Store platforms, memberships and digital products
Ecommerce plugins range from broad store platforms to tools for specific ways of selling. WooCommerce supports launching and growing an online store, while Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registrati covers paid memberships, subscriptions and digital products.
For file-based sales, Download Manager describes tools for managing downloads and selling digital products. SureCart lists digital downloads and subscriptions among its online-selling options.
Payment methods and checkout
Payment plugins focus on different providers and supported methods, so compare their payment options against your checkout needs.
- WooCommerce PayPal Payments: Lists PayPal, Pay Later, credit and debit cards, digital wallets, and bank accounts.
- Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce: Adds Mercado Pago as a payment method for a WooCommerce store.
- Mollie Payments for WooCommerce: Lists major payment methods, including credit cards and iDEAL.
- Payments, checkout and payment-gateway tags: These related tags cover 81, 79 and 76 plugins respectively, reflecting the category’s focus on payment acceptance and checkout.
Marketing and other store extensions
Store extensions also address customer outreach, product discovery and international selling.
- Mailchimp for WooCommerce: Connects a store to a Mailchimp audience for sales tracking, targeted emails and abandoned-cart messages.
- Popup Builder & Popup Maker for WordPress: Describes popups and opt-in forms for gathering subscribers, leads and sales.
- TI WooCommerce Wishlist: Lets customers save and share products they like.
- WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce: Supports multilingual stores and multiple currencies.
A concentrated leader in a broad, unevenly maintained category
The category combines a dominant store platform with a long tail of specialized plugins, and maintenance is not uniform across its 1,089 entries.
WooCommerce is associated with 574 plugins in the category. Ten plugins have at least 100,000 active installs, while 33 have at least 10,000; 52% of category plugins were updated in the last year.
Many of the listed high-install plugins were updated this month, but those leaders’ recent update activity does not describe the category as a whole. When comparing options, consider both the broad platform and the narrower tools that meet a particular store need.