With much excitement, pride, and anxiety after such a long journey we can finally happily announce the release of WooCommerce.
For the last month, since the announcement of WooLabs/WooCommerce, Mike and Jay have been working like men possessed tinkering with every piece of code, adding valuable new core features, coding and collaborating on payment gateway, product and shipping extensions, and of course working on some beautiful themes.
A FREE E-Commerce Plugin
This is one of our biggest release to date and it’s absolutely free. WooCommerce is an all-new plugin application and library of integrated themes for WordPress that help individuals and businesses turn their sites into professional, e-commerce stores. Our aim for WooCommerce is to be an e-commerce toolkit that allows anyone to sell anything online. View the WooCommerce page to see all the powerful features packed into the plugin.
Since forking the previous Jigoshop codebase, we’ve made these notable additions / tweaks for the release of WooCommerce V1:
- A revamped admin interface, which is more native to the WordPress dashboard & thus more familiar to the average WordPress user.
- Improved reporting, with more stats, graphs and built-in support for Google Analytics e-commerce (goal) tracking.
- New front-end features, including catalog sorting and built-in up-sells / cross-sells.
- Revised coupon system complete with coupon expiry dates and usage limits.
- Built-in HTML email templates.
- Improved order management.
- Simplified product data entry plus better product sorting / duplication within the WP dashboard.

We also hired Mark Jaquith, WordPress core developer, who did a complete security audit of the core WooCommerce plugin, tightening up a few minor vulnerabilities in the meantime (similar to what we did for the WooFramework a while ago). This was a very important improvement for us, because we want WooCommerce users to feel safe in knowing that we’ve already addressed all of their security-related concerns with the plugin & e-commerce in general.
A FREE Store Theme
What better way to trial and test the WooCommerce plugin than with a theme built specifically for it?
Wootique is a beautifully, simple theme built to showcase your store’s products, with a user friendly, pixel perfect checkout process. Jay designed Wootique specifically for the launch of WooCommerce, as we’re big on freebies around here and we wanted to give you the most beautiful and fully-featured trial available.

We encourage you to view the theme listing for it’s full feature set and then register as a WooThemes user (it’s free!), if you aren’t already, to receive access to the theme documentation and to get on the WooCommerce product development email list. We’re building a community around WooCommerce and we want you part of this exciting new chapter in our storybook.
WooCommerce themes, WooCommerce child themes and extensions
We’ve decided to launch with 6 commercial themes and 9 commercial extensions to further extend your e-commerce store capabilities. We encourage you to view the WooCommerce themes and extensions galleries to discover all the juicy details.
Furthermore we’ve released child themes for Canvas – further adding to it’s diverse usage, and Statua – enabling photographers to sell their photos/prints.
Future plans include a lot of child theming of our theme catalog. Think of all the possibilities – Diner with a take-away ordering system, Diarise with event registration, Listings with paid listings…

Important information for club members
Club members get access to the new WooCommerce themes – WooStore, and Coquette, as well as of course the free theme Wootique. Our extensive, premium support is obviously included in these. Our WooCommerce child themes and extensions are not currently included with the club membership offering. We do however have plans to soon introduce a commerce add-on for a small additional monthly fee to gain access to the full catalog of commerce products. More on this soon.
Time to get excited about what the future holds for WooThemes.
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Good job guys, will try it during the week ! 😉
WOW. Just wow…
Is that a good wow?
i thin it’s wowsers
Of course! Wasn’t expecting so many themes to go with it 😉
Just wanted to double check. I expect you have some ideas for them. 😉
None of the WooCommerce demo themes are loading though …. server overload?
@Rob – We’re on top of that now; trying to fix them up! Sorry about that, we should be back up shortly.
Looking forward to using these themes 🙂 looks like the demo page is struggling to display the themes right now – maybe to much excitement…
I think they have too much traffic, that shows the increased interest in a better to do eCommerce using WP … congrats
I thought the comments were off for a reason lol…. I’d be scared too. Plugin looks good, themes are great BUT (and yes there is always a but) I feel your extension pricing is a bit out of line and now wanting to charge club members extra for some of the themes is bad form in my opinion… Everything on this site says «access to all our themes» and it always has.. Going back on that isn’t a deal breaker but I do personally feel that it is a grab that reaches a bit too far.
Other than that, congrats on the release and best of luck with your new ventures.
