The WooCommerce mobile app manages your store. It is not an app your customers install. Shastra wraps your existing WooCommerce storefront in a native Android and iOS app — sessions stay alive, carts persist, and push notifications actually reach people.
Free Android APK build to start. No card needed. 14-day money-back guarantee.
WooCommerce on mobile web has a specific set of failure points. These are not plugin problems — they are structural limitations of the browser itself.
iOS Safari and Chrome on Android clear site data aggressively. A customer adds three products to their WooCommerce cart, switches to WhatsApp, comes back twenty minutes later — and starts from scratch. This kills mobile conversion rates on shared hosting where session timeouts are short.
WordPress session cookies have short expiry windows. Mobile browsers enforce this strictly. A member, subscription customer, or account holder logging in on mobile is nearly guaranteed to be forced to re-authenticate on their next visit — if they bother returning at all.
A typical WooCommerce store loads 20-40 active plugins. On a 4G connection, Time to First Byte alone can exceed two seconds. The browser URL bar, tab loading indicator, and blank white flash between pages make every transition feel heavier than it is.
WooCommerce has no built-in push notification system. The available plugins — PushEngage, OneSignal for WooCommerce — require ongoing subscriptions stacked on top of your hosting and WooCommerce licensing costs. And they still do not give you a real branded app.
Appmaker, AppMySite for WooCommerce, and similar tools ask you to re-map your entire store into their native component system. Every product, category, and custom field has to be reconfigured inside their builder. That is weeks of work before a customer can install anything.
PWAs get dismissed. Browser shortcuts live in a folder nobody opens. The only reliable way to occupy home screen real estate — next to Amazon, next to their bank — is a real native app distributed through the App Store and Google Play.
This is the exact gap Shastra closes — without rebuilding your store or installing plugins.
| Mobile Web | Native App | |
|---|---|---|
| Listed on Google Play under your store name | ✕ | ✓ |
| Listed on App Store under your store name | ✕ | ✓ |
| Your icon on the customer's home screen | ✕ | ✓ |
| Push notifications to customers | ✕ | ✓ |
| WooCommerce cart persists between visits | Often clears | ✓ |
| Login session stays active | Expires randomly | ✓ |
| Payment gateways work (Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay) | ✓ | ✓ |
| WooCommerce Subscriptions work | ✓ | ✓ |
| All WooCommerce extensions work unchanged | ✓ | ✓ |
| No plugin installation needed | ✓ | ✓ |
No plugin. No rebuild. No re-mapping your products into a new system.
The native WebView does not expire cookies the way mobile browsers do. A customer logs in once and stays logged in. Adds to cart and comes back tomorrow — it is still there. The session-expiry problem that costs WooCommerce stores sales every day disappears in a native app.
Abandoned cart, back-in-stock, flash sale, order shipped, subscription renewal due — send any of these from the Shastra dashboard with a title, body, and a URL that deep-links into any page of your store. No plugin, no PushEngage account, no monthly fee on top of your WooCommerce setup.
WooCommerce stores often have floating chat widgets, cookie consent bars, upsell popups, and admin toolbars that break the mobile experience. Inject CSS from the Shastra dashboard to remove any of these without touching your WordPress theme or adding yet another plugin.
Pin your most important WooCommerce pages — Shop, Sale, My Account, Wishlist, Cart — to a native bottom bar. One tap from the home screen icon to the exact page that matters. The WordPress hamburger menu requires three steps on mobile; the bottom bar requires one.
WooCommerce Subscriptions, Bundles, Composite Products, YITH Wishlist, WooCommerce Memberships — every extension that works on your live storefront continues working in the app. Shastra loads your actual frontend. Nothing is re-implemented in a new system.
Certificates, metadata, screenshots, and the review process — handled. Android approval in 2-3 days, iOS in 1-2 days. The WooCommerce app plugin alternatives that charge $100/month still make you manage submission yourself.
No WooCommerce plugin to install. No products to re-import. No templates to rebuild inside a new system.
