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WooCommerce developer

WooCommerce — WordPress that sells, hosted from $149/month

WordPress ecommerce for catalogs that sell. Checkout, shipping, and a plugin list we will cut before we add more. Hosting is quoted as a store, not a brochure site. WooCommerce hosting is from $149/month.

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Most WooCommerce problems come from too many plugins.

A WooCommerce developer who only installs extensions will sell you a fifth one. We treat the stack as the product: keep what is maintained, replace what fights checkout, write the one piece of PHP the marketplace cannot do cleanly.

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    Too many checkout plugins

    One extension for shipping, one for tax, one for upsells, one that rewrites the thank-you page. They share a cart and none of them agree. WooCommerce development starts by naming which of those you actually need.

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    The theme is a page builder

    Editors can change a hero. Nobody can change a rate table without breaking mobile. We rebuild or restrain the theme so wp-admin stays usable and checkout stays fast.

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    Hosting was sold as WordPress

    A brochure plan does not like cron, object cache, or a sale. WooCommerce is a different box. We host it that way, or we say the current host will not survive the catalog.

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    Orders live in a spreadsheet next to QuickBooks

    WordPress ecommerce only pays off when orders, customers, and inventory stop being retyped. QuickBooks, a warehouse, or a 3PL — same integration shop as the Magento work.

WordPress ecommerce, not a separate store

WooCommerce is the right call when content and commerce belong in the same admin: a manufacturer who publishes spec sheets, a distributor whose category copy is the SEO, a shop whose editors will never log into a second SaaS.

This is not a Magento replacement pitch. If the catalog is the whole business — B2B price lists, ERP, a warehouse that already fits Magento — we will point at Magento development instead of forcing a plugin to pretend. Shopify when the storefront belongs there.

WooCommerce hosting is a different box

Managed WordPress starts at $79/month. A store is from $149/month; final sizing depends on catalog size, cron, and how hard checkout hits the database. We will not put a sale on a brochure plan and call it managed WooCommerce hosting.

Hosting is the box. Development is the checkout, the theme, and the plugin list. You can host a store we did not build.

Keep a plugin

When the marketplace already solved it

Payments, a mature shipping carrier, a tax engine that is actually updated. We will use a maintained extension and keep the list short. We use a maintained plugin when it already does the job.

Write the code

When the rule is how you sell

Wholesale tiers, kit SKUs, freight that depends on the warehouse, a checkout field that is not a form plugin. One small plugin you own beats three that share a hook. That is the WooCommerce programmer work — rules that belong to the business, not the marketplace.

Related pages

Porter is the first Chicago Web product — WordPress software you install. Nora for WordPress is coming. Magento keys from toweringmedia.com do not apply.

Questions

When is WooCommerce the right call?
When the catalog belongs on WordPress, editors need to live in wp-admin, and checkout, shipping, and content should share one admin. That is WordPress ecommerce — not a SaaS storefront with a blog bolted on.
Can you take over a WooCommerce store another developer built?
Yes. Most WooCommerce development we see starts as a rescue: a theme nobody wants to touch, a plugin stack that fights the checkout, and hosting sized for a brochure site. We audit first and quote the work in writing.
Do you host WooCommerce, or only build it?
Both. WooCommerce hosting is a different box than managed WordPress from $79/month. WooCommerce hosting is from $149/month; final sizing depends on catalog, cron, and checkout load. Say so if the site sells.
Can you connect WooCommerce to QuickBooks?
Yes. QuickBooks and WooCommerce integration is a common job: orders, customers, and inventory that should not be retyped. Same shop that does ERP and warehouse work on Magento.
Do you sell WooCommerce extensions?
WordPress / WooCommerce software from Chicago Web starts with Porter. Nora for WordPress is coming soon. Magento extensions stay on toweringmedia.com.

Assessment

Tell us about the store

The live URL, the plugin list, and what is wrong with checkout. Phone is optional.

(773) 466-2454/Full contact page

  • Someone here reads it. Not a sales queue.
  • We will tell you if the work is not a fit for us.
  • Chicago office, US-based team, no offshore handoff.