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August 23, 2019
WooCommerce, powerful, flexible, and very customizable.
We use WooCommerce for our online store to sell books and other materials that we use for our ministry. It is only being used in one department. We use it on the same website that our main website is on. Because it is built to work on WordPress it is easy to maintain and update. I maintain the website and because it is the same platform I can easily maintain the online store as well. It allows us to have an inexpensive online store solution.
- Updating it is very easy because it runs on WordPress and you use WordPress' plugin update architecture.
- There are lots of third party plugins to add whatever functionality you need. You also only install the add-ons that you need so you don't have a very bloated system.
- There are many different payment systems that you can use with WooCommerce
- It is easy to add new products because it uses Wordpress' editor.
- It easily integrates with external services like print on demand services.
- Because of the add-ons you need to install to expand the functionality, it takes time to research each add-on
- It is not a "install and use right out of the box solution" like some online store services. You need to configure everything.
- To get a nice store you also have to configure all the other Wordpress parts like choosing a good Wordpress theme.
- It takes a lot of work to get a nice looking store
October 24, 2019
The king of Wordpress-based e-commerce
We currently use WooCommerce, with sales disabled, as a product portfolio and information provider at our website. Our clients need to ask for a quote in order to buy it but we do plan to activate the e-commerce function in the near future. Our website is currently in 9 different languages and we offer our products in more than 90 countries.
- Quick and easy e-commerce website for companies of any size.
- Scalability and integration, being part of WordPress make adding new functions to your page a breeze.
- Easy integration with translation plugins, making a multi-language website easy to build.
- Some updates break the multilingual website, its necessary to rebuild permalinks after each major update.
- Speed, when having many categories/products your performance can suffer.
- Could include better multi-currency support out of the box.
- We should be able to manually order taxonomies
- Should include a way to hide prices and ask for a quote instead.
November 05, 2019
Use WooCommerce and you're ready to sell.
WooCommerce is used for the realization of e-commerce or simple online catalogs for products.
- Simple
- Robust
- Easy to use
- For the Italian market, we need some field for "Partita iva" & "Codice Fiscale" that are used for our invoices
We use WooCommerce on three of our websites to sell various physical and digital products. The huge level of flexibility available due to the extensions and other plugins, as well as its ability to connect with other apps and services, is really appealing.
- Easy to use.
- Extremely flexible.
- Tons of available extensions.
- Connects to third-party services.
- Annual subscriptions can be expensive for small stores.
October 23, 2019
WooCommerce an easy, free way to start selling online
WooCommerce is used by our web design team. It is used to sell tours and promote events or sales. In selling travel, we don't have things that are purchased and shipped. The flexibility that WooCommerce has to sell products that are digital or linked to other sights is really beneficial. The products that we sell are travel packages. By using WooCommerce, we get the benefits of product custom post types, product tags and categories, and to arrange our tours in a way that the customer can search and find.
- WooCommerce is a flexible e-commerce platform that allows for many types of products/goods to be sold. In a previous role, I have used it for products and digital downloads. Now, I use it to sell travel, more of an event-type product.
- It is a free plugin for WordPress and is easy to install. Of course, there are paid upgrades and customization that you can do, but it is a really affordable way to get started in e-commerce.
- When you install the program, it installs/creates the necessary cart and check out pages if you don't already have them.
- There are a lot of features. If you are not using them, attributes, for example, you'll see them on every product backend page. A toggle in the setting would be nice to see.
- It is widely used. If you don't customize your theme a lot of shops will look like yours.
August 28, 2019
Most versatile web shop that you can build in-house
We have built an online parts store to sell hundreds of products through an online shop. The whole Export department works with this shop and it saves us so much time vs. the conventional method of quoting parts via email and doing the whole quoting/freight/shipping/invoicing/payment process via back-and-forth email correspondence. The benefits are a streamlined, uniform and professional business process.
- Professional presentation
- Automated processes
- Expandable
- Translatable
- Improve integration with front end builders
- Can get complex and expensive pretty quickly if you have to rely on multiple plugins
December 21, 2018
Looking at WooCommerce? What Are You Waiting For?!