Jesse,
I will elaborate on our decision with regards to pricing here:
* We felt that the WooCommerce themes (i.e. WooStore & Coquette) should be included, as they are parent themes and these have always been included in club subscriptions.
* The WC child themes (Canvas Commerce, Statua Commerce, Simplicity Commerce) are a new class of themes that requires specific & extended support. We felt it was justified that club subscribers should pay more for this.
* WC Extensions falls into the same decision as WC child themes.
This should also be seen in the context of the core WooCommerce plugin being free. We will be making all of these goodies available to club subscribers at a much reduced price via a «commerce add-on» to existing subscriptions at a small, additional monthly fee. For the club subscriptions as-is, we will also continue to underpromise & overdeliver.
Lastly, we feel that WooCommerce will power businesses and loads of people (club subscribers included) will be making money from this. As such, we don’t think it’s unfair to charge for these.
I take most of your points Adii, but not quite all of them. Plugins are a recent departure for Woo and have not been part of the Club Subscription deal.
But access to ALL the Woo themes has always been the reason I’ve kept my subs going.
Fair enough to move the goalposts for new Club members, but you can’t be surprised at there being disappointment from those of us who’d already bought in to the ALL themes offer. I like Max’s grandfathering suggestion.
Hi Adii,
Do you not think that for your existing loyal subscribers it should be included? 😉
If not, then i read your post as saying «We will be making all of these goodies available to club subscribers at a much reduced price via a “commerce add-on†to existing subscriptions at a small, additional monthly fee.»
Small additional monthly fee – how small? $5?
Thanks
Freddie
We’ll be publishing more details on this before the end of the week. I can however confirm that the small, additional monthly fee will indeed be small. 🙂
Fantastic Adii, I look forward to seeing the new structure 🙂
Adii,
I think you would have alleviated some of the negative feedback if you gave some notice and information to club members about the pricing structure (and say a discount at first).
You had to know that club subscribers were going to be shocked/disappointed in paying more and thus plan accordingly. We understand that you have business decisions to make, and I understand that charging for these features may be ‘justified’, but the communication and reasoning for this should have been better thought out.
I look forward to seeing the pricing details on this, but I can’t help but think that club subscribers have been left in the cold. After looking forward to this release for sometime, to say that I am shocked and disappointed is an understatement.
Always hoping for the best!
-Matt
I’d be happy to pay a bit more per month for full-access to everything. 🙂 Being able to try out themes is a big draw for me!
I agree with this completely. The reason we went «full boat» on the subscription model was so that we could experiment with ALL themes and plugins regardless of what nomenclature is used to make them «taste» different.
As a fellow premium plugin developer I fully understand the costs of support and producing a commercial WordPress product. We too are soon releasing paid add-ons and upgrades for our product line. However the main difference is that we charge a nominal 1x fee to «get in the door». $10-$25 for the product with no promises of free future updates. We are not putting out a subscription model to get «all our stuff now or in the future at no charge» specifically to prevent backlash like this if we find we need to generate more income to cover our higher overhead and R&D costs in the future.
Requiring a cannot-be-cancelled subscription service to guarantee free access to all future upgrades and product releases is a good idea. However, once you put that out there the service people paid for should should mean just that… free access to the cool new stuff. Your marketing of the Pro Dev Subscription comes across very strongly as «subscribe and NEVER CANCEL and you can get anything we do for free». Now WooThemes is playing the «we said you could get any THEME for free… this is a CHILD THEME… see… extra words there… CHILD… means not free». Ouch.
Hi Adii,
thanks for taking the time to reply. I do fully understand your motives and rationale for these decisions, I am just a stickler for details and I will be the first to admit that sometimes I take issue with things that really aren’t «that big of a deal» but I still tend to point them out even if they are purely an issue of principle.
In my view, a theme is a theme even if it is a child theme. Everything on this site currently and has always said that a club membership gets access to all your themes. Additionally you set the precedent by giving club members access to your enterprise themes so the rationale that these are somehow separate or different and thus require specific and extended support doesn’t really hold water.
