How many Products can WooCommerce handle?

WooCommerce is a popular solution that everyone can use to build an eCommerce store inside your WordPress website. Many people prefer WooCommerce simply because it is easy to use and you can set it up in no time. However, one of the questions that you might have is how many products can WooCommerce handle?

This will give you a clear idea about whether it is recommended to use WooCommerce for huge websites or not. If you have an eCommerce site with more than 10k products, whether or not you should use WooCommerce. So, let’s begin the article.

Things to Consider

When it comes to products, there are many things that you need to consider.

The first thing that you need to know is that WooCommerce’s limit is not a problem here. We will still answer the question that you are looking for.

How many Products can WooCommerce handle?

With WooCommerce, you can even add a million products and your website will be fine.

However, you will have to consider many different things when it comes to the question of handling the products.

• Your website hosting and server capacity
• Traffic
• Types of Products
• The way you display products
• WooCommerce Plugin
• Management

These are the first things that you need to consider.

We will consider each of them in-depth and see what are the things to keep in mind. Later on, we will also see a  couple of things that you need to keep in mind to run the website efficiently and get the most out of it. These will be the tips for a huge WooCommerce website. So, make sure you stay tuned until the end.

Website Hosting

The first thing to consider here is website hosting. Website hosting or the server plays an important role when it comes to handling the products.

Now, there is no proper answer to how many products can WooCommerce handle. It depends on the hosting you plan to go with.

Typically, if you have less than 1000 products, shared hosting will do the work. However, if you have more than 1000 products, let’s say 10k products, then you will have to go with the VPS hosting or dedicated hosting.

It is always better to confirm it with the hosting provider. As shared hosting will have many limitations depending on the provider.

If you have not yet selected hosting, you can go with Managed WordPress hosting or WooCommerce hosting. They will give you a clear idea of how many products you can upload on the website. So, you can use WooCommerce without any issues.

Most of the hosting providers give a money-back guarantee. So, you can try one of the hosting to see if it will fit your needs or not.

It is highly recommended to check with the hosting is capable of it or not. You can simply ask the support. There will be a live chat option to contact the support. You can directly ask them.

Traffic and Number of Orders

Now, let’s talk about traffic.

If a website has 10k products and only have 5k orders a month, it might not be considered as a large-scale website. On the other hand, if a website only has 100 products and has more than 10k orders, it will be considered a large-scale website.

So, don’t just think that having more product will make your store is big. It’s all about the visitors, page size, requests, etc.

Further, it will impact the load of the website. If you have more orders, it means there are more number of requests sent by the users. So, it will increase the load of the website too. So, this is also one of the things that you need to consider.

Types of Products

WooCommerce allows you to add many types of products. You can add a single product, variable product, grouped product, etc.

A single product will take much less load than a variable product.

So, if you have similar products, you can add them as a variable or grouped product. In variable products, customers can choose the variant they want. For example, they can choose whether they want the t-shirt in black color or blue. In the same way, a grouped product allows your customer to add more products in the cart with one click.

Therefore, you can also add some products as a variable or grouped product. This will help you to decrease the number of products.

It will also be easier for customers to select the product. Nobody likes to go back and find the variant of the same product. It would be a lot easier if all these were displayed on the same page. So, you need to keep this in mind. You can add as many attributes as you want. Each of the attributes can have different values. For example, you can set the color, size, shape, etc as attributes and the values would be blue, red, green, etc in the colors attributes. In the same way, all of them will have attributes.

You might be wondering why decreasing the products will help, right? That brings us to the next point.

The way you Display the Product

It is important to know how you display the product. If you have thousands of products on a single website, it will be hard to navigate for the users. So, you need to keep in mind that the products should be easy to display and order. For that, you need to display the categories of the products. You will have to add categories to the product. Make sure you also add a sub-category as it will be easier to manage (for you as well as for the customers).

Premmerce tested a WooCommerce website with over 50k products. They were using VPS with an E3 processor and 512Mb ram. The results were excellent. The site loaded in less than 2 seconds. All the 50k products were variable products with 15 attributes. The only thing they did was to divide products category-wise. Each category had a maximum of 1000 products. The website loaded fast and they were facing no issues.

