Wix eCommerce vs WooCommerce
Wix eCommerce and WooCommerce are both e-commerce software. Wix eCommerce is a commercial product from Wix.com. WooCommerce is open source under GPL-2.0, with 11k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Wix eCommerce when
- A small business wants a drag-and-drop website that also sells a modest range of products.
- Pick WooCommerce when
- A small or mid-size business already on WordPress, or wanting content and shop in one, sells online.
Side by side
Online store features added to the Wix website builder: products, cart, checkout, payments and bookings.
A WordPress plugin that turns a WordPress site into an online store with products, cart, checkout, payments and thousands of extensions.
Large catalogues and complex selling outgrow it, and sites cannot be exported.
Many needed features are paid extensions, and performance and security depend on your hosting and plugin choices.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
PHP, WordPress, TypeScript, React and MySQL
Closed source, sold by Wix.com
Open source, GPL-2.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
No Wikipedia article of its own
11k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 11.2.1.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.