Given that the plugin is free to all, there is no added value there for club members so that is a wash, the extensions would in my particular case make the final cost of how I would setup a woocommerce powered store to be $150 or more depending on the exact needs. I understand the «freemium» business model but there are more mature offerings presently available that are less costly. I think being highly competitive would be a core focus at this time but please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
I’m eager to see what the addon costs and I would say there is about a 98% chance that I will buy it BUT I like to make my opinions known, if for no other reason than to further the discussion and keep the lines of communication open. There still is nobody in the market that can hold a candle to woothemes in my opinion and I recommend you to anyone that will listen but I will also do my part to voice any concerns I have or hear from others during the course of my day.
PS.. people make money off everything you offer here, not just this plugin 🙂
I think it’s important to note that somewhere we needed to put a peg into the ground and differentiate our offerings going forward. Whilst we can continue to deliver 2-odd themes / month and make them available for $15 / $20 per month to club subscribers, this pricing model isn’t viable if we were to release everything we do for free to subscribers.
The development time (and associated cost) isn’t the issue here, but it is instead the support that becomes an issue. We’ve had to aggressively grow our support team in the last couple of months purely due to the more advanced themes (Enterprise), which has demanded more support. WooCommerce is probably bound to double this load on support.
I will be publishing more thoughts on this before the end of the week. For now, it’s important to note that we really value our club subscribers and we’re trying to make the decisions that is both fair to our subscribers and viable in the long term.
I agree plugins and their extensions are different Adii, but themes are not, no matter whether they are parent or child themes.
Woo does NOT want to become company whereby the members and the potential members have to read the fine print, you have not been that until now and you can see it has disappointed many Club Subscribers.
IMHO the correct course is to reverse the decision on themes and add additional monthly fees to subscriptions for plugins/extensions as well.
Just my two cents worth 🙂
I have to agree with Peter here. As a club member, and already getting the Parent themes of the child themes (I think I said that right…), to be told that we will have to pay more to be able to use a FREE plugin on a template that we have already paid for and developed are website on is not the best decision you can make for customers.
Just something doesn’t add up here.
I think most club subscribers would understand if the add-on functionality was behind a paywall. We also understand that at some point, you would have to make the difficult business decision to either 1. raise prices or 2. differentiate the club membership. I think the club subscribers are most shocked at having to pay for the child themes and the lack of communication.
You’d spend less on support if you documented your themes better. A lot of the questions are basic stuff which really should be included. I’ve also noticed recently that your support staff don’t read the questions properly so you end up wasting time explaining it and also I’ve had double postings from your staff – so your support needs sorting out. That would definitely cut your costs.
I am disappointed with this as well, I think you’ve upset a lot of your paying customers and have gauged this wrong.
Sarah, I hear you there. Which is something I think we’re addressing. We’re obviously hiring more support ninjas, and work on more quality responses instead of quantity of responses.
In regards to the documentation, do you say that more could be included or that our support needs to be more familiar with it?
While excited to see woocommerce finally released, I have to admit that I am also quite frustrated at the same time after reading this.
You guys know that I have been a very vocal supporter of woo and the $15/month that I spend here as the best investment I ever made when it comes to wordpress. Every time someone jumped in and complained about the fee I did my best to show just how much it was worth.
We have all waited over the past year for the woocommerce theme release and at NO POINT was it ever mentioned that our monthly fee would not include the extensions and child themes. In fact I would go as far as to say it was almost inferred that we were covered.
I’m so invested in woo with all of my customers now that I am sure I will end up purchasing the extras, but I guarantee that I am mumbling below my breath and more than a little disappointed with woo for the first time ever. It ain’t the money, and never has been.
While I understand your business decision, I sure hope you understand how many of us long term multi-year customers who have been waiting forever feel about this.
*Sad… this is the first negative comment I have ever left here. I can’t believe I’m actually going to click submit
Refer to my comment above: http://woocommerce.com/2011/09/woocommerce-has-arrived/#comment-74828
Ultimately, I can totally understand your disappointment, because this isn’t what you expected. That said, we’re trying to make decisions that are both fair to our subscribers and viable for us as a company. It’s a tough & thankless job; so we’re hoping that our subscribers will stick with us through this.
Adii,
If it’s a tough and thankless job, you considering handing over WooThemes to somebody else? Thought you enjoyed what you did. Your subscribers made you, your team and this awesome community. We don’t think we’re asking for a leg and an arm, but a reasonable adjustment to pricing for the community who has been with you through thick and thin and waited over a year for WooCommerce.
