Vendmint vs WooCommerce
A store with no server, no plugins and no update evenings
The WooCommerce plugin is free. Hosting, licences and maintenance are not — and those are the bill you pay every month.
0 h
is what keeping the store running costs you
Hosting, updates, backups and the certificate are ours. There is nothing left for a Friday-evening update to break.
0
plugins to buy and renew
Multiple languages, pixels, analytics, forms and coupons ship with the subscription. On WooCommerce that is usually several separate licences renewed every year.
0%
of your sales — same as Woo
Both sides connect their own payment processor and pay that processor alone. This one is a draw and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
See what WooCommerce actually costs you
Pick what your store runs on and how much time it eats a month. Payment fees are left out — both sides pay their own processor exactly the same amount.
Hosting
Currency
Paid plugins that ship with our subscription
Vendmint
$11
per month
- Subscription
- $9.00
- Hosting and domain
- $2
- Plugins and theme
- $0
- Invoices only
- $11
- Your time (0 h)
- $0
Self-hosted WooCommerce
$120
per month
- Subscription
- $0
- Hosting and domain
- $8
- Plugins and theme
- $22
- Invoices only
- $30
- Your time (2 h)
- $90
Stays with you
$109per month
$1,308 per year · with your time priced in
Vendmint is cheaper before your time is counted at all — the WooCommerce invoices alone add up to more.
Counting invoices alone, without your time, the gap is $19 a month.
List prices as of August 2026, spread over a month — plugin licences are sold annually. Anchors: Elementor Pro $59 a year, WP Rocket $59 a year, WPML Multilingual CMS €99 a year, managed WordPress hosting from around $25 a month. The WooCommerce plugin itself is free. Payment fees are counted on neither side: both here and on Woo you connect your own processor, so that line would be identical in both columns.
Four things we do differently
You are not the server administrator
WordPress, plugin and PHP updates, backups, the certificate and whatever breaks after one of them are on our side. The store updates without you and without a maintenance window.
You describe changes instead of clicking through a builder
"Move the reviews above the description and put them in two columns" replaces an evening in Elementor, a child theme, and hunting for the plugin that happens to do it.
Fast without the speed plugins
We build the store as static pages and serve it from a CDN. On WooCommerce you buy the same result with a cache plugin, an image optimiser and better hosting — three more things to maintain.
Security is not your job
Every plugin is another piece of someone else's code in your store and another thing to patch. Here there are no plugins, no theme and no admin panel facing the internet.
Line by line
Against a typical self-hosted setup — the kind people actually run WooCommerce on.
| Line by line | Vendmint | WooCommerce |
|---|---|---|
| Costs | ||
| What the platform costs | $9 a month, everything included | $0 for the plugin, you assemble the rest |
| Hosting and certificate | included | a separate bill, from around $6 a month |
| Platform fee on sales | 0% | 0% |
| Multiple storefront languages | included | a paid plugin, WPML from €99 a year |
| Backups | automatic, included | a plugin or a pricier hosting plan |
| Design | ||
| Starting point | a storefront written for your brand | a theme off a list, plus a builder |
| Changing a section layout | you describe it in a sentence | builder, child theme or PHP |
| Where it stops | nowhere | whatever the theme and plugin authors imagined |
| Odds a competitor runs the same storefront | none | high |
| Day to day | ||
| Updates and plugin conflicts | on us | on you |
| Patching holes and admin-panel attacks | on us | on you |
| Performance | static pages from a CDN | cache, image optimisation, stronger hosting |
| Products and orders panel | built in | built in |
| Connecting an existing backend | Shopify and WooCommerce | not applicable |
| Access to the server, code and database | limited, you never touch the server | full, it is your WordPress |
Scroll the table sideways to see both columns.
Already running WooCommerce? Leave it where it is
You connect the store with a read-only REST API key. We pull the catalogue into the generated storefront, the cart totals come from your side live, and checkout hands back to WooCommerce. Products, orders and money stay exactly where they are today.
Only the storefront changes. Invoicing, accounting, the courier integration and everything else wired into your WordPress keeps working untouched.
- Products in WooCommerce
- Storefront by Vendmint
- Checkout on your side
- A read-only REST API key — we never write anything back.
- The cart shows totals from your Woo, not from a copy of the catalogue.
- No plugins, processes or hosting to touch until you decide to.
And if you do want to close the hosting account and get down to one invoice — move the catalogue over and Vendmint is all that is left.
Move your store before the hosting renews
We do the move for you and charge nothing for it — catalogue, design, payments and domain are on us.