About this Article
In this article, we discuss ManageMore’s integration with WordPress WooCommerce and its capability to handle nearly any company inventory size and ordering volume with super fast performance with the right know-how. This article is mostly meant for advanced users to provide the best practices used on larger traffic ecommerce sites. Small ecommerce sites are unlikely to experience any noticeable slow downs, but the information in this article can prepare you for things you need to consider when your WooCommerce does begin to slow down.
Debunking the Myths
For users with heavy traffic ecommerce sites, it is not uncommon to see an ecommerce site suddenly begin to slowdown and take considerable time between page loads. When this occurs, the first reaction by some IT individuals and business owners is whether or not WooCommerce is capable of handling their growing ecommerce site. We often get inquiries regarding WooCommerce and its ability to handle large inventories and scale effectively to handle large volumes of orders. We were surprised to find out that we are not the only software provider that deals with this line of questioning on the most popular and proven ecommerce platform in the world. Not surprising to us is a circulated myth that WooCommerce only works for small operations is unfounded. The biggest issue we find is a WooCommerce site that has not been properly optimized.
So how large can a WooCommerce site truly become? According to WordPress, there are documented ecommerce stores that have more than 100,000 products that are processing thousands of transactions a minute without any problems. Those who want to build a complex store with expected high traffic volume simply have to know what to do as an ecommerce site begins to take on hundreds of visitors daily.
Get the Right Pieces in Place
For small ecommerce operations with limited inventory and low expected visitor volume, there probably isn’t much that will be needed to maintain an online shopping cart. However, if the sky is the limit and you expect your ecommerce site to be an integral part of your daily sales, then getting the right pieces in place ahead of time is important. This starts with determining who will be responsible for managing and maintaining your shopping cart.
As you are aware, ManageMore takes care of all the database aspects of keeping your ecommerce site in sync with your backend inventory and customers. But who is monitoring the ecommerce site itself? Business owners often do not understand the technical nature of computers and the internet. Mistakes are often made because of misinformation and lack of understanding.
Where do you start then?
The first thing you will need to get an ecommerce site up and running should be hiring an individual or company who has experience building an ecommerce site… more importantly someone who has accomplished the setup and install of a WooCommerce site. You can research and choose from hundreds of freelancers or choose established companies that have a team of ecommerce specialists to help you from installation and graphic design to choosing a fast WooCommerce theme for your needs.
Some of our clients have had success at finding proven proven freelancers using service sites such as fiverr.com or freelancer.com or upwork.com . A better option (but slightly more expensive one) is to choose a company with a team of experts to help you get up and running. WordPress, the CMS company behind WooCommerce, offers a WooExpert MarketPlace that is composed of trusted agencies who can help you create an incredible WooCommerce storefront.
Choosing the Right Hosting Provider
Probably the most important decision before starting your ecommerce venture is choosing the company that will be the home for your online storefront. Choosing the right hosting provider and the right hosting plan for your needs is critical. The hosting provider MUST be able to scale as your online store grows and must provide you with performance enhancing server features which keep your store running super fast.
At minimum, your ecommerce hosted server needs the ability to support persistent object caching for your website. The better hosting providers will offer a simple setting that activates peristent object caching which utilizes REDIS, an in-memory database performance technology. ManageMore’s plugin takes full advantage of persistent object caching to provide you a very responsive ecommerce site, but it only works if the hosting provider offers this feature. Whether you choose a managed or unmanaged hosting plan, make sure your hosting provider includes a persistent object caching option and that you are on a large enough hosting plan to support your inventory database size when selling online.
We also encourage our clients to sign up with hosting providers that specifically offer WooCommerce managed plans with built-in performance monitoring, auto-scaling capabilities, and at least 8 PHP workers to ensure the up and down swings in ecommerce traffic are managed properly.
Here are our top picks of hosting providers in 2025 that fully support all of the performance enhancements you will need for a super fast shopping cart experience.
