GoDaddy vs. WooCommerce

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GoDaddy
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
GoDaddy Web Hosting provides users with storage, email addresses, and unlimited bandwith.
$9.99
per month
WooCommerce
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
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.N/A
Pricing
GoDaddyWooCommerce
Editions & Modules
Basic
as low as $6.99
per month with an annual term
Basic
as low as $10.49
per month with an annual term
Premium
as low as $13.49
per month with an annual term
Commerce
as low as $14.99
per month with an annual term
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GoDaddyWooCommerce
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts available for annual subscription.Contact sales team for pricing
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
GoDaddyWooCommerce
Considered Both Products
GoDaddy
Chose GoDaddy
Whenever new clients come to me for website development, I begin our relationship by asking about domain registration and website hosting. I cringe when they say they use GoDaddy and often warn them that additional time and effort may be required to accomplish their goals. …
Chose GoDaddy
We tried putting one of our internal sites on Namecheap hosting. So far, it's fine. We don't have a lot of traffic to that site anyway, and aren't really needing much in the way of extra services. We primarily use Namecheap for SSL certificates, but GoDaddy is proving to be …
WooCommerce
Chose WooCommerce
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 …
Chose WooCommerce
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 …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
GoDaddyWooCommerce
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
GoDaddy
-
Ratings
WooCommerce
6.0
84 Ratings
25% below category average
Product catalog & listings00 Ratings6.683 Ratings
Product management00 Ratings6.184 Ratings
Bulk product upload00 Ratings2.267 Ratings
Branding00 Ratings6.673 Ratings
Mobile storefront00 Ratings6.177 Ratings
Product variations00 Ratings6.677 Ratings
Website integration00 Ratings6.784 Ratings
Visual customization00 Ratings6.681 Ratings
CMS00 Ratings6.663 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
GoDaddy
-
Ratings
WooCommerce
6.0
80 Ratings
23% below category average
Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings6.552 Ratings
Checkout user experience00 Ratings5.580 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
GoDaddy
-
Ratings
WooCommerce
5.5
75 Ratings
41% below category average
eCommerce security00 Ratings5.575 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
GoDaddy
-
Ratings
WooCommerce
5.1
83 Ratings
38% below category average
Promotions & discounts00 Ratings5.580 Ratings
Personalized recommendations00 Ratings4.966 Ratings
SEO00 Ratings4.972 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
GoDaddy
-
Ratings
WooCommerce
4.4
81 Ratings
56% below category average
Multi-site management00 Ratings1.740 Ratings
Order processing00 Ratings6.179 Ratings
Inventory management00 Ratings6.678 Ratings
Shipping00 Ratings2.273 Ratings
Custom functionality00 Ratings5.575 Ratings
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GoDaddyWooCommerce
Small Businesses
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
10Web
10Web
Score 8.3 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
GoDaddyWooCommerce
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(54 ratings)
7.1
(84 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.1
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(8 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
GoDaddyWooCommerce
Likelihood to Recommend
GoDaddy
Good for transferring over an existing site. Truth be told, I haven't used it for building a brand new site-- I know that this is a fairly common thing but I just never needed it. For what I've used it for, it has worked well. For a small business with anyone with a little bit of technical skill, it's surprisingly good.
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Automattic
[WooCommerce] does really well for simple stores that don't have a lot of products. It's really easy to set up and get products added so people can purchase them online. It's not the best for really complicated stores with products that need a lot of customization; you have to find 3rd-party plugins to add additional functionality to your store and sometimes those can create conflicts between one another.
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Pros
GoDaddy
  • Registering a domain - I've found their site to be the easiest to navigate
  • Website builder - their website builder is user friendly
  • Email hosting - easy to set up and use, wether in an email app or online email.
  • Wordpress hosting - I have multiple wordpress sites I use under one account
  • Their customer service is always very helpful and easy to contact.
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Automattic
  • Keeps track of product inventory, including details of product variations such as colors and sizes if required.
  • Keeps track of orders so that the shopkeeper has one place to log in and see the status and history of orders to her shop.
  • Creates shop-related pages automatically. Once you add one or more products, they will automatically appear on your shop home page. Additionally, pages for viewing shopping carts and for checking out are automatically created.
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Cons
GoDaddy
  • Support agents are woefully undertrained, even in knowledge of their own products.
  • Support agents will always try to upsell you, even when you're dealing with an urgent, high-impact issue.
  • There's no guarantee of uptime, and there will often be gaps in service as part of normal procedures.
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Automattic
  • Because of how the Wordpress database is structured, WooCommerce isn't great for large or complex e-commerce sites.
  • More out-of-the-box options would be nice within the base software.
  • Because add-on plugins are developed by 3rd parties, sometimes you get conflicts that break things.
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Likelihood to Renew
GoDaddy
We can't really choose anyone else and the cost/effort of moving all of the hosted data would be extremely large, and we just have to stick to them, and hope they improve service
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Automattic
Despite very rare glitches, more connected to an excessive number of plugins, that affect the speed of the site, we are extremely satisfied with the platform, the ability to import and export products, even though we just export them, as we have our proprietary system for updating inventories. We love the ease of upgrading, enhancing, innovating, and the freedom we have to do whatever we want, which is a plus, when you consider Shopify can take down your whole store as they please, if they think you aren't abiding to their TOS or their ever changing set of rules.
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Usability
GoDaddy
Some integration could be much cleaner and smoother. Seems it used to be easier. Plus, they took away the catch all email feature.
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Automattic
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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Support Rating
GoDaddy
I think a lot of companies can learn from GoDaddy's support team. I have found:
  • Chat or phone support is almost always available.
  • Their agents are friendly and helpful.
  • Their agents seem to care and be knowledgeable about a wide range of issues.
  • I rarely have to escalate my problem to get the support that I need.
  • If they can't help me, then they can tell me why something is happening and direct me to resources that can fix my problem.
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Automattic
not muh support
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Alternatives Considered
GoDaddy
We use Wix currently for our online store. It is nice and easy to use, but they don't offer the email domains as well (the last time we checked). They have pretty decent customization of the web page, but still limited. We're going to try it with GoDaddy, since we have other services from them already. It just doesn't make sense to pay two different companies for something we can do with one.
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Automattic
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 of a lift for our small dev team and we didn't want to rely on Shopify or BigCommerce (though all of those products could have their merits for other projects or clients).
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Return on Investment
GoDaddy
  • GoDaddy reduces our ROI by costing me in non-billable hours. I don't charge clients for sitting on the phone with tech support to power cycle the server or fix the php.ini file, so my $/hr takes a hit.
  • Their nickel&dime strategy requires I have an additional conversation with clients about their max recurring fees. Small as they are, I need approval for upping their bill. GoDaddy is only the cheap option if you don't value security, stability, or performance.
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Automattic
  • Positive: low cost to start up, and allowed us to start selling right away.
  • Negative: better plug-ins have a high cost of entry. For example if you want to do subscriptions you need a paid plugin for it.
  • Positive: easily integrates with PayPal and Stripe.
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