WooCommerce

Description

WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress.

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.

ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO SELL

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 WooPayments (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.

Connection to WooCommerce.com

You can connect your store to WooCommerce.com to manage your subscriptions on WooCommerce Marketplace and receive product updates without leaving WordPress admin. Connection also enables installation of purchased products right from WooCommerce.com and streamlines access to technical support. If you’d like to learn about what data is gathered and how it is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

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 7.4 or greater is required (PHP 8.0 or greater is recommended)
  • MySQL 5.6 or greater, OR MariaDB version 10.1 or greater, is required

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 documentation, as well as the Plugin Developer Best Practices.

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 from the WooCommerce Marketplace?

For assistance with paid extensions from the WooCommerce 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

Bowte 2, 2024 1 reply
There is a reason why shopify has taken so much market share. Woo just feels so clunky in every aspect. even basic things to run an ecommerce store in 2024 need extra plugins (e.g new account email validation, default tax rates, order email designer, a decent product bulk edit, checkout customizer, order bump, filters & sorting, bulk discounts…)Development for woo feels so stagnant and there hasn’t been any innovative features in a looong time. The fact that I don’t even have a dashboard where I can see the conversion rate and all important metrics for my store is just mind blowing. the current analytics is a bit of a joke.
Jolal 21, 2024 1 reply
Pretty quick response . Great with knowing the problems and what to do . I have very little web building knowledge, so having them walk me through it is a plus !
Jolal 21, 2024 6 replies
I’ve been using WooCommerce for 10+ years now and it’s very frustrating to see where it’s currently at. I’m still giving it 4 stars because it’s incredibly flexible and you can do all kinds of crazy stuff with it, but I would really like to see the UI improved greatly. Right now, it’s a mix mash of different interfaces. Half of the admin UI is React based and the other half is legacy. There’s no continuity. For instance, the latest update made the customers list in the admin React based. You would think they would do the same with the orders table right? Wrong. It’s the legacy table class look. WooCommerce is owned by the same company who pretty much owns WordPress (it’s not community owned, don’t kid yourself). That company is all about blocks, blocks, and more blocks. Yet, here we are stuck with the classic editor for editing products. Blocks are supposed to be great (they’re okay) and we’re told that we should start using them because they are core and the future. Six years in though and a flagship plugin is still using classic editor. So my clients have multiple interfaces to learn now instead of having one. Again, no continuity. Continuing with the lack of continuity is the cart and checkout blocks. Again, we edit products with the classic editor but BY DEFAULT the plugin uses blocks for the cart and checkout pages. These blocks are incompatible with certain action hooks and filters that have been around forever. Very frustrating. All the React things in general are a PITA and make things much, much harder to accomplish. They are also starting to cram more and more stuff into the admin section. The site visibility badge was annoying AF but at least they allow us to remove it now with a setting, although it’s turned on by default. The latest update added a new payments admin menu item which has to be removed with code. It was broke and it’s fixed now, although I suspect it will be displaying an advertisement for WooPayments in the future. My suggestion is to look at the other big e-commerce plugin (initials are SC) which is being adopted by a lot of folks. It admittedly lacks a bunch of features that Woo has, but the interface is gorgeous and consistent.
Jolal 21, 2024 1 reply
It’s honestly such a crappy, outdated and clonky plugin and they’ve done absolutely NOTHING in all these years to try and simplify it and make it more user friendly. They’ve had more than enough time on them to figure out to do a much better plugin.
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Changelog

9.4.2 2024-11-19

WooCommerce

  • Fix – Modify product import file check to use the WP filesystem API #51540
  • Fix – Fix the Payments main menu item linking to a blank page when onboarding tasks are hidden #52917
  • Fix – Improve CSV import performance by restoring the default value for woocommerce_product_import_batch_size #51666

See changelog for all versions.