Comparison
pcreative Commerce vs WooCommerce
A plugin that turns WordPress into a shop. Free to install, and one of the most widely deployed store platforms.
How WooCommerce makes money
The plugin is free; the pieces you end up needing are not. Official extensions are paid yearly: Subscriptions is about €244 a year and Bookings about €217 (September 2026) — and Automattic also monetises through hosting and its own payments product.
Free until you need it to do something.
The install costs nothing. Then you need subscriptions, and bookings, and a decent shipping rate, and suddenly you are renewing five subscriptions a year, each from a different vendor, each with its own update cycle and its own idea of when to break. Here, the back office things a shop actually needs — tax invoicing, card-free payments, barcode stock control, reviews with moderation, gift cards and store credit, a marketplace for other sellers — are in the box and stay in the box.
- Built in
Sells through ChatGPT and Claude, checkout stays yours
Your catalogue speaks the agents' protocol: they search it and recommend with real price and stock, and the buy link always points at your site.
- Built in
Moving in from Shopify or WooCommerce
Everyone imports a CSV. Here you connect the shop with read-only keys and it fetches the lot on its own — catalogue, customers, SEO titles, coupons, reviews, blog posts and the order history a CSV cannot carry. Orders come in as history: they move no stock, charge nothing and send no email. And you also get one permanent redirect per old URL, in nginx, Apache, JSON and CSV, downloadable before you import anything, because you need it before you touch the DNS.
- Built in
Barcode stock control
Goods in, goods out, full stocktake with differences, and binding a new barcode to a product without losing the scan.
- Built in
Several stores from one panel
Where WooCommerce beats us.
You already know most of this, and a comparison that pretended otherwise would not be worth reading.
It installs on any five-euro shared hosting, in five minutes.
A vast extension ecosystem, the WordPress one.
Plenty of developers, agencies and freelancers already know WordPress.
Content and blogging are WordPress's home ground.
Do not choose us if…
If your hosting is shared PHP and you have no intention of touching Docker, WooCommerce is the right call. Our install genuinely needs a server, and no amount of good documentation changes that.
Feature by feature.
The same table as everywhere else on this site, narrowed to WooCommerce — last section included.
What we do differently
What comes in the box, with the proof underneath. Where someone else has it too, the table says so.
| Feature | WooCommerce | pcreative |
|---|---|---|
| Sells through ChatGPT and Claude, checkout stays yoursYour catalogue speaks the agents' protocol: they search it and recommend with real price and stock, and the buy link always points at your site. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Themes in the stack of your choiceA theme is a website that talks to the store over HTTP. Nine stacks supported. Shopify and WooCommerce allow it too, as a separate headless storefront; here it is simply how a theme is made. | Built in | Built in |
Where we are simply better
Others can do it too, often with plugins or paid add-ons. Here it comes in the box.
| Feature | WooCommerce | pcreative |
|---|---|---|
| Moving in from Shopify or WooCommerceEveryone imports a CSV. Here you connect the shop with read-only keys and it fetches the lot on its own — catalogue, customers, SEO titles, coupons, reviews, blog posts and the order history a CSV cannot carry. Orders come in as history: they move no stock, charge nothing and send no email. And you also get one permanent redirect per old URL, in nginx, Apache, JSON and CSV, downloadable before you import anything, because you need it before you touch the DNS. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Barcode stock controlGoods in, goods out, full stocktake with differences, and binding a new barcode to a product without losing the scan. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Abandoned cart recoveryDetection, email and recovery rate are there; the automatic trigger is not — today it is sent by hand. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on |
| No commission per saleShopify charges a monthly fee and, if you take cards through another gateway, a cut of every sale: 2 % on Basic, 1 % on Grow, 0.6 % on Advanced and 0.2 % on Plus. Manual payments are exempt. WooCommerce and PrestaShop do not charge commission either — this one is about Shopify. | Built in | Built in |
Where we hold our own
Table stakes. Nothing here is a reason to switch on its own.
| Feature | WooCommerce | pcreative |
|---|---|---|
| Admin panel | Built in | Built in |
| Theme catalogue | Built in | Built in |
| Customise a theme without codeThe form is generated from what each theme declares, so it works the same whichever stack the theme is written in. Your settings live apart from the theme: updating it never overwrites them. | Built in | Built in |
| Visual page editorDrag and drop over the real storefront, with desktop/tablet/mobile preview — home page only for now. | Built in | Partial, or needs an add-on |
| Card-free payments out of the boxFive card gateways (Stripe, Adyen, Mollie, MONEI, PayPal), plus bank transfer, cash on delivery and Bizum out of the box. | Built in | Built in |
| Product cost and marginCost per variant, margin worked out on the product page, and cost changed in bulk across variants. | Built in | Built in |
| Plugin APIA published list rather than open hooks: 10 events, 7 filters, 5 panel slots. What is on the list is a promise; removing it takes a major version. | Built in | Built in |
| Blog and content | Built in | Built in |
| Several stores from one panel | Partial, or needs an add-on | Built in |
| Multi-currency | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on |
| Multi-language storefrontTwo languages, Spanish and English: thirteen storefront sections translated, catalogue translated from the panel with your AI, and the main language keeps clean URLs. Shopify and PrestaShop handle dozens. | Partial, or needs an add-on | Partial, or needs an add-on |
What we do not have yet
Ordered by how much it hurts. You are going to find this out on day one anyway — better here than after you have paid.
| Feature | WooCommerce | pcreative |
|---|---|---|
| Five-minute install on shared hostingThis needs a server with Docker. One command brings up the whole thing and a six-step wizard finishes the job — but it is not uploading a folder by FTP, and it never will be. | Built in | Not available |
| Extension marketplaceThere is a market for themes and extensions by other authors, with human review, licences and updates that reach buyers on their own. What is missing is installing from it with one click inside the panel. | Built in | Partial, or needs an add-on |
| Subscriptions and point of sale | Partial, or needs an add-on | Not available |
| Managed hosting | Partial, or needs an add-on | Not available |
4 things we do differently from WooCommerce.
Each one is in the code today, and the documentation will tell you if this page is exaggerating.