WooCommerce is free to install. The expensive part starts after.
WooCommerce core is $0. A working store usually isn’t: hosting, extensions, backups, security, developer time. Common add-ons already clear $800/year. A typical stack lands around $150–400/month. North Commerce does the same job in one system — catalog, cart, checkout, inventory, shipping, discounts — $199 year one, then $79/month, with free staging until your domain goes live.
Woo works. The stack around it is what gets expensive.
I’m not going to tell you WooCommerce is bad. It isn’t. If you have a developer, want control over every technical decision, and need a giant extension marketplace, Woo is hard to beat.
But there’s another kind of store owner. You want WordPress. You want to own the site. You want a real catalog and checkout. You just don’t want running the store to turn into a second job maintaining hosting, extensions, compatibility, renewals, and fixes.
The question isn’t whether WooCommerce can do it. The question is how much stack you want to own.
North is for focused catalog stores doing roughly $1K–$50K/month that want the commerce layer handled without giving up WordPress.
Woo core isn’t the problem. Paid layers are.
Woo already includes products, basic variants, inventory, shipping zones, coupons, cart, accounts, and reporting. We’re not going to fake those as paid. The tax shows up when the store grows and you start stacking extensions. North ships the commerce system as one product.
Product pages
Variants and SKUs
Inventory tracking
Shipping zones
Discount codes
Collections + search
Cart + checkout
Customer accounts
Reporting and tax
Woo can do more than North. That’s the point. Woo’s ceiling is higher because Woo is a platform you assemble. North is a finished commerce system with a lower ceiling and a much shorter bill.
North does less. On purpose. Here’s what that means.
If any of these sits at the center of your business, stay on Woo or go to Shopify. We’d rather you know now than refund out later.
Need max extensibility and you have a developer? Stay with Woo. Need multi-location, POS, and a retail ecosystem? Shopify. Need a focused $1K–$50K/mo catalog store on WordPress without owning the stack? North.
Two tools. Two different owners of the work.
Choose WooCommerce if you have a developer and want the giant extension ecosystem. Choose North if you want catalog, cart, checkout, shipping, inventory, discounts, accounts, tax, and reporting together — without becoming your own IT department.
You don’t have to rebuild WordPress. Swap the commerce layer when you’re ready.
Your site stays. Your posts stay. Your domain stays. The only thing that changes is what runs your catalog and checkout — and you decide when it goes live.
Keep the site. Replace commerce.
Deactivate the commerce stack, activate North, import your products. WordPress, theme, pages, and posts are untouched.
- Products and variants imported by CSV
- Stripe reconnected in minutes
- Free staging until your domain goes live
DFY migration — $999
We move it. Products, variants, inventory, shipping zones, discount codes, product pages rewritten, Stripe and tax wired, test orders run before go-live.
- Catalog and variant mapping
- Shipping zones and tax configured
- Go-live checklist and handoff call
Build beside Woo. Cut over later.
Stand North up on free staging while your current store keeps selling. Compare the two, then flip the domain when you’re satisfied.
- Staging free until domain go-live
- Nothing breaks on the live store
- 30-day refund starts at go-live, not signup
One product. Two ways to run it. One optional migration.
No per-SKU fee. No commerce add-on bill. The first 100 hosted stores pay $199 for year one, then $79/mo. Prefer your own hosting? The WordPress plugin is $199/yr.
$199 year one. Same system. Your rate locks.
Every store gets the full commerce feature set at the introductory rate. After year one it’s $79/mo — renew early and your rate locks for year two.
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Common questions.
If you’d rather not touch it, DFY Migration ($999) handles the whole move, including rewritten product pages and test orders before go-live.
Not sure? The DFY option includes a theme compatibility check before anything goes live.
Self-host plugin — $199/yr. Same commerce system, installed on your own WordPress hosting. You own the server, the backups, and the uptime. Annual license includes product updates.
If you have a developer and want to customize deeply, WooCommerce gives you more surface area. That’s a real reason to stay.
We’d rather tell you that here than refund you in five weeks.
Keep WordPress. Drop the plugin stack. Keep selling.
Open to the first 100 hosted stores: $199 for year one, then $79/mo — catalog, cart, checkout, inventory, shipping, discounts, accounts, reports, and Stripe Tax as one system. Stage it free until your domain goes live.
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