WooCommerce
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WooCommerce is an e-commerce plugin for WordPress that enables users to create and manage online stores. It provides tools for selling products, processing payments, managing inventory, and enhancing the customer shopping experience.
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See allECommerce Essentials
- Websites & Hosting
- 100 Websites
- 100 GB NVMe Storage
- Ideal for 400K visits/mo
- AI Site Creation Tools
- 30-day Money-Back Guarantee
- Free Domain 1st Year
- Free Site Migration Tool
- Free CDN - Cloudflare with Argo Routing
- Managed WordPress Updates
- 24/7 Chat & Phone Support
- Commerce Tools
- Secure Payment Processing
- WooCommerce Auto-Install
- Product Subscriptions
- Visitor Memberships
- Offer Paid Courses
- Affiliate Program
- Custom Email Templates
- Easy Social Logins
- Security
- Free SSL- Let's Encrypt
- Free Malware Scanning
- Malware Detection/Removal
- Web Application Firewall
- DDoS Protection Included
- Domain Privacy- Free 1st year
- Daily Website Backups
- Marketing
- Yoast SEO - Free Plugin
- Pro Email - Free Trial
- Creative Mail - Email Marketing
- Advanced
- Static Content Caching
- Object Caching
- SSH & WP-CLI
- WordPress Staging Site
ECommerce Premium
- Websites & Hosting
- 100 Websites
- 100 GB NVMe Storage
- Ideal for 400K visits/mo
- AI Site Creation Tools
- 30-day Money-Back Guarantee
- Free Domain 1st Year
- Free Site Migration Tool
- Free CDN - Cloudflare with Argo Routing
- Managed WordPress Updates
- 24/7 Chat & Phone Support
- Commerce Tools
- Secure Payment Processing
- WooCommerce Auto-Install
- Product Subscriptions
- Visitor Memberships
- Email Templates
- Easy Social Logins
- Offer Paid Courses
- Advanced Reviews
- Wishlists
- Product Filtering
- Custom Customer Account Pages
- Business Locator
- SMS Notifications
- Shipping Labels
- Bookings & Appointments
- Gift Cards
- 1-Click Checkouts
- Sales & Promotions Builder
- Catalogue Mode
- Product Addons in Cart
- Product Customization
- Marketplace Inventory Management
- Security
- Free SSL- Let's Encrypt
- Free Malware Scanning
- Malware Detection/Removal
- Web Application Firewall
- DDoS Protection Included
- Domain Privacy- Free 1st year
- Daily Website Backups
- Marketing
- Yoast SEO
- Yoast Local SEO
- Yoast News SEO
- Yoast Video SEO
- Pro Email - Free Trial
- Creative Mail - Email Marketing
- Advanced
- Static Content Caching
- Object Caching
- SSH & WP-CLI
- WordPress Staging Site
Rationale
The candidate, WooCommerce, is an eCommerce platform that integrates with WordPress to allow users to build online stores and sell products. The provided description for 'Medium' is an online publishing platform focused on writers and readers, with features like rich text editors, recommendation engines, and monetization through memberships for content. While both platforms deal with content and monetization, WooCommerce is specifically for selling physical or digital products in an e-commerce context, not for publishing long-form articles or providing a reading experience like Medium. None of the 'must-have' features (rich-text-editor, distribution-and-recommendation-engine, membership-monetization, reader-engagement-metrics, community-feedback-tools) or 'other' features (publication-management, user-profiles-and-following, tags-and-topics, email-newsletter-integration, audio-story-playback, mobile-app-access, social-sharing-and-embedding, search-and-discovery) directly align with the core functionality of an e-commerce platform as described for Medium. The monetization in WooCommerce is for products, not for reading time on articles, and its 'content' creation is for product descriptions, not long-form articles.