What is the rationale behind charging for the Authorize.net gateway, but not Paypal? Authorize.net is an incredibly common gateway that most of my customers use. As a club member, I second many of the comments here about disappointment and pricing, but aside from that I don’t understand your pricing approach on the add-ons.
I understand (while being disappointed and disagreeing with) charging for individual features like special shipping rules, but why select some gateways to be «premium» while others are free? Authorize.net isn’t a «value-add» to the client, they usually have a merchant account setup already or run through whoever their bank supports.
The child theme move is incredibly frustrating as a club member. The whole value of club membership was knowing (and being able to tell clients) we have access to everything on WooThemes.
I think you deliver a good product and am not mad enough to close my whole account, but my fanatical love is waning (much like Netflix after their recent decisions)
Only PayPal standard is included with the core WooCommerce; all other gateways need to be purchased.
I’m a capitalist & all for people making money. (I’m also a WooThemes fan!) However, Jesse’s argument is spot on.
In the spirit of open and honest discussion…
As a club member, what exactly is there for me to cheer about?! Support?
At the very least, I feel WooThemes could (and should) have issued a simple caveat early on – informing club members and others that WC child themes (etc) were going to be considered a ‘new class of themes’ – not included in club membership. Had this been the case, the release of WC wouldn’t smack of the ol’ bait-n-switch to so many of us.
Though disappointing, being charged more isn’t a deal breaker for me. Finding out about it in this way, however, has just been sort of a let down. In short, the highly anticipated release of WC has left me bewildered – sorta like getting kissed and slapped on the face at the same time.
First of all congrats! Looks really cool
I agree with Jesse, I honestly have kept my subscription going for over 12 months (I’ve been a member since forever) waiting on WooCommerce.
Hopefully you guys grandfather those of us that have had more than X months as club members.
I had not read your response to Jesse when I posted. Still feel that legacy club members could be treated differently.
Flipping awesome… ! FInally at last….
Will be testing all week.
Ciaos from Amsterdam
Super duper! I thought it was due for release tomorrow?
Nope, today is indeed the 27th! 🙂
Damn! You’re right. 🙂
I’m confused, do I have to purchase your gateway and extensions as well to make the eCommerce on these themes work? Or can I use another gateway or extensions?
I’m a subscriber and I really don’t want to purchase even more to get the themes to function correctly.
Aside from this, I am extremely happy Woothemes eCommerce has launched! I’ve been looking forward to this since I started using Woothemes. Thank you for your hard work.
The themes and extensions are independent of one another. You don’t need to be using a Woo Theme for the extensions to work. Likewise you don’t need to use the extensions for the themes to work.
Awesome. You guys never cease to amaze me! 🙂 Thanks again for the hard work and kick-ass themes.
Everything looks awesome but, like Jesse said, it’s almost the same be a club member than not be. The pricing is to hi and I think you should offer more to the club members instead of charging us more.
Anyway, congratulations, great job!
I’ve responded to Jesse’s comment above with regards to the club.
We’re planning some awesome new things for club subscribers in the next couple of months too. The value of the club will definitely continue to increase! 🙂
Very impressed to see so many themes and extensions released with woocommerce and the quality of the themes is very nice too.
Will wait for the full club plan to be released including all woocommerce child themes and then I think it is time I got myself a subscription 🙂
Thanks buddy 🙂
Hi all, the demo’s should be updated now. Have fun checking them out!
Awesome, thanks!!!!!
Outstanding work guys, I’m considering buying it right now just to be able to own it, even though I don’t have an e-commerce project currently on the horizon!
I wished her at times you’ll Magazine Themes give as much effort as your business and your sales-themes. I must say that since the beginning of this year, you have no theme releast what would stand out from the crowd. What is really sad.
and where’s the button I do not like?
one could even imagine that she does not respond to criticism
I had a little bit of a hard time making out your comment, but think I got the message. What kind of ideas did you have in mind for our magazine themes, or do you simply want more of them? 🙂
I would not say that I need more of Magazine themes. Only a good time would be appropriate. Somehow affect the Magazine Theme by Woo Themes but fairly uninspired. They usually come with a slider to large and therefore they will last under the posts. Individual classes are offered only rarely. It could incorporate so many extras in magazines themes. One runs along the outer edge of the Sharebar. A news ticker in the header. Similar news with pictures and not always this list. Like the button, Tweet button, Google Plus 1 button below the post. A small slider that sits right next to the sidebar and do not always go over the entire width. Also online, users will be displayed in the footer would be an idea or or or. Maybe you should take a longer time to worry about Magazine-themes and not only forever change the design only. Because the magazines themes look at you almost all the same. Wernn you need more ideas, I’m happy to help;)
Thank you! Woo is the best! I recently and foolishly tried a few other theme providers thinking they’d be similar and it only helped me realize beyond any doubt just how truly awesome this Woothemes is. Nothing I’ve uesed even comes close. So, I’ll be using Woo and no App, Yoo, or otherwise. Thanks guys. If ever in Tampa Fl. I’d be proud to buy you all a round.
