Is Wordpress any Good for Ecommerce?

i agree with RichestGirl, use WP for your blog and content and use something like magento for your ecommerce store.

 

Exactly ..

 

Better use Magento

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

Oh I have seen some wordpress ecommerces and honestly they look pretty good = proffesional.

 

it is good

 

need a plugin if using woordpress as ecommerce, but there are some friends who fanatic with wordpress: D

 

For a long run and large no of products I would recommend zen-cart
WP is good for limited no of products.

 

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

 

Of course it is!but you can use SEO to.

 

I recommend using joomla + virtuemart

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Templates alignment at WP based shopping site is really frustrating and time consuming.

 

I use WordPress because the customers can manage the articles themselves, I mean it's the easiest CMS there is.