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Shopify charges a monthly plan, an app for every extra and a fee when you use your own payment provider. WooCommerce is free until you buy the extensions. WP EasyCart PRO builds it all into one WordPress shopping cart plugin, for one yearly price.
Move the slider, pick what you sell with.
Plan and add-on list prices, checked October 2026. Shopify picks its cheapest plan for what you need, plus its fee on outside payment providers. Hosting and card processing not included.
Six places a store feels the difference, from the first sale on.
PRO takes 0% on every payment, through any of 30+ gateways.
Shopify adds 2% on Basic and 1% on Grow when you use Stripe, Square or PayPal.
Product options, bundles, subscriptions, wholesale pricing and gift cards come in the box.
WooCommerce sells each one as a yearly extension. Shopify sends you to the App Store.
Your store runs on your own WordPress site. Orders and customers live in your database.
A Shopify store lives on Shopify. Leave, and you rebuild somewhere else.
Stripe, Square, PayPal and 30+ more, with no push toward one processor.
Shopify prefers Shopify Payments and charges extra for anything else.
One plugin, one update, one team behind it. Fewer moving parts means fewer surprises.
A full WooCommerce store often runs a stack of extensions from different developers.
Questions go to the team that builds WP EasyCart, and it shows in the reviews.
4.5 stars from 206 WordPress.org reviews, most of them praising support.
WP EasyCart PRO against WooCommerce and Shopify, for the features a growing store reaches for.
List prices in US dollars, checked October 2026: Shopify plans and Shopify App Store apps, and official extensions on WooCommerce.com, each billed yearly. WooCommerce and WP EasyCart run on your WordPress hosting. Card processing fees from your payment provider apply on every platform.
A shop selling $3,000 a month that needs product options, a bundle offer and gift cards, and takes payments through the Stripe or PayPal account it already has. Over a year, PRO keeps about $1,340 in the business compared with Shopify.
As low as $5.75 a month on a 5-year license
WooCommerce extensions and WP EasyCart licenses are billed yearly; monthly figures are the yearly price divided by 12. Shopify app prices are their yearly cost divided by 12. List prices checked October 2026.
Store owners on WordPress.org, in their own words.
“About 4 years ago I switch to Easycart because almost everything that cost extra in woocommerce is included in easycart. It has saved me a lot of money and so easy to use and config.”
amagicclownWordPress.org review, 2026
“WP Easycart won due to its comprehensive and comparable feature set with other ecommerce plugin heavyweights, at a price any small business can afford.”
Seamus PWordPress.org review, 2020
“And if you want any flexibility at all, it’s also costly to buy all the necessary add-ons.”
jbhphxWordPress.org review, 2024
“I carefully considered several shopping carts for my latest project, including hosted solutions like Shopify. WPEasyCart does everything I want it to for a very reasonable price”
ohlizaWordPress.org review, 2021
“I tried WooCommerce but didn’t find it very intuitive and quickly grew tired of having to install additional plugins to get everything to work.”
Ron BeanWordPress.org review, 2024
“I’ve tested WooCommerce and other WordPress carts and WPEasyCart is by far the best, most intuitive and full featured without having to spend a lot on extra plugins and add ons”
gwynwyffarWordPress.org review, 2019
Straight answers on cost, fees and switching.
The WooCommerce core is free. Most of what a growing store needs, like subscriptions, product add-ons, bundles, live carrier rates and abandoned-cart emails, is sold as separate extensions on WooCommerce.com, each billed every year. With the extensions in our comparison that comes to $1,309 a year. WP EasyCart PRO includes all of them.
Shopify hosts your store; WP EasyCart runs on the WordPress hosting you already pay for your website. Even if you add a typical $300 a year for hosting, a PRO store with the features in our comparison comes in far below Shopify Grow with apps.
The free plugin adds a 2% WP EasyCart fee to Stripe, Square and PayPal payments. PRO and Premium remove it, so you pay only your payment provider’s card processing. Shopify charges 2%, 1% or 0.6% by plan on any provider other than Shopify Payments.
Yes. The built-in WooCommerce importer brings across your products, categories, images and reviews, and turns product attributes into PRO option sets.
Public list prices in US dollars, checked October 2026: Shopify’s pricing page and App Store, and official extensions on WooCommerce.com. Third-party alternatives can cost more or less. Card processing fees apply on every platform.
Install WP EasyCart on the WordPress site you already have and switch on every PRO feature. No card needed.
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