WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a free ecommerce plugin for WordPress, originally developed by WooThemes and now maintained by Automattic. It adds shopping cart and checkout functionality to a WordPress site, handling everything from product pages and inventory management to payment gateways and shipping calculations. The plugin supports physical and digital products, subscriptions, bookings, and memberships through extensions. It integrates with dozens of payment processors like Stripe, PayPal, and Square, and offers built-in reporting and tax automation. Store owners can manage orders, coupons, and customer accounts from the WordPress admin dashboard. The platform is fully open source under the GPLv3 license, meaning developers can modify the code or build custom extensions. A large ecosystem of third-party themes and plugins adds features like multi-currency support, product bundles, and advanced analytics. WooCommerce powers a significant percentage of all ecommerce sites online, ranging from small shops to large retailers. It works on any hosting environment that runs WordPress, including shared hosting, VPS, and managed WordPress platforms.