Our organization uses WooCommerce to power multiple online storefronts. It allows us to sell everything from bowling shirts, bowling jerseys to memberships. The great thing about WooCommerce is the flexibility to customize the product pages and overall any aspect of the customer experience on the website. Adding additional plugins is usually very straight-forward, and unlike many other platforms, the plugins are more affordable.
- WooCommerce pages are easy to customize and are optimized for mobile.
- Ability to create global add-ons for specific product categories.
- Adding additional plugins to optimize the site is generally affordable and can usually be done without a developer.
- There's no cost to get started.
- Compared against other platforms, you'll need to purchase your domain, SSL certificate, and hosting account.
- Creating products, attributes, and categories may be tricky for inexperienced users (not hard once you get the hang of it).
- Installing and configuring plugins may be tricky for inexperienced users.
- Default reporting could be better, but additional plugins can be purchased.
March 26, 2019
A better E Commerce Solution
Currently, I am at a Start-Up Website Marketing company. We offer numerous different services to help Small Businesses achieve success. I currently use WooCommerce to sell full E-Commerce stores, as well as different marketing packages for Small Businesses. I am currently the only person working for my company. WooCommerce makes it possible for a small business such as myself to sell products and services.
- It gives someone with limited web design experience the ability to easily sell products and services.
- It easily integrates with Wordpress.
- It is free to start and get set up.
- It would be nice to have more access to tutorials on how to set up some of the more complicated features.
- The shopping cart page itself would be a little challenging for a beginner to set up.
- A larger variety of display options would be helpful.
January 26, 2019
Simply the best e-commerce CMS that I have used.
I am a web developer with several years of experience, and WooCommerce has been a very important tool in my field. It has all the functions that are needed to develop an online store and without having to be an expert in programming. Almost everything is done and the work time is translated into filling the web content and fixing the visual part of it. In my organization, we use it throughout my department for the virtual stores that we are asked to develop.
- It is the most customizable of all the e-commerce CMS that I have tried.
- It is constantly updated to further increase the security of the site.
- The code is very well optimized and has a good SEO, in fact, the sites that I have developed in WooCommerce are among the first places of the main search engines.
- The installation is very simple and has few steps, so in a matter of minutes you can set up a whole WooCommerce site.
January 09, 2019
Create a virtual store in less time than in other ecommerce CMS
I'm in charge of a software development department and we do projects for third-party companies. Woocommerce has been very useful when we have developed websites dedicated to virtual stores since it is very easy to use and the interface is very nice for any user without experience. It is very easy to train any new staff in our company to be able to develop sites with Woocommerce.
- The functionality can be expanded through dedicated plugins, which is very helpful for the creation of more complex sites.
- It is free and there is no need to pay for licenses to use, which leads to saving money.
- Actually, there are no important contras except for being a WordPress plugin and not a CMS dedicated only to eCommerce.
- By default, it has the most useful functions but there are situations in which it is necessary to install plugins to obtain certain functions.
- Many plugins for WooCommerce are paid but it's worth paying for it.
I have implemented WooCommerce as the eCommerce solution for clients' WordPress (WP) based websites. It is a simple and easy to use solution for managing products, inventory, pricing, and easily integrates into WP's backend for managing the content of all of the above.
- Managing product content including pricing, discounts, and descriptions
- Managing inventory of physical products
- Managing sales and access of digital products and subscriptions
- Payment methods - for a native experience you're basically restricted to using Stripe, Paypal, or Square to accept payments. This has been an issue for clients I've worked with that already have a preferred payment gateway vendor. There are integrations you can use, but this leads to either an iFrame checkout experience, or worse a completely separate site - not ideal.
- This is not strictly about WooCommerce, but the ease of use of the product management backend is very dependent on the how well your WP theme integrates with it. I'd recommend using Themes specifically built to be a WooCommerce Shop. Trying to fit WooCommerce in after the fact to a theme not designed for it initially can be a little confusing.
