Item: WooCommerce
Rating: 9
Author: Kevin Miller

Overall Satisfaction with WooCommerce

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WooCommerce has a love and hate relationship with many web designers and users alike. Over the years, it's been pretty much the only option we have when using Wordpress. Once you get comfortable with the platform it's not that bad besides the expensive official plugins. While there are many plugins that offer premium functions for free, some can only be performed by an official WooCommerce plugin which almost always incurs a monthly or yearly fee.

All in all, it can handle digital goods, physical goods and subscriptions pretty well with all the new updates and hopefully it keeps building.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Providing an easy and secure platform to offer your products and services.
Various expandable shipping options for every use case.
You can usually find a plugin or service to fit every need you require to succeed in your business venture.

Cons

A much better an updated design would help it stand with newer alternatives
Better options for digital goods

Return on Investment

I've always been able to make it work

Usability

It's easy to pick up on your own but more importantly it's easy to teach to new website owners, because it's the only thing they'll really tinker with besides posting new blog post.

Alternatives Considered

Weblium and Shopify

WooCommerce has been here through many successes and failures for rivals but Shopify has a ton of new features that, in my opinion, the WooCommerce team should take a look at. A modern facelift and a complete review of the systems and I think it'll get to where it needs to be.

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

Moxie, Proton Mail, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great and robust platform for all levels of wordpress education. With the ecosystem behind it, newcomers shouldn't have a problem navigating the UI.

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