1.
Which platform is best for ecommrce
website development?
V/S

2.
Ecommerce Demand
●The demand of online store that is ecommerce website is
increasing day by day.
●The companies who have physical entities and do business
at local and national level, now they get into the track of
'online business' to get higher pace.
●Here we are going to discuss the two most popular self
hosted eCommerce solutions – Magento and WooCommerce.

3.
Magento Features
●Magento is CMS (Content Management System),
specifically build for ecommerce business.
●If you look at the features of Magento ecommerce :
●>> Tools for marketing, promotions and conversion
●>> Search engine friendly urls, auto generated popular
search terms
●>> Control multiple websites and stores from one Admin
panel
●>> Customizable design using templates
●>> Catelog management is simple and configurable (in size
or
●color)

4.
Magento Features
>> Checkout, payment and shipping features include one
page checkout, guest checkout, shipping to multiple
addresses, etc.
>> Integration with multiple PayPal gateways,
Authorize.net, accept checks/money orders
>> Shipping integration with label printing - view, edit. etc.
>> On-site order tracking from customer accounts
>> Order management like edit, view. Print invoices,
packing slips and shippling labels, etc.

5.
WooCommerce Features
●WooCommerce is an eCommerce framework build on top of
WordPress.
●That doesn't mean it's a less choice, though. Features are :
●>> Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress
●>> Sell anything and anywhere. Set up a WooCommerce
store to sell worldwide
●>> It is designed to ensure your store and products look as
good on the desktop as well as mobile phone.
●>> Scale with you as you grow your business

6.
WooCommerce Features
>> Keeping your data independent of any third party
software platform gives you complete control of your
business and future
>> It is audited by Sucuri, the industry leader in plugin
security, to ensure that it adheres to WordPress best practices
and coding standards, and is kept secure and up-to-date
>> It is 100% open source which allows you to benefit from
an active and growing community of contributors
>> It provides documentation that covers topics like Setup,
Extending, Snippets, Theming, Third-Party Plugins, Using
Webhooks, WooCommerce Cookies, SSL and HTTPS.

7.
Similarities
●Both are most widely used open source ecommerce
platforms, being highly powerful, flexible and agile
combined with numerous features to its credit.
●Both are suitable for different needs and are very popular
among users.
●Provide most of the basic functionality required to run an
online business including :
●>> Product listings,
●>> A shopping cart,
●>> Basic order management,
●>> Inventory features, etc.

8.
Similarities
●Supports functionalities that makes your site SEO friendly.
●Both supports customisation.
●Works with google analytics making it easier for you to
track the traffic of your website.

9.
Differences
●Setup and Customization
●Features
●Ease to use
●Cost
●Hosting
●Functionality
●Search Engine Friendliness

10.
Setup & Customization
●It is complete on its own, to work on it, one needs to be an
expert.
●Also, it takes longer time to set up and customize Magento.
Magento
●It can be handled easily by anyone who is a wordpress lover.
●It's installation and maintenance is easy.
●Just like any wordpress plugin, it gives you the freedom of
customisation to the fullest in no time.
WooCommerce

11.
Features
●Certain features like adding discount codes, comparing
products as well as using advanced filters to narrow searches.
●You can even cross sell or upsell your product
Magento
●It is a perfect choice for a beginner.
●You get features like rating the products, publish best seller
etc
WooCommerce

12.
Ease to use
●The community version of Magento is free, the enterprise
version is highly expensive.
Magento
●WooCommerce can be easily expanded at the same time at a
lower expense.
●Surprisingly most of the wordpress premium templates are
easily affordable
WooCommerce

13.
Cost
●It is complete on its own, to work on it, one needs to be an
expert.
●Also, it takes longer time to set up and customize Magento.
Magento
●It can be handled easily by anyone who is a wordpress lover.
●It's installation and maintenance is easy.
●Just like any wordpress plugin, it gives you the freedom of
customisation to the fullest in no time.
WooCommerce

14.
Hosting
●Magento along with its numerous features being highly
complex, requires much larger disk space and thus it is heavy
on server load.
Magento
●Hosting requirements of woocommerce is limited as it is
light on server load and it only consumesless disk space
WooCommerce

15.
Functionality
●It is solely designed for eCommerce sites
Magento
●WooCommerce is exclusively devoted to shopping platform.
●Its parent framework being wordpress, allows one to
incorporate any kind of web based trading and payment
system on any kind of wordpress based website.
WooCommerce

16.
Search Engine Friedliness
●Due to heavy nature, it may take a while for a browser to
load the pages, especially if it is a slow speed internet
connection
Magento
●WooCommerce being lightweight, it wouldn't let a user to
wait longer to see the site.
●In this sense, regarding the weight, woocommerce is more
SEO friendly
WooCommerce

17.
Conclusion
●However, as you have read above, they do have their
differences and each has an ideal set of uses.
●So which platform is right for you?
●Simply put, there’s no right or wrong choice.
●Depending on the size and complexity of your shopping
platform, capital investment, number of products and
expectation of the growth of your business.
●Both WooCommerce and Magento are brilliant platforms
and both will do an excellent job for almost any business.

18.
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