November 23, 2018
WooCommerce makes selling merchandise a breeze
WooCommerce was fully integrated into the website template that was purchased and is being used by the adminstator/owner of the business. It addresses all aspects of sales within the website. The customer can easily shop, add items to their cart and gets emails notifying them of the status of their order. The business gets notified of sales, gets pertinent information from and about the customer and emails to the customer are fully automated. Sale stats are also easily accesible as well as inventory.
- Integrates fully into my WordPress template making the whole shopping experience easy.
- You can tailor it to fit your needs so it's personalized.
- It's easy to use. A novice can learn and use WooCommerce with little effort.
- I'd like to be notified when a customer cancels an order.
- Setting up international shipping was a bit difficult.
- Didn't find it easy to edit the 'new order email'.
November 08, 2018
WooCommerce Helps Woo Customers
WooCommerce is an eCommerce solution that my agency, Webidextrous.com, implements and supports for a variety of companies and organizations. It addresses the need many organizations have to sell physical, virtual, and downloadable goods and services online without overwhelming smaller budgets. Webidextrous clients are able to quickly roll out an online store that scales quickly and easily and connects to payment and fulfillment gateways with ease.
- Easy to add and edit products via the WordPress editor or bulk editor.
- Connect to multiple payment and shipping gateways
- Customizable purchase process and user interface
- Add product variations and product images for each variation
- Filtered product search
- Reliance on meta table for storing and accessing product and order data. (Coming soon)
- Better reporting interface. (Coming soon)
- Option to more easily choose between multi-page or single page cart/checkout.
- Auto refresh the price totals on cart page when quantity changes using AJAX.
- Show “-” and “+” buttons around the quantity field.
- Show confirmation before user changes quantity to zero.
We are able to list our items and display them in beautiful fashion. The site runs smoothly and the best part of all, I'm not paying monthly fees like you would with other eCommerce solutions. If you have a domain and a host, just sign up for WordPress and install woo-commerce today. We are using it for multiple purposes. On one site, we use it to sell our product. On an entire different domain, we have used it as a way to accept donations to specific cause. There are so many plugins that we can modify the use of WooCommerce on each domain to solve different business problems and address different needs. We use WooCommerce on any site we have that runs on the WordPress platform.
- WooCommerce makes it extremely simple to list new products and update existing products. The layout is completely easy to understand and with a very light learning curve. On our very first store, we were able to have products listed in the first hour of going live.
- Additional plugins may also be added to make WooCommerce even more powerful. WooCommerce on its own is extremely useful. However, once you add additional plugins, you can really unlock the full power of woocommerce. The best part is that it will not cost you an arm and a leg, and most plugins are completely free for the basic features.
- Additional free themes. There seems to be a lack of free thremes that come with WooCommerce alrady built it. There are 3rd parties that have great one however. For now, we recommend sticking with the dedicated WooCommerce theme, Storefront.
- WooCommerce has a feature that calculates shipping costs automatically. We have found these rates to not always be very accurate and some users often pay more or less than what it actually costs us to ship the product. These can be easily adjusted, however by a few settings changes.
- I fee like the system gets a bit bogged down on resources due to all the additional free plugins I install to make WooCommerce more powerful. I feel as though many of these features should just come standard in the initial WooCommerce package, since they are usually very important.
November 07, 2018
WooCommerce Hits the Sweet Spot
I run a small web design studio that specializes in working with clients in the design field, including art and antique dealers. I use WooCommerce to add the ability to easily display their inventory on their websites. Some clients sell directly online, but most of my clients do not like to make the prices public. For those clients, WooCommerce makes it easy to display products and accept inquiries.
- Very easy to set up. It takes less than hour to get the foundation for an online store together using their setup wizard.
- The checkout process is very easy for customers.
- The back-end is very easy for my clients to manage their inventory, customers, and order.
- WooCommerce integrates well with several popular WordPress themes. They do a great job of making it technically possible to customize the look and style of your e-commerce store.
- The search function is weak. By default, it only searches the product title, not SKU, description, etc.
- You have to use a third-party plug-in to easily import products in bulk. It would be nice if that was in the WooCommerce core.
- Small thing, but I'd like to be able to easily customize the columns in the back-end product listing; to be able to pick and choose which information shows for each product, including custom fields.
