WooCommerce alternatives

WooCommerce is chosen for control and left for the work that control creates. The plugin is free and open source, but you are responsible for hosting, updates, backups and security, and the extensions and hosting a serious store needs add up quickly.

If you want a store someone else keeps running, Shopify is the hosted alternative most merchants compare first, from $39 a month billed monthly, with the caveat that app subscriptions often push the real cost well above the plan price. BigCommerce is hosted with no platform transaction fees and suits larger catalogs and B2B selling.

If the store is secondary to the website, Squarespace includes commerce on every plan from $19 a month billed monthly, and Wix combines a drag-and-drop site with bookings and a small shop.