We have compiled a list of the best free WooCommerce plugins or plugins with an affordable price.
If you already have your online shop in WooCommerce, you may have some needs that can’t be met solely with WordPress or WooCommerce. If creating your own WooCommerce plugins is something you want to avoid, get one (or several) of the already existing WooCommerce extensions to increase your shop’s functionality and features.
Both WooCommerce experts and third parties offer plugins for a variety of costs to enhance and improve certain aspects of online shops. Our list covers free and affordable plugins.
If you feel that your online shop on WooCommerce could use some tuning up, perhaps the time has come to install plugins that meet those wishes and needs.
However, it’s important to consider that installing too many plugins may slow down the loading speed of your website or create performance issues on your shop because of compatibility problems between plugins.
WooCommerce plugins for marketing and statistics
1. WooCommerce Google Analytics
The Google Analytics WooCommerce plugin provides you with information about your online shop for free. You will be able to discover which channels generate more traffic (search, social networks, email, ads), which part of your page is making you lose money, which products generate more interest, and what customers are looking for.
2. Mailchimp for WooCommerce
Mailchimp’s plugin gives you tools to help increase your website traffic, promote customer loyalty, and achieve a higher repurchase rate, as well as customize your marketing strategies.
Mailchimp allows you to create sales-focused marketing features and build and strengthen the relationship you have with your customers.
3. HubSpot for WooCommerce
The HubSpot for WooCommerce plugin will allow you to monitor customers in HubSpot's free CRM, segment customers based on their actions, automate marketing tracking to drive more sales, and measure the growth of your online shop.
You’ll have instant access to information about abandoned carts, orders, web activity, and more. You can also carry out automated email marketing campaigns by using one of their 20+ templates.
When it comes to creating and managing ads, the HubSpot for WooCommerce plugin helps you create campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Google.
4. Social Login Pro for WooCommerce
With Social Login Pro you can allow your customers to log in and go to checkout with an account from a social network or email account, or other platform (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Windows Live, VKontakte, PayPal, Disqus, Apple, Amazon, LINE).
The value customers put on faster payment options is becoming increasingly higher. If you’re also aware of this, you can boost your sales by appreciating your customers’ time and reducing frictions in checkout with Social Login Pro.
5. Sale Flash Pro
With the Sale Flash Pro plugin, you can promote new sales by offering discounts to your customers in the form of a percentage or a fixed amount off.
This extension makes discounted products more visible on your storefront, promoting sales and encouraging your customers to purchase products during a promotion. With this plugin, your customers will be able to clearly see how much they save.
6. WooCommerce Waitlist
With the WooCommerce Waitlist plugin, your customers can save out-of-stock products they are interested in and will receive an email notification once they have been restocked.
This plugin allows you to easily identify which products are the best sellers and keep track of the users who have received a ‘restocking’ notification. Customers can access and edit their waitlist and receive notifications once they are back in stock.
WooCommerce plugins for customer support
7. Zendesk
Zendesk is a CRM designed to improve the customer shopping experience and customer service management for online businesses. This software adapts to the size of the business as it grows.
8. LiveChat for WooCommerce
The LiveChat plugin works on websites, Messenger, or Apple Business Chat, among other platforms. In addition to having live conversations with your customers, you can automate replies to certain questions, label the conversations, or send files through the chat.
LiveChat also allows for small customizations. For instance, you’ll be able to choose a theme, colour, and logo, and have the option to see the products in your customers' cart and their previous orders.
9. Trustpilot Reviews
The Trustpilot Reviews plugin collects and displays reviews. Use the integration to automate requests to review products. This plugin gives you access to 100 free monthly requests.
10. Jetpack
Jetpack is a plugin that provides tools to improve the security, performance, and marketing of online shops. Automating security-related tasks such as malware detection, user login authentication, and attack prevention is easier with this plugin.
Having a backup of your online shop data and access to information about orders, trends and traffic eases business management.
WooCommerce plugins for payments
11. Klarna Checkout
The Klarna Checkout plugin enables multiple payment methods and even one-click payments. Klarna encourages conversion thanks to the saved information from returning buyers.