November 01, 2018
My Experience with WooCommerce
I have used WooCommerce in the past and I enjoyed it for the time that I had. It was a learning experience for me since I don't have a background in coding. Turns out, with WooCommerce you don't need those skills. I was able to import my products and edit them accordingly to work for my business. It's a great program to start you out, especially since it is very affordable to use.
- It is very simple and basic. So you don't have to worry about advanced stuff that can bother your workflow.
- I think WooCommerce can really excel by adding more apps to be able to work with the program.
- I also think it should be a little more streamlined to increase workflow and functionality.
I have used it in the past to try and sell digital products. I am coming back to it as the best option for compatibility with themes, builders, and plugins. I want to sell bundled graphics, themes, and templates, and WooCommerce offers the best solution for this. It allows for digital products and to denote whether it is completely virtual or not. I can customize how my products look, use galleries to give more product photos, and track my sales in real-time. When I first started using it years ago, the customization was lacking, but now it integrates with Elementor, giving me full control on how my pages look.
- Offers integration with multiple payment gateways - This is especially nice if you don't want to be tied into Paypal. I use Square and was able to get a free add-on to connect my shop to Square.
- Integrates with a number of themes and page builders - You don't need to get a specific theme to set up a shop. Most fully integrate with WooCommerce, which means keeping your existing website as it is.
- The settings easily allow for different types of products out of the box. Want to sell books or T-shirts? You can set up shipping profiles, gather shipping information, and stay on top of order fulfillment. Selling digital goods? You can set the download link so that customers get their downloads immediately after purchase.
- The emails that are auto-generated are customizable. Whether you just want to add branding colors or change the text, you can do it.
- WooCommerce's interface looks very similar to what it did years ago. While features may have improved, sometimes finding where those features live to make changes can be a challenge.
- While I can make larger changes to how my shop page looks, some of the actual product pages are set in stone. It takes knowledge of PHP and coding to make changes to the template or the purchase of WooCommerce's shortcode plugin to get more flexibility. Having some layout options for how the product page looks would be great from non-coders.
- WooCommerce is still very much geared towards physical products. While it has a few options for digital products, expanding these features would make WooCommerce more competitive against other plugins such as Easy Digital Downloads.
November 01, 2018
Best E-Commerce Platform for SMEs
Our organization is a blog which is developed using WordPress. We wanted to add an online store to sell digital books. The WooCommerce plugin let us simply create an online store in the same WordPress installation and manage it along with the blog in a single dashboard. WooCommerce is an easy-to-use and stable solution for e-commerce.
- 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
- 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
I use WooCommerce for both my personal business websites as well as for the websites for my clients. WooCommerce is my first choice for e-commerce software.
- Out of the box, WooCommerce gives you all the basics you need to get an e-commerce website up and running quickly and simply. Once you add some extensions, it's one of the most powerful e-commerce open-source software out there, and I've worked with all of the top software.
- Basic configuration of a store with WooCommerce is easy and quick to understand, the user-friendly interface really makes it a no-brainer.
- Thanks to the excellent integration with WordPress, WooCommerce makes extending easy with plugins that are really plug and play. Whether you need a simple basic or a complex advanced e-commerce platform, you can easily make it happen with WooCommerce.
- The user-friendliness of WooCommerce really makes it easy for my clients to administrate their online stores once I've built their site....my clients love it, and so do I.
- I would prefer to see more shipping plugins available in the core WooCommerce, as many of the shipping plugins are pricey. Sometimes my clients balk at the cost when adding more than 1 shipping option.
- I'd like to see some more options for the reports section, as more advanced reporting would be awesome...though there are plugins for many things, it would be nice to see the core product offer it.
- I'd also like to see the ability to customize design and layout without having to need additional plugins.
July 23, 2018
My WooCommerce Experience
I started using WooCommerce as the main E-commerce platform for my webshop a year ago. It easily integrated with my WordPress shop page with just a few clicks. It makes it easy to track my inventory and to add new products to the store with help of SKU number. It has neatly organizational tools for my products and product categories.
- Coupon integration: With the coupon, system integrated you can easily attract your loyal customers with some catchy coupon codes, which in return would reward them with some sort of discount or free shipping.
