Waise vs WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a free WordPress plugin that gives you full control, while hosting, extensions, updates and security stay with you; hosting alone usually runs $25 to $350 a month. Waise is a hosted store: one flat plan from $29 a month, 0% of your sales, everything built in. Choose WooCommerce for control of the code.
WooCommerce gives you full control, and with it the hosting, updates and security. On Waise, all of that is already done.
Where WooCommerce is better
- Full control of the code WooCommerce is open source on WordPress. You can change anything, host it anywhere, and take the site with you.
- No platform subscription Per its pricing page, the plugin is free, with no monthly subscription.
- A huge ecosystem Thousands of extensions and themes, and many developers who know WordPress.
- Track record Waise is new and small. If years of track record, an agency network and a huge app market matter most to you, they are ahead of us.
Where Waise is better
- Nothing to install or maintain On WooCommerce, hosting is on you: per WooCommerce, $25 to $350 a month for most stores. On Waise, hosting, updates, security and backups are included.
- No bill per extension WooCommerce extensions cost $29 to $299 a year, each. On Waise, the common ones are included.
- What others sell as apps is included Reviews, bundles, cart upsell, abandoned carts, a customer club and email, in the plan: what you would otherwise buy as Judge.me, Kaching Bundles and the like.
- Pulse acts end to end Pulse acts inside your store, with a preview and undo, and every tool is included in the price.
- The money goes straight to you Through your own Stripe or PayPal. The money never passes through Waise, and you settle the processing rate with your processor.
What about prices?
On Waise: Basic $29 · Growth $59 · Pro $129 · Company $299 a month. 0% fees and no per-order fee, on every plan. Your plan is never tied to your sales.
- Card processing WooPayments in the US: 2.9% + $0.30 per domestic card transaction. On Waise: your own Stripe or PayPal.
Moving from WooCommerce?
Paste your store’s address into the wizard and your products come over, the same way as from Shopify.
Sources
- woocommerce.com/pricing Official pricing: the plugin, hosting and extensions. Checked on Nov 8, 2026.
- woocommerce.com/document/woopayments/fees-and-debits WooPayments fees. Checked on Nov 8, 2026.
The online store that runs itself, with brakes
- AI that acts, with brakes. Pulse changes orders, prices, discounts and content from one conversation. A sensitive change first shows a before-and-after card and waits for your approval, and almost any change can be undone.
- Your money is protected on the server, not by a promise. Anything touching money needs a confirmation tied to the exact values you saw, and the margin guard blocks a price below your minimum, even when an outside AI asks for it.
- Profit, not just sales. An order counts only once your payment provider confirms the money, and profit is worked out after fees, shipping, cost of goods and refunds.
- Open to your own AI. Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini connect to your store over MCP and pass through exactly the same brakes.
- Five ways to build, one system behind them. A ready theme, designing by chat with Pulse, your own code, outside builders like Lovable or Webflow, or your own AI. Checkout, orders, customers and money stay in one place.
- 0% of your sales. One flat monthly plan. When your store grows, our cut doesn’t, because there isn’t one.
- Built by someone who sold. Or Avrahami, a practical electronics and computer engineer, ran an online store on Shopify and built what that store needed. That became Waise.
Updated
Written and checked by Or Avrahami, Founder of Waise ·
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