21+ Best Free WooCommerce Plugins for Your Store (2018) | Swordpress Nigeria

Are you looking for the best free WooCommerce plugins for
WordPress? WooCommerce^[1], just like WordPress,
comes with thousands of extensions and plugins. These plugins add
new features to your eCommerce store and help you grow your
business. In this article, we have hand-picked the best free
WooCommerce plugins for WordPress that you can try right away.

If you haven’t started your online store yet, then we have a
step by step guide on how to
start an online store with WooCommerce^[2]. It walks you through
how to choose the best WooCommerce
hosting^[3], install WooCommerce,
select a theme, and everything that you need.

Having that said, let’s take a look at the best free WooCommerce
plugins for WordPress.

1. OptinMonster^[4]

OptinMonster is the most powerful conversion optimization
software in the market. It helps you convert abandoning website
visitors into subscribers and customers.

You can use it on your eCommerce website to reduce cart
abandonment, increase sales conversion, grow your email list, show
targeted website messages, onsite retargeting^[5], and more.

If you’re serious about growing your email list and boosting
sales, then you need this conversion optimization optimization
toolkit.

2. YITH WooCommerce Wishlist^[6]

YITH WooCommerce wishlist^[7] plugin allows your
customers to save products to their wishlist. They can use the
wishlist to make the purchase later or share their wishlist with
friends and family.

This is a perfect addon for your online
store^[8] during busy holiday
seasons when people are making their shopping lists and purchasing
gifts.

3. WooCommerce Multilingual^[9]

Non-English WordPress websites surpassed the English WordPress
websites in 2014. Since then more WooCommerce stores are created in
languages other than English. WooCommerce Multilingual adds
compatibility layer with the popular WPML
WordPress multilingual plugin^[10].

This allows you to translate your product and other WooCommerce
pages in multiple languages. Your customers can choose to browse
your website in their preferred language.

4. WooCommerce Products Slider^[11]

WooCommerce Products Slider allows you to easily create
beautiful product sliders and carousels and add them anywhere on
your WooCommerce store.

5. WooCommerce Customizer^[12]

WooCommerce Customizer provides an easy user-interface to use
built-in WooCommerce filters. These filters allow you to customize
things like button text, labels, fields, and much more.

Normally, you would have to write PHP code to use these filters.
With WooCommerce customizer, you can easily use those filters from
a simple settings page (no coding necessary).

6. WooCommerce EU VAT Compliance^[13]

As the name suggests, this simple plugin makes your WooCommerce
shop compliant with the new EU VAT. It will automatically detect
your customer’s location and will display prices with correct VAT
from the first page.

7. Order Delivery Date for
WooCommerce^[14]

This plugin allows users to choose a delivery date for products
during the checkout. WooCommerce store owners can see the desired
delivery date on their orders page in the admin area.

8. YITH WooCommerce Quick View^[15]

WooCommerce Quick View allows your customers to peek into
product details by simply taking their mouse over a button. This
enables customers to quickly get the product information without
leaving the product listings or shop page.

Users will be able to see a larger product image, product
description, and an add to cart button in a lightbox popup^[16].

9. WooCommerce PDF Invoices & Packing
Slips^[17]

This nifty plugin allows you to send PDF invoices and packing
slips to customers via email. Users can also download their
invoices and slips from their account area. As a site admin, you
can also bulk generate invoices, download them, and email them to
users from an admin area.

10. YITH WooCommerce Compare^[18]

As the name suggests, this plugin allows your customers to
compare two or more WooCommerce products side by side. You can
choose which fields users will see in the comparison table and
reorder them as needed.

11. WooCommerce Menu Bar Cart^[19]

Normally, your WooCommerce theme^[20] would prominently
display a cart button at the top. However, if your theme doesn’t
show a cart button, or you don’t like its placement, then
WooCommerce Menu Cart will fix this for you.

It allows you to add the cart button into your WordPress navigation menu^[21]. It works with any
WordPress theme and will display cart icon, items and price in your
navigation menu.

12. YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search^[22]

Speed^[23] is crucial for the
success of any website, particularly for online stores. A single
second delay in page load can significantly increase cart
abandonment and lower user engagement.

YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search offers a powerful search feature to
instantly display products as users start typing. It uses Ajax to
fetch the results which means your users can search without leaving
the page they are currently viewing.

See also: Proven tips to Reduce Shopping Cart
Abandonment^[24]

13. MailChimp for WooCommerce^[25]

MailChimp^[26] is one of
the top
email marketing services^[27] in the
world. MailChimp^[28]for WooCommerce is their
official WooCommerce extensions that integrates email marketing
into your ecommerce website.

14. WooCommerce Checkout Field
Editor^[29]

Do you want to add custom fields to WooCommerce checkout page?
The WooCommerce Checkout Field Editor plugin allows you to easily
add, customize, and rearrange fields on the checkout page of your
online store.

This allows you to customize the whole checkout experience for
your customers and use the data to grow your business.

15. Minimum Purchase for
WooCommerce^[30]

Minimum Purchase for WooCommerce allows you to setup minimum
purchase rules to your products. You can add rules for a single
product or create rules for a product group.

The plugin also allows you to apply rules on minimum purchase
amount or quantity, set different rules based on user role, and set
up custom messages to display when rules are not matched.

16. WooCommerce Gift Cards^[31]

Gift cards for WooCommerce allows you to add gift cards to your
online store. Your customers will be able to purchase gift cards of
different amounts and give them to their friends and family who
then apply the gift card when shopping on your store.

You can setup gift cards of different pricing and sell them as
virtual products. When a customer applies the gift card on
purchase, the equivalent amount is deducted from their bill.

17. WooCommerce Currency
Switcher^[32]

As the name suggests, this plugin allows your customers to
easily switch currencies and get real time conversion rates in
their local currency. You can add the currency switcher by using
the shortcode or a sidebar widget.

18. WooCommerce Colors^[33]

WooCommerce Colors adds a WooCommerce section to the theme
customizer where you can change the color of buttons and other
WooCommerce elements. It is simple and highly useful if you want to
customize WooCommerce elements without adding any custom
CSS^[34].

19. WooCommerce Products Filter^[35]

WooCommerce Products Filter allows your site customers to filter
products by categories, attributes, product tags, product custom
taxonomies, and price. You can add the filter anywhere using the
shortcode or the sidebar widget.

20. WooCommerce Shortcodes^[36]

WooCommerce comes with a bunch of shortcodes that you can use
throughout your website to add products, buttons, and more. The
WooCommerce Shortcodes plugin adds a drop down in
your WordPress visual editor^[37], allowing you to easily
select and insert shortcodes in content areas like post, page, or
products.

21. Booster for WooCommerce^[38]

Booster for WooCommerce allows you to add several useful
features to your WooCommerce website that allow you to run your
online store more efficiently. It uses a modular approach similar
to Jetpack^[39] and acts like a
plugin suite with tons of features.

22. Custom Product Tabs for
WooCommerce^[40]

Normally, product pages require users to scroll down to view
more information. Custom Product Tabs for WooCommerce allows you to
divide product description and details into tabs. This helps users
switch to the section they want to view while making sure that your
website looks neat and organized.

Bonus Plugins

These plugins are not free, but we believe they are highly
useful for any WooCommerce store.

23. WooMarketing Bundle^[41]

The Woo Marketing bundle is a pack of WooCommerce marketing
extensions developed and maintained by the folks behind
WooCommerce. It includes email marketing, dynamic pricing, smarter
discounts, transaction emails, Facebook retargeting^[42], and more.

24. Woo Pack & Ship Bundle^[43]

If you pack and ship products to customers, then you’ll need
this bundle. It is maintained by the WooCommerce team and includes
extensions like invoices, packing slips, customize shipping
options, product kits, multi-address shipping, track shipping, and
more.

Purchasing this bundle also gives you access to the WooCommerce
360° images extension, WooCommerce Storefront and all its child
themes.

We hope this article helped you find some of the best free
WooCommerce plugins for your online store. You may also want to see
our expert pick of the best
WooCommerce themes^[44] for your ecommerce
website.

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