Liferay Commerce vs WooCommerce

Liferay Commerce is software for building, managing, and scaling online stores for B2B and B2C sales. It supports multichannel selling and digital products, with an app marketplace available. For B2B buying, it can handle multiple buyers on an account, negotiated prices, custom catalogs, approval workflows, and ERP and CRM integration. Catalog tools support account-specific prices, tiers, promotions, and discounts; product information can include descriptions, images, videos, attributes, hierarchies, and relationships. The product page describes recommendations based on users’ roles, histories, and previous purchases. APIs and connectors link with ERP, CRM, procurement, order management, shipping, and accounting systems. Headless commerce can extend catalog, pricing, order, and inventory functions into existing portals, apps, and dealer experiences. Liferay DXP is available as SaaS, PaaS, or self-hosted, including on-premises and customer-cloud deployment. A free tier is available for exploration, development, and pre-production. Enterprise subscription pricing depends on deployment model and implementation scope; pricing is available on request.

WooCommerce is free, self-hosted software for running an online store with omnichannel sales channels. Its core plan costs nothing, billed free with no monthly subscription. The plan lists unlimited products, unlimited orders, and unlimited APIs, allowing catalog and order volume without those stated caps. WooCommerce supports digital products as well as general online-store sales, includes abandoned-cart recovery, and provides an app marketplace. The listed transaction fee is payment-only. Because the hosting model is self-hosted, the store runs on hosting managed by the user rather than a hosted WooCommerce environment. WooCommerce is made by WooCommerce, founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. The combination of omnichannel selling, digital-product support, recovery tools, and extensible apps gives store operators a broad core setup without a subscription charge. Hosting management remains part of choosing this model.