Business Technology Magento vs WooCommerce vs ?

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  1. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Founder Staff Member

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    Curious to know what eCommerce software people are using?
     
    Simon Hampel, 30th Sep, 2016
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  2. Kesse

    Kesse Well-Known Member

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    I use a bespoke product/wp plugin that is made specifically for selling photos online - Sunshine Photo Cart. Then I was stripe as the merchant facility.
     
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  3. abbyfresh

    abbyfresh Well-Known Member

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    I'm using Woocommerce since the last 12 months. Works well if you're already tied to wordpress for your site, aren't running a massive online shop etc.

    Was using OsCommerce for 10 year prior which served well.
     
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  4. Mitchell

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    I use WooCommerce. I don't have any coding knowledge but have managed to build a couple of websites using Wordpress. Just lots of searching for a fix when something goes wrong!
     
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  5. Srini Ranganathan

    Srini Ranganathan Active Member

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    We're using OpenCart. Has a pretty good back-end for order processing, email notification etc. and support. Also supports multiple stores as we will end up with retail and wholesale sites.
     
    Srini Ranganathan, 30th Sep, 2016
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  6. moyjos

    moyjos Well-Known Member

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    I use OpenCart too. I will admit to being a bit of a tightarse and hate paying for stuff if there is a free alternative. I have enough of a brain to be able to work out freeware when it has decent documentation. OpenCart has a FANTASIC community that answers any question really quickly.
     
    moyjos, 1st Oct, 2016
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    I just had a store built using Wordpress/Woocommerce. Early days yet so I can't really comment on how good it is but was sold on it being good for SEO.
     
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  8. RoboHaus

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    I'm building a Magento 2 site because the range of products I expect to list are large and I've been told wordpress solutions wouldn't handle it. And having used joomla in the past I thought I'd step up to Magento.

    One thing I didn't know was that you cannot operate just from the admin GUI, Magento requires a mix of backend GUI and CLI commands to work.
     
    RoboHaus, 23rd Nov, 2016
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    I have used Shopify for over a year now. It’s easy to use, can be customised and provides a modern shopfront which is user friendly for customers.
     
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  10. Little Tim

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    Woocommerce is easy for the average person imo
     
    Little Tim, 18th Feb, 2019
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