Apaxon Commerce
Available nowFreeA shop that is part of your site, not a second application inside it.
Products, orders, inventory and customers on the same foundation as the rest of your plugins — so a customer who bought something is the same contact who filled in the enquiry form, and neither system has to be told about the other.
- Free forever
- No transaction fee
- Extensions priced per plugin
What it does.
Products without ceremony
Simple, variable and digital products, set up in a screen that does not require a tutorial to publish one item.
Stock that stays honest
Inventory decremented at the point of payment rather than at checkout start, so an abandoned basket does not hold stock nobody bought.
Customers, not just orders
A buyer is a CRM contact with their orders on the same timeline as their enquiries — which is what makes a second sale possible.
Fast by construction
No shortcode soup and no thirty database queries a page. A shop that takes four seconds to load loses the sale before the product is visible.
The intent
Built to work with the rest, not to become the site.
The common failure of WordPress commerce is that the shop takes over — its own templates, its own customer record, its own settings, its own idea of what a user is. Everything here reads the same contacts and the same settings as the plugins beside it.
- One customer record shared with the CRM, not a separate one
- Free permanently — a shop can be built and launched on it at no cost
- No transaction fee, ever — the plugin does not sit between you and the money
Requirements
- Requires
- Apaxon Core, WordPress 6.5+, PHP 8.1+
- Payments
- Via Apaxon Payments
- Products
- Unlimited
- Licence
- GPLv2 or later
Questions
How does this compare to WooCommerce?
Woo is enormous and does everything. This does the common cases on a shared foundation and stays fast. If you need a thousand extensions, Woo is the honest answer.
Can I migrate an existing shop?
Product and order import is planned for the first release. Until then it is best suited to a new shop or one small enough to move by hand.
Do I need the payments plugin?
To take card payments online, yes — Payments is £69 a year. Commerce itself is free and stays free: the catalogue, the orders, the stock and the customers cost nothing, permanently. You pay when the shop is actually selling, which is the point at which it can afford to.
Ready to power your WordPress website the smart way?
Start with Apaxon Core — free, GPL, and with nothing to cancel. Add the plugins you need when you need them.