WooCommerce
The most flexible open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress

WooCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress that gives merchants full control over their store, data, payments, and hosting. It supports selling online and offline, locally or globally, with hundreds of extensions and themes for customization. With over 4 million stores built on it, it is one of the most widely used ecommerce solutions available.
WooCommerce integrates directly with WordPress, allowing users to add ecommerce functionality to their site and extend it with plugins, themes, and payment integrations.
merchants and developers building online stores
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Automattic
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