12. Clearpay
The Clearpay plugin removes 5 steps from checkout and 40+ fields of customer information with its 'Express Checkout' feature. With Cross Border Trade Selling, customers will be able to pay in their currency, while you receive the amount in your currency (minus the commission).
13. PayPal
The PayPal plugin works in more than 200 markets, allows payment in more than 100 currencies, and is compatible with the payment for subscriptions since it’s possible to enable recurring payments.
14. Stripe
The Stripe plugin works on desktop and mobile versions and allows payments in more than 135 currencies. Stripe includes payment methods such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, iDeal, and the SEPA direct debit system, as well as payments with credit or debit card.
The ‘Stripe Elements’ system helps users quickly enter payment information when making a purchase, and with the ‘Instant Payments’ feature, you’ll receive the money instantly.
15. Klarna Payments
The Klarna Payments plugin allows you to enable direct payments, pay-on-delivery options and instalment payments… in just one click. Klarna Payments integrates easily and gives you the ability to create tailored messages such as generic banners, financing possibility notice or personalized credit promotions on the product or cart pages.
16. Amazon Pay
The Amazon Pay plugin will mean faster payments, as buyers will be able to pay through their Amazon account, bypassing the payment and personal data entry steps.
Plugins for online store management on WooCommerce
17. WooCommerce Tax
The WooCommerce Tax plugin facilitates the tasks related to taxation. WooCommerce Tax can be set up to automatically calculate the taxes by city, country, and more options. In addition to this, you’ll also be able to activate customized taxes depending on the taxes of a specific product.
18. Coupon Shortcodes
Coupon Shortcodes automatically generates codes to create coupons, and will display content based on the validity of the coupons. You can encourage customers to purchase by offering them specific coupons when the cart qualifies for it or propose additional products so coupons become available to them.
19. WooCommerce Blocks
WooCommerce Blocks can be used for the creation and customization of your online shop to simulate and display certain product categories such as ‘featured products’, ‘featured categories’, and more.
In addition to having access to the stable version of WooCommerce blocks, you can use those that are still in the testing phase.
20. Facebook for WooCommerce
Facebook for WooCommerce allows you to quickly link your WooCommerce products to Facebook, set up an online shop on Facebook and Instagram (with added customization features), or add the Conversions API to help measure and optimize ad campaigns.
This plugin also allows you to use Messenger to answer questions, offer customer support, track deliveries, etc. You can change the appearance, language, and more with this extension.
21. Multi-Currency Switcher
Multi-Currency Switcher enables automatic detection of customers' currency based on the country from which the visit is made, thus promoting international sales without the complications derived from currency management.
This plugin includes a currency converter and gives you the ability to change prices depending on the country, provides price rounding rules, updates the conversion, offers additional payment methods, and more.
Plugins for shipping and fulfilment
22. WooCommerce Shipping
The WooCommerce Shipping plugin saves you time and money on fulfilment and shipping. It works for international shipments, too.
23. Free Shipping Amount Counter
Free Shipping Amount Counter allows you to display the amount needed to enable free shipping for that order. This plugin makes it easier to increase the number of sales and the average value of orders on your online shop.
Customers will be able to see how much they still need to spend to get free shipping. This information is visible on the main page of the shop, in the product sheets, on the cart page, and at checkout.
24. Quick Checkout for WooCommerce
Quick Checkout for WooCommerce is a plugin that enables faster checkouts thanks to the “Buy Now” option and the ability to save multiple addresses. Customers can go directly to the checkout page without going through the cart page, and select from one of the addresses they had previously saved.
Reducing the amount of time and steps needed to make a purchase have a great (and positive) impact on sales and customer satisfaction.
25. Outvio: Shipping and Returns for WooCommerce
Outvio is a tool for online shops that want to optimize and streamline their order processing, shipping, incident management, and returns while also providing a fully-branded purchasing experience.
Thanks to its marketing and branding features, this software will allow you to strengthen the relationship between your online shop and your customers.
Take advantage of the post-sale flow to strengthen your brand image and offer a quality shopping experience that will translate into higher sales and an increased repurchase rate.
Wrapping up
This was our selection of the best WooCommerce plugins for successful online shops. If you want to get even more out of your WooCommerce online shop, don't hesitate to implement those tools that help you take your business to the next level.
