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WooCommerce — The most customizable eCommerce platform, built on WordPress
WooCommerce is an open-source, fully customizable eCommerce platform built on WordPress - perfect for those who love to tinker, innovate and do-it-themselves.
Flexible, community-driven, modular and customizable - with hundreds of extensions and integrations available in the WooCommerce.com marketplace - WooCommerce is for open eCommerce.
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Gotta say WooCommerce is pretty legit. A little high end on the plug-ins but it's really up to you what you add. To be able to get a client up and running over a weekend and selling immediately kind of speaks for itself. @mattyza and crew have done a great job so far.
Looking forward to future products.
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Just recently, after reviewing Squarespace, Shopify and a great many number of other commerce solutions, I ended up going with WooCommerce for my home goods business (http://few-bits.com).
The first thing that drew me to WooCommerce was that it was WordPress plugin. This allowed me to choose my hosting provider and fit quite nicely in my development workflow.
Since I wanted to use a custom design I ended up using their suggested method of copying their template files into you local theme directory when neededing to modify messaging and pages like the cart and checkout. It was a little daunting at first but once you got the hang of it making changes like ordering of text fields in the product pages is pretty easy.
One thing to not is that WooCommerce is free until a point (which is pretty impressive considering how much you get for free). I ended up purchasing a license for Stripe in order to process payments on checkout.
I would definitely consider any complex shipping requirements and integrations (like USPS / UPS / etc) when deciding on a commerce solution as with WooCommerce, their plugins must be bought individually (Shopify does the same thing with their plugins). Alternatively there are other non-WooCommerce developers that provide plugins.
All in all a pretty great implementation experience and happy to support these guys on Product Hunt. Look forward to continuing to dive deeper into the product as the business grows. If you are thinking about giving it a try feel free to hit me up, happy to help.
@rustydingo Thanks for the kind feedback! Yep, it is a completely open-source, GPL-licensed project and anyone is free to build their own extensions / add-ons for it, contribute to it, etc.
@bftrick (WooCommerce Product Manager) can tell you a bit more about this too and our future plans for WooCommerce in general.
@rustydingo glad you got it up and running easily! We just released Storefront (totally free) a new theme designed for WooCommerce sites. It's really customizable so you shouldn't have to copy template files into your theme which to be totally honest is a bit of a pain.
I've found developers LOVE Stripe (I did) but after playing with the Pay with Amazon extension (free) I like it even more. Going through Amazon they do a bunch of fraud protection which other gateways don't do.
@bftrick thanks for the heads up on Storefront. Copying the files wasn't too much of a pain once I understood what did what. Really did allow me full customization of the templates as I wanted to make everything responsive (with the Bourbon Neat) and non-table based as @coreymaass stated below. That being said, look forward to 2.3.
I'll also have to look at Pay with Amazon too. Cheers Patrick
@ShloimeFlg Good question! Both have their benefits but specifically WooCommerce is open-source, self-hosted and there are **a lot** of resources available for it (including extensions, themes, etc. that many different providers sell).
WC could be used to run a site with millions of monthly views and just as many sales, completely for free forever (in regards to the cost of WC itself) - that in itself is pretty neat :)
@ShloimeFlg as someone who has used both platforms, here's why I went with Woo...
1. Open Source, could install it wherever I wanted and set up a proper Git workflow
2. No monthly cost initially (Shopify gets pricey)
3. Extremely flexible when it comes to customization (or just using an out of the box theme)
4. You can customize everything including your checkout, payment options, customer emails
5. Tons of plugins / extensions
@ShloimeFlg I've been recommending WooCommerce over Shopify to my clients because of the lack of multi-language support with Shopify and the cost of addons that is often overlooked until development is underway. For example, to include a wishlist addon in Shopify, it costs another $13/month as compared to a WooCommerce plugin which is a one-time cost. WooCommerce is also open-source and there is a great community behind it.
The only problem I had with WooCommerce is that recently they got hacked and my credit card was compromised because of it. A check on Twitter revealed that many other customers who purchased something from them were compromised as well. It's patched now I think, but some of my trust was lost in that incident.
Thanks for listing this, @darenfuchs.
Hi, WooCommerce users! I'm Matty, head of product at Woo. If you have any WooCommerce questions, please let us know. :)
@mattyza I moved away from woothemes for speed reasons, and because your designs were dated at the time. Any new, fast magazine themes in the pipeline?
@threadyblock Hi Jason. The best would be to contact us via http://woothemes.com/develop-woo.... From there, we can explore your ideas further. :)
One thing I wanted to point out is that this is generally a great looking website, but the stretched images can really ruin it. Might want to look at getting the aspect ratio fixed for these images.
Example (image on the left): http://cl.ly/YyzG
Hey! I work over at @woothemes on WooCommerce - if you have any questions feel free to shoot them at me or any of the other Woo people here and we'll do our best to answer :) 😊
We've got a coupon code for Product Hunters too! 'PRODUCTHUNT' 💜
I've now built a couple sites using woocommerce and I'm currently heavily modifying a third one. Works fine out of the box, if you want a straight ahead shopping cart and check out. For anything more "interesting", I've found it does everything I need, though only with a lot of hacking, not unlike WordPress itself.
My only complaint is that all of the built in templates are still table based. I've spent most of my development time modifying them to be responsive. I look forward to updates there.
@coreymaass I believe many UI issues like this are addressed in WooCommerce 2.3 coming out in January.
I use WooCommerce on two sites at the moment. One is the one featured here on Tursday... http://www.producthunt.com/posts... @mattyza do you have a showcase where it would fit?
@fotofactorydk Hi Martin. :) @marinapape will review and can correspond regarding a potential case study. :)
@fotofactorydk You should be using http://www.producthunt.com/posts... alongside that beautiful site. :)
My only shortcoming is that I would love to have a masonry flow of images on this site: http://foto-factory.dk
@fotofactorydk Anything's possible with a custom theme or some custom code - don't be afraid to search around for other people's solutions or come up with your own :)
Howdy, i'm one of the WooCommerce Support Ninjas at @woothemes! Feel free to drop me a line if you need help, i'll do the best i can to help you!
This is the great eCommerce system and it's growing. I've recently made a brief research and presented the topic in WordPress Singapore group about WooCommerce ecosystem
Painful to use and extremely slow.
Pros:Free, lots of free plugins
Cons:Extremely slow, too many buggy conflicting plugins, terrible UX
also using woocommerce and several plugins on http://www.producthunt.com/posts... - which was featured here a few weeks ago. Done a ton of custom work with it and it's totally awesome. Highly recommended.
I was waiting for WooCommerce very long. I do really think that Wordpress is the best website builder when I tried it. before I used Shopify and Mobirise builder. Unfortunately, this free platform is too buggy now but I hope that they will fix it. I can see a lot of potential in WooCommerce.
