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.
They're very similar to be honest, but from our experience and what I've seen online, WooCommerce seems to have better performance and pricing. I think they probably match in quality for most other features
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 …
I maintained our online store using hardcoded Paypal shopping cart buttons for years. I have also used the MarketPress e-commerce plugin for WordPress, and currently, maintain one client store using the eStore plugin for WordPress. WooCommerce is far superior to any of these …
WooCommerce is customizable and can run on any platform. This is a double-edged sword though because you have to be familiar with website hosting. It is also nice that it is free. We compared it to Shopify which is nice because they take care of all of the hosting aspects, but …
Since I don't use the e-commerce options constantly for my photography business, I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription and waste that budget during the months when I don't need any online booking options. WooCommerce allows me to install and uninstall plugins as needed to …
Woocommerce is a free option and since I work with mostly small businesses who do not have the budget to subscribe to an expensive product on a monthly basis, it makes it really easy to help these companies get set up with their e-commerce store. Plus, it offers all the …
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 …
While I haven't tried other e-commerce plug-ins, WooCommerce satiates and satisfies all areas one could hope for and look to when shopping around. And in cross-referencing other reviews there is certainly enough to show that WooCommerce is an immensely powerful program that can …
WooCommerce is a good free version that's very customisable, but is not a smooth or polished platform. If you look at both dashboards between Shopify and WooCommerce you can see the difference is huge.
WooCommerce seems to be built for websites that aren't focused entirely on …
I have used WooCommerce longer than other products that I have tried. WooCommerce fits my requirements mainly for the value it offers based on the features available for the cost.
Platforms like Shopify are easier to set up and running and come with better default functionality. But if your business is successful you’ll quickly run into structural limitations: 1) can’t tweak the checkout flow 2) can’t make the site much faster or better for SEO 3) any …
Especialista en Marketing Digital y Comercio Electrónico
Chose WooCommerce
I like WooCommerce because it can be optimized, customized and adapted to every business needs. That's because it's WordPress core, it helps us customize stores in ways we can only imagine and also we can implement Google AMP and PWA easier and faster than with other platforms. …
Shopify is a premium e commerce platform tailored just for online shops. While WooCommerce is a plugin which has main platform as WordPress. Shopify is costly to have. Most of the basic shop functions that are offered in Shopify can be achieved using WordPress + WooCommerce …
Shopify while providing a more sophisticated user experience is less easy to integrate with an existing Wordpress website. Hence, WooCommerce is a go-to for those with existing Wordpress websites. Shopify provides a great store front of its own, and hence may be recommended for …
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 …
One single word: cost! Most WooCommerce alternatives have very high monthly or annual costs. WooCommerce permits to have an implementation cost (low or high based on customization) and a very low maintenance cost. Even if some plugins are very expensive, the maintenance cost is a …
Director of UX development, social media and SEO/SEM
Chose WooCommerce
If someone is tech challenged I would recommend Shopify. If someone is comfortable with WordPress or tinkering with software, I would highly recommend WooCommerce. You can do much more with WooCommerce but you will probably break your website a couple of times in the process. …