Question

I am looking to build an e-commerce website with a few hundred products and wanted to get your opinion on using Shopify or Wordpress with WooCommerce? Thanks!  

Answer 1

I wouldn’t use either of those for any more than 40-50 products. For hundreds look at Magento. CE version is free.  

Comments

@upcountry Idk what you're talking about. I have WooCommerce with 4000+ products.  

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Lol, I maange woo with more than 32k products

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2k products on my Woo site, runs great.  

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Magento is 100% headaches 100% of the time and the ecosystem is EXPENSIVE if you can’t develop everything yourself.  

Answer 2

Its all depend on your budget actually

Answer 3

I recommend custom. Good for seo and marketing. if you need a shop custom developed let me know.  

Answer 4

How much you want to spend also has a large impact , with magento cost would go higher upto 2x . Woocomerce should be just fine and well in budget.  

Answer 5

I would recommend looking at budget. You hire an like jeff bezos and he will write code in c++ but is it necessary. Are you backed by investment or fuel to negotiate on prices. VPS with woocomerce or even Shopify. Magento if can bear monthly maintenance costs and tantrums. Custom if you can relate to Jeffrey Preston Bezos.  

Answer 6

Shopify is the cheapest option and is a strong contender. If your products have variations, Magento would be a better option with the ability to create grouped or configurable products, while still keeping child products active for search or Google Shopping campaigns. I'd stay away from Woocomerce. Magento can get costly with programming.  

Answer 7

WooCommerce for sure.  

Answer 8

@tref77 opt for shopify anyday. Its better than woocommerce wordpressin terms of inline selling of products.  

Answer 9

Shopify or woocommerce

Answer 10

Opencart. com is the best option

Answer 11

Go for woocommerce, on initial stage you may face some problem but once your store start working well, you are owner of your store, no need to pay monthly rent l. e. Shopify

Answer 12

Honestly don't waste time on deciding what to choose. I personally will go with WooCommerce as I am pretty used to it now and can do stuff on woo in my sleep. You can pretty much do anything on any one of the platform one way or other and if cost is not a issue flip a coin, pick one and stick to it.  

Answer 13

@tref77 Shopify uis best

Answer 14

Shopify is best, If you want only ecommerce website

Answer 15

Woo-commerce works fine if it have not more 1500 products, andt I hope it will be not shared host with 512kb of Memory :)

Answer 16

Not enough information to give you a good answer. Taxonomy on Shopify can be a pain. The beauty of of Shopify is that you don't have to worry about hosting, plugin updates, woo updates, or merchant accounts.  

Answer 17

Are you doing Facebook ads or SEO?  

Answer 18

Really the only reason to go with Shopify is if you aren't proficient with WordPress (or don't have the budget to pay someone who is). It's a much better platform overall, and Shopify takes a bigger cut of sales.  

Answer 19

Wordpress with Woo

Answer 20

Shopify is easy to use but they suck for SEO. If it's only a few hundred products then Woo is the better choice. If you need help with optimizing the product descriptions, let me know & I can provide you with a quote.  

Answer 21

I usually lean towards Wordpress/Woo. There's a bit more work to set everything up, but you get much more freedom, access to the code, and it's easier/better for SEO purposes

Answer 22

The best would be opencart. com

Answer 23

Its all depends on - your budget, - How much customization you want - Whats your long term goal. - Whats your technical skills