Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.
$12
per month
WooCommerce
Score 7.8 out of 10
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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.
Again, Squarespace is the best option for small businesses seeking an e-commerce solution. If you need more robust features, look to Drupal or WordPress, depending on site size. Weebly or Wix are solid options for basic sites, but I personally have had significant issues with …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I haven't used anything else, so I cannot comment too much on this. I use PayPal for single items instead of implementing WooCommerce, so I guess that's easy, but not great for non-developers (i.e. the client) to update. WooCommerce is a simple, very intuitive content …