Bagisto vs WooCommerce
Bagisto and WooCommerce are both e-commerce software. Bagisto is open source under MIT, with 28k GitHub stars. WooCommerce is open source under GPL-2.0, with 11k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Bagisto when
- A business with PHP developers wants a self-hosted store or marketplace it can customise in Laravel.
- Pick WooCommerce when
- A small or mid-size business already on WordPress, or wanting content and shop in one, sells online.
Side by side
A Laravel and Vue ecommerce platform for single stores, B2B shops and multi-vendor marketplaces, with Docker images ready to run.
A WordPress plugin that turns a WordPress site into an online store with products, cart, checkout, payments and thousands of extensions.
Many features such as the multi-vendor marketplace and B2B suite are paid Webkul extensions.
Many needed features are paid extensions, and performance and security depend on your hosting and plugin choices.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server (both)
PHP, Laravel, Vue, MySQL, Redis and Elasticsearch
PHP, WordPress, TypeScript, React and MySQL
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, GPL-2.0 (strong copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
28k GitHub stars
11k GitHub stars
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v2.5.0.
Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 11.2.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.