Hey Shawnisee, there must be some sort of mixup. The WooCommerce plugin definitely remains free: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/. Maybe you are talking about some extra e-commerce service that Bluehost offers?

Hey Connie, thanks for the excellent question. WooCommerce actually has some helpful content on that topics:

1. https://woocommerce.com/posts/sell-digital-with-woocommerce/
2. https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/digital-downloadable-product-handling/

I know in Etsy you just select that your product is a digital download and then you just add the file on the page and when the customer purchases the item, it is available for them to download.

Is there any easy way like this so that when the customer purchases the item, it is then available for them to download?

This is why I have not already done WooCommerce, as I didn’t understand how to do this part. Then I ran across this training. Thanks so much for your help.

This is called a multi-vendor marketplace and WooCommerce has a blog post for that: https://woocommerce.com/posts/create-multivendor-marketplace-wordpress/

Hey Amy, glad you liked the post. I would look into these two articles:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/managing-product-taxonomies/
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/

Let me know if that solved your problem!

You can look into using the Duplicator plugin, it lets you pack up your site and deploy it in a new location. Also, hosts sometimes offer free or paid site migrations, so that’s something worth considering when looking for a new host.

Yes, there are plugins that let you turn your WooCommerce store into a marketplace where your users can sell as well. Take a look at some of the marketplace plugins here.

Hi Bob, there’s an “orders” menu in the WordPress dashboard (after installing WooCommerce) and you will also get notified by email when new orders are placed.