Magento Vs Wordpress
Magento Vs Woocommerce
To sell products online, you need a reliable e-commerce platform that fits your business’s needs. Today, we’re going over the capabilities and restrictions of WooCommerce vs Magento (now known as Adobe Commerce). We’ll cover how these two solutions stack up in terms of pricing, features, ratings, reputation and more, so you can select the best option for your business.
The major difference between WooCommerce and Magento is the planned scale of your e-commerce operations. WooCommerce is great in terms of simplicity and availability: it works with WordPress so it is already great for a ton of websites on the Internet. Magento is more powerful in terms of e-commerce-specific operations, so if you’re building a larger e-commerce business, Magento might be a more successful but more expensive option.
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WooCommerce |
Magento |
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| Starting Price |
Free |
Free |
|
Design and Themes |
Access to all WordPress themes |
Variety of themes (paid and free) |
| Discounts and Promo Codes |
Create promo codes: case sensitive and tied
to product IDs |
Create rules for catalog price, shopping
cart price (automatic discounts) and promo codes (and customers can use
multiple promo codes at once) |
|
SEO Tools |
WordPress SEO extensions available |
SEO included by default |
| Add-ons and Extensions |
400 extensions (free and paid) |
Almost 4,000 extensions available (free and
paid) |
|
Security |
Depends on your website hosting provider,
but has secure sockets layer (SSL) support |
Dedicated security patches and SSL
certificates available |
Customer Support
When you’re looking into an e-commerce platform, making sure you have support and information is tantamount.
WooCommerce doesn’t have dedicated live chat or customer support. It does have WooCommerce Documentation, but you’ll have to interpret this advice for your own store. If you’re already familiar with WordPress, this might not be a problem. However, you should be aware of this learning curve for employees as well.
Magento’s Community plan is also open source like WooCommerce and has advice and questions on the community forum. For the paid premium plans, Magento provides client support over phone and email.
Bottom Line
WooCommerce and Magento, now known as Adobe Commerce, serve different customers. You should use WooCommerce if you want to start selling e-commerce in addition to your business operations and need a simple place to host products and checkout. For Magento, you might be building a larger business with a ton of products, and Adobe is the better option for hosting a larger e-commerce operation.
