Shopify vs WooCommerce: Pros and Cons

According to Google Trends, both WooCommerce and Shopify are going up gradually, which has been foreseen by shopping cart experts in Top eCommerce platform 2016. They perform the best features for eCommerce merchants to choose and build an online store, however, you should see some reviews before deciding which is best for your business.

1.      1. Advantages

·        Shopify

-         Shopify is so user friendly that eCommerce merchants setup and run with few clicks. Plus, guides and extensive documentations are always available for support.

-         Shopify offers free hosting which means you just need to get an account then create your products right away.

-         Over 100 available beautiful and pro themes to decorate your  shop

-         Both quality and quantity of their designs are excellent and they are mobile-friendly (responsive). In case you don’t find one that fits your needs, you can either create your own or buy one.

-         Users can have full access to the code and can add new functions via their app market or API. A large App Store with 1,100 different Apps (both free and paid) for you to plug into your store.

-         Shopify is designed for both small and big business scale.

·        WooCommerce

-         WooCommerce is an open source plugin so free to install and offers many free themes, extensions. Paid extensions are also cheaper than different ones.

-         Its flexibility allows users to categorize products or give sale prices and other independent attributes.

-         Users can download about 2000 different themes in https://wordpress.org/themes/. With each selected theme, users can availably change pre-set CSS styles and color themes, tweak the code and experiment special features.

-         WooCommerce helps to control detailed order tracking and customer engagement tools which make service professional.

-         Analytic tools allow calculating daily sales, total sales, measuring the statistics for different customers individually, following the number of order, and determining change in trend, etc.

-         Large community with millions of users and thousands of active members on hand to give advices for people who have problem in setting WooCommerce up.

2.      2. Disadvantages

·        Shopify

-         Cost can rise dramatically once you add some 'apps' which really should be baked into the core platform

-         Can’t create new attributes for products without three default ones: size, color, and material

-         Limited payment gateways for the non-major markets (USA, Canada, UK)

·        WooCommerce

-         Because of just an eCommerce plugin, developer has to add multiple extensions and customize their site before running WooCommerce

-         Even though WordPress is free, it costs you a paid hosting

-         WooCommerce is a light platform, so it is not suitable for a big eCommerce store that has thousands of products.

As above information, we hope that you have a full look of two hot eCommerce platforms and can choose the best one for your store. In case you realize it isn’t the right one after using, contact Litextension team for support. We offer both WooCommerce to Shopify migration tool and vice versa, Shopify to WooCommerce migration tool

Change is not disloyal. Change sometimes makes something much better!