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Features List
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- Open Source
- Web Design
- Shopping Cart
- Customer service
- Site management
- Catalog management
- Catalog browsing
- Product browsing
- Checkout, payment and shipping
- Order Management
- Catalog Management
- Customer Accounts
- Loyalty Program
- Returns Management
- SEO Management
- Mobile Commerce
- Product Management
- Search Engine Optimization
- Marketing, promotions and conversions
- Analytics and Reporting
- Multiple Websites
- Persistent shopping
- Private sales
- Gift registries
- Store credits
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Modern and clean interface
Improved experience for store owners
WordPress Content Integration
Pre-installed payment gateways
Total control of the checkout process
Set Default Currency
Geo-location Support
Automatic Taxes
Cart Behavior
Reduce Page Loading
Add/Manage Products
Product Types
Product Variables
Inventory Management
SHipping Calculations
Cart Calculator
Flexible Shipping Destinations
Shipping Prices
Restrict Sales
Multiple Shipping Methods
Custom Tax Calculations
Geo-location enabled taxes
Select Customer Address
Tax rate definition
Search Enginer Optimizatiom
Simplified Coupon System
Discount Coupons and codes
Product Reviews
Owner Verification
Reporting
Dashboard
Analyze Products and Orders
CRM/Store Management
Support/Hosting
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Supported Integrations
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<li>Interprise Suite ERP</li>
<li>Embedded ERP</li>
<li>BankPayment</li>
<li>eBay</li>
<li>WebShopApps MatrixRate</li>
<li>PayOne</li>
<li>CashOnDelivery</li>
<li>ShipWorks</li>
<li>MageMonkey</li>
<li>MailChimo</li>
<li>Mandrill</li>
<li>osCommerce</li>
<li>Correios</li>
<li>Fontis Australia</li>
<li>BeeTailer</li>
<li>DebitPayment</li>
<li>MigraShop</li>
<li>SOFORT</li>
<li>AddThis</li>
<li>WorldPay</li>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>ePay</li>
<li>Searchanise</li>
<li>GoMage</li>
<li>Open ERP</li>
<li>Social</li>
<li>DHL</li>
<li>Bcash</li>
<li>Ingenico</li>
<li>Zopim</li>
<li>Live Chat</li>
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Zapier
Taxamo
Xero
FreshBooks
ShipStation
Stamps.com
WordPress
Jigoshop
WordPress
TradeGecko
Veeqo
Mad Mini
Help Scout
Ambassador
UserVoice
Stripe
PayPal
Amazon Payments
FedEx
USPS
UPS
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Price
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<li>Magento Community (CE) – Free to download and use</li>
<li>Magento Enterprise (EE) - from $1,250.00/month</li>
<li>Magento 2 Enterprise - $1,800.00/month</li>
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<li>Free to download and use</li>
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Business Size
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<td>Large Enterprises | Medium Business</td>
<td>Small Business | Medium Business</td>
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<td>Installation & Ease of Use
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<td>Easy for developers and tech-savvy merchants. It takes about 10 minutes to install a base version of Magento or a few hours to run a whole store.</td>
<td>Easy to handle for WordPress users. Installation and managing are available via WordPress admin panel</td>
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<td>Community & Customer support
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<td>Magento developers community is one of the biggest developers community
in the world. It`s easy to find answers for any questions. Magento supports
multiple languages and currencies. Despite Magento official support received
only for expensive Enterprise Edition stores, you will not be left alone
if you choose free Community Edition. A lot of enthusiastic web developers
can help you to solve any issue. Magento Community has 130.000 members.</td>
<td>Powerful WooCommerce developers community that is backed by the mass of WordPress users. Customer support released via help desk, documentation, video tutorials.</td>
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<td>Customization capabilities
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<td>Requires extensive customization to meet specific business goals as the great variety of Magento features makes it more complex.</td>
<td>You can customize WooCommerce store but you can meet with WordPress plugins limitations.</td>
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<td>Design
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<td>There are 1500+ free/paid and fully customizable Magento themes. Magento
CE, 1.9 and later versions handle responsiveness “automatically”.</td>
<td>Around 52 themes are in the library, some of which are free. Templates are easy to customize, CSS/HTML code is open. </td>
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<td>Flexibility
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<td>Magento is a perfect choice for product editing and capable of handling heavy-loaded databases gracefully.</td>
<td>Fully flexible</td>
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<td>Extensions
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<td>More than 15.000 Magento plugins and extensions.</td>
<td>MWooCommerce is a free, powerful WordPress eCommerce plugin. So to customize your store you can use any of 45 000 WordPress modules.</td>
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<td>One step checkout
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<td>Can be implemented with numerous available modules. </td>
<td>WooCommerce One Page Checkout extension.</td>
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<td>Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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<td>Magento SEO solution set is a lot more powerful than ones offered by other popular eCommerce platforms. Its SEO friendly URLs guarantees traffic increase.</td>
<td>WooCommerce plugin runs on WordPress, which is famous for its SEO prowess.</td>
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<td>Popular Customers
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<td>Christian Louboutin, Vizio, Rosetta Stone, Easton, Nike, Olympus, Gant,
Ford Accessories, Sisley Paris, Eastwood, TractorTool, Webprint, Mothercare,
Burger King</td>
<td>UCanon, CSS Tricks, AdventureFeeds, PagePink Pro4Mance, FilterGrade, Shareware on sale </td>
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Well, as you may see it now, finding a winner when comparing such advanced tools as Magento and WooCommerce is basically impossible. Any of these two eCommerce shopping carts can be an ideal solution for different user groups. WooCommerce is a leading eCommerce platform in the entire web, while Magento sites are leading in top 10K, 100K and 1M sites.
WooCommerce target audience consists of WordPress users and small companies that have got familiar with this CMS. It’s super simple to run. Simply install a shopping cart plugin, customize it to your liking and requirements and you are ready to create products. Manage orders, coupons, reports, inventory, linked products, shipping, settings, add-ons, add tags and categories to all of your products effortlessly. Sounds fun!
Another obvious benefit of WooCommerce is that developers’ help definitely won’t cost you as much as Magento development team.
When covering hosting and security aspect, WooCommerce and Magento are quite similar, you have to find secure hosting platform or install systems on your own servers. Also you must buy a domain name. Security depends mainly on hosting company. For Magento-based store it is may be seen as slightly more appropriate to have a hosting on own company’s server or cloud based system. It provides high site performance in heavy traffic cases, when you operate thousands of products. But this performance intensification needs serious investing.
If you’re new to eCommerce environment or you targeting on a marketing niche in general, or have a slim range of products it may be reasonable to try WooCommerce.
Magento is developed specifically for eCommerce requirements. It’s the best solution for big enterprises. It’s an absolutely ideal platform for eCommerce purposes. Magento provides huge array of features for e-merchants.
As though it may sound ambitious, the sky is not a limit for extending Magento functionality.
With Magento and professional Magento developers you’ll get a more advanced web store, the perfect one you imagine and the best among your competitors. Functionality, product features, searching and shopping processes can be customized fully for your business requirements. |
