Whether you’re just getting started with WooCommerce or you’re a veteran looking to simplify and improve things, WooCommerce plugins were designed to help. Here are 19 of the most popular tools and the reasons why so many people find them useful.
WooCommerce Menu Cart
Typical WooCommerce themes give you all the basics, including a Cart button that sits at the very top of the page in full view of the shopper. However, there are a few themes that don’t have this, and there may be times when moving the button could improve your conversion rate. WooCommerce Menu Cart does this and a lot more for free.
GDPR Cookie Consent Plugin (CCPA Ready)
This WordPress GDPR plugin lets you show a cookie banner to your site visitors to get consent from them to use cookies. You can customize the banner appearance as per your preference. The plugin helps you comply with major privacy laws like GDPR, CCPA, CNIL, LGPD, etc. It is also compliant with IAB TCF v2.2 so that you can show ads from third-party vendors on your website.
WooCommerce PDF & Print
The PDF & Print WooCommerce plugin gives your customers the ability to export products and descriptions to PDF or Word files, then print them. This comes in very handy for customers who may prefer a printed catalog or who want to share filtered product lists on paper.
Genesis Connect for WooCommerce
Of all the free WooCommerce plugins out there, this should be toward the top of your priority list. With Genesis Connect, you can save all your store customizations and templates, then use them as backups if you have problems updating certain modules.
YITH WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier
If you want to give your customers the ability to zoom in on products, or if you want to make your site more user-friendly for those who have visual impairments, there are several WooCommerce plugins that can help. YITH’s Zoom Magnifier is the best of these because it allows for easy customization. You can create and customize a slider and you can even customize the zoom area. What’s more, when customers mouse over a product image, you can set it so that the image automatically expands.
WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping by Mangohour
Shipping is one of the most complicated aspects of running a virtual store, but WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping by Mangohour simplifies it. You can set rates based on various conditions such as the shipping destination, the total dollar amount of merchandise in the cart, individual item price, individual item weight, and more. You can also set up unlimited shipping zones and rates, create tiered costs based on total order cost or total order weight, and specify any additional handling fees.
Woocommerce Multistore
Having many stores can help you sell more to different kind of people, you can make one store per customer type. WooCommerce Multistore can help you achieve this.
WooCommerce Currency Switcher
You will also need WooCommerce plugins designed to automatically switch between currencies and provide your customers with price conversions. This plugin allows aggregation of four currencies, payments in the customer’s selected currency, integration with PayPal, and five different types of selectors with flags to indicate the country.
WooCommerce CSV Importer
CSV files are the files of choice for online sellers who must handle huge volumes of information. This is one of the only WooCommerce plugins designed to make this job simple. With it, you can import product variables, custom fields, and attributes easily.
Enhanced eCommerce Google Analytics Plugin for WooCommerce
Enhanced Google Analytics is invaluable for content marketers, and with it, you can see just how well your store content fares. This WooCommerce plugin will allow you to track everything your clients do from the time they arrive at your store until they receive a “Thank You” for placing an order.
WooCommerce PDF Invoices
WooCommerce plugins that support simpler and faster invoicing are always welcome, and this one is by far one of the simplest. You can generate invoices in PDF format within a matter of seconds. The best part is that you can automatically send that PDF to your customers’ Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive accounts, among others.
WooCommerce Product Gift Wrap
Would you like to add the ability for your customers to request gift wrapping for holidays and other special occasions? Do you wish there was a specific order indicator? Not all WooCommerce plugins offer this ability, but fortunately, the Product Gift Wrap extension was designed for it. It adds fields to your settings page, so you can discern the cost and availability of gift wrapping.
Woo Social Media Marketing
WooCommerce plugins for each individual social media platform exist, but this can quickly become overwhelming. The Social Media Marketing extension puts all your biggest social media accounts in one place with one plugin. You can connect to Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Google+ and Tumblr, schedule social media posts up to a week in advance and use a built-in analytics system to measure your accounts’ performance.
Dynamic Pricing and Discounts Plugin by XAdapter
VIP and loyalty programs drive repeat business, which is important to your company’s success. With the Dynamic Pricing and Discounts plugin for WooCommerce, you can simplify the processes behind giving discounts to certain groups of people. You can choose from a wide range of filters or set your own parameters, and you can do it all with just a few simple clicks.
Breeze (A WordPress Cache Plugin)
The faster your website pages load, the higher your SEO ranking will become – and a high SEO ranking leads to more traffic, too. Breeze is a tool that minimizes HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files in such a way that your store’s pages load in the blink of an eye, but functionality remains exactly the same.
YITH Infinite Scrolling
There are all kinds of WooCommerce plugins designed to change the way users interact with your online store, and YITH Infinite Scrolling is one of these. Rather than reaching the end of a list of products and being forced to go back, this plugin creates an infinite product list that never ends. It makes your store far more responsive and improves the overall user experience.
WooCommerce Product Slider
Of all the free WooCommerce plugins out there that can add widgets and features to your store, the Product Slider extension is likely one of the most frequently downloaded. Simply put, it allows you to put a carousel anywhere in your store. You can create one carousel for every page to help bring attention to sale items, or you can put different carousels on different pages to highlight items from different categories.
WooCommerce Direct Checkout
The Direct Checkout plugin makes it easier than ever for your customers to complete the checkout process in your online store. In fact, if you use it as intended, you could very well see your sales increase drastically in a matter of days. This plugin allows your customers to go directly to the checkout screen at any time, click a “Continue Shopping” button after adding a product to their carts, or change the words “Add to Cart” to any other text you prefer.
Stripe Payment Gateway
Stripe is quickly becoming one of the most beloved payment methods for new business owners, and even some experienced business owners have come to enjoy the simplicity and transparency it offers. This is one of the only WooCommerce plugins that integrates the Stripe payment method into your store for free. It’s available from the WooCommerce setup page.
WooCommerce Checkout Manager
Finally, WooCommerce plugins that simplify and expedite the checkout process for your customers are very important, and the aptly-named Checkout Manager extension is a great choice. You can add and reorder the different fields your customers see when they check out, make some of the fields optional, add or remove required fields, or even upload files to the checkout page. This is one of the only plugins that will allow you to export orders by field name, as well.
WooCommerce is a phenomenal platform for creating and managing a virtual store. It grows along with your business, but the more customers you have, the more difficult it becomes to keep track of things like orders and currency conversions. These WooCommerce plugins are completely free and designed to provide a better overall experience for both you and your customers.
