Shopify is a commerce platform designed for both online stores and retail locations. Shopify offers a professional online storefront, a payment solution to accept credit cards, and the Shopify POS application to power retail sales.
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WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress, developed by WooThemes (recently acquired by Automattic). Like WordPress, it is designed to be an extendable, adaptable, open-sourced platform. WooCommerce allows merchants to sell physical products, downloadables, or services.
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We used WooCommerce for many years before switching to Shopify. We switched because WooCommerce is not as user friendly on the backend, whereas Shopify is relatively easy to maintain and update. That said, WooCommerce does have additional functionalities that Shopify does not …
Shopify eats woocommerces lunch. Shopify is probably the best all around way to get your business selling without doing it all yourself or involving too many moving parts. It’s not perfect but it’s worth what it costs if you are serious about the longevity of your business. …
Shopify is much more user-friendly than WooCommerce and has more robust tutorials, especially for beginners. Shopify also includes more integrations and admin tools that provide an additional later of brand safety for our organization and our agency. Shopify also integrates …
Magento is more serious; you'll need support from your digital agency and a retainer for promotions and updates.
WooCommerce is good but becomes expensive with all the extras that shopify has out of the box. And this relies on WordPress which you'll need to maintain and keep …
Shopify, being wholly self-contained, is a robust solution that doesn't require a developer to get up and running. WooCommerce is a plugin for WordPress that is effective if you already have a robust WordPress site and are tech-savvy. WooCommerce will require a developer's …
Shopify vs WooCommerce on WordPress. Shopify was better suited to smaller businesses with fewer design demands, limited budgets, and small product inventories. WooCommerce on the other hand was better suited for larger businesses with more complicated e-commerce needs such as …
Shopify is one of the best e-commerce platforms out there. We have tried WooCommerce which is great but it definitely takes a lot more time to integrate and set up.
Shopify is easy to use. You do not need to install many plugins for it, and if you are using WooCommerce, you will have to install some plugins. With Shopify, you get a high speed hosting and CDN (content delivery network) which will make your website fast. The checkout is also …
Shopify is easy to navigate and export shipping data to other shipping management tools. We have multiple clients (70+) using Shopify and rarely have issues. With others, we seem to have trouble daily with export to our shipping management tools. In addition to export issues, …
Shopify is the best platform where I am handling our different stores. It is a secure and easy-to-use online e-commerce solution. I have been using a lot of software in my organization to gather information about different businesses and sometimes I need to import some data …
Shopify is way easier to set up. No coding needed. All the tools to create your eCommerce are there and are easy to use. You can literally set up a working site in minutes. Most of the initial work is more focused on us making sure we had proper images and product descriptions, …
Shopify is really the only contender in the space. They do everything way better than any other platform out there so it is definitely the best option to go with.
Shopify is much much simpler than these 2 alternatives. It is aimed at small entrepreneurs or start-ups that cannot afford big costly developments of e-commerce solutions. Shopify works in a plug-and-play way that allows you to start selling right away and not lose time on the …
Wix was vastly more customizable but not built for stores with lots of products. We built a fantastic website on Wix with everything she needed but it had two fatal problems - the first was that it was just too slow to load on the page, and the second was that the products were …
Shopify is the number one product if you want to actually have sales. Some other competitors may seem to offer the same suite of functionalities, but Shopify really does stand out a lot by 99.99% availability and the whole shopping experience for your customers.
We selected Shopify because we did not need a lot of custom functionality but wanted the great UX of Shopify, the integration with our POS, and the out of the box designs that look better in the Shopify marketplace.
Shopify is by far the easiest platform to set-up if you are a novice. It makes sure that you include the right features in order to maximize profits from onsite visitors. It's extremely powerful and can grow with you as a business or brand. However, because it has so much …
Shopify was the easiest to use for my client on the backend, which was a major incentive for them over the other platforms. It had all the features they needed, and ultimately they were able to manage everything in-house without needing to bring in a major developer or …
We chose WooCommerce over Shopify mainly for pricing, you can start using WooCommerce for free in just a few steps while Shopify will always have a subscription attached to it. That said, you will probably have to buy some plugins to add functionalities missing from the stock …
WooCommerce integrates directly with our existing WordPress site and gives me full control over the shopping process. Shopify doesn't offer the same flexibility. Also, WooCommerce is free to use a basic version, and we implemented it when we weren't ready to invest in a paid …
It measures up really well against Shopify due to having no monthly fee associated with the product. It is slightly more challenging to get set up, but the difference is not much at all. Setting up to sell Services seems much easier with WooCommerce. However, it may be a little …
WooCommerce is easy to use and maintain the order of users. While comparing with Shopify, WooCommerce is free software but Shopify is a paid software. You need to purchase the hosting plan for Shopify.
