Phoenix Cart vs WooCommerce
Phoenix Cart
phoenixcart.org
WooCommerce
woocommerce.comSide by side
| Figure | Phoenix Cart | WooCommerce |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | £10/mo | $2.42/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 4 |
| Spec score · Ecommerce platforms | 8.3 (#84) | 9.5 (#1) |
| Abandoned cart recovery | Yes | Yes |
| App marketplace | Yes | Yes |
| Digital products | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Hosting model | self-hosted | self-hosted |
| Ownership | The maker says merchants keep control of their customer and sales data and pay no monthly platform fees for the core. | Automattic acquired WooThemes, the company behind WooCommerce, in 2015. |
| Payments | PayPal, Stripe and offline payments are included, and addons can add extra payment methods. | The platform supports cards, bank transfers, checks, cash on delivery and gateways including WooPayments, Stripe, PayPal, Square and Amazon Pay. |
| Sales channels | multichannel | omnichannel |
| Transaction fee | none | payment_only |
Plans
Phoenix Cart
- Phoenix CartFree
- Code Co-op£10 a month
- Phoenix Cart CoreFree
- Code Co-op Founding Member£10 a month
- Agencies & Developers£99 a month
WooCommerce
- WooCommerce coreFree
- WooCommerce mobile appFree
- Typical hosting$25 a month
- Extensions$29 a year
In their own words
Phoenix Cart
Phoenix Cart has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
WooCommerce
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.