What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is an open-source WordPress plugin that adds a product catalogue, cart, orders and payments to a site. In a classic set-up it is a PHP monolith: the theme, sales logic and admin panel all run in one system. Further features come from extensions, so a larger shop means many plugins to update and keep an eye on for performance.
How we use it at Koda Plus
We don’t build new shops on WooCommerce – we move shops off it to Medusa or Shopify. A migration starts with an inventory of URLs, data and integrations nobody remembers any more, then every old address is mapped to a new one with a 301 redirect. We carry over products, variants, categories, customers and order history, make sure the new shop outputs at least the same structured data, and track indexing in Google Search Console after the switch.
In our services
When it makes sense
- A simple B2C shop alongside an existing WordPress site
- A standard checkout flow with no ERP integration
- Worth moving when plugins slow down the shop and its updates
- Time to switch when B2B, an ERP or new sales channels come in