WooCommerce is the internet’s biggest eCommerce platform, with over 2.9 million websites making use of its services (as of January). Additionally, 22% of the top 1 million sites employing eCommerce are doing so with WooCommerce, in comparison to Shopify’s 18%. Buoyed by that impressive market share, a thriving catalogue of both free and paid plugins has arisen to give WordPress’s WooCommerce the juice it needs to perform even better.
Let’s get into our list of what we recommend as 2022’s Top defining WooCommerce plugins:
WooCommerce Plugins:
Below is our list of the best WooCommerce plugins for enhancing your WooCommerce online store… While these plugins are not all required, we do suggest reading a bit about them and decide if you think they would be beneficial for your online store.
StoreCustomizer
Gone are the days of having to create child themes and add separate WooCommerce plugins to customize and edit WooCommerce ‘Add to Cart’ button texts, labels, or design elements. StoreCustomizer (Previously known as WooCustomizer) is your answer to simple WooCommerce store personalization. It offers a plethora of built-in WordPress Customizer settings for editing that allows you to see changes as they happen in real-time. WooCustomizer is packed with features:
- Users can add useful elements such as product sales statistics, sold out banners, and badges displaying “New Product”.
- You’re also able to edit your WooCommerce checkout page fields, user accounts, and cart pages.
WooCommerce Product Add-Ons
With digital transformation and the rise of customer-centricity, personalisation has become the name of the eCommerce game. Product Add-Ons by WooCommerce gives your clients the personalisation options to make a product truly their own — including personal engravings, premium fabric upgrades, and tailoring products to better suit their needs. What’s more, this personalisation happens in real-time, so customers can create what they want before checking out of the store.
WP All Import
With more than 200,000 active installations and 1500+ 5-star ratings, WP All Import is about as dependable as it gets when it comes to WordPress plugins.
What makes it unique is its ability to import and export data to all WordPress standard tables/fields, all plugins, and all custom fields, etc., using a drag-and-drop interface. You can complete simple data imports/exports in seconds, fulfil the requirements of the Google Merchant Center using slick templates, or handle sophisticated, custom XML files with ease.
Stripe
The Stripe plugin for WooCommerce allows you to accept payments directly on your WooCommerce store. With Stripe, customers stay on your store during checkout without being redirected to an externally hosted checkout page, which has been proven to lead to higher conversion rates.
Stripe is a simple way to accept payments online, and has no setup fees, no monthly fees and no other hidden costs. Hundreds of thousands of businesses rely on Stripe’s software tools to securely accept payments and expand globally. Definitely a must have Payment Gateway for your WooCommerce store.
Checkout Field Editor
As it’s developed by WooCommerce, you know you’re getting a quality product that caters to, and improves the nuances of the framework. The Checkout Field Editor “provides you with an interface to add, edit, and remove fields shown on your WooCommerce checkout page. Fields can be added and removed from the billing and shipping sections, as well as inserted after these sections next to the standard ‘order notes’.” Essentially, it gives you more control over your checkout functionality without having to get into the code.
HubSpot
With this easy-to-install plugin, you can easily sync your WooCommerce store data into HubSpot’s free CRM. And that’s just the start!
Once you’ve synced your data, manage your leads and customers, see a contact’s interactions with your website, and send out marketing campaigns. You’re also able to track abandoned carts and launch campaigns to help recover those carts.
Other useful features include store analytics, ads management, and store automation. That’s a whole lot of value from one plugin!
PeachPay for WooCommerce
With PeachPay, you can stop worrying about cart abandonment and failed payments.
PeachPay, the one-stop-shop WooCommerce plugin for checkout & payments, allows you to add a fully customizable checkout button to your product, cart, and checkout pages. This button opens the PeachPay checkout window, which is also customizable. You can add/remove/modify fields, select which payment methods to display (Stripe, PayPal, etc.), and more.
Kaira Site Chat
Kaira Site Chat adds a customizable WhatsApp button to the bottom right (or left) of your website or online store, where users can click to open a chat box and ask any questions they may have… With Site Chat, you can add multiple contacts/agents for sales, technical support and more. Users can then select who they’d like to talk to and then easily start chatting. This personal form of contact gives users trust in you and your brand and will make them feel safe purchasing with you!
Starcat Reviews Plugin
Product reviews are a great way to increase eCommerce conversions and 77% of customers read product reviews before making a purchase.
StarCat Reviews is a WooCommerce Review plugin that replaces the basic default WooCommerce reviews with an advanced review and rating system.
