# Craft Commerce review (2026): is it worth $1,199? > Self-hosted store plugin for Craft CMS with multi-store support Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Craft Commerce is the ecommerce plugin for Craft CMS, built for developers who want to model products, variants and checkout flows in code. It adds a catalog, orders, payment gateways and inventory to a Craft site. A Craft CMS license is required separately. - **Category:** Online Store Builders - **Made by:** Pixel & Tonic, Inc. - **Website:** https://craftcms.com/commerce - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a point-and-click store, as it needs a developer. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Craft Commerce is a paid product, starting at $1,199 per project (one-time, plus a Craft CMS license). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pro | $1,199 per project, includes 1 year of updates | Unlimited products and variants, up to 5 stores and 5 inventory locations, multi-currency and custom checkout. Updates cost $299 a year after year one. | | Enterprise | Custom | Everything in Pro, plus SAML SSO and a custom number of stores and inventory locations. Sold by request. | Read from https://craftcms.com/commerce on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Craft Commerce before buying. ## Key features - **Products and variants:** The license places no limit on how many products or variants you create, and products use Craft's drafts, versioning and live preview. - **Multi-store:** Commerce 5 manages separate customer-facing stores in one install, each able to use its own base currency for pricing. - **Inventory locations:** Track stock and make adjustments across stores, warehouses or other locations; Pro allows up to five. - **Payment gateways:** First-party gateways cover Stripe, PayPal Checkout and Mollie, and further gateways come from the plugin ecosystem or custom code. - **Custom fields and checkout:** Custom fields shape product and order management, and the checkout flow can be built to your own design. - **Plugin extensions:** Plugins from Verbb add events and ticketing, wishlists and gift vouchers on top of the core store. ## Good for - Agencies building custom stores on Craft CMS - Content-heavy sites that also sell products - Teams that host and maintain their own site ## Worth knowing - Pricing excludes the Craft CMS license, which is bought separately. - Updates after the first year cost $299 a year per project. - It is built around templates and code, so it needs a developer rather than a point-and-click setup. - Pro is capped at five stores and five inventory locations; more needs the sales-led Enterprise plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Craft Commerce is a store plugin for Craft CMS, $1,199 per project one-time with unlimited products and up to 5 stores. It costs extra for the Craft licence and $299 a year for updates after year one, and it needs a developer. - **Value for money: C.** $1,199 one-time matches the category's one-time middle of $1,199. The Craft CMS licence is extra, and updates after year one are $299 a year. - **Free plan and trial: F.** The listing shows no free plan and no trial, so you pay before you can try it. - **Features: B.** Products and variants, multi-store, inventory locations, payment gateways, custom checkout and plugins. Nothing in the listing is missing from the job. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. It is built around templates and code, so it needs a developer. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, self-hosted, with seven listed integrations and an API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Craft Commerce's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among online store builders - Craft Commerce's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 15 of the 80 other online store builders we grade, and level with 13. - It stands best on features (B, above 60 of 80) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/online-stores ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Craft Commerce you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 52 of the 80 other online store builders grade higher. It costs $1,199, paid once. - You could make: Inventory: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal Checkout and Mollie among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Stripe, PayPal Checkout, Mollie, Shopify, Verbb Events, Verbb Wishlist, Verbb Gift Voucher **Tags:** Online store, Inventory, Self-hostable, Public API ## Alternatives - [Shopify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shopify): Hosted commerce platform for online, in-person and social selling. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/craft-commerce-vs-shopify) - [WooCommerce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/woocommerce): Free, open-source store plugin for WordPress that you host yourself. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/craft-commerce-vs-woocommerce) - [Shopware](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shopware): Open-source commerce platform for B2B and B2C stores. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/craft-commerce-vs-shopware) - [Sylius](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sylius): Open-source Symfony ecommerce framework for custom stores. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/craft-commerce-vs-sylius) - [Saleor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/saleor): Open-source headless commerce with managed Cloud hosting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/craft-commerce-vs-saleor) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://craftcms.com/commerce - https://craftcms.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/craft-commerce Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).