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

Honestly I think WooCommerce is the easiest open-source e-commerce platform to get up and running vs the competition. I highly recommend it to my clients/colleagues and anyone else that asks. It makes getting a basic online store up and running easy and quick, which means you can start getting orders sooner.

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Jen Garfinkel-Canseco

Owner - Web Designer/Developer/Marketer

Programmer JenInternet, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

3dcart

7.3

WooCommerce

8.0

Product catalog & listings

8.0

8.1

Product management

8.0

8.3

Bulk product upload

10.0

7.3

Branding

7.0

7.5

Mobile storefront

7.0

8.3

Product variations

8.0

8.7

Website integration

5.0

8.7

Visual customization

8.0

6.5

CMS

5.0

8.2

3dcart

8.0

WooCommerce

7.6

Checkout user experience

8.0

Abandoned cart recovery

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7.2

3dcart

9.0

WooCommerce

8.9

eCommerce security

9.0

8.9

3dcart

8.0

WooCommerce

7.6

Promotions & discounts

8.0

7.9

Personalized recommendations

7.0

6.8

SEO

9.0

8.1

3dcart

6.8

WooCommerce

8.3

Order processing

8.0

8.4

Inventory management

5.0

8.3

Shipping

7.0

7.6

Custom functionality

7.0

8.0

Multi-site management

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9.0

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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WooCommerce is great because it is easy to set up, and easy for us to help our clients manage their products. Set up is usually less than a day, and we can get a handful of products up and configured in the first week. Plus, we are able to duplicate existing products, saving us time.
WooCommerce has a very detailed, robust support manual to help us get started and add products to the site.
There are numerous plugins available to enhance WooCommerce. In particular, a couple of plugins allow for further customization of the product page layout, colors and titles. Other plugins enhance the shopping cart experience.
WooCommerce follows the Wordpress structure of tags and categories, ensuring we will have an easy time organizing products.

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Tim Vahsholtz

Producer

Essential Sales TrainingMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 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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Customization: WooCommerce is not as strong in this regard, vs. major competitors.

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Kristin Kenney

Account Manager

Carol Cone ON PURPOSEMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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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Our site is working exceptionally well, it's easy to use, and works well for our clients. There's no reason to change anything.

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Gary Gray

Founder

Tech HavenEntertainment, 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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GoDaddy's product is sorely limited. Whereas it does have text fields as item add-ons, almost every other aspect of it is worse than WooCommerce. Images are saves as random number strings, taking away from the SEO power they could have with proper file names. Product Management is near impossible with GoDaddy QSC, and the visual layout is sorely lacking compared to WooCommerce.

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Casey Friday

Web Developer

Friday Next WordPress DevelopmentInternet, 1-10 employees

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