Payments, tax and order documents
Payment, tax and order-document plugins represent a broad set of store operations.
- WooCommerce PayPal Payments supports PayPal, Pay Later, cards, digital wallets and bank accounts; WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway accepts cards in more than 135 currencies, alongside local payment methods and express checkout.
- WooCommerce Tax is focused on automatically collecting accurate sales tax, while PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce creates, prints and emails invoices and packing slips.
- Related tags include payment-gateway (556 plugins), payment (388) and shipping (482), spanning payment processing through order fulfillment.
Product discovery, analytics and cart recovery
Product listings, measurement and recovery tools extend the category beyond payment and checkout.
- Google for WooCommerce helps merchants display products across Google’s network, while Pinterest for WooCommerce connects a store catalog for browsing by Pinterest users.
- Google Analytics for WooCommerce provides an integration with Google Analytics; Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce focuses on automatically winning back customers who leave items in their carts.
- The ecommerce tag covers 574 plugins in this category, and products covers 229, reflecting both broad store functions and catalog-related tools.
Checkout flows and store administration
Checkout-related tools range from purchase flows to behind-the-scenes account and event management.
CartFlows offers checkout pages, order bumps and one-click upsells. The checkout tag appears on 494 plugins, giving context to the range of checkout-focused tools within the category.
WP Crontrol provides management of cron events on WordPress websites and WooCommerce stores, while User Switching enables instant switching between accounts. WooCommerce Legacy REST API retains a transitional role: its description says the API is now part of WooCommerce itself and is slated for removal in WooCommerce 9.0.
How WooCommerce plugin choice is shaped by catalog size and maintenance
The category is large and dispersed, with a small highly adopted tier and a majority of plugins updated recently.
There are 8,614 plugins in the category, but 26 have at least 100,000 installs and 164 have at least 10,000. That contrast points to a broad catalog alongside a comparatively small group with high adoption.
Seventy percent were updated within the last year. All 12 listed top plugins were updated within the last two months, including 11 updated this month; ratings vary across excellent, good, mixed and poor.