Thanks so much, I’ll let you know if I get near Tampa, FL. I can have a round for all the WooTeam. 😉
I’m a club member. I paid the money up front and pay a bill monthly. I signed up because you did and still do advertise that club members have access to ALL the themes. This big release is finally here and now we’re told that the Canvas Child Theme, etc. won’t be available to club members, unless we pay extra? This is unacceptable. I defended Woothemes about the forking and everything, telling people that Woothemes is in the right because they only owe it to their business and to their paying customers to do what is necessary. A business doesn’t owe a «community» anything. And now Woothemes has me as a club member, based on my access to all of their themes, and they turn around and want to charge me for more content. Sad. It makes me want to change the statements in defense of them that I made previously.
I understand your disappointment, since you didn’t expect us to charge for WooCommerce child themes & extensions.
I have responded in detail about our decision here: http://woocommerce.com/2011/09/woocommerce-has-arrived/#comment-74702
I started a site with jigoshop, but haven’t been too excited about their support and have used purchased multiple woothemes in the past. Is there a way to migrate from the jigoshop plugin to the woothemes?
It will keep product posts + images, but you will need to re-enter product data (e.g. prices) and re-configure the store. There isn’t currently a dedicated importer script.
Perhaps you could test it out on a different install.
Please update your theme pages with correct info regarding the Statua child theme. It currently states one can buy the theme or join the club to access it. But as a club member, it is not available [i double checked].
Eg:
https://skitch.com/vjl323/fhkc6/statua-commerce-woothemes
This is seriously misleading, since it leads people to believe that one can either buy the theme directly or join the club but if they join the club, they are not allowed access to this theme.
Apologies about the confusion. We are working on a fix for the misleading buy buttons.
This site is really impressive. Glad I checked you guys out. Congrats on the new theme. Now, if you guys can make a quora-like or q&a, stack overflow theme that is really slick and scalable, I’ll be a member for life!
Pop the idea over to WooIdeas. 🙂 – http://ideas.woocommerce.com/
One more question: for example, if I don’t buy the paypal add-on, I can start selling? Sorry if this is a silly question, but I don’t have experience selling online.
PayPal standard is included. You can start selling without buying a thing!
I just read Adii’s post above after posting my other comment. What the heck? You feel it’s okay to charge more because people will be making money with the Commerce Themes? Do you think people weren’t making money with themes before that? You have «business» themes, right? I don’t even see the option for the commerce add-on yet, except to pay for a childtheme right now. Are you expecting people to pay for those now, and then profit more from a monthly add-on charge later? You have caused me to go from a very happy customer, who was patient with all the problems and hype with the release, and a defender of WooThemes decisions because of its smart business and dedication to its customers, to feeling cheated and trapped.
They’re offering an additional, entirely different product, that requires a different level and kind of support and is aimed at a different group of customers. I don’t think it’s in any way unfair of them to charge more for extra services that were never part of the WooThemes club package, and that go far beyond anything one could reasonably expect from the club membership.
To be honest, if the WooCommerce child themes and extensions were included in a normal membership, I don’t think WooCommerce would even be viable as a product – it seems unlikely that they’d be able to justify the vast amount of work that has gone into its development.
That said, you can be 100% certain that different developers will be creating free themes for the WooCommerce plugin – and that’s coming from one of those developers.
From the looks of it, WooCommerce might be a game-changer: the start of WordPress being a *true* contender as an ecommerce platform for small and medium business [1]. If anything, you should be happy that the basic plugin is entirely free.
[1] Because let’s face it: most of the existing options so far (e.g. getshopped/wp e-commerce) have been decidedly sub-par.
It seems like the PSD download links to WooStore and Coquette are not working. Could you take a look at it?
