How the category overlaps with WooCommerce
The E Commerce category shares a strong tag overlap with WooCommerce and other commerce terms. Of 462 plugins, 199 are also tagged WooCommerce and 176 ecommerce; 77 share the store tag, while 42 are tagged shop and 41 sales.
Other overlaps include sell (39 plugins), cart (36), payment (31), and checkout (29). Together, these tags show a category spanning store-related listings as well as payment and checkout topics.
Store and cart platforms in the leading group
The leading listings include named store and cart offerings at different install levels.
- Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart: Has 20,000 active installs and is among the most installed plugins in the category.
- Welcart e-Commerce: Has 10,000 active installs, placing it among the category’s leading listings as well.
Payment, checkout and supporting commerce tools
Several leading plugin names explicitly reference payment, checkout, or other commerce-related tasks.
- Klarna for WooCommerce and Amazon Pay for WooCommerce: Their names identify payment-related offerings for WooCommerce.
- Nexi XPay: A payment-oriented name among the leading listings.
- Kustom Checkout for WooCommerce: Its name points to checkout and WooCommerce.
- Conversion Tracking for WooCommerce: Its name indicates conversion tracking associated with WooCommerce.
- Breadcrumbs for WooCommerce, Omnibus, and Japanized for WooCommerce: These names add further variety to the category’s leading listings without specifying additional functions.
What adoption and update figures mean for choosing
Adoption is spread across many plugins: none of the 462 has 100,000 or more active installs, and only 9 reach 10,000. Among the leading listings, active installs range from 40,000 to 4,000, while 33% of category plugins were updated in the last year.
Ratings vary, and some are based on few reviews, so they may offer a limited signal on their own. Install counts and update recency provide additional points of comparison across this broad, relatively fragmented category; the leading listings also range from updated this month to five months ago.