WooCommerce is a free platform to integrate the payment gateway. You'll get …
Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM
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If someone is tech challenged I would recommend Shopify. If someone is comfortable with WordPress or tinkering with software, I would highly recommend WooCommerce. You can do much more with WooCommerce but you will probably break your website a couple of times in the process. …
WooCommerce and Shopify both permit essentially limitless customization. However, WooCommerce runs on PHP, a commonly used development language with a thriving community, whereas Shopify uses Liquid, a relatively obscure programming language, in its backend. I'm not I would …
Shopify while providing a more sophisticated user experience is less easy to integrate with an existing Wordpress website. Hence, WooCommerce is a go-to for those with existing Wordpress websites. Shopify provides a great store front of its own, and hence may be recommended for …
Shopify is a premium e commerce platform tailored just for online shops. While WooCommerce is a plugin which has main platform as WordPress. Shopify is costly to have. Most of the basic shop functions that are offered in Shopify can be achieved using WordPress + WooCommerce …
WooCommerce is a good free version that's very customisable, but is not a smooth or polished platform. If you look at both dashboards between Shopify and WooCommerce you can see the difference is huge.
WooCommerce seems to be built for websites that aren't focused entirely on …
We were pretty sure we wanted a WordPress site so that we had more control over the site itself, having been burned by third-party vendor sites before. The fact that WooCommerce integrates so well with WordPress was a big selling point for us. Magento would have been too heavy …
Since I don't use the e-commerce options constantly for my photography business, I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription and waste that budget during the months when I don't need any online booking options. WooCommerce allows me to install and uninstall plugins as needed to …
WooCommerce is customizable and can run on any platform. This is a double-edged sword though because you have to be familiar with website hosting. It is also nice that it is free. We compared it to Shopify which is nice because they take care of all of the hosting aspects, but …
We love the functionality of Wordpress itself, so that's why we ended up using WooCommerce to do checkout instead of going over to the Shopify platform. Wordpress allows us to do so much more with the backend code and customization of our website. We were not impressed with the …
The level of customization and ease of integration with an existing WordPress website makes it a good choice. Snipcart is better for developers or small sites and Shopify is an amazing e-commerce-optimized platform but if you have an existing website on Wordpress, it is much …
They're very similar to be honest, but from our experience and what I've seen online, WooCommerce seems to have better performance and pricing. I think they probably match in quality for most other features
WooCommerce is cheaper than the other solutions I evaluated. It is a more complicated platform but because of that it is much more flexible. In the end it was an easy choice to go with WooCommerce because we already were using WordPress for our website and it made sense to …
I have used WooCommerce longer than other products that I have tried. WooCommerce fits my requirements mainly for the value it offers based on the features available for the cost.
Especialista en Marketing Digital y Comercio Electrónico
Chose WooCommerce
I like WooCommerce because it can be optimized, customized and adapted to every business needs. That's because it's WordPress core, it helps us customize stores in ways we can only imagine and also we can implement Google AMP and PWA easier and faster than with other platforms. …
One single word: cost! Most WooCommerce alternatives have very high monthly or annual costs. WooCommerce permits to have an implementation cost (low or high based on customization) and a very low maintenance cost. Even if some plugins are very expensive, the maintenance cost is a …
CEO/President - 360° IT Consulting, Server Management, IT Security
Chose WooCommerce
Since WordPress is free, and the core WooCommerce is free, there is zero commitment to the system. Other e-commerce platforms have a monthly fee. Don't get me wrong, if you need the power of something you use the right tool for the job, but if you are okay working the code, …
Since WooCommerce has merged with WordPress, the integration has become even more seamless than ever before. The fact that the database space has been reduced because of the integration, has lightened the load on servers. The additional overhaul of variations has also taken a …