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Woo is the company behind WooCommerce, the ecommerce platform that powers 4M+ stores.* Built on WordPress, WooCommerce empowers anyone to sell anything, with unlimited control over how they build and evolve their business.
Launched in 2011 and acquired by Automattic in 2015, Woo is a fully distributed company with employees worldwide.
*StoreLeads, January 2026
WooCommerce in numbers
developers, creatives, and builders
supporting WooCommerce merchants worldwide
core code contributors from
around the world
*Regarding third-party measurement: WordPress plugin rules don’t permit the automatic collection of stats and performance data (although some merchants do opt in to share data). We use third-party measurement tools, including StoreLeads.app and W3Techs, to build an accurate estimate of WooCommerce installations, growth, and geographic distribution.
Latest Woo news
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WordPress 3.8 compatibility in WooCommerce
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Reward your students with Sensei
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Case Study: form•function•form
Today’s case study is quite unique as we get to hear from Amazon Payments who interviewed one of their favorite WooCommerce users, FormFunctionForm. Later in this post, we will hear from Shawn -the owner of FormFunctionForm– and discuss the decisions he made when creating his stunning WooCommerce-powered website. Origins When you look at the quality…
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Execute on your ideas
Ideas without execution are hallucinations. Thomas Edison Ideas are a dime a dozen. Often, when one has an idea, the execution of said idea gets in the way of realising the dream. As we see it at Woo, WordPress is about empowerment. About instilling confidence. About creating opportunities to assist others in creating opportunities and…
Why people love WooCommerce
Unlimited capability
WooCommerce developers can build 100% custom products as needed. The WooCommerce Marketplace also offers hundreds of extensions and themes that personalize and extend the capabilities of WooCommerce stores.
Woo customer support
WooCommerce has a worldwide community of developers, builders, and creatives ready to help anyone build an online business that scales.
Open source roots
As a freely downloadable plugin for WordPress, WooCommerce has always been a part of the open-source community. Democratizing commerce is at our core.
Ownership over leasing
Woo customers own their site end to end, with a 100% open-source platform, unlimited hosting options, and total control over their shopping experience.
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