Updated 20/02/2025
WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce solution for WordPress websites. The core plugin is free and you can set up an online store in minutes on your existing WordPress site. There is a marketplace for plugins that add more features, such as memberships, subscriptions or catalogue mode. The latter disables the shopping cart and checkout, which is handy if you’re not ready to sell online yet or you want your customer to purchase in-store.
Because it’s free, you may think that WooCommerce is not reliable or not scalable for large eCommerce businesses but nothing could be further from the truth. With the right architecture, your online store could sell 100,000s of different products and manage hundreds of new orders every day. Greek electronics store Inter-Shop offers more than 300,000 of products! It’s harder to get examples of companies handling large volumes of orders in WooCommerce because this data is usually confidential.
Here are some famous Australian companies who use WooCommerce to run their online store or their online catalogue.
Pioneer Australia
Pioneer car stereos were the rage when I got my first car about 25 year ago and it seems that they’re still going strong.
It’s hard to recognise WooCommerce on their Australian website because it’s highly customised and third-party plugins provide extra features such as product compare and ZipPay payments.
Victoria University
VU Coursehive offers a number of free and paid courses in Melbourne. Product and category pages have been customised with a grey palette in the Elementor page builder. The Checkout page has a similar styling and custom fields that display depending on the purchased course. The credit card payment seems to use the Commonwealth Bank payment gateway.
Bakers Delight
Most shopping centres on the NSW Central Coast have a Bakers Delight shop and I presume it’s similar in the other parts of Australia.
The Bakers Delight website has set up WooCommerce in “catalogue mode” so you can see details and prices for their products but you can’t order. They’ve nicely re-designed WooCommerce pages to match their brand styling guide. They’ve added a few extra features through 3rd-party plugins or custom development, like the ability to look up the price for a particular location.
TAFE Online Courses
TAFE NSW is one of the leading vocational education and training providers in Australia. Short courses are running with a plugin called Edwiser Bridge Pro that integrates with WooCommerce.
They also use the Extra Custom Product Options plugin to capture consent when adding some courses to the Cart.
Payment for paid courses are collected via the free Eway for WooCommerce plugin.
I hope these well-known Australian brands inspired you to consider WooCommerce to showcase or sell your products on your business website. For more information, check our article on how to plan an online store project with WooCommerce.
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