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Is Wordpress any Good for Ecommerce?

Discussion in 'eCommerce' started by jj1, Sep 8, 2010.

  1. anthonylatona

    anthonylatona Peon

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    #21
    i agree with RichestGirl, use WP for your blog and content and use something like magento for your ecommerce store.
     
    anthonylatona, Oct 3, 2010 IP
  2. Mody7

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    #22
    Exactly ..
     
    Mody7, Oct 5, 2010 IP
  3. Algore

    Algore Peon

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    #23
    Better use Magento
     
    Algore, Oct 5, 2010 IP
  4. Grut

    Grut Peon

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    #24
    Magento is little heavy and complicated. If you are going to sell few products then WP E-Commerce is enough. Otherwise, take a look at Prestashop - open source shopping cart with more intuitive interface than Magento imho.

    Btw, according to Cart2Cart statistics Magento is most popular shopping cart which is chosen to migrate to.
     
    Grut, Oct 5, 2010 IP
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    dpsmalltown Active Member

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    #25
    It's great for a lite e-commerce setting and dipping in your toes, but if you're expecting a lot of heavy traffic or want to offer a better user experience, look elsewhere. As everyone else says, Magento is a fantastic shopping cart.
     
    dpsmalltown, Oct 5, 2010 IP
  6. ncmw

    ncmw Peon

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    #26
    I make both Wordpress and Magento sites and for e-Com it can be done very nicely with WP. However a lot of the larger stores (over $500k in sales a year) use Magento. It comes with many key features and tools used for sales and marketing. Wordpress is a very flexible platform to work in, but it is limited when you step into things like order tracking, shipping rates, currencies, etc. All this comes within Magento for one reason, to process sales.

    With that being said, development costs for Magento are considerably higher than Wordpress simply because of the time involved in building a site like you want. Most Wordpress sites can be made in a few hours/days time where as a good Magento build can take weeks/months.
     
    ncmw, Oct 5, 2010 IP
  7. gotsit

    gotsit Well-Known Member

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    #27
    Kajabi o me seems like the ecommerce version of wordpress just on steriods id take a look at least at that if your looking for that kinda done for you feeling
     
    gotsit, Oct 8, 2010 IP
  8. believer1984

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    #28
    Oh I have seen some wordpress ecommerces and honestly they look pretty good = proffesional.
     
    believer1984, Oct 8, 2010 IP
  9. Tomastamm

    Tomastamm Well-Known Member

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    #29
    it is good
     
    Tomastamm, Oct 8, 2010 IP
  10. arwa

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    #30
    need a plugin if using woordpress as ecommerce, but there are some friends who fanatic with wordpress: D
     
    arwa, Nov 12, 2010 IP
  11. aakashshah123

    aakashshah123 Well-Known Member

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    #31
    For a long run and large no of products I would recommend zen-cart
    WP is good for limited no of products.
     
    aakashshah123, Nov 14, 2010 IP
  12. mahesh2010

    mahesh2010 Guest

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    #32
    Hi,
    I don't know how best is word press but Magento is one of the best e commerce platform booming in web designing industry since i am a magento developer i can confidently say this
     
    mahesh2010, Nov 18, 2010 IP
  13. lely

    lely Peon

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    #33
    Of course it is!but you can use SEO to.
     
    lely, Nov 18, 2010 IP
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    #34
    I recommend using joomla + virtuemart
     
    linksellerz, Nov 22, 2010 IP
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    #35
    There a lot of CMS meant for eCommerce. However, wordpress is still the easiest CMS to use. You can use wordpress plugin for ecommerce, like WPcommerce.
     
    xavianer, Nov 22, 2010 IP
  16. mahesh2010

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    #36
    Hi,
    Word press is not soo good for e commerce you must purchase and install modules for implementing i would
    prefer going for magento where all features of Ecommerce are in built
     
    mahesh2010, Nov 22, 2010 IP
  17. ChristineR

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    #37
    We're using two plugins for our latest Wordpress eCommerce site...
    WP-eStore and by the same crowd, WP-AffiliatePlatform
    Neither are free, but they appear to be excellent.
    FastPLRdotcom
     
    ChristineR, Nov 23, 2010 IP
  18. mahesh2010

    mahesh2010 Guest

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    #38
    Word press is a best cms,which is used widely,I understand that e-commerce is not as simple as adding a shopping cart to your website. Ecommerce cms development recognise the unique business implications of trading online and can help and advise our clients in this area. Our e-commerce systems allow us to design unique, user friendly e-commerce sites, most importantly producing SEO friendly e-commerce pages.I can offer several Ecommerce development solutions that are available to you from a small ecommerce development to a large Ecommerce solution.
     
    mahesh2010, Nov 23, 2010 IP
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    #39
    Templates alignment at WP based shopping site is really frustrating and time consuming.
     
    simsolutions, Nov 24, 2010 IP
  20. computer3dart

    computer3dart Greenhorn

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    #40
    I use WordPress because the customers can manage the articles themselves, I mean it's the easiest CMS there is.
     
    computer3dart, Nov 24, 2010 IP