What WooCommerce charges
WooCommerce charges 2.9% + $0.30 on every paid order, plus card processing on top. Below: what that comes to over a year at three volumes, what is not in that number, and what the same job costs when you own it instead of renting it.
What WooCommerce publishes
Per-order card fee only: plugin free, WooPayments no monthly fee. US cards 2.9% + $0.30; +1.5% international cards, +1% currency conversion. Hosting not included.
Those are WooCommerce's own published numbers, read on 21 September 2026. Vendors change pricing without announcing it, so check the live page before you sign anything — and check your own last invoice, which is the only number that is definitely yours.
A year of WooCommerce fees, at three volumes
Worked straight off the published rate. Card processing is left out of every column, because it is charged whoever takes the money.
| A year of | WooCommerce | Built and owned | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 orders at $602.9% of $60 + $0.30 = $2.04 a order, 500 times | $1,020a year | $102a tenth of what you pay them | $91890% of the bill |
| 2,500 orders at $602.9% of $60 + $0.30 = $2.04 a order, 2,500 times | $5,100a year | $510a tenth of what you pay them | $4,59090% of the bill |
| 10,000 orders at $602.9% of $60 + $0.30 = $2.04 a order, 10,000 times | $20,400a year | $2,040a tenth of what you pay them | $18,36090% of the bill |
We do not publish a price of our own, because it is worked out against yours: a tenth of what the platform costs you, with hosting, fixes and changes included. The volumes are illustrations at a stated price per order, not a promise about your business — send your own bill and the figure is exact.
What you would own instead
- The part you actually useMost of a platform like WooCommerce goes unused. We rebuild the parts your business runs on and leave the rest out.
- The code and the dataYours, in your own account, exportable on any day for any reason.
- A price that does not scale with your takingsa tenth of what you pay now — hosting and changes included, and it does not grow with your takings.
When to stay put
- You use nearly all of itIf your team lives in every corner of WooCommerce and the bill is small, replacing it is work for no gain.
- The fee is tiny against your marginRun the numbers above on your real volume first. If it is noise, leave it.
- It is the only place your customers can find youA marketplace that brings you buyers is selling you demand, not only software. That is worth paying for.
WooCommerce pricing, asked and answered
What does WooCommerce cost?
WooCommerce charges 2.9% + $0.30 on every paid order, plus card processing on top. Per-order card fee only: plugin free, WooPayments no monthly fee. US cards 2.9% + $0.30; +1.5% international cards, +1% currency conversion. Hosting not included.
What would WooCommerce cost me over a year?
On 2,500 orders at $60, WooCommerce's published fees come to about $5,100 a year (2.9% of $60 + $0.30 = $2.04 a order, 2,500 times). Built and owned, that year is about $510 — a tenth of what you pay now — and you keep the $4,590 difference.
Who pays WooCommerce's fee — me or my customer?
You do — it comes out of your payout, so the price your customer sees is not the amount you keep.
Is card processing included?
No. Taking the money is a separate cost, normally around 2.9% + $0.30 an order, and it is charged whoever you use. The figures on this page leave processing out on both sides so the comparison is like for like.
Is there a cheaper alternative to WooCommerce?
That depends on what you actually use it for. Most businesses use a small part of a platform like this — take the money, hold the record, send the confirmation, show the list. That part can be built once and owned, and we price it against your own bill: a tenth of what you pay now, instead of a share of every order forever. You keep the code and the data, and the old system keeps running beside it until the new one is proven.
What the others charge
Same category, same treatment — each one read from the vendor's own pricing page.
- What Shopify chargesShopify charges 2.9% + $0.30 on every paid order, plus card processing on top.
- What Squarespace Commerce chargesSquarespace Commerce charges 2.9% + $0.30 on every paid order, plus card processing on top.
- What Ecwid by Lightspeed chargesEcwid by Lightspeed charges 2.9% + $0.30 on every paid order, plus card processing on top.
- What Wix Stores chargesWix Stores charges 2.9% + $0.30 on every paid order, plus card processing on top.
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- Who owns the code when a contractor builds your software?September 22, 2026 · Code ownership depends on the contract, not on who paid. What to check: assignment of rights, repository access, third-party parts, hosting and domain.
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Tell us what WooCommerce costs you
Send your last invoice or just the rate you are on, and we will tell you what the same work costs built and owned — and say so plainly if you are better off where you are.
Hiro costs about a tenth of what you pay now, quoted against your own bill. Hosting, fixes and changes included, and no per-seat fees.