3dcart vs WooCommerce

3dcart

3dcart works well for small to medium size businesses that want to take care of their own website and product uploads and have the time to stay on top of inventory management. It does not work as well for a business who wants to just "turn it on" and forget about it unless they are able to integrate their POS system with 3dcart to manage inventory.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 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

3dcart

7.3

WooCommerce

8.4

Product catalog & listings

8.0

8.5

Product management

8.0

8.5

Bulk product upload

10.0

7.8

Branding

7.0

8.6

Mobile storefront

7.0

8.6

Product variations

8.0

8.7

Website integration

5.0

8.8

Visual customization

8.0

7.5

CMS

5.0

8.7

3dcart

8.0

WooCommerce

8.3

Checkout user experience

8.0

8.5

Abandoned cart recovery

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8.1

3dcart

9.0

WooCommerce

8.6

eCommerce security

9.0

8.6

3dcart

8.0

WooCommerce

8.1

Promotions & discounts

8.0

8.2

Personalized recommendations

7.0

7.6

SEO

9.0

8.4

3dcart

6.8

WooCommerce

8.4

Order processing

8.0

8.9

Inventory management

5.0

8.5

Shipping

7.0

8.2

Custom functionality

7.0

7.8

Multi-site management

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8.7

Pros

SEO - 3dcart is built in such a way that even if you do no SEO work at all, as long as you use the meta description wizard on each page or product you wind up still searching pretty well in Google.
Product uploads - Product uploads are easy to do with 3dcart's .csv import/export feature. No need to struggle with messy simple and variable uploads like on WooCommerce, 3dcart takes the guesswork and hassle out of uploading different product types.
Media uploads - Media uploads are quick and simple and the uploader always works.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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It's a stable and easy-to-use e-commerce plugin with WordPress
WooCommerce is a free platform
WooCommerce supports almost every payment gateway providers
Making a digital product store is simple with WooCommerce

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Shehan Marasinghe

Founder

NerdynautPublishing, 11-50 employees

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Cons

3dcart does not connect to many of the POS systems my clients use so we need to manually update inventory daily/weekly.
There are many modules available to do many different things, but it makes you feel like you are being tickled and died to death to get the site to do exactly what you want. Also can be confusing if you don't know what you actually need.
It's a little difficult/confusing to upload products with multiple variations - ie: color and size - especially if there are multiples colors and multiple sizes.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Some WooCommerce plugins are a bit expensive
Requires a good programming knowledge to do advanced developments
Need to have secured web hosting, which is costly

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Shehan Marasinghe

Founder

NerdynautPublishing, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Not applicable - as a franchisee, the franchiser took over the web site and shopping cart capabilities, so I no longer need the tool. But I would recommend it.

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Mark Madans

Owner

HOCOA North AtlantaConsumer Services, 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

I found 3dcart to be the most cost effective and easiest to use for my smaller to medium sized business clients.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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WooCommerce is an open source platform; therefore people like it more than other e-commerce platforms. WooCommerce has a wider audience and a community that develops plugins to enhance the store features and solve problems. WooCommerce integrates almost every payment gateway and supports them without any additional charging for the service. The large number of available free plugins for WooCommerce makes it more valuable.

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Shehan Marasinghe

Founder

NerdynautPublishing, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

3dcart has enabled my clients to quickly and easily get up and running with an online store giving them an almost immediate ROI.

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Tracy Beers

Owner

Snowsports Marketing GroupMarketing and Advertising, 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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Shehan Marasinghe

Founder

NerdynautPublishing, 11-50 employees

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