WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a powerful open-source ecommerce platform that turns any WordPress website into a fully functional online store, powering a huge share of the world's ecommerce sites. For the millions of businesses already using WordPress, WooCommerce is the natural way to start selling online, adding complete shopping capabilities to their existing site. As open-source software, it gives store owners full control and ownership over their store and data, along with limitless flexibility to customise and extend it, which is why it remains one of the most popular ways to build an online store.

The platform provides everything needed to sell online: product listings, a shopping cart and checkout, payment processing through many gateways, shipping options, tax handling, and order management. Because it's built on WordPress and is open source, it benefits from an enormous ecosystem of themes and extensions that let store owners add virtually any feature and design their store exactly as they wish. This flexibility means WooCommerce can power everything from a small shop selling a few products to a large, complex store, and store owners aren't locked into a closed platform's limitations or pricing — they control their store completely.

WooCommerce is used by businesses of all sizes that want a flexible, customisable online store with full ownership and control, especially those already using WordPress. The value is flexibility and ownership: as open-source software, it lets store owners build exactly the store they want, extend it endlessly, and truly own their site and data rather than renting space on a closed platform. While it requires managing your own hosting and setup compared with fully hosted alternatives, that's precisely the trade-off many businesses want in exchange for control and flexibility. For anyone who wants to sell online on their own terms, with complete control over their store's design, features, and data, WooCommerce provides a powerful, proven, and endlessly adaptable ecommerce foundation.