With StarCat Reviews plugin you can create a captivating review section that is easy to use and encourage customers to leave reviews and also you can showcase them on your website. It also has other features such as:
- Easily manage the reviews and show only the reviews that you approve
- Include Multiple Rating Criteria, Pros & Cons, Reply to reviews and display an overall customer review score
- Adds Review Schema to show product rating on Google search pages and also improves your search results position
- Also include review system in other posts or pages
- Has premium add-ons such as Photo Reviews add-on (attach photos and videos), Review Voting add-on, Reviews Post Type add-on, Comparison Table add-on to create an even more powerful review website
- More add-ons to be released soon and the add-ons are included in an affordable bundle pricing
WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing Slips
This fully customisable (HTML/CSS) extension cuts out the step of having to send PDF invoices to customers in separate communications. PDF Invoices & Packing Slips automatically generates and attaches a PDF invoice to the order confirmation emails that go out to your customers. What’s more, you’re able to either download or print invoices and packing slips from the WooCommerce order admin.
Share Your Purchase
As ever, word of mouth remains the strongest marketing tactic in existence. The better the purchase experience, the more likely it is that other users will buy from your store. Share Your Purchase is a customisable extension that helps users share their purchases on social media with a set of buttons on the Order Received page. As your products are being recommended by a user’s contacts, the social media shares generate more confidence in your store. You’re able to feature the five platforms that align best with your marketing goals:
- Tumblr
- Gmail
- WhatsApp (only appears on mobile devices)
Smart Coupons
With stellar reviews and over 15,000 people using it daily, Smart Coupons by StoreApps is the highest selling coupon plugin of all time on WooCommerce. Installation will help you grow sales and customers with tactical discounts, coupons, credits, vouchers, product giveaways, offers and promotions. The plugin has a ton of features, is easy to use and was designed to be high performance so as not to slow down your online store or checkout facility.
Dynamic Pricing
Another must have in our list of WooCommerce plugins. Dynamic Pricing lets you configure bulk discounts for your products in your store by creating tables of quantities and discounted amounts. Choose from fixed price adjustments, percentage adjustments or set a fixed price for the product. Optionally choose roles the pricing rule should be applied for.
WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery
Shopping cart abandonment is an eCommerce term that refers to users who’ve added products to their cart but exited the website before following through on the purchase. WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery is an extension that helps you recover incomplete orders in your online store. How? Well, the plugin will begin to fire-off cart recovery emails or facebook messages to the customer, nudging them to complete the order.
Mailchimp for WooCommerce
Join the world’s largest marketing automation platform. Mailchimp for WooCommerce is the official Mailchimp integration plugin. your customers and their purchase data are automatically synced with your Mailchimp account, making it easy to send targeted campaigns, automatically follow up with customers post-purchase, recommend products, recover abandoned carts, and measure the ROI of your marketing efforts. The Mailchimp for WooCommerce plugin is completely free!
WordPress Plugins:
Included in this list of our top recommended WooCommerce plugins for your WordPress site, we’ve also included some WordPress plugins that aren’t specifically for WooCommerce, but we think are very important for your online store and growing users or ensuing that your emails and website runs at it’s best.
WP Mail SMTP
By default, WordPress uses the PHP mail function to send emails. Problems arise, however, when WordPress hosting services aren’t optimally configured for sending PHP emails. By reconfiguring WordPress to use a proper SMTP provider when sending emails, WP Mail SMTP by WPForms picks up the slack and boosts email deliverability through authentication. A must have in our list of WooCommerce plugins.
Mailchimp
With 17 million customers making use of it, Mailchimp is by far the largest marketing automation platform in the world. The official Mailchimp for WooCommerce integration brings this powerful functionality to your eCommerce store so that your customers and their purchase data are automatically synced with your Mailchimp account. This means you’re able to deploy targeted campaigns, follow up with customers post-purchase via automation, cross-sell and upsell based on purchase history, recover abandoned carts, and determine the ROI of your marketing efforts. Did we mention it’s free?
Plugin to eCommerce excellence with a trusted WooCommerce developer
Whether you’re looking for flexibility and responsive design or reliable coding and ongoing support, Kaira has your WooCommerce covered.
Our WordPress and WooCommerce plugins and themes are informed by years of design and development experience, and aimed at getting your eCommerce store or website setup quickly, with minimum hassle and maximum performance. If you’re interested in WordPress themes to add to your eCommerce arsenal, we’ve just released our most customisable theme to date: Overlay.
If you’ve any questions or require further information about WooCommerce plugins, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us here. We’re always happy to help!
