Shopify or Wordpress/Woocommerce

Reggiekray92

Reggiekray92

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Which is the best in your opinion out of Shopify and Wordpress/Woocommerce?

Im looking to open a clothing business and just trying to figure out which to go for.
 
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if you prefer simplicity, less hassle and have a decent budget, you can use shopify.

if you like to control things, can manage web hosting and have less budget.. then Woocommerce
 
farisah said:
if you prefer simplicity, less hassle and have a decent budget, you can use shopify.

if you like to control things, can manage web hosting and have less budget.. then Woocommerce
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Yeah id prefer to have full control of everything, i just think shopify is the one EVERYONE uses including top brands and im just trying to figure out why
 
Each has their own plus and minuses -

1. Shopify requires a monthly payment and needs a Shopify developer who is capable enough to work with it. Woocommerce doesn't.
2. Shopify offers limited functionality - everything else is supported by third party plugins - a lot of them are unmaintained and/or require "complete access" to your store.
3. Woo comes with its own share of plugins, but, unlike shopify - most "WooCommerce plugins" are open source and a competent developer should be able to modify them to your requirement.
4. If you need a particular feature, it is easier to develop and deploy it on WooCommerce vs. Shopify.
5. WooCommerce needs to be hardened and kept updated. Shopify manages the security for you.

The reason you'll find most big brands using shopify is due to the Shopify partners tag. The bigger partners have enormous price tags that come attached to their work. But then these people are selling brand creatives and not websites.
 
BlogPro said:
Each has their own plus and minuses -

1. Shopify requires a monthly payment and needs a Shopify developer who is capable enough to work with it. Woocommerce doesn't.
2. Shopify offers limited functionality - everything else is supported by third party plugins - a lot of them are unmaintained and/or require "complete access" to your store.
3. Woo comes with its own share of plugins, but, unlike shopify - most "WooCommerce plugins" are open source and a competent developer should be able to modify them to your requirement.
4. If you need a particular feature, it is easier to develop and deploy it on WooCommerce vs. Shopify.
5. WooCommerce needs to be hardened and kept updated. Shopify manages the security for you.

The reason you'll find most big brands using shopify is due to the Shopify partners tag. The bigger partners have enormous price tags that come attached to their work. But then these people are selling brand creatives and not websites.
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I appreciate that detailed input buddy, Wordpress tickles my fancy more to be honest and i personally am more tuned in with it more.

In your opinion which one would you work with?
 
You could get spied on on shopify, as it's under the same server names. There's some tricks to counter that. If I was serious I'd go for woo, but shopify for ease of use and management. WordPress is good for low budget plus probably better site features.
 
Reggiekray92 said:
I appreciate that detailed input buddy, Wordpress tickles my fancy more to be honest and i personally am more tuned in with it more.

In your opinion which one would you work with?
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I made a test site with Shopify and personally wasn't such a huge fan.

Personally, I'd go with Woo. But again YMMV.
 
Shopify is the new trend and everyone i mean everyone is trying to get money from people. I tried shopify for 3 months, at the third month i got a bill of 100$ to pay, i mean wtf. Shopify has extra payment fees if you dont use shopify payments, only available in usa, and even if you're from usa they will find a way to tell you are a "risky" business and we cannot accept you to shopify payments any longer. Then you get stuck with other merchants where ofcourse shopify takes a fee.
Anyway what i find annoying with them is the fact that for everything you need an app and apps are not free either, even a stupid css popup will cost you 20$/m.
To modify checkout page you need to switch to $70/mo plan. I can go on and on..
Short story everyone is trying to profit so really not worth it.
After three months i switched to woocommerce, spent 1 month testing but at the end i have a solid shop and dont have to pay anybody a shit. There's plenty of helpful resources all over internet and their code does not limit you on anything
 
i just buy 1 and 1 hosting for like 12 dollars for the year, and use woo/wordpress and buy the domain for 1 dollar so like 13$ to start a wordpress site i use the divi theme also you can get a lot of plugins and themes free from the free thread here too

shopify is like 30 a month plus u gotta pay for the good plugins and yuou gotta pay for data etc
 
Shopify is trending because of all the Youtube marketers who pretends that create a store and becoming rich is easy as fuck.
They can't tell the same with WordPress/WooCommerce to somebody who don't ever know or can't really dig in what really is a website, domain name, WordPress, CSS/HTML, javascript, etc... (as many Youtube marketers)

With Shopify for each feature you want to add to your store, you have to pay but each new plugin you add to your store... slow your website :D but Shopify pockets grow faster :smirk:
 
I have a woocommerce store for about 4 months, woo can be sometimes pain in the ass if you are on low budget and don't know a shit about css/html like me but with patience and time and watching youtube tutorials you have the freedom to do what ever you want!!
 
DarkLine said:
I have a woocommerce store for about 4 months, woo can be sometimes pain in the ass if you are on low budget and don't know a shit about css/html like me but with patience and time and watching youtube tutorials you have the freedom to do what ever you want!!
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If you use premium theme you can always ask them for help.
 
Wordpress has plugins for aboslutely everything, you can get tons of templates optilized for whatever you need and SEO wise is better
 
I have multiple e-commerce stores and use shopify for all of them.
 
alice252293 said:
If you use premium theme you can always ask them for help.
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Sure you can but as i know most of the themes doesn't support you for customization,anyway you can always go for a custom theme from a designer i think it's the best option if you have the budget
 
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