WooCommerce has no vendor charging you per order, so the real question is never platform cost — it is how many stacked extensions you are paying for and how much custom code breaks on the next core release. Here is the arithmetic.
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A custom plugin you will own forever is only worth building when no $49 extension does the job. Here is the decision rule, the 2026 rate ranges, and the security checks that separate update-safe code from a future outage.
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Small businesses waste money in two opposite ways: buying complex custom development before validating their workflow, or forcing inflexible no-code tools past their breaking point. Here is how to choose the right path.
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