WooCommerce

WooCommerce: The Open-Source Ecommerce Platform for WordPress

WooCommerce is the leading open-source ecommerce platform designed specifically for WordPress. The core platform is free, flexible, and supported by a vast global community. Thanks to its open-source nature, you retain full ownership of your store’s content and data forever.

Whether you are launching a new business, moving your brick-and-mortar store online, or building client websites, WooCommerce blends content and commerce seamlessly.

Key Features of WooCommerce

• Design Beautiful Storefronts: Choose from various themes tailored to your brand and industry.
• Optimize Revenue: Improve conversion rates with an enhanced shopping cart experience.
• Customize Product Pages: Use modular product blocks to create compelling product displays.
• Sell Anything: Offer physical and digital goods, variations, instant downloads, subscriptions, memberships, and more.
• Boost SEO: Leverage WordPress’ SEO advantages to rank higher in search results.
• Scale Easily: WooCommerce provides flexible solutions for high-volume stores.

All the Tools You Need to Sell Online

WooCommerce includes built-in tools and popular integrations to streamline your business operations. You can easily add services via the optional Setup Wizard.

• Payment Flexibility: Manage payments with WooPayments (available in multiple countries). Accept credit cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers, and cash using over 100+ gateways like Stripe, PayPal, and Square.
• Shipping Made Easy: Print USPS labels directly from your dashboard and schedule pickups with WooCommerce Shipping (U.S. only). Integrate with UPS, FedEx, and more.
• Simplify Taxes: Automate sales tax calculations with WooCommerce Tax or similar services.

Grow Your Business with WooCommerce

Track key performance metrics through a powerful central dashboard built right into WooCommerce. Expand your reach across Google Ads, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Facebook, and other marketing platforms. Explore the Marketing Hub for new ideas and promotions.

Additionally, you can enhance your store with hundreds of free and premium extensions available in the WooCommerce Marketplace each vetted by developers for quality assurance.

Manage your store from anywhere using the free WooCommerce mobile app (available on Android and iOS). Get notified of every sale with the addictive “cha-ching” sound!

Full Ownership of Your Store Data

With WooCommerce, your store data belongs exclusively to you. Even if you share anonymized usage data with WooCommerce, you can opt out at any time without impacting store performance. Unlike hosted ecommerce solutions, WooCommerce offers complete data portability with no restrictions.

Why Developers Love WooCommerce

WooCommerce is highly customizable for developers:

• Modify functionality using hooks and filters.
• Integrate services through a robust REST API and webhooks.
• Build custom content blocks with React.
• Access and tweak core plugin code.
• Speed up development using a powerful CLI.

The core platform undergoes frequent rigorous testing, backed by a global development team. Detailed documentation ensures smooth development experiences.

Join a Global Community

WooCommerce hosts Meetups worldwide, providing excellent opportunities to network, learn, and contribute. The platform also maintains a strong presence at WordCamps internationally.

Moreover, you can contribute by helping with code, translations, or product feedback. Check the WooCommerce GitHub Repository or visit translate.wordpress.org to get started.

Connect Your Store to WooCommerce.com

By connecting your store to WooCommerce.com, you can manage subscriptions, receive product updates, and access premium support directly from your WordPress dashboard. Learn more about data usage in WooCommerce’s Privacy Policy.

Installation Guide

Minimum Requirements:

• PHP 7.4 or higher (PHP 8.0+ recommended)
• MySQL 5.6+ or MariaDB 10.1+

Visit the WooCommerce server requirements documentation for complete details.

Automatic Installation:

1. Log into your WordPress dashboard.
2. Navigate to the Plugins menu and click “Add New.”
3. Search for "WooCommerce" and click “Install Now.”

Manual Installation:

1. Download the WooCommerce plugin.
2. Upload it to your server using your preferred FTP application.
3. Follow the instructions provided in the WordPress Codex for manual installation.

Start building your online store today with WooCommerce!