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You already own your data. That is the hard part solved.

Talk to us What moving involves

WooCommerce gets the most important thing right: it is yours, it is open, and nobody can take it away or change the terms.

We are not going to argue with that, because it is the same argument we make with Warp. The question is what the rest of it costs you.

First, honestly

What WooCommerce does better than us.

Ownership

  • It is genuinely yours
  • Self-hosted, no platform in the middle
  • No per-order fee by construction
  • A vast plugin ecosystem

Flexibility

  • If you can code it, you can have it
  • No API rate limits on your own box
  • Any host, any stack, any budget
  • Enormous community

Cost floor

  • The software is free
  • Cheap hosting is genuinely cheap
  • Good for a small catalogue
  • No minimum commitment

Where the cost actually is

Four things that are not on the invoice.

  1. 01

    Plugin maintenance

    Every capability is somebody else’s plugin on somebody else’s release schedule. The failure mode is not a crash; it is two plugins that stop agreeing after an update.

  2. 02

    Nobody owns the failure

    When checkout breaks between a payment plugin and a shipping plugin, each vendor is confident it is the other one. You are the integration layer.

  3. 03

    Performance is your problem

    A slow shop is a conversion problem, and the fix is usually hosting plus caching plus somebody who understands both.

  4. 04

    The AI, the app and the till are not there

    Not as a plugin worth running, anyway. These are the three things that changed what a shop is expected to do, and they are the gap.

What migration looks like

1

of the easier migrations we do.

WooCommerce data comes across cleanly: products, variations, categories, customers and order history. You already own it, which is exactly why moving it is straightforward. See /migrate for what does and does not transfer.

"If you have engineers and the stack works, keep it. We would rather sell you MAP or Zust on top than a replatform you did not need." When you should stay

Both products work on WooCommerce without moving anything. That is the version of this argument we are willing to lose.

Next step

Tell us what your plugin stack looks like.

We will tell you which parts Agora replaces, which parts it does not, and whether the maintenance you would stop paying for is worth the move.

Talk to us What moving involves
Migration
One of the more straightforward ones
If your stack works
Keep it — try MAP or Zust instead
Data
Yours in both directions