PSD’s are uploading right now.
Hey, now all you need to do with this integration is have a plugin that allows recurring payments such as for SaaS type companies. So, a company could use WooCommerce for the payment gateways and set 3 or 4 levels of recurring payments for SaaS solutions.
Just a thought.
I really like to surround myself with positive people, and that is why I use WordPress and Woo Themes. Thank you for all of the effort that went into this release. I really wasn’t expecting everything that you put in front of us today, but after I checked it out I am impressed. Very impressed!!!
The people that use your themes to make money, and then whine about having to pay a little extra, or you didn’t produce the theme they wanted I find that somewhat shameful. Here, they are provided with unsurpassed freedom to utilize an incredible system, and virtually re-brand it for a measly $20 a month max. Now that is an incredible deal; period, even if it were only the existing themes, not counting two new themes per month.
I for one am immensely grateful for everything Woo Themes helps my business do. Don’t change a thing, and do find new ways to add revenue to your stream IE (plugins) so you can increase the level of game you continually improve upon.
Will
There are a lot of positive people here, that’s for sure. I consider myself one of them and as I have stated before I am also a very satisfied, long time woothemes customer that finds great value in my monthly subscription. BUT details are details, a mans word is his word and when something is promised, even if it’s value is 1 cent I will point it out when that promise is not honored.
I am not whining, I will pay extra for the «addon» and be perfectly happy here as I have always been but I will always bring issues of concern to light in an open, friendly conversation about anything that I feel is not right, misleading or unfair. That is just how I live my life.
Jesse, I’m definitely glad to have people like you keeping us honest and being vocal enough to let us know if and where we misstep.
I take your criticism as a positive comment. 😀
Glad you see it that way because that is exactly how it was meant 🙂
I believe the only thing they ever promised me was two themes per month, but not a free ride on every endeavor they would undertake such as Woo Commerce. Every E-commerce vendor out there of any value charges for the enhancements that go beyond the free plugin functionality. I don’t see anything misleading about forking their business to include more than themes and getting paid for such efforts.
It’s not a matter of whining about extra charges, Will. WooThemes makes great themes and I have been pleased. But how do you run your business? Do you not forecast a cost of doing business. When you do, do you not care if that cost goes up unexpectedly?
The really concerning part of this is that it sets a precedent. The precedent will now be set that club members may be expected to pay more for whatever Woothemes decides on a whim to charge them for. How will Woothemes know what level they can do that to in the future? By testing. The test is NOW. As I see it, the test is to see how many frustrated club members are now purchasing those child themes anyways, and base future decisions about club members on that. It’s sad. The saddest part is that it wasn’t, and to some degree, still isn’t made very clear to current and potential club members, as someone pointed out above. Instead of listening to the few of us that are frustrated right now, we’re promised «more value in the future» for being a club member. I’m highly disappointed because I think most people were quite tolerant and understanding about the delays and problems in all this, and people like me even defended Woothemes highly for making its decisions based on its paying customers, not some fictional «community»..which is what it should continue to do.
I was delivered four new themes, and an E-commerce plugin this month. That is way over what my agreement is with Woo. The semantics of the Child Theme issue is a bit confusing I will grant you that, but nonetheless they delivered this month. I don’t see the issue with them expanding their business. That is what they must do to grow. They just increased their value today for my business, and I have the choice to expand with them or not.
Growing pains never feel 100% good.
Fantastic!! I just downloaded WooCommerce and Wootique, time to get started on some fun! 🙂
Great job guys, a lot of awesome additions from the current Jigoshop build. I have found a few bugs already regarding Variable products. How do you want us to report those?
Github please; https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce
Im happy for people to report them on github issues: https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce
Asking my self why i have the club membership when only one theme is good enough. The Canvas. And when the woocommerce is free… i don’t see any value to be a subscriber…
Sure the wooframework is quite good but the designs aren’t that wow and a few feels like they are tossed out just to keep the «2 themes per month»-promise…
Mattias, you’re always free to use the product that suits your need best from us.
If you count child themes we’ve put out 7 themes this month, not counting child is 4 themes. 😛
Exciting!
Is there or will there be a way to use WooCommerce as a catalog only?
How do you mean?
I know what hannah is talking about, think services like ejunkie, topspin. Also things like affiliate marketing or having a list of products that are one of a kind of customizable beyond the extent that is available.
