Item: WooCommerce
Rating: 6
Author: Jeff Montgomery

Overall Satisfaction with WooCommerce

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WooCommerce for one of our e-commerce checkout platforms on one of our websites. We were looking to integrate an e-commerce solution with Wordpress, and this one seemed to be the most widely used plugin, as well as the most stable. It also has a variety of features that allow us to customize the product, shipping, and checkout options. We also integrated other plugins that work well with WooCommerce.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ease of install
Works well with other plugins
Is updated regularly
Offers a variety of product, shipping, and checkout solutions

Cons

Too much bloated code
The code runs on every page of the website
The coupon code options are limited

Return on Investment

Easy to get the storefront up and running
Order management is super easy
Bloated code has caused us to install other caching plugins just to stop the slow page loads

Alternatives Considered

Shopify

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 limited functionality that Shopify presented to us in regards to regular pages.

Key Insights

Do you think WooCommerce delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with WooCommerce's feature set?

Yes

Did WooCommerce live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of WooCommerce go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy WooCommerce again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Shopify, Wix, Squarespace

Likelihood to Recommend

WooCommerce is a great out of the box solution for those who are looking for an easy install and checkout. However, if you're looking to "get cute" with your customization options, as well as really rely heavily on plugins to work simultaneously alongside WooCommerce, the system can become rather big quickly leading to bloated and slow loading code. Eventually we ran into the situation where the pages loaded so slow that we had to start getting help from caching plugins just to subdue WooCommerce itself.

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