WooCommerce is a customizable ecommerce platform for building and managing online stores with WordPress.
It supports physical and digital products, product variations, payments, shipping, tax tools, analytics, and a large ecosystem of extensions. Developers can extend stores with hooks, filters, REST APIs, webhooks, custom blocks, and command-line tools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create storefronts and customize product pages with modular product blocks.
- Sell physical and digital goods, product variations, downloads, and affiliate products.
- Optimized shopping cart and checkout experience.
- Supports a wide range of payment gateways.
- Shipping, delivery, inventory, and fulfilment integrations.
- Sales tax integration and automated tax calculation services.
- Central dashboard for monitoring store performance.
- Extend functionality with free and paid extensions.
- Hooks and filters for modifying and creating functionality.
- REST API and webhooks for integrating external services.
- Build custom content blocks with React.
- Command-line interface for development and administration tasks.
- Store owners retain control of their content and data.
- Supports localization and translation.
Website: github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce
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Developer: Automattic
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
WooCommerce is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| Sylius | eCommerce framework on top of Symfony |
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| Zen Cart | Provides an easy-to-setup and run online store |
| thirty bees | Mature e-commerce solution which began as a fork of PrestaShop |
| CubeCart | Billed as a powerful free ecommerce solution |
| Shopware | Headless ecommerce platform |
| osCommerce | eCommerce and online store-management solution |
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