WooCommerce is the right choice when you need control. It runs on your own hosting, on WordPress, and you can change anything - including checkout, which hosted platforms guard closely.
The cost of that control is that hosting, security, updates and performance are yours to manage. That is a real ongoing commitment rather than a footnote.
An e-commerce store is A$3,500 and up over four to six weeks. Because you own the infrastructure, budget for hosting and ongoing maintenance - A$250 a month covers updates, backups and security patching.
A WooCommerce store with a page builder and a stack of plugins will be slow, and slow stores convert worse. Keeping the plugin count down is part of the build, not a later project.
There is no monthly platform fee, but you pay for hosting and maintenance instead. At small scale they are comparable; the decision should be about control, not price.
Yes, with appropriate hosting and caching. Catalogue size is a hosting question more than a platform one.
You are, which is why a maintenance arrangement matters more here than on a hosted platform.
Tell us what you are trying to do. If something off the shelf already does it, or the job is smaller than you think, we will say so.
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