1ShoppingCart vs WooCommerce

1ShoppingCart

If you need an ecommerce, email marketing and affiliate program - it is great to have this all in one solution. Larger businesses with many employees in remote locations may need a different solution. If you do not need ecommerce or affiliate, you can use a lower cost program that costs less. The learning curve is short for a solo entrepreneur with some technical knowledge.

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Karen Repoli

Internet Marketing Specialist: Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Blogging

HIT VirtualInternet, 1-10 employees

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WooCommerce

WooCommerce can support pretty much any website's eCommerce needs but may need heavy customization to achieve more complex and difficult use case scenarios. If you have millions of monthly users, WooCommerce tables and code will need to be heavily modified and tuned for an optimal experience. Clearing transients and other "housekeeping" data regularly is one way to improve performance.

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Rob Watson

CEO

Webidextrous.comInternet, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

1ShoppingCart

7.9

WooCommerce

8.4

Product catalog & listings

7.5

8.5

Product management

8.0

8.5

Bulk product upload

9.0

7.8

Branding

7.5

8.6

Mobile storefront

9.0

8.6

Product variations

9.0

8.7

Website integration

7.0

8.8

Visual customization

7.0

7.5

CMS

7.0

8.7

1ShoppingCart

8.0

WooCommerce

8.3

Abandoned cart recovery

9.0

8.1

Checkout user experience

7.0

8.5

1ShoppingCart

7.5

WooCommerce

8.6

eCommerce security

7.5

8.6

1ShoppingCart

7.5

WooCommerce

8.1

Promotions & discounts

8.0

8.2

Personalized recommendations

7.5

7.6

SEO

7.0

8.4

1ShoppingCart

9.0

WooCommerce

8.4

Multi-site management

9.0

8.7

Order processing

9.0

8.9

Inventory management

9.0

8.5

Shipping

9.0

8.2

Custom functionality

9.0

7.8

Pros

Email Marketing - Easy to use templates but you can also use your custom html template.
Managing your list - It is easy to set up separate lists and create opt in forms for each one. It allows multiple opt in forms with customized messages for all steps of the opt in process.
Ecommerce - Setup of your product or service is easy. You can use buy now type buttons on the 1ShoppingCart store. Integration with your merchant account or Paypal is offered.
Includes an affiliate management option. This module allows you to manage an affiliate with custom links and an area to post materials for affiliates to use - such as banners.

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Karen Repoli

Internet Marketing Specialist: Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Blogging

HIT VirtualInternet, 1-10 employees

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Easy to add and edit products via the WordPress editor or bulk editor.
Connect to multiple payment and shipping gateways
Customizable purchase process and user interface
Add product variations and product images for each variation
Filtered product search

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Rob Watson

CEO

Webidextrous.comInternet, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Customer Service - You have to pay in order to speak to a live customer service rep.

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Karen Repoli

Internet Marketing Specialist: Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Blogging

HIT VirtualInternet, 1-10 employees

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Reliance on meta table for storing and accessing product and order data. (Coming soon)
Better reporting interface. (Coming soon)
Option to more easily choose between multi-page or single page cart/checkout.
Auto refresh the price totals on cart page when quantity changes using AJAX.
Show “-” and “+” buttons around the quantity field.
Show confirmation before user changes quantity to zero.

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Rob Watson

CEO

Webidextrous.comInternet, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

1ShoppingCart5.5

Based on 2 answers

If I were in charge of the renewal decision I would really take a look at 1SC vs. Infusionsoft. There are many ways each are great and many ways they are different. I would look at what was best for my company and make the choice accordingly. I find that Infusionsoft has many more ways to intuitively market, segment and cultivate new leads and grow the business as a whole than 1SC currently has.

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Eliza Hammesfahr Ceci

Owner

Peace on My PlateProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees

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WooCommerce10.0

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Easy to set up. Easy to use. Very low investment upfront. The investment is basically the cost of hiring someone to build the website, hosting, and any plugins necessary.

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Joshua Burcham

Designer & Owner

BURCHAMMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Usability

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WooCommerce7.0

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I gave it lots of points for being a simple product that instantly gives you a store. Very intuitive and simple for the client to update or implement. Loses LOTS of points when you want to do anything besides just sell stuff (coupons, etc) then it makes you pay big money for the add-ons and makes it difficult and time-intensive to develop your own.

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Katie Miller

Web Developer

SnapShot InteractiveMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

1SC was chosen years ago for the companies I've used it for. At that point they were one of the only companies offering this kind of service. The ability to have customers all in one place, have opt-ins to keep building the list and ability to add hundreds of products and programs and add these to the website are all reasons the company continues to use 1SC

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Eliza Hammesfahr Ceci

Owner

Peace on My PlateProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees

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I have used Easy Digital Downloads. While this platform is specifically geared towards digital only shops, it only integrates with Paypal on their free version. I personally don't like Paypal as a payment gateway, and opted for an option that would be more flexible. The product page layout was more to my liking with EDD but WooCommerce simply has more features available for free.

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Megan Bailey

Business Owner

Rockstar Creative StudioOnline Media, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Better ability to gather information quickly for customers to support in the customer service response time
Faster lead conversion
Ability for multiple users to use the product under different user names so the team can work on different projects at once
Unless you know HTML the newsletters can take some time to be formatted correctly based on other programs

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Eliza Hammesfahr Ceci

Owner

Peace on My PlateProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees

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The basic platform of WooCommerce is free and WooCommerce gives new updates without any premium subscriptions. That is a positive reason to use WooCommerce.
In order to have a stable store, WooCommerce needs to have secured hosting, which is costly.
WooCommerce Analytics is very descriptive for understanding business growth.

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