Woocommerce is a plugin that lets you convert your WordPress site into an E-commerce site. With over 14 million downloads, Woocommerce powers more than 30% of all online stores.
STRENGTHS
- A plethora of themes to choose from - Shopify comes with a variety of themes to make your store stand out from the crowd. Just check out our theme gallery for options.
- Simplicity and ease of use - Woocommerce doesn’t come with advanced and complicated features, making it incredibly easy to setup and use. All you have to do is install the plugin on your WordPress website and you’re all set.
- Strong content management - Woocommerce is built for WordPress, which means you can still utilize its powerful content management features for blogs, posts and rich content pages.
- No limits - Unlike other platforms, Woocommerce doesn’t have limitation on the number of products you can have on your ecommerce site. You can scale down or ramp up your business with little to no cost at all.
WEAKNESSES
- Woocommerce, by itself, is not feature-rich, so unless your store can run on the barest minimum, you can expand your ecommerce site’s functionalities with plugins. However, you need to choose your plugins wisely. As with any WordPress site, the free plugins won’t guarantee reliability and security compared to most of their paid counterparts.
- Woocommerce sites are vulnerable to security problems, especially if you use a lot of third party plugins.
- Updates to the plugin can cause changes on your store’s front-end, and it could cause issues.
- Woocommerce may not work on some WordPress themes.
STANDARD FEATURES
Core features
- Shopping cart and checkout management - Choose to disable or enable guest checkout, or specify which countries you can sell your products to. You can also set a specific currency as your default currency for your ecommerce site.
- Geo-location - Woocommerce comes with a built-in geolocation support which allows your store to auto-detect your customers’ address, automatically adjusting the taxes and shipping fees.
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- Shipping features - Woocommerce comes with a cart calculator for shipping fees, flexible shipping destinations, restric shipping by location, multiple shipping methods and shipping zones.
- Tax features - Taxes can automatically be calculated based on the customer’s shipping address or your store’s base address. You can also control which tax class shipping gets, or manage display of taxes on certain products on your store.
- Product Management - Add and manage products in a snap. Set product types, product images, product groups and categories and more with just a few clicks. You can also manage your store’s inventory and track and manage stock levels.
- WordPress Content Management - As it’s built for seamless integration with WordPress, you can still make use of the platform’s powerful content management features. Zeald WordPress and Woocommerce websites also come with a DIVI Builder, making it easier for you to format your pages.
- SEO - As Woocommerce runs on WordPress, you can take advantage of its industry standard Search Engine Optimisation features.
- Coupon system - Woocommerce comes with a simplified coupon feature which ensures discounts are never applied to taxes.
- Product review - Enable or disable the ability for your customers to provide product reviews on your store. You can also set this feature to allow reviews ONLY from verified customers.
- Reporting - Generate reports on how much you have earned (both net and gross). Woocommerce’s report system includes sales orders, traffic and a status summary window.
- Customer Accounts - Choose to allow customers to register or set reminders for returning customers to log-in on the checkout page.
Core and official plugins
- Divi Builder - A plugin that lets you modify the site’s design itself, without having to change the theme.
- Google Analytics by MonsterInsights - This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress site
- Yoast SEO - The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including XML Sitemaps and page analysis
- WordPress Importer 0.6.1,wp-all-import - Import posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, tags and more from a WordPress export file.
RECOMMENDED FOR
Small to medium sized businesses or those who have a limited budget onhand.
INTEGRATIONS AND THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS
If you would like to enhance your website’s functionality through additional plugins and features, it is important for you to know that Zeald cannot recommend one plugin for any purpose. Hence, it’s best to talk to our support team or your Digital Business Strategist (DBS) for recommendations.
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GUIDES AND RESOURCES
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