It's clear you don't understand. Wordpress is NOT an ecommerce platform. Woocommerce is a plugin you can install to add ecommerce functionality to a wordpress site. It's not the best, in many ways it's a very bad option. I agree it's popular but just because something is popular doesn't mean it's any good.
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I can agree with you, but according to other e-commerce platforms we have many issues like website loading time, user-friendly. In the Prestashop, we are not able to find the free modules but in woo-commerce we are able to find some free WordPress plugins, that surely help us to extend the website features.
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Free plugins to extend website features (too many or the wrong ones) is the number one reason for causing the very issues you specified.
Platforms in their default state 'out of the box' are hardly ever problematic for performance. It's when idiots that call themselves developers start plugging in to them left right and centre and don't know how to work with them that causes the issues.
So again, just because Wordpress/WooCommerce has lots of free plugins, doesn't make it the best ecommerce platform- and hardly any of the official WooCommerce plugins are free anyway.
There is nothing wrong with Prestashop if you know how to develop on the platform. As with any other modern CMS/ecommerce software. If you're needing a plugin to achieve everything in a website then you're not a developer.
You haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
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And woocommerce has become one of those plugins. I won't go anywhere near it now, it's boated, clunky and the UX is no longer very good. In fact you have to do a lot of work to make it halfway decent.
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This is good, you know about some things about the Wordpress, but what about informative websites, cost to develop the website on Prestashop.
One thing is that Google is not able to crawl the pages easily in Prestashop, Most of the pages have crawl anomaly issue. There are a lot of issues visible in the Prestashop if you check in your webmaster.
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Woocommerce is good for small e-commerce stores, which have only some products like 10 - 20, not in thousands, It works well than Prestashop.
As you mentioned there are free plugins available but not worthy. In the comparison of Prestashop, this is good we able to find some free plugins, in the Prestashop, all modules are paid.
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That's a site configuration issue not a problem with Prestashop
Wordpress/woocommerce has far more problems than a dedicated ecommerce platform.
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I have a website in Woocommerce, working fine. It just your thoughts. Each platform has their features and functionality and it mainly depend on requirements.
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OP, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Shopify Plus vs Shopify. What extra features does it include? Can you have a fully bespoke theme built by Shopify or a specialist agency from the ground up? What are typical costs? Thanks
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My requirements are really simple - I won't expect to have many products perhaps 5 to 10 and a few variations in size and colour in each product.
I am torn between Squarespace and Shopify. I will be a sole trader so not setting up a LTD company.
Which one of these handles processing an order better? Ie prints out the order onto labels and the invoice.
I am torn between Squarespace and Shopify. I will be a sole trader so not setting up a LTD company.
Which one of these handles processing an order better? Ie prints out the order onto labels and the invoice.
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I would choose Shopify over Squarespace. For ecommerce needs Shopify is a lot better. Squarespace is good as a holding type website but is pretty limited. Alex
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Yes Shopify is great I used to have a shop called sport angel, but other business interests came along and I did not have time to market the site.
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I could have sworn I gave a reply to this thread yesterday ? basically there are cheaper and better options to shopify that are free, and fit in facebook. There is now a zero entry to market when it comes to getting online / selling and selling to highly relevant customers in facebook.
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Shopify Plus offers the opportunity to clone your store (useful if going into different markets).
It has Flow, which can automate a lot of things. We've found that to be very useful.
Launchpad is good for new collections / sales etc
You can also customise the checkout, which we're doing A/B testing on.
Cost is more ($2200 / month I think)
There are agencies that specialise in Shopify Plus stores. We chose one but were disappointed and are moving to a different one (We Make Websites).
They say you need to be turning over £1m a year to make it worth the while but I would say you could see the benefits at a lower level.
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Bl**dy hell! I thought you were joking about $2,000 and month !Lol $2,200 a month - I'll buy it twice that's such good value, especially as it means I clone my store - that's worth the price on it's own
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commadus: https://apps.shopify.com/ordersify-...=3&surface_intra_position=2&surface_type=home
prints out the order onto labels and the invoice.
prints out the order onto labels and the invoice.
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I agree. Some people have the idea that the only way to get what you want is to pay for a custom solution. However, a lot of companies have seen the move towards custom designs and integrated more features into their own programs.
In some of the pre-built solutions, you can find options that you will never need alongside everything you ever will need. The only way to find out what suits you is to try them.
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Nice post @Faevilangel. I have learn many things regarding ecommerce solution and also very much helpful for small business owner for better understanding about ecommerce solution and its utility. Expecting quality post in future and learn so many factors.
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Although we have extensively worked with Shopify customisation, we always prefer WooCommerce and Magento. The open source nature allows the developer more creative and functionality control.
A developer should always be the one advising the online store owner of the preferred solution.
A developer should always be the one advising the online store owner of the preferred solution.
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All great advice! We started with little knowledge so built our store on a platform to make things easier to launch our business but the long-term plan is to build from scratch to give us more flexibility in terms of design and layout going forward.
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Choosing the right e-commerce solution is half the job done in starting the e-commerce business as you will be running the business with an e-commerce platform/solution. If you are planning a multi-vendor marketplace then choose a multi-vendor shopping cart software that suits your business needs. Look at the features and integrations if it fulfills the needs of your business
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Woocommerce all the way, due to an extensive library of plugins, customisation options, ability to move to whichever server you need to.
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