- Organizational tools: Everything is neatly organized when it comes to your products or product categories. As long as you know how you want to categorize your products you can do it all with help of WooCommerce.
- Insight & Sale tracking: WooCommerce has a great way of manipulating your sales, changing the statuses of your orders and getting some fully detailed reports are just a breeze.
- If you are familiar with WordPress it won't be a problem for you, but if you are not "Archived pages" for your products can be a pain, which means you cannot make unique product page but all products will be unified. There is a workaround for this issue but only for more experienced WordPress users.
- Frequent updates: This is not a bad thing, but keep in mind that you should do a backup of your database everytime you update your WooCommerce addon. This is a time-consuming task and it happens more often in my honest opinion.
- Wishlist: This functionality is hardest to use and to get accustomed to, WooCommerce should make some changes in this area for people to start using their Wishlist instead of 3rd party ones.
November 01, 2018
Efficient ecommerce platform
I have used WooCommerce together with WordPress to design and develop ecommerce web applications for diverse clients. WooCommerce ecommerce web applications are easy to manage for clients and also have less operational costs compared to other platforms.
- Simplified ecommerce website development and management.
- Integration with other tools necessary for successful ecommerce website running.
- Availability of a large user community.
- WooCommerce requires a skilled WordPress and WooCommerce expert to develop.
WooCommerece has allowed us to set up advance payment procedures for all of our hosts on LutheranBnB.com. Without WooCommerce's vast number of plugins and features, we wouldn't be operating.
- Customizable product options
- Coordination between different plugins
- Customer friendly front end
- We run a booking company that allows other vendors to list their homes on the website. For people with some web knowledge it is easy enough to figure out. But people without that knowledge found it difficult to set up their listing.
- Making it easier to change what products are called would alleviate some questions.
- Providing a front facing interface for our vendors would be good.
November 01, 2018
Robust ecommerce solution
I have used WooCommerce in the development of different ecommerce web applications. WooCommerce is easy to install in just a few clicks. We use this solution as the ecommerce platform of choice for running ecommerce websites.
- It is easy to install.
- It is easy to create and manage products.
- It is affordable.
- It integrates with other tools required in ecommerce.
- The response rate time for website is low sometimes.
- Requires skilled web developers to implement.
November 01, 2018
Love WooCommerce for its price, power, and flexibility!
I'm using WooCommerce to run an online education platform, and it's amazing. The plugin system allows me to find solutions for just about any requirement I need. It's simple to use, affordable (free), and just works. I couldn't be happier with it as an eCommerce solution and highly recommend it to anyone looking to do something similar.
- Pricing
- Extensibility
- Ease of Use
- Nothing I've run into yet
June 17, 2018
WooCommerce, a good starting place
As a baby apparel manufacturer distributor, we use WooCommerce as our forward facing e-commerce to the retail space. WooCommerce does a good job, but its strength is also a weakness.
- There are hundreds if not thousands of plug-ins. This lets you customize WooCommerce to meet you specific needs.
- WooCommerce is very inexpensive to free for both the core system and most of the plug-ins.
- Want to go "custom", finding a consultant/developer is quite easy, finding a really good one, a little to lot more difficult
- The more plug-ins, the slower your server becomes.
- The more plug-ins, the greater a chance they won't play nicely together
- The more plug-ins, the greater the chance that the publisher of the plug-in will disappear and leave you in a lurch.
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About WooCommerce
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. The free core includes: Storefront, a free WordPress theme designed for eCommerce, 5 pre-installed payment gateways (including PayPal and Direct Bank Transfer), coupons, shipping and cart calculators, product listing management and customer account registration, among other features. Many many extensions are available, such as WooCommerce Bookings, for e-merchants selling appointments, services, or rentals.
According to WooThemes (per Builtwith.com), WooCommerce has > 9,524,908 downloads and powers > 30% of online stores.
According to WooThemes (per Builtwith.com), WooCommerce has > 9,524,908 downloads and powers > 30% of online stores.
Categories: Ecommerce
WooCommerce Integrations
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WooCommerce Technical Details
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