Can I use WooCommerce commercially and keep full rights to my store and data?
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Yes — WooCommerce core is GPL-licensed open source, you retain ownership of your content, products and data. You’re running the store on your hosting.
Are there limits on how many products or orders I can have?
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There is no hard product-count cap in the core plugin; however practical limits depend on your hosting, database architecture, and extensions. For large catalogs you’ll need appropriate infrastructure.
Can I customise the checkout, theme and user experience?
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Yes — because it’s built on WordPress, you have full control of themes/templates, CSS, and you can use extensions or custom code to modify checkout, product types, shipping logic.
What about payments and shipping integrations?
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WooCommerce supports many payment gateways and shipping plugins via its extension marketplace. Some are free, some paid. The core plugin provides basic payment & shipping setups.
Do they train on my store data or use it to train AI models?
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Since you host the store and control the plugin, your store data stays under your infrastructure (unless you use opt-in integrations). The vendor does not automatically extract your store transactions to train external models.
What level of support do I get?
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As a self-hosted open-source solution, the core plugin has community-based support (forums, docs). Paid extensions may include dedicated support from their developers. If you require enterprise-level SLA, you’ll likely need a partner/agency or hosting provider offering that.
What additional value do higher-end options give?
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Higher-end setups deliver faster performance, better scalability (for high traffic or large catalog), dedicated hosting/management, advanced extensions (subscriptions, memberships, multi-vendor), custom development, and robust backup/security. The core plugin covers fundamental store needs but complex stores benefit from added investment.
