WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.
With endless flexibility and access to hundreds of free and premium WordPress extensions, WooCommerce now powers 30% of all online stores -- more than any other platform.
With WooCommerce, you can sell both physical and digital goods in all shapes and sizes, offer product variations, multiple configurations, and instant downloads to shoppers, and even sell affiliate goods from online marketplaces.
With premium extensions, you can offer bookings, memberships, and recurring subscriptions. Perhaps you’d like to sell monthly subscriptions for physical goods, or offer your members a discount on digital downloads? It’s all possible.
Offer free shipping, flat rate shipping, or make real-time calculations. Limit your shipments to specific countries, or open your store up to the world. Shipping is highly configurable, and WooCommerce even supports drop shipping.
WooCommerce comes bundled with the ability to accept major credit cards, PayPal, BACS (bank transfers), and cash on delivery. Need additional options? More than 140 region-specific gateways integrate with WooCommerce, including popular choices like Stripe, Authorize.Net, and Amazon Payments.
WooCommerce gives you complete control of your store, from taxes to stock levels to customer accounts. Add and remove extensions, change your design, and switch settings as you please. It’s all under your control.
One of the biggest risks of using a hosted eCommerce platform is what happens to your store if the provider closes up shop. With WooCommerce, you have complete control, so there’s never any reason to worry. Your data belongs to you -- and it’s kept secure, thanks to regular audits by industry leaders.
[Storefront](https://wordpress.org/themes/storefront/) is a free WordPress theme available to any WooCommerce store. Along with deep WooCommerce integration, Storefront prioritizes speed and uptime while eliminating theme and plugin conflicts during major updates.
Define your style even further by customizing Storefront to your liking or choosing from one of our several [Storefront child themes](https://woocommerce.com/product-category/themes/storefront-child-theme-themes/). It’s all up to you, and all open source.
Extendable, adaptable, and open source -- WooCommerce was created with developers in mind. With its strong, robust framework, you can scale your client’s store all the way from basic to high-end (infinity and beyond).
Built with a REST API, WooCommerce can integrate with virtually any service. Your store’s data can be accessed anywhere, anytime, 100% securely. WooCommerce allows developers to easily create, modify, and grow a store that meets their specifications.
No matter the size of the store you want to build, WooCommerce will scale to meet your requirements. With a growing collection of more than 300 extensions, you can enhance each store’s features to meet your client’s unique needs -- or even create your own solution.
If security is a concern, rest easy. WooCommerce is audited by a dedicated team of developers working around the clock to identify and patch any and all discovered bugs.
We also support WooCommerce and all its extensions with comprehensive, easily-accessible documentation. With our docs, you’ll learn how to create the exact site your client needs.
If you’re looking for something endorsed and maintained by the developers who built WooCommerce, there are a plethora of premium eCommerce extensions, the most popular of which include:
And there’s plenty more where they came from. Visit our [extensions page](https://woocommerce.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions/) to find out everything you’re capable of and all that's possible with premium WooCommerce extensions.
When you download WooCommerce, you join a community of more than a million store owners, developers, and WordPress enthusiasts. We’re one of the fastest-growing open source communities online, and whether you’re a n00b or a Ninja, we’d love to have you!
If you’re interested in contributing to WooCommerce we’ve got more than 350 contributors, and there’s always room for more. Head over to the [WooCommerce GitHub Repository](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce) to find out how you can pitch in.
Want to add a new language to WooCommerce? Swell! You can contribute via [translate.wordpress.org](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/woocommerce).
Visit the [WooCommerce server requirements documentation](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/server-requirements/) for a detailed list of server requirements.
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’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” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found our eCommerce plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
The manual installation method involves downloading our eCommerce plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains [instructions on how to do this here](https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation).
If on the off-chance you do encounter issues with the shop/category pages after an update you simply need to flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting 'save'. That should return things to normal.
WooCommerce comes with some dummy data you can use to see how products look; either import dummy_data.xml via the [WordPress importer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/) or use our [CSV Import Suite plugin](https://woocommerce.com/products/product-csv-import-suite/) to import dummy_data.csv and dummy_data_variations.csv.
For help setting up and configuring WooCommerce please refer to our [user guide](https://docs.woocommerce.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/getting-started/)
Yes; WooCommerce will work with any theme, but may require some styling to make it match nicely. Please see our [codex](https://docs.woocommerce.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/woocommerce-codex/) for help. If you're looking for a theme with built in WooCommerce integration we recommend [Storefront](https://woocommerce.com/storefront/).
Bugs can be reported either in our support forum or preferably on the [WooCommerce GitHub repository](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues).
* Feature - Improved default appearance in themes which do not support WooCommerce, making the shop page shortcode based.
* Feature - Products shortcodes; improved random sorting, with some caching.
* Feature - Products shortcodes; support for pagination.
* Feature - Added new options to the WordPress Appearance Customizer; control the product grid (rows and columns), and image sizes.
* Feature - Improved how image sizes are defined and calculated. Set an aspect ratio (custom, 1:1, uncropped) and image sizes will be automagically calculated based on widths.
* Feature - Changing image sizes will trigger automatic thumbnail regeneration in the background.
* Feature - Improved how downloads are stored within products, and added new reporting/logging features to track who downloaded what, when.
* Feature - Improved the overall appearance of the backend orders list, and added a new 'preview' button to quickly see order details.
* Feature - New default dummy data and placeholders.
* Feature - Added sandbox and live API details to the PayPal standard data, as well as an indication on the checkout to what mode is currently active. PayPal IPN email notifications are also now optional.
* Feature - Introduced product category threshold filter (`woocommerce_product_category_filter_threshold`). AJAX powered select will kick in when you have over 100 categories.
* Feature - Added `add_to_cart_description` method and aria-labels to cart buttons in the loop for accessibility.
* Feature - Ability to search in logs when the database logger is used.
* Performance - Adjusted how permalinks are retrieved and saved to avoid switching locales on each page load.
* Performance - Added cache when loading product variation attributes.
* Tweak - Moved the 'Store Notice" option into the customizer.
* Tweak - Checkout Postcode / Zip validation error message was missing Billing / Shipping Identification.
* Tweak - Added Iris color picker validation.
* Tweak - Use scrollIntoView on checkout.
* Tweak - Converted input submit elements to button submit elements across the entire codebase for consistency.
* Tweak - Added `{site_title}` replacement for email footers.
* Tweak - Added delete product confirmation if a product has had sales.
* Tweak - Improved when "incl. VAT" is displayed in cart totals.
* Tweak - Use base text color for links in email templates.
* Tweak - Show theme overrides that are done through the wc_get_template filter in the system status report.
* Dev - Bumped minimum WP version requirement to 4.5 and removed legacy API files.
* Dev - New actions - `woocommerce_order_details_before_order_table_items`, `woocommerce_order_details_after_order_table_items` and `woocommerce_order_details_before_order_table`
* Dev - Passed `widget_id` to `content-widget-product.php` so actions can be ran conditionally, and added sanitisation to `woocommerce_before_widget_product_list` and `woocommerce_after_widget_product_list`.
* Dev - Improved the `is_internal_meta_key` checks to consider getters and setters.
3.0 is a major update. Make a full site backup, update your theme and extensions, and [review update best practices](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/how-to-update-your-site) before upgrading.