Enter your WooCommerce store URL. No WordPress admin access, no plugin activation, no REST API credentials required.
Upload your app icon, set header and splash colors, build a bottom tab bar with your key category and account pages, and add any CSS to clean up the mobile view.
Click Build. Our pipeline compiles and signs your Android APK, AAB, and iOS IPA — all ready within the hour.
Download and submit yourself, or let us handle the full Google Play and App Store submission process.
If your customers buy more than once or log in regularly, an app pays for itself quickly.
WooCommerce Subscriptions handles the billing. Shastra handles the reminder. A push notification sent when a customer's next shipment is due — or before it, to offer an add-on — converts at a rate email cannot compete with. The session is already active when they open the app.
Independent WooCommerce sellers with limited inventory need to reach their audience fast when new items go live. Push notifications deliver in seconds. The customers who miss out on mobile web because they did not happen to check do not miss out in the app.
B2B WooCommerce stores have customers who order the same products on a cycle. An app with your catalogue, their saved login, and a persistent cart removes every step between "I need to reorder" and checkout. No browser, no password reset, no empty cart.
WooCommerce sells the digital product; the customer then needs reliable access to what they bought. Mobile browser session expiry is a constant friction point. An app that stays logged in indefinitely means customers actually use what they paid for.
No rebuild. No plugins. No monthly fees. Paste your URL and get a native app that fixes every mobile frustration WooCommerce has.
14-day money-back guarantee. Free APK build, no card needed.
No. The WooCommerce mobile app (Android and iOS) is a store management tool for merchants. It handles orders, products, and analytics — it is not an app your customers download to shop. WooCommerce does not provide an official path to build a customer-facing native app. Shastra fills that gap without any plugin required on your WordPress site.
Yes. This is one of the most significant differences between a native app and mobile web for WooCommerce. Shastra uses a native WebView with persistent storage and third-party cookies fully enabled. Cart contents survive app backgrounding and device restarts. The iOS Safari and Chrome cookie-clearing behaviour that empties WooCommerce carts on mobile web does not apply inside the native WebView.
Yes. Shastra loads your live WooCommerce storefront. Every extension that renders on your frontend — WooCommerce Subscriptions, WooCommerce Bundles, WooCommerce Composite Products, YITH Wishlist, WooCommerce Memberships — continues to work exactly as it does on the web. Nothing is reimplemented or re-mapped.
No. Shastra works with your published store URL. You do not need to install anything on your WordPress site, provide admin credentials, or configure REST API access. We build the app against your live WooCommerce frontend as-is.
Appmaker, AppMySite, and similar WooCommerce app builders require you to re-map your entire store into their native component system — products, categories, custom fields, and checkout flows all have to be reconfigured inside their builder before a customer can install anything. Shastra wraps your existing WooCommerce frontend without rebuilding anything. Cost: Appmaker and AppMySite charge $100-$500/month. Shastra is $99 once.
Yes. Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, WooCommerce Payments, and all other gateways that work on your WooCommerce mobile site work inside the app. There are no third-party cookie restrictions in the native WebView that would break payment redirects or 3D Secure flows.
Yes. You send push notifications from the Shastra dashboard — a title, body text, and an optional URL that opens a specific product or page in the app. The timing and content are up to you: abandoned cart alerts, back-in-stock, flash sales, subscription renewal due, order dispatched. No PushEngage account or WooCommerce push plugin needed.
The native app shell renders instantly — there is no browser startup, no tab overhead, no URL bar animation. Your WooCommerce frontend loads behind a shell that is already showing your branding. On slow hosting the perceived experience is meaningfully faster than mobile web even if the underlying page load time is identical.
Setup takes around 10 minutes. Build generation completes within the hour. Google Play review is 2-3 business days; App Store review is 1-2 days. Most stores have a live App Store listing within a week of signing up.
Visit shastrapps.com/pricing to see current pricing for your region. There is a 14-day money-back guarantee on all paid plans.
Shastra works with any website platform