WooCommerce
You do the upkeep. Your own time is not counted.
- Managed hostingSiteGround GrowBig, at the renewal price
- £23.99
- Card feesWooPayments 1.5% + 25p on 200 orders
- £125.00
Total a month
£148.99
A WooCommerce
alternative with
nothing to update.
A hosted WooCommerce alternative: your product export is recognised on upload, and customers and orders follow from CSV. Then one monthly price in pounds, from £25, covers the hosting, the updates and the certificate.
On every plan from £25 a month (£19 billed yearly), ex VAT. How switching works
- Sat 09:10 · Import products
WooCommerce CSV import
Variations and images as they are
- Sat 09:20 · Preview
First-product preview
Shown before anything is written
- Sat 14:00 · Themes
Free and premium themes
Shaped in the page builder
- Sun 10:00 · Domains
HTTPS on your own domain
Certificate provisioned for you
- Sun 16:00 · New Order
Orbit Payments and PayPal
Nothing on top of the card rate
Saturday
Sat 09:10 · Import products
WooCommerce CSV import
Variations and images as they are
Sat 09:20 · Preview
First-product preview
Shown before anything is written
Sat 14:00 · Themes
Free and premium themes
Shaped in the page builder
Sunday
Sun 10:00 · Domains
HTTPS on your own domain
Certificate provisioned for you
Sun 16:00 · New Order
Orbit Payments and PayPal
Nothing on top of the card rate
- Reads WooCommerce product exports as is
- Hosting and updates in the plan
- Blog posts import from CSV
- 14 days free, no card
Who looks after WooCommerce today?
Updates, backups and fixes are your evenings. The bill below counts that time at nothing.
Opens that version of the bill below.
Redirect import from one file
Every old address to its new page
Products, customers, orders and posts, brought across.
WooCommerce exports products as a CSV and Orbit recognises that file on upload. Customers, orders and blog posts come in from CSV through importers with column mappers of their own, and your old URLs go into the redirect importer.
Products with their attributes
WooCommerce’s product export is recognised the moment you upload it (its Type and Attribute columns give it away), so variations and images come through without a column renamed, up to 100MB a file.
Customers and past orders
Customers keep their details, and each past order joins the customer with the same email address. Each file goes through a column mapper of its own, so you line up WooCommerce’s columns before anything is written.
Blog posts
Posts import from a CSV with Handle, Title, Content, Excerpt, Published at, Tags and the SEO fields: export them to CSV with a WordPress export plugin, then match the columns in the blog importer’s column mapper.
Links that change shape
A WooCommerce product at /product/anti-fatigue-mat/ gets a /products/ address on Orbit, its handle built from the SKU (or the name when there is no SKU), and you can rename it in the product’s Search engine listing. Upload your old addresses with the redirect importer (plain from and to columns are read) and each one forwards to its new page; every handle you rename later gets its redirect on its own.
Hosting on every plan
No server to size, nothing to update
The jobs that go away with the server.
A WooCommerce shop is the free plugin plus everything around it: a host, updates, a certificate, and the extensions that renew every year. On Orbit the only infrastructure you ever see is the Domains page.
Hosting
Your shop runs on Orbit’s platform in AWS London. There is no server to size, no PHP version to watch and no host renewal: a managed WooCommerce host such as SiteGround’s GrowBig plan is £23.99 a month on renewal, ex VAT.
Updates
There is nothing to update. No WordPress core releases to apply, and no plugin updates to test on a staging copy before they reach the shop.
Certificates and domains
Connect a domain you own or buy one in the dashboard; the TLS certificate is provisioned for you and the Domains page says so when it is done.
Extension renewals
WooCommerce’s official Subscriptions extension is £209 a year, Bookings £186 and Gift Cards £59. On Orbit, gift cards, service bookings and subscription plans on any product come with every plan.
Six steps, and WordPress keeps running until the last one.
A shop of a couple of hundred products does this in a weekend. Export first, and keep a copy of every file.
1. Start the trial
14 days, no card. Your WooCommerce shop keeps trading while you test.
2. Import products
Export products from WooCommerce as a CSV and upload it. It is recognised on upload, and you see your first product before anything is written.
3. Import customers, orders and posts
Upload your customer and order CSVs. Posts come from a CSV too, or stay on WordPress with a link.
4. Build your pages
Pick one of our free or premium themes and shape it in the page builder, or paste your current homepage address into Nebula and it drafts sections in your colours and fonts.
5. Payments and delivery
Switch on Orbit Payments, connect PayPal if you use it, and print labels through Orbit Shipping or your own Royal Mail, DPD, Yodel or Parcelforce account.
6. Redirects, then the domain
Pull your most-visited URLs from Search Console, load them into the redirect importer, and point the domain in a quiet hour. Keep the WordPress site up for a fortnight as a reference.
The whole bill, next to WooCommerce’s.
