What eCommerce platform does everyone use?

[safia2017]

Hi all,
I'm doing a bit of fun research. Can you please let me know what eCommerce platform you use?

Thanks,
Safia

 

[TotalWebSolutions]

If it helps with your research the most popular ecommerce platform with our payment gateway clients is WooCommerce, followed by OpenCart.

 

[AllUpHere]

You should get out more if this is your idea or fun.

 

[fisicx]

I use Amazon and eBay

But not for fun.

 

[MOMARBLE]

I use Alibaba for business

 

[antropy]

You've missed OpenCart and Prestashop.

 

[bogdy23]

Shopify is the leader. It dosen`t cost much and it has an app for anything like email marketing klavio i belive it`s called

 

[antropy]

Shopify is the leader.

Well, it's the most popular but that isn't the same thing. Just look at Internet Explorer.

 

[Tim Ford]

Currently use Magento for all out platforms, however starting to trial WooCommerce out because of the features now finally marry on the admin for creating orders. I also feel that there are move developers out that are a able to quickly develop/change features without requiring a team.

Tim.

 

[Farhan Saeed]

i think woo-commerce is best because wordpress have lot of integrate functionality with free plugin .

 

[Chris Ashdown]

I used Sellerdeck a desktop software in a box that's very adjustable and you actually own the licence to use as many e-commerce sites as you need for the single payment

 

[Cloud Commerce Pro]

We develop websites for our clients using Woocommerce, as it offers the most features and flexibility for small to medium sized retailers. Shopify is great though for the speed and simplicity in setting up a store, and offers some great looking UX friendly templates.

 

[Sam Drury]

I am worried about the security on Woo Commerce. You must keep up to date with the security patches if you use one of the big companies, which is tricky if you have bespoke features.

We use Cubecart, which is very flexible for our needs and is unlikely to get too much attention by hackers, but we only use that as a framework. The backend we use despatch.cloud for all the order processing etc.

 

[Chris Salmon]

I use Shopify and Shopify payments. I'm mostly impressed with the platform and the App marketplace. The only thing I'm not happy with is Shopify payments. I don't see revenue from my orders for about 7 days. They don't mention this anywhere which is my biggest point of contention with it.

 

[RSR Fulfillment (FR & DE)]

I have avoided Woo Commerce and Magento due to them being complicated. we'd end up having to pay people every time we wanted to make small changes. I have used Weebly, Big Commerce and now Shopify. I'd put them in the drag and drop prosumer type category, even though some biggish retailers do use Big Commerce and Shopfy at least. I think Shopify is the best of these 3.

 

[antropy]

I am worried about the security on Woo Commerce. You must keep up to date with the security patches if you use one of the big companies, which is tricky if you have bespoke features.

I think that's a reasonable concern, we are often approached by people who've had their WordPress sites hacked and ask us to fix it all for them.

 

[jason1323]

Amazon and ebay ~~

 

[Christopher Day]

Shopify is best for small businesses

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Shopify is best for small businesses

How can you say that with no idea of what the company sells or the growth potential of the company
Do you have working knowledge of all the other packages as a user, they all offer something different

 

[Bruce.D]

Prestashop is not bad.

 

[Highland Spring]

I used Prestashop for years, what is good about it is there are 100's of third party modules available to do just about anything extra you can think of.

Bar code reading and Integration with Sage Line 50 were the ones that swung the decision for me.

 

[SuperLiamUK]

It depends on the requirements but generally it will be between Ruby on Rails based shop using a ruby gem (Fun fact: Shopify is built with Ruby on Rails) and WordPress (woocommerce) or Magento.

It all depends though on the requirements, planning ahead and is it scalable? If not, what problems might I face? Are the problems big enough to outweigh using this one?

 

[amdowney]

CS Cart - seems the second best self hosted one after Magento (which looks to complex to do on the cheap)