WooCommerce Vs Magento

Have you ever wanted to take your business online and sell your products but dropped your idea because of uncertainty?? Well, we will help you gain at least basic knowledge of it and make a thoughtful decision between choosing WooCommerce and Magento!!!

WooCommerce and Magento are the two most commonly used eCommerce platforms that will help you make your ideas come true!! Both platforms have their fan base. Let‘s check their details one by one :

1. WooCommerce: 

WooCommerce is the most popular WordPress-based shopping cart system. It has more than 30.09% market share in the eCommerce field. It is a WordPress plugin like any other plugin, and best of all, it is free!! 

One can just install the plugin, set up the shop, and sell products online. Although, WooCommerce comes with some limitations. 

Many clients will end up purchasing commercial extensions to set up features that aren’t available for free. Depending upon the shop you are building and the extension you require for it, the price will add up. We suggest you start this journey by planning and creating a budget.

2. Magento:

Magento is an open-source technology that provides you with the facility to build a flexible shopping cart system. It is written in PHP atop the Zend framework, available under both open-source and commercial licenses. 

The open-source Magento offers unique features one will need to grow and create an online store from scratch. It is one of the best eCommerce platforms in terms of features, support, security, and that is why it is considered an SEO-friendly eCommerce platform.

Let’s cover all the necessary information you will need to know about both platforms to start working on it:

• Requirement: 

The requirement of both platforms is different, and you can choose one to depend upon your installation. WooCommerce is a familiar name to most WordPress users as WordPress is the most commonly used CMS in the world. Nearly more than 75 million websites use it. WordPress users can easily install WooCommerce as any other plugin without any assistance. 

Well, no need to worry if you do not have WordPress hosting or hosting at all. Magento is there for users like you. You can either self-host it or use it as a cloud edition via Magento itself.

• Cost: 

WooCommerce is an entirely free platform. You won’t need to pay a single penny to use it! 

However, Magento offers both free open source editions as well as a powerful enterprise edition with extra features which WooCommerce lacks.

• Ease of use: 

WooCommerce users can get all the ease of WordPress CMS. It supports nearly all WordPress themes and offers several customization options which you can handle with ease

Magento is not a robust CMS compared to WooCommerce. The user should at least have a basic level of web development knowledge to start with it.

• Performance: 

If your website takes too long to load, some customers will leave without delay. It needs to work smoothly without any significant loading time. And when it comes to performance, regardless of any platform, it only depends on the functionality, choice of the web hosting provider, size of your site, etc. 

In simple words, it depends mostly on you and your hosting provider.

• Payment gateways: 

There are many payment gateway companies that allow you to accept payments on your website. But you will need to choose a suitable method for accepting payments as if it is difficult for your customers to pay, they will empty their cart, and you will lose sales. Before starting with it, you must know that there are two main types of gateways.

Redirect and direct :

A redirection gateway is one where a customer needs to leave your site in order to pay and will get redirected to an external page in order to process a payment. 

And with a direct gateway, you will be able to handle payments on your site only.

Following are a few of the best payment gateways which will help your business to look professional :

WooCommerce :

Pros:

• WooCommerce is absolutely free for a lifetime.
• It is a WordPress plugin so that you can use the benefits of WordPress and the additional eCommerce capabilities of WooCommerce.
• Cheaper to host as compared to Magento.
• Supports unlimited products.
• It is beginner-friendly.

Cons:

• Only one version of WooCommerce is available (no enterprise edition).
• Requires many additional plugins to achieve ideal functionality, leading to version conflicts and bugs.
• Not suitable for larger sites.

Magento :

Pros:

• Multiple versions are available with Enterprise, Open Source, Cloud, and other products.
• A large amount of out-of-the-box functionality.
• More advanced payment and shipping capabilities.
• Magento offers advanced security features with dedicated security patches to close any vulnerabilities that arise.

Cons:

• Weak CMS capabilities for content-heavy sites.
• Larger applications with higher maintenance overhead typically.
• Hosting is costly

CONCLUSION: 

It’s not easy to pick an overall winner between WooCommerce and Magento since it totally depends on your requirements and capital on which platform you wish to go with. Some of the WordPress users among you may agree to go with WooCommerce to avoid the complexity. Others might want to go with Magento and hire professionals for better performance.

Therefore, you will need to take several factors under consideration and choose a suitable platform for you before starting with it !!!!

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