WooCommerce lets you sell products and services from your WordPress site. It’s a free WordPress plugin with additional features available as paid addons. WooCommerce is made by Automattic, the corporate arm of WordPress, so you’re in good hands.
WooCommerce is for selling products and services. Specifically, it makes doing these things affordable and accessible. You can sell digital and physical products, manage inventory and shipping, take secure payments and sort taxes automatically.
You get to keep 100% control over all of your data, support for mobile devices and scalability for your sites.
WooCommerce runs on majority of the websites today. Since the usage is more, there has been lot of themes, extensions, payment gateways, services, community and support forums associated with it. Although it provides lot of features, there are a lot of plugins available which you can use to extend the functionality of your WooCommerce store.
Here, I have listed the most useful plugins based on their functionality
- User Experience:
- WooCommerce Customizer – Helps in changing number of products per page, changing text of Add to Cart button, Product Description and so on.
- WooCommerce Multilingual – Allows running fully multilingual e-commerce sites.
- WooCommerce Currency Switcher – Allows to switch products prices and get their rates converted in the real time.
- Product Management:
- Bulk Edit Products, Prices & Attributes for WooCommerce – Bulk Edit Simple Product type Properties like Title, SKU, Catalog Visibility, Shipping Class, Sale Price, Regular Price, Stock, Dimensions, etc.
- YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode – Disable sales in your store and turn it into an online product catalog.
- Prices by User Role for WooCommerce – Set User Role specific Prices to WooCommerce Products in your Store.
- Google Product Feed – Let customers find you when shopping for products via Google.
- WooCommerce Products Filter – Allows you to filter products by products categories, products attributes, products tags, products custom taxonomies and price.
- Payment:
- Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce – Accept payments via Credit Card, BitCoin and Alipay.
- Amazon Payment Gateway for WooCommerce – A fast, easy way to accept payments or shop online.
- PayPal Express Checkout – Add PayPal to your web checkout so your customers can pay from any device.
- Shipping:
- WooCommerce Shipping Pro with Table Rate – Solve complex shipping solutions in simple steps.
- Multi-Carrier Shipping Plugin for WooCommerce – One plugin for getting real time shipping rates from three major shipping carrier ~ FedEx, UPS and USPS.
- Print Invoice, Packing Slip, Delivery Note & Label for WooCommerce – Print Invoice, Packing List, Delivery Note & Label from within WooCommerce Order Page and a lot other functionalities.
- Tax:
- TaxJar – Save hours every month by putting your sales tax on autopilot. Automated, multi-state sales tax calculation, collection, and filing.
- WooCommerce AvaTax – Get 100% accurate sales tax calculations and on time tax return filing.
- Checkout:
- Smart Coupons – Create gift certificates, store credit, coupons based on purchases and more.
- WooCommerce Checkout Add-Ons – Highlight relevant products, offers like free shipping and other up-sells during checkout.
- WooCommerce One Page Checkout – Create special pages where customers can choose products, checkout & pay all on the one page.
- YITH WooCommerce Multi-step Checkout – Helps make checkout faster, tidier and more user-friendly.
- Analytics:
- WooCommerce Google Analytics – Understand your customers and increase revenue with world’s leading analytics platform.
- WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro – Add advanced event tracking and enhanced eCommerce tracking to your WooCommerce site.
- Marketing:
- WooCommerce MailChimp – Subscribe customers to MailChimp after order creation, order processing and order completion.
- Social Coupon for WordPress – Allows you to easily add a social coupon system to your site that allows users to get instant discounts for sharing your pages.
Additional mentions:
- Affiliates Pro – An affiliate management system for sellers, shops and developers. Increase sales with your own affiliate program.
- WooCommerce Dropshipping – Send automated order notification emails to your wholesale dropshippers when new orders arrive via your WooCommerce store and much more.
There are still many more plugins available but this list would serve your all basic needs to setup an online store in WooCommerce WordPress
