Switching from WooCommerce
Redesign your WooCommerce website with Webese
WooCommerce runs the shop well; the WordPress theme around it is usually the part that aged. Keep WooCommerce as the engine — stock, payments, shipping, orders — and give it a new front end on Webese, without importing a single product.
Signs it's time for a redesign
The theme was chosen years ago, and every plugin since has added another style that doesn't quite match.
Changing the homepage means a page builder, the theme customiser and a plugin's settings — three places for one edit.
The catalogue is too big to move: hundreds or thousands of products, with stock and orders you can't afford to disrupt.
The shop works, but the pages around it don't explain why someone should buy from you rather than the next store.
What changes when you switch
| Aspect | On WooCommerce today | After switching to Webese |
|---|---|---|
| How the site's copy was written | A theme's demo layout, filled in page by page over the years. | Generated from your actual positioning — audience, outcome, and what makes you different. |
| Editing after launch | WordPress, a page builder and theme settings, with plugin conflicts to work around. | Click any text, image, or graphic directly on the page to change it in place. |
| Your products | Managed in WooCommerce's product admin. | Still managed there — Webese shows them on your new site, synced daily, and Buy adds them straight to your WooCommerce cart. |
| Payments, shipping & orders | Handled by WooCommerce and its payment plugins. | Unchanged. Your checkout, payment gateways, shipping rules, tax and order emails keep working exactly as they do now. |
How switching works
- 1
Tell Webese about your business
The same conversation every Webese site starts from — your audience, offer, and what makes you different — whether or not you're bringing an existing store across.
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Bring your existing content across
The Switch Wizard reads your current WooCommerce site and brings across its brand colors, its real copy, the way it sounds, and a handful of its real photos — copied to Webese's own storage so they keep working after the old site comes down.
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Connect your WooCommerce store
On your dashboard, enter your shop's address — no API keys or plugins needed. Webese reads your catalogue through WooCommerce's own Store API: names, prices, sale prices, photos, categories and stock.
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Drop products into your pages
In the editor, Add products places a grid of your newest products, one category, or products you pick. Category and newest grids fill themselves as you add products in WooCommerce, and Buy buttons pick up your site's own button style.
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Compare it with your old site
Open Compare from the builder's ⋯ menu to see your current site and the new draft side by side at full desktop width, scrolling together — and share a before-and-after link with a partner or client before you decide anything.
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Point your domain at Webese
Keep the domain you already own. If WooCommerce runs on that same domain today, move the shop to a subdomain such as shop.yourbusiness.com first (your host can help), update its address on your dashboard, then point your main domain at Webese.
Bring your content across
The Switch Wizard reads your current WooCommerce site and brings across its real brand colors, copy, tone of voice and a handful of real photos as the starting material for the new design. Your products don't need importing at all: connect the store and they're shown live from WooCommerce, however many you have.
Keep your store
Your WooCommerce store stays the engine
Connect it on your dashboard — no keys, no plugins — and drop its products into any page with Add products. Simple products go straight into your WooCommerce cart; products with options open their product page to choose.
Keep the engine, replace the front end
WooCommerce's commerce machinery is mature: payment gateways, shipping zones, tax rules, stock, order emails, the plugins your fulfilment depends on. Rebuilding all of that is the risky part of any migration — and with a thousand products or more, a full import is exactly where switches stall.
Webese doesn't ask you to move any of it. WooCommerce stays where it is and keeps doing that work; Webese becomes the site people actually land on, reading your catalogue and handing every purchase back to your existing checkout.
What actually changes when you switch
The pages people arrive on — the homepage, your story, your product highlights — are generated from your positioning and edited by clicking on them, instead of fighting a theme and a page builder.
Your catalogue stays live: prices, photos and stock refresh every day, or straight away with Sync now. New products appear in category and newest grids on their own, and Manage products on your Webese dashboard opens WooCommerce's product admin when you want to add more.
Questions about switching from WooCommerce
Do I have to import my products?+
No. Webese reads them from WooCommerce on every sync — up to 20,000 products per store — so nothing is copied across by hand and nothing goes out of date. WooCommerce stays the place you manage them.
Do I need an API key or a plugin?+
No. Webese reads WooCommerce's Store API, the same public catalogue WooCommerce's own block-based cart and checkout use. If your shop is private or behind a password, it can't be read this way.
Where do customers pay?+
On your WooCommerce checkout, exactly as now. Buy adds a simple product straight to your WooCommerce cart; a product with sizes or other options opens its product page so the shopper can choose. Payment gateways, shipping, tax and order emails don't change.
How do new products and price changes reach the new site?+
Every store syncs daily, and Sync now on your dashboard does it straight away. Grids showing your newest products or a category pick up new products by themselves; a grid of products you picked shows exactly those.
Will I lose my domain if I switch?+
No. You keep whatever domain you already own — Webese shows you the exact DNS record to add for a one-time $24 fee, and handles verification and SSL. If WooCommerce shares that domain today, move the shop to a subdomain first so it keeps running alongside the new site.
Is it free to try?+
Yes — building, editing, connecting your store and sharing a live preview link are free for everyone, so you can see your products in the new design before deciding anything. Publishing it to your own domain is what a paid plan unlocks.
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