down websites when loading info.
- Improvements in mobile UI.
May 22, 2021
WooCommerce is flexible for any ecommerce store
- Personalized Coupons
- Easy Checkout
- Easy Integrations
- One click checkout
- Categories management
- Multiple coupons
- Custom tags for products or promotions
May 21, 2021
Low cost & quality online shopping solution
- Ease of setup
- Low cost, You can start online shop with almost 0$.
- Big community around it for trouble shooting problems
- Does not provide everything out of the box, for certain features you will have to install additional plugins.
- Their own addon plugins are costly.
- The Order table uses wp posts meta table, For those who have good amount of orders coming in, the table will keep getting larger by time that it might hog the server.
- Keeps track of product inventory, including details of product variations such as colors and sizes if required.
- Keeps track of orders so that the shopkeeper has one place to log in and see the status and history of orders to her shop.
- Creates shop-related pages automatically. Once you add one or more products, they will automatically appear on your shop home page. Additionally, pages for viewing shopping carts and for checking out are automatically created.
- WooCommerce does not come with support for any payment gateway out of the box. Setting up each payment gateway requires an extra plugin, each of which has its own requirements for configuration. In some sense, this can't be helped, as each gateway has to be set up differently. However, WooCommerce could have provided a "wizard" to guide users through the process for the major payment gateways.
- WooCommerce does not make it easy to set up shipping solutions. This has been a major headache for my clients.
- WooCommerce does not provide printable packing slips or invoices out of the box. Although I know of a plugin that does an admirable job of adding this feature, it seems like something that should be part of the package.
- WooCommerce does not have truly first-class templates for showcasing products. In this aspect, it is way behind Squarespace and Wix.
- It works out of the box.
- It's easy to set up for beginners.
- It's robust enough to handle large stores.
- There are enough add-ons out there it's hard not to find a prebuilt solution for your needs.
- Without some work it can be slow.
- It should contain membership and subscription features as default.
- Some of the options for adding variations can be tricky or confusing for new users.
May 20, 2021
WooCommerce to your e-commerce rescue!
- Ease of use.
- Slew of plugins to get anything achieved.
- Great support from the company.
- Can easily build products, either real or virtual, or even subscriptions.
- Sometimes it feels like there are too many options - finding a way to remove unused items would be a great feature.
- Some of the additional plug-ins are very expensive, but yet necessary.
June 22, 2021
Ecommerce solution for your WordPress website
- Inbuilt SEO functionalities to rank your store on Google search
- Very good user interface to quickly add new products, edit existing ones and manage orders
- Vast array of plugins and themes is available online to integrate and add up more functionality to your existing WooCommerce store
- Open source
- Plugin support needs improvement and ensure swift workarounds for the users
- Good plugins and themes are on a pricey side
June 14, 2021
Love WooCommerce
- Makes it easy to create products and orders.
- Makes it easy to process orders.
- Integrates very well with other apps like our CMS and automation platform.
- We'd love to see shipping rates easily calculated
- Would be great if we can easily sync to other platforms like Etsy etc easily without using a third party app
- The extra apps can be cheaper
June 11, 2021
WooCommerce for all your online stores
- Most popular payment gateways.
- Many integrations.
- Many plugins.
- Back end dashboard is slow.
- Check out is to complex unless you use a plugin to remove fields when not needed.
- Free and easy to install.
- Works with WordPress nicely.
- Very customisable.
- Difficult to use and manage.
- Old outdated looking dashboard.
May 28, 2021
Easy to implement, most amazing tool with superb features for making anything virtually possible.
- The first thing which impressed me the most is that it is free. Another thing which is most admirable is its compatibility.
- I prefer it for its integration. It is perfectly used for building multiple sites.
- One of the most appealing things is that it is open source. I think there is no other powerful E-commerce platform than this. WooCommerce is one of the matchless online shops. Its mobile application is very much beneficial that helps me in managing my store conveniently via mobile phones. It is really a good way of managing the online store. We can easily upload products, can make any modifications, and also assigning variations is easy through this.
- Moreover, the availability of thousands of plugins further helps us a lot in extending the functionality of WooCommerce so conveniently.
- I am a satisfied user of WooCommerce. I do not encounter any major issues with it yet.
- However, initially, it is quite difficult to build and manage a WooCommerce store, but if you have additional technical skills then it becomes really friendly, but this is not a big deal.
May 22, 2021
The best Ecom platform hands down
- Subscriptions
- Flexible checkout pages
- Content protection
- Digital and Physical Products
- Customer self service
- Clunky Default Checkout
- WooCommerce allows you to add simple, variable and affiliate products.
- You can add multiple payment gateways.
- You can sell products in a professional way. Because you can add and show the products to your customers with full details.
- Some external payment gateways should have a free version.
