ZweiHost or WooCommerce for an online shop in Bulgaria
WooCommerce is free, and that is true - the software costs nothing. The bill comes from hosting, plugins and labour. This page compares the two for a Bulgarian shop and says plainly when open source is the right choice.
What WooCommerce does better
The code is yours. You can change anything, host it wherever you like and depend on no single vendor. That is a freedom a ready-made platform by definition does not give.
A huge plugin ecosystem, including Bulgarian ones for couriers and for Borica, plus tens of thousands of developers who know it.
No licence fee and no ceiling on features. If something is missing it can be written, whereas with us the same thing requires us to build it into the product.
If you already run a WordPress site, the content and the shop live in one place with one admin.
Where the real money and time go
You are the system administrator. Hosting, updates, security and backups are your responsibility rather than a vendor’s.
The largest line in the bill below is not software, it is maintenance. Free code does not mean a free shop.
Every feature is a plugin you must choose, pay for, update and keep compatible with the others. A conflict between two plugins is your problem.
Borica. As of August 2026 it is added through a plugin, which is one more dependency to maintain; with us it is a built-in choice in settings.
Speed and stability depend on the hosting you picked. With a ready platform that is somebody else’s problem.
The real monthly bill
The same shop profile on both platforms: the base plan plus every paid add-on it needs.
Platform
€/month
Note
ZweiHost
€59
Everything included, zero commission on sales
WooCommerce
€326
Base plan plus the paid add-ons for this profile
Calculated from public price lists (base plans plus the add-ons the profile requires), current as of August 2026; third-party prices may vary with promotions and changes to their terms. ZweiHost's own figure is computed live.
you have a developer or are one, you want to own and modify the code, you need something genuinely non-standard, or you already run WordPress and prefer everything in one place. If maintenance time is not a constraint for you, open source is cheaper in the long run.
Choose ZweiHost if
you would rather sell than maintain. Updates, security, backups and compatibility are our job, couriers and the fiscal documents are built in, and the bill is one predictable number. The catalogue and customers stay exportable at any time.
Thinking about changing platform? See what carries across when you arrive, and what you take with you if you leave. Moving your shop
Comparisons are based on publicly available information as of August 2026. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ZweiHost is not responsible for changes to the prices or features of the external platforms.
The software, yes. The shop, no. Hosting, paid plugins and maintenance form a real monthly bill that in the profile below comes out well above a ready platform. If you maintain the site yourself and your time is not counted as a cost, the bill drops substantially.
Can I migrate from WooCommerce to ZweiHost?
Yes. Products, customers and order history upload from CSV or XLSX, and the old URLs come across as 301 redirects so you keep your Google positions. The domain stays yours, and the catalogue can be exported back out at any time.
Order your shop
Like a quick order in your own future shop - the cart is full, and there is nothing extra to pay.