WooCommerce’s side comes from its own pages and a managed host’s published prices, checked on the date below.
| Orbit Commerce | WooCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Software | Solo £25 a month (£19 billed yearly), hosted | Free, open-source plugin |
| Hosting | Included, AWS London | SiteGround GrowBig £23.99 a month on renewal, ex VAT |
| Updates | Nothing to update | You run them: back up, then test on staging first |
| Subscription plans | Every plan | Subscriptions extension £209 a year |
| Gift cards | Every plan | Gift Cards extension £59 a year |
| Service bookings | Every plan | Bookings extension £186 a year |
| UK personal cards | 2% / 1.7% / 1.5% + 25p | WooPayments 1.5% + 25p |
| Cards from abroad | From 3% + 25p (European) to 3.65% + 25p (outside Europe) on Solo | 1.5% + 25p, plus 2% for non-UK cards |
| Code and data | Hosted; export your data any time | Open source, with full control of checkout, data and costs |
| Support | Email and live chat on every plan | Forum for the free plugin; live chat or email for paid extensions |
WooCommerce prices and features checked 24 September 2026 against woocommerce.com (opens in a new tab), siteground.co.uk and wordpress.org. WooCommerce is a trademark of its owner. Figures exclude VAT unless stated. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Free software, and the bill around it.
The version of the bill you picked above, beside Orbit’s Solo plan. Same shop, same cards, same month.
The sum assumes £5,000 of sales a month, about 200 orders, UK personal cards through WooPayments or Orbit Payments, yearly billing, prices ex VAT.
- WooCommerce
- £148.99a month
- Orbit Solo
- £169.00a month
Orbit Solo
Billed yearly.
- Solo planSolo £25 a month (£19 billed yearly), with hosting, updates and the certificate
- £19.00
- Gift cards, bookingsIn the plan
- £0.00
- Card feesOrbit Payments 2% + 25p on 200 orders
- £150.00
Total a month
£169.00
If your own evenings are free and you like the work, WooCommerce comes out about £20 a month cheaper than Solo at this size, and it is the honest answer to give. Pay someone to look after it and Solo is £55 a month cheaper, with the retainer at the low end of the £75 to £200 a month ThriveWP’s 2026 UK price guide gives for a small business. SiteGround’s first-year price is £3.99 a month; the bill uses the renewal price because the shop is still there in year two. WooPayments charges 2% more for cards issued outside the UK; Orbit’s European and international bands are on the payments page.
Hosting is in the price, on every plan.
Every plan is hosted and kept up to date for you. Plans differ by seats, storage, card rates and the Enterprise extras.
Solo
Included from here£19
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Hosting in AWS London, with nothing to update
14 days free, no card
Team
£64
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Hosting in AWS London, with nothing to update
14 days free, no card
Pro
£187
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Hosting in AWS London, with nothing to update
14 days free, no card
Enterprise
£749
a month, billed yearly, ex VAT
Included: Hosting in AWS London, with nothing to update
14 days free, no card
Three things to check before you move.
Sort them in week one of the trial, while WooCommerce keeps selling.
Your plugin list
List every plugin the shop depends on
Page building, gift cards, service bookings, subscription plans on any product, discount codes and six tracking tags are in every plan. Product reviews come as a plugin that works on every plan, and the plugin store has more, each priced before you install.
- Page builder in the plan
- Product reviews plugin
- Six tracking tags
Your URLs
Export the addresses that rank
Pull your top pages from Search Console before you start. Product and category links change shape on Orbit, and the redirect importer needs the old address and the new one for each.
- Redirect importer
- From and To columns
- Renames redirect on their own
Your custom code
Your snippets, and a team for the rest
The page builder’s Code element takes the HTML, CSS and JavaScript snippets a WordPress site collects, and our custom development team scopes and quotes bigger custom logic before any code is written.
- Code element
- Custom development
- Scoped before any code
Yours to export
Your data
Products, customers, orders, inventory, categories, redirects and blog posts export as CSV from the dashboard whenever you like.
Nothing on top
Card payments
The card rate for your plan is the whole cost of a card payment, our share included, and it falls as your plan grows.
Quoted first
Custom plugin logic
Our custom development team rebuilds bespoke plugin logic on the platform, as an integration, a page builder element or a private plugin, and quotes it before any code is written.
Pick the one that sounds like you.
Orbit fits if…
You want one monthly price in pounds that includes hosting, updates and the certificate. Nobody on the team wants to be the WordPress maintainer. You want gift cards, bookings and subscription plans without an extension renewing every year. You want email and live chat with the people who run the platform.
Leaving WooCommerce, answered.
Cost, updates, URLs, posts, plugins, cards and your data.
Three more useful pages.
Hosting
Hosted in AWS London, with nothing to update
Domains, certificates and the platform under your shop.
See hostingBlog
Bring the blog too
Posts, scheduling and the CSV importer for a WordPress archive.
See the blogPricing
Every plan in pounds
Solo, Team, Pro and Enterprise, monthly or yearly, and what each one includes.
See the pricing
Import your WooCommerce exports. Leave the updates behind.
Run the product, customer and order exports through the importers, rebuild your best page, and compare it with the stack you maintain now. WordPress keeps running until you point the domain.