Essentially, and correct me if im wrong Hannah(I’ve been doing this awhile) but she wants the ability to list products more or less as a nicely organized custom post type where she can put in her own code for buy now or add to cart buttons. For instance load up a sandbox virtual machine or local MAMP server and install wordpress and wp e-commerce. there is a option to disable checkouts, price listings, etc so that you can edit the code base to fit your own personal leeds
needs not leeds my bad 🙂
So using WooCommerce to sell affiliate products?
You go to create a product, put in the title, description, picture, then an affiliate link to where people can actually buy the product?
Is that right? 🙂
yes, like wp e-commerce’s off site product feature, except it would work correctly and not require lamb sacrifices
Yes! This would be great.
If we could add the affiliate link and instead of an «add to cart» button, it would be something like «get this product» or «download now» for software.
Thanks!
Actually I have a client that wants to have an online catalog of her products but without any functionality to buy them. I would however like to leave the option open for her to sell online down the road, so that’s why I’m interested in an eCommerce solution vs. just using custom post types.
There’s another free WP shopping cart plugin called «DukaPress,» Hannah, which explicitly allows for just the kind of funcationality you’re talking about. It’s nowhere near as impressive as WooCommerce, but it will definitely get the job done for now and, assuming nothing too complex down the road, even then, too!
Just as an FYI. =)
This is so awesome and thanks for the free theme to try it out on! I see a review in the very near future!
Keep us posted on the review. 😉
As a long term Woo themes developer club member, I do feel disappointed about the extra payment for extensions. Nothing in Woothemes build up to Woo Commerce lead us to expect extra fees for members. Woothemes seems to be mainly interested in bringing in new members rather than rewarding it’s loyal members. As others mentioned, an agreement is an agreement and to change it on a whim leads to bad feeling. And what happens to those club members who buy an extension at $50 and then later you bring in a membership price? Do they get their $50 back?
Agree, I think all club members would feel slighted here, over a year waiting, holding back projects and then a release that slaps them in the face.
Woo Commerce has been badly handled from its promotion over a year ago and now to its release, Adii comments on this seem also to be an afterthought and damage control.
Fair enough as far as extensions go but charging Club Members for these child themes is a ruse and I hope they rethink this. I have gone from a woo promoter to now very skeptical of the motives and business model
As a Club Member who has been waiting for months and months for a number of clients, I now have a choice, either spend the bucks and hope for some reimbursement when it is added tro club memberships.
For me Woo have treated club members as an after thought on this release and no explanations here make any sense – except for Woo!
Josse,
Your point about buying now and then buying again later is exactly what I was referring to as a «test.» We were told be be patient with all the problems, etc. and we were. When it was finally delivered, as a club member, we were excited to start out today. But instead, as a club member, we are now forced to either make a purchase or to wait for an increase in monthly costs….or BOTH. It’s hard to even make a business decision about it now. It would have been handled much better if they would have at least let us know about it in advance. As it is now, we don’t even know the future charge, and that’s why I believe it is a test to see what club members will put up with. If not, then they should be offering and telling us the monthly upcharge NOW, rather than cashing in on people’s frustrations with just wanting to get started. How about it Woo? What is the monthly upcharge going to be, and why isn’t it an option TODAY?
Totally agree with this, as a club member I am disappointed in Woo, why couldn’t you send club members a advanced email about the new pricing? Why don’t you know what the new price will be today?
If I want a listing theme:
I want to run a list of ***then click through to info much like simplicity does to give info and website of the owner.I want to be able to categorize these by State. And I want to charge advertising fees for the listing. Which new theme or older theme would you suggest? Simplicity has most of what I want but I cant categorize it the way I want to and there is no auto way to charge for it. Oh and I want to use video as well as photos on the click through.
thanks
Shoot us an email with some further detail, can help figure it out from there. 🙂 – info[at]woocommerce.com
Congradulations woothemes! But… I agree 100% with the other club subscribers that feel child themes and plugins should be included.
I too kept my monthly subscription going for a year in hope to finally see woocommerce, and now when it’s there you change the rules.
You say child themes are different, plugins too. Why, as Jesse mentionned, did you gave us access to your enterprise themes then? Why, if child themes are so different, do we have access to bookclub wich is a child theme of listings?
Sorry but I don’t see the value for us, long time subscribers, and this is really disappointing.