The conclusion here is that you should divide the products based on categories, tags, and add proper attributes to decrease the overall number of the products. In this way, the load of the website will decrease and you will have a fast loading website despite having so many products in your store.

You can add a mega menu on your website that will display all the categories and sub-categories in the menu itself. In this way, visitors can find the products they want with ease. It will be easier for them to navigate from one category to another. Most importantly, they will know all the products that you sell in your store.

Also, don’t forget to optimize the images. It will decrease the load of the website.

WooCommerce Code

If you are planning to add more products, there are certain things that you need to keep in mind. Among them, one is the WooCommerce code.

We are not suggesting you learn to code and tweak the code. Instead, what you need to do is to update WooCommerce whenever there is an update. WooCommerce is a popular plugin and is updated quite often. You can keep the code updated.

Further, WooCommerce will also suggest you run a database update once a while. Many people ignore it but it is one of the important things that you should do. Whenever you see WooCommerce asking for a database update, make sure you update it.

The next thing lies within the third-party WooCommerce plugins. Of course, if you have a huge website, you will be running many WooCommerce plugins. You need to make sure that all the plugins are updated regularly. If there is a problem is any of the plugins, it might invite many problems. Also, it will slow down the entire website. So, this is also a thing that you need to consider when you are using WooCommerce.

You can keep all the updates on and keep all the things updated. It is also recommended to update WordPress and other plugins. There is also an option to turn on auto-updates. It will automatically update the WordPress version. However, you will have to update a couple of plugins manually.

Management

If you handle a huge website, you will need proper management. Let’s say, if you have 20k products, you will be getting a huge number of orders every single day. Unless it is a digital product, it will be hard to manage the orders.

Therefore, the thing you can do here is to filter out the orders and complete them one by one. You can surely hire shop managers and let them do the work.

Further, it is highly recommended that you have a technical person who will handle the technical things for you. Having a huge website will invite many problems too. So, you will need someone who can manage the updates and technical things for you. You can get WordPress maintenance service as they work the best. However, it is totally up to you.

Now, we are going to see some of the tips that might be handy when it comes to managing such a huge website. All the tips are optional and you can follow them if you want. It will help you in managing the website more efficiently and your visitors will get a better website.

So, it is up to you whether you want to go with that website or not.

Tips to Manage the WooCommerce Store Efficiently

• Hire a team to manage the orders for you especially if you have physical products. This only applies to a huge website.
• If you are running a WooCommerce store, it is highly recommended that you get the maintenance service that will handle all the technical and management things for you. In this way, you can focus on your business and leave the rest of the things on the expert.
• There are thousands of plugins available on the WordPress directory. You can check them out and activate the best ones.
• It should be easier to order the products. Also, have more than 1 payment method.
• The next thing you need to do is optimize your website for speed. The website should load in the least time. Proper speed will invite more visitors.
• Further, you also need to have a proper theme and most importantly proper navigation.
• You can set the filters in the search box. It will be a lot easier for users to find the products. You can allow users to search in a particular category or a specific tag. Further, you can allow them to set the price manually. This will filter out the products in that price range. All of these things can be done by a plugin.
• The backup will be the most important thing to keep in mind. It is highly recommended to take a daily backup if you are adding new products daily. Further, if you can take the backup twice a day.
• Don’t forget to secure your website. A large store will be a target for many attackers and hackers. You need to make sure that your website is secure from them.

Final Words

To conclude, this was all about how many products can WooCommerce handle. As we have already mentioned, the real question is which hosting you are using and what are your server specs. WooCommerce can handle 1 million products. You also need to keep in mind other things as have been mentioned above. Unless you have more than 1000 products, you don’t even need to worry about anything. All the things will work perfectly well.

If you have a digital product, you need to make sure that you have enough space to upload all the products. It is not recommended to use shared hosting in such cases, you can go with VPS or cloud hosting. This will be a better option for you and will also give you better performance.