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Shopify or Woocommerce

  • 14-08-2020 04:40PM
    #1
    dahayeser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭


    A client was asking me to quote on an ecommerce site recently. I haven't done too many ecommerce sites to be honest but what I have done I have done with Wordpress / Woocommerce.

    The client mentioned Shopify. It kind of stopped me in my tracks. They could pretty much rig it up themselves and all for about 25EUR a month. 300, a year! Aside from the initial cost of setting up the Wordpress / Woocommerce site there is going to be an annual recurring charge of around 500 when you include domain, hosting, ssl cert and a developer to keep WP and plugings up to date! SSL, hosting and security are all managed for them on Shopify. Having the security taken is a huge headache out of the way!

    I will probably pass up on this if shopify is the best option, I don't know enough about it to sell it as a service to someone.

    I know there is a bit more flexibility with WP/woocommerce but I started to feel I'd be selling this person a pup by sending them down the woocommerce route.

    What do people here think?
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  • #2
    gary550
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭gary550


    dahayeser wrote: »
    A client was asking me to quote on an ecommerce site recently. I haven't done too many ecommerce sites to be honest but what I have done I have done with Wordpress / Woocommerce.

    The client mentioned Shopify. It kind of stopped me in my tracks. They could pretty much rig it up themselves and all for about 25EUR a month. 300, a year! Aside from the initial cost of setting up the Wordpress / Woocommerce site there is going to be an annual recurring charge of around 500 when you include domain, hosting, ssl cert and a developer to keep WP and plugings up to date! SSL, hosting and security are all managed for them on Shopify. Having the security taken is a huge headache out of the way!

    I will probably pass up on this if shopify is the best option, I don't know enough about it to sell it as a service to someone.

    I know there is a bit more flexibility with WP/woocommerce but I started to feel I'd be selling this person a pup by sending them down the woocommerce route.

    What do people here think?

    Depends on what they are selling.

    I initially had a shopify shop for my business but quickly moved to wordpress and never looked back because woo just suits what I sell better by allowing me to use advanced product addons and take advantage of things like conditional logic (which I couldn't do at the time on shopify).


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