{"id":705,"date":"2026-10-26T03:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sitefitters.com\/learn\/glossary\/woocommerce\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:49:56","slug":"woocommerce","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sitefitters.com\/fr\/learn\/glossary\/woocommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"WooCommerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"sfl-hero sfl-hero-s\"><div class=\"sfl-w\"><div class=\"sfl-bc\"><a href=\"\/fr\/learn\/\">Learn<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/fr\/learn\/glossary\/\">Glossary<\/a> \/ <a href=\"\/fr\/learn\/glossary\/#topic-cms\" style=\"color:#60A5FA\">WordPress &amp; Content<\/a><\/div><h1>WooCommerce <em>Explained.<\/em><\/h1><div class=\"sfl-def\"><small>In one sentence<\/small>WooCommerce is a free, widely used WordPress plugin that turns a WordPress site into an online store with products, a shopping cart, checkout and order management.<\/div><\/div><\/section><div class=\"sfl-w sfl-art\"><article class=\"sfl-prose\"><h2>What It Is<\/h2><p>WooCommerce is an ecommerce plugin for WordPress. Once installed, it adds products, a shopping cart, a checkout page, order tracking, tax and shipping settings and customer accounts. The core plugin is free, and paid or free extensions add things like subscriptions, bookings or specific payment and shipping options. It turns your existing website into a shop, rather than sending customers to a separate store on another platform.<\/p><h2>Why It Matters for Your Business<\/h2><p>For a small business, WooCommerce makes it possible to sell physical products, gift cards, classes or digital downloads on the same site that already has your content and search visibility. A bakery could take preorders for holiday pies, or a tennis coach could sell lesson packages. You keep control of your site and data, and you choose your own payment gateway.<\/p><h2>Good to Know<\/h2><p>A store is more demanding than a brochure site. It needs solid hosting, regular updates, reliable backups and careful testing, because a broken checkout means lost sales. Payment details should be handled by a trusted payment gateway rather than stored on your site. 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