Starting first ecommerce website

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I am going to start my first ecommerce site selling musical instruments & accessories. I have my domain and have an ipage hosting account. Here is where is would appreciate some advice...What is the best free eCommerce software that I could use to launch my store with? I am going to be selling amazon products and possibly other products from different sources. I was thinking about trying Magento or Woocommerce. Not sure what is better. I have wordpress installed just now.
 
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Woocommerce is fine for a small ecommerce website. If you're thinking big consider Magento.
 
Hello,

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Alright I am using WooCommerce. Still trying to find a good tutorial on how to setup the pages. In the settings the pages tab is gone.
 
Opencart is a good alternative if you wish to have a look around but I can vouch for WooCommerce too, it's a great platform.

Once you're established, adding more SKU's and gaining traffic, Magento is the daddy of e-commerce platforms, it's very powerful and feature packed but needs lots of resources.
 
Another +1 for Woocommerce. Your hosting, ipage, may not suffice though. I had to change to a VPS because shared hosting with woocommerce was way too slow, but test it out and see for yourself.
 
Alright I just switched my hosting to Hostwinds and purchased the WooCommerce Amazon Affiliate plugin. Now I just need to figure out how everything works haha. I am also looking for a cool theme though I am going to attempt to create my own.
 
Opencart is quiet simple, If you want excellent eCommerce to meet all your feature requirements also then you could choose magento but resources are low.
 
I would suggest you to start with WooCommerce. It is very easy.

Also, recently I have seen Shopify advertising on Facebook that you can sell directly in Facebook (Facebook Store) with their plugin installed. So you can consider Shopify as well.

I have tried to use Magento.. it is too complicated for me. I have WooCommerce Shop now. Much easy to manage.
 
I will have to look into those but i did just get the Kingdom amazon affiliate theme.
 
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