- Variable product options should be more user friendly.
- All paid extensions should have a free version for the testing purpose.
May 21, 2021
Great tool for your e-commerce store SEO!
- Extensibility.
- Easy of use.
- Access to the source code.
- It could cut back this trend of starting to charge per add-ons on recurring basis.
- Works with existing WordPress sites.
- Can be customized with plugins to fit most use cases.
- Great way to make a store for a side hustle.
- Could be more user friendly and have better internal analytics.
- Would love to be able to do more dynamic customizations without a plugin.
- Leaner code in the front end would be appreciated to improve code-to-text ratio.
- WooCommerce is easy to use and integrate with any WordPress theme.
- We can integrate any payment gateway to WooCommerce with easy steps.
- WooCommere is free, and in the free version of WooCommerce you can get unlimited features.
- For a startup or small business company WooCommerce is best to use.
- You need a lot of plugins for WooCommerce extra features.
- WooCommerce slows down your page speed.
April 22, 2021
A better E Commerce Solution
- It gives someone with limited web design experience the ability to easily sell products and services.
- It easily integrates with Wordpress.
- It is free to start and get set up.
- It would be nice to have more access to tutorials on how to set up some of the more complicated features.
- The shopping cart page itself would be a little challenging for a beginner to set up.
- A larger variety of display options would be helpful.
February 18, 2021
Build-a-store with WooCommerce
- Payment Gateway - There are many gateways to choose how you get paid and your payments are processed. The most common one is undoubtedly PayPal, but WooCommerce supports many others including Stripe and First Data, to name a couple.
- Extensions - this is both a pro and a con. The good side is that there is an extension for almost nearly any functionality you can think of. Need to specifically book appointments? There's an extension for that. Need to add on different options to your product so that the user can customize their order and the price will adjust accordingly? There's definitely an extension for that. These are just two examples, but the library is pretty extensive.
- The core software is completely free and available to use for anyone. You only get basic functionality, but even so, you can do a lot with it.
- Expense - this is the biggest con for WooCommerce. While the core software is free of charge, the extensions will totally get you. They can be as little as $39/year and run up to something like $249/year for one license for one extension to be used on one domain. And if you have a serious store of any kind, you are going to need a few extensions. Even for payment processing, if you want any other option than PayPal standard, you're going to have to pay unfortunately. Also the fee is not one time, it is recurring annually. I think you can keep using the extension once your year is over, but you will no longer get updates and support. For me, the expense is worth it. But for others it may not be.
- There's a rather specific con that I have that others may not. I utilize the Subscriptions extension along with the Add-ons extension. Both are amazing in functionality separately, but there is no option for me to categorize my add-on as a one time fee for an option or as part of the recurring subscription charges. It automatically rolls the charge in with the recurring fee. Now there is a very roundabout and not that user-friendly way to get around this, but I feel like this is a huge oversight on WooCommerce's part.
May 21, 2021
Handy e-commerce plugin.
- Plug-and-play.
- Good security.
- Constantly updated.
- E-commerce solution.
- A lot of features involve the addition of more plugins.
- Accept crypto payments.
May 20, 2021
It does the job and works great.
- Ease of use.
- Simple setup.
- Tons of extensions and plugins.
- It can have issues with more complex stores.
- It can be heavy on load times.
- Plugins and extensions can be costly.
May 20, 2021
E-commerce is fun with WooCommerce
- I appreciate its quality features, which allowed me to set up the homepage and menus and my site structure.
- This tool helped to build up my online stores.
- I am very much satisfied from its quality services.
- It is limited to the integrations with other similar tools.
- There is no feature for the detailed history of a particular customer, which is usually helpful in targeting the right audience over and over.
- Free base package means I can use it when I need to and not pay for it when I'm not using it
- I can customize the e-commerce options and integrate the calendar booking
- Payment processing is quick and easy and I can choose my provider
- I have to install plugins to add the functionality I need
- Sometimes I get conflicts between the plugins I have to install
- Sometimes customization is not straightforward
June 10, 2021
Great e-commerce solution for new and smaller businesses needing to get online quickly and cheaply
- Implementation is quick and straightforward.
- The free base software is often enough for most clients.
- Customization options are endless with add-on plugins.
- Because of how the WordPress database is structured, WooCommerce isn't great for large or complex e-commerce sites.
- More out-of-the-box options would be nice within the base software.
- Because add-on plugins are developed by 3rd parties, sometimes you get conflicts that break things.
- Easy to add/edit products.
- Easy to update stock status.
- Integrates nicely with WordPress.
- Reports are VERY basic -- it requires additional plugins.
- Search is VERY basic -- it requires additional plugins.
- Putting products on sale/offering a discount is VERY basic -- it's better if you have special plugins.