I’m wondering if anyone can give feedback about shoppingcarts. It seems the factors are how many products a store has and plans to grow into and the features they need. However, after doing much research, my mind is spinning and if it’s not a huge store - 20K SKUs to use Magento - they seem similar.
Shopify seems limited and I’m a bit skeptical about how much customization that can happen stability-wise and concerned about the security of WooCommerce since it’s on WP and some potential limitations (speed?, etc) .
Does anyone have feedback about this and/or favorite ecommerce platforms they can recommend?
It’s for redesigning and reconfiguring this website.
I’ve used all 3 in the past and I’d go for Magento. The extensive plugins and fact that it’s E-commerce focused are the main reasons. Oh yeah, and its free.
Woo Commerce is a pain in the butt when you need added functionality (their prices are obnoxious too) and it comes with a host of problems because you’re using E-commerce on a platform that wasn’t designed from the ground up for E-commerce.
Shopify is a subscription, hosted and severely limited in functionality compared to Magento and Woo. I regret trying any hosted E-commerce app.
Magento is a bit of a pain if you are completely new to it but once you wrap your head around how it works it is pretty straightforward.
Woo Commerce is fine for small sites (easier to start with than Magento) but again, the add-ons turn out to be expensive since you have to buy a plugin for every little thing you want done. They were really good until they started jacking up prices and ignoring their customers. Heck, they even limited licenses that were once unlimited.
For example, if you want table rate shipping and CSV import you’ll have to fork out $400 extra on Woo Commerce.
We need to build this on a completely new eCommerce platform. It’s currently custom built in Symphony 1.0. It’s not updatable for the client and he wants to be able to update it himself hence Magento, WooCommerce, etc. Need to rebuild. Does that make sense?
The site you last linked to had a Flash “leather book cover design” thing, so I didn’t know if you meant site/page design, of if Magento sites could use flash to interact with them.
Hey Scully, the free edition is more than enough for what you need. Not to mention they are essentially the same product at the core and the enterprise is basically the free edition + very technical plugins + support.
That’s the enterprise dashboard but basically the free is the same from what I can remember. I haven’t used it recently though so I may not be 100% right.
The Community Edition of Magento is free and open-sourced, but as has been pointed out in this thread, there isn’t any official support.
You can find licensed developers to help you out, and there are great forums and message boards with a lot of helpful information. But you’re definitely going to want to look into all the functionalities that you’ll want to be baking into your site; the more you add to Magento, the more complicated things can get, from what I’ve heard.
Worth looking into might be a couple of other hosted shopping cart platforms: 3dCart and Bigcommerce are two really popular out-of-the-box options. They’re paid and proprietary, but I’ve seen newer sellers create really nice-looking (and responsive, to boot!) storefronts using these platforms, and without a lot of coding or design experience at all.
Magento offers great possibilities and flexibilities in making your desired eCommerce site. But if you go with Woo Commerce or WordPress, you would lose your efforts, because both these software don’t fulfill your requirements. So be careful in choosing the right one platform.