InMotion
InMotion hosting delivers reliable, high-performance servers with 99.99% uptime. As a premier hosting company, InMotion provide the speed, security, and scalability you need to grow your online presence.
Nexcess
Nexcess has a consistent track record for high performance and has all the scalability features one should expect. Nexcess also offers an excellent managed hosting support team that can be reached via phone, email, or chat.
SiteGround
This hosting providers strikes an excellent balanced choice for performance and scalability.
Pressable
This hosting provider continues to score well as a top performer and offers excellent scalability options compared to most.
Optimizing Your Site
Assuming you have chosen the right hosting provider and the right web specialists to implement your WooCommerce system, there are still things that can go wrong if you don’t properly optimize your WooCommerce site. There are well over a dozen optimization factors that can cause an ecommerce site to underperform and a specialist is often needed to tweak your site properly. Although this is not a definitive list of all server optimization techniques, the following are the top issues we see that can cause a WooCommerce shopping cart to underperform:
* You are not using persistent object caching with the ManageMore plugin
* Your hosting provider is providing limited PHP Workers for your site
* You are not using the latest WooCommerce Block Cart for the checkout page
* Your hosting plan is on a shared server plana and/or is providing low server memory for your site
* You have too many plugins or a poor performing WooCommerce theme that is bloated or not optimized properly
* You are not using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve the load speed of image content
There are many performance tweaks that a web specialist can help you with, but the above mentioned items are probably the most important factors to ensure a fast shopping cart experience.
PWA Technology… Another Performance Boosting Technology
Finally, you checked off all the performance related boxes and selected a fast hosting provider, a super quick woocommerce theme, efficient woo plug-ins, plenty of PHP workers, latest block cart hooks, etc. and your site is still not up to the performance speed you and your customers would like to see. Then it may be time to consider PWA technology to kick things into another gear. If you are dealing with hundred(s) of daily online orders, then you may find that PWA’s can boost your performance because of its offloading technology where some of your store site is relying on locally stored data on the end user’s device to deliver its content. But be forewarned, PWA’s come with a high level of implementation understanding and is not for everyone!
A PWA framework is a tool used to build Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), which are web apps that combine the best features of websites and mobile apps. This newer technology builds on the web design concepts of ecommerce sites (like WooCommerce) and transforms it into an app that can be installed on any device as a standalone application. PWAs are extremely fast when compared to a browser-based web site only. Most of the assets are cached, and service workers help load them quickly. Even if your site visitors don’t have the fastest and most reliable network provider, their WordPress-fueled PWA will load instantly. Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are already supported by browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Firefox. A PWA will transform your WooCommerce site into an app that can be obtained from a Google Play Store, Apple Store, or downloaded from your site as an installable APK.
Some of the well-known PWA frameworks are React, Angular, and Vue. js. These frameworks are popular because they have a wide range of tools and libraries for building complex applications that have features, such as component-based architecture, efficient state management, and excellent developer experience.
But there is a catch with the use of PWAs…
- A PWA framework introduces a very high level of code technology that will have you relying more heavily on a computer consulting firm or IT expert with development skills on WooCommerce as well as PWA’s.
- Compatibility issues and some changes to your WooCommerce site will be necessary to make a PWA work effectively. Again, this requires someone who is proficient with WooCommerce and the PWA framework libraries.
We only recommend our users to consider PWA technology if you have the right IT team in place that can help you build and support a WooCommerce shopping cart utilizing a PWA framework (like ReactPWA). It is often best that your WooCommerce site is customized right from the beginning with PWA in mind to avoid any design/code conflicts between WooCommerce and the PWA framework.
Here are some great articles on the subject of PWA’s by their appropriate authors:
Building and optimizing Progressive Web Apps (PWA) with WordPress by Kinsta
React-Powered PWAs: Elevating WordPress Capabilities by CronJ Expertise
Progress Web App for WooCommerce by WebKul
DISCLAIMER: Intellisoft does NOT provide technical support for the implementation of PWA’s with WooCommerce.
