WooCommerce App Builder: Pricing and 4 Apps From Your Store

This is a WooCommerce app builder: it turns the store you already run into real apps, without rebuilding anything underneath. Your products, your orders, your payment gateway, your customers. The apps wrap what’s already there.

You are paying for the app, not for rebuilding the shop beneath it. That is the whole reason it costs what it costs: your WooCommerce install, your API and your payment gateway keep doing the work they already do, and the apps are the part your customers hold.

Four apps from one WooCommerce catalogue

Every app reads the same catalogue over your live store, so a price change or a new product shows up everywhere at once. There is no second database to keep in sync.

WooCommerce app builder pricing

Short answer: plans are billed monthly through Patreon. Starter is $15 a month for one store with the Android shop, merchant and delivery apps. Pro is $39 a month for up to three stores, and adds the installable web app and priority support. Agency is $199 a month for unlimited stores, full app source code and direct developer access. Starter and Pro include a 7-day free trial.

Every plan also includes the Pro editions of the RyanPlugins WordPress plugins. Current prices are always on ryanplugins.app.

How that compares with building an app yourself

A custom WooCommerce app from an agency is usually quoted as a project, often in the thousands of dollars, plus ongoing fees for updates when Android or WooCommerce changes. A subscription app builder swaps that one-off cost for a monthly fee, and the updates are part of it. The trade-off is control: a builder gives you its apps, while a custom project gives you exactly what you specify. The Agency plan sits in between, because you get the full source code to change as you like.

Is there a free WooCommerce app builder?

There is no free plan here, but Starter and Pro come with a 7-day free trial, so you can build and install a real app on your phone before you pay. Free app makers do exist, but read the terms before you start. The usual catches are:

• Their branding in your app, such as a splash screen or a “made with” label.
• Published under their account, so the Google Play listing, reviews and installs aren’t yours.
• A website wrapped in an app, a WebView that loads your mobile site instead of a native app reading your catalogue.
• Limits on products or orders that push you to a paid plan once the store grows.

With RyanPlugins the builds are signed with your key and published under your own Google Play developer account, with no third-party branding in the app.

How the WooCommerce app builder works

1. Add your store. Your domain, and a licence issued for it.
2. Install the connector. One plugin on your WordPress site. It is what lets the builders read your live catalogue.
3. Pick a name, a colour, an icon. Then press Build. A few minutes later there is an installable file waiting for you.

Nothing on your server is modified beyond that one connector plugin. If you uninstall it, the store carries on exactly as before.

What it doesn’t do

• iOS is source-only. Apple builds need a Mac, so you compile that one in Xcode. The project is there; the machine has to be yours.
• There is no point of sale, and no wallet. Selling in person, saved cards and store credit are not part of this and are not planned. They are things to ask about as custom work, not something a tier includes.
• It needs WooCommerce. This wraps a shop that already exists. It is not a way to start one.

WooCommerce app builder FAQ

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You add a store, install the connector, choose a name, a colour and an icon, and press Build. The only step that needs a developer is compiling the iOS project, and that is optional.

Will my payment gateway work inside the app?

Yes. Checkout runs through the same gateway your website already uses, so whatever you have configured in WooCommerce — cards, ACH, wallets — is what your customers get in the app. Nothing is re-implemented, which means nothing new to reconcile at the end of the month.

How do the apps get onto Google Play?

Builds come out signed and ready to upload. You publish them under your own Google Play developer account, so the listing, the reviews and the install base belong to you rather than to me.

What happens when I add a product or change a price?

It appears in the apps straight away. They read your live catalogue through the connector, so ordinary catalogue changes never require a rebuild. You only rebuild when you want to change the app itself — its name, icon, colours or version.

Do I pay per app or per store?

Per store. All three mobile apps are one build with one signing key and one entitlement, so Store, Merchant and Delivery come together on every paid tier. Tiers differ on how many stores you can connect and how many builds you can run per day.

What happens to my apps if I stop my membership?

Apps you have already built and published keep working. What lapses is the ability to run new builds, along with support and updates. On the Agency tier you also hold the full source, so you can keep building on your own machine regardless.

How much does the WooCommerce app builder cost?

Starter is $15 a month, Pro is $39 a month and Agency is $199 a month, billed through Patreon. Starter and Pro include a 7-day free trial.

Is there a free version?

No, but the 7-day free trial on Starter and Pro lets you build a signed app and install it on your own phone before you pay.

Want to see the apps on screen first? Watch the mobile app builder walkthrough or the web app builder walkthrough.