With the increasing demand for quality eCommerce services, WooCommerce (which happens to be a plugin for eCommerce websites) has seen a rise in its demand. It is one of the best open-source alternatives for the Shopify. People are now making use of this free eCommerce plugin to get things done, instead of paying for Shopify. So, if you are amongst those who prefer a free plugin over Shopify or are one who is looking to get things rolling before investing into paid services paying then we would suggest you to go for Woocommerce Development Services.
However, it’s not easy for anyone to just believe that WooCommerce is a great alternative for Shopify. You would obviously be looking for reasons to make a move on. Keeping that in mind we bring you the reasons so as to “Why You Should Consider to Migrate From Shopify To WooCommerce”. So let’s get started.
Provides More Control Over Your Store
The more control you have over something the more you can personalise it, according to your requirements. Same goes for this open-source eCommerce plugin, that allows you to customise your website. Yes, WooCommerce is an open book, which gives you the power to customise your website as much as you’d like. So with WooCommerce, you can create the perfect store that you envisioned. But before that, you need to have complete knowledge of things or components you can customise with WooCommerce. So with WooCommerce, you have command over the following.
SEO(Search Engine Optimisation)
Although the search engine end page result or SERPS ranking is a result of your hard work, website components and your content. Wocommerce still plays an important role in helping to reach at the top of the SERP. With woo-commerce, you don’t have to worry about a thing about the technical work you need to do for SEO, as it allows you to edit every aspect of your SEO from non-technical to technical. Also, you can use WooCommerce as an extension of the famous website building platform WordPress to easily edit and add new posts to your website.
Payment Gateways
Payments gateways are important aspects of an e-commerce store. You can not possibly hope to run an online eCommerce store or website without having a payment gateway on your site or on your store. Well, no worries as with WooCommerce you won’t have to create a separate payment gateway for your eCommerce store. Woo-commerce you can easily create payment gateways an connect to almost every known or lessor knew niche payment gateways. Unlike Shopify that also does have an integrated payment gateway creation service, but only allows you to connect to limited payment gateways. Another drawback with Shopify if you are using Shopify payment gateway is that they charge you for third party payments or gateways. So, it is better to stick with WooCommerce if you don’t want to lose the small margin of profit you have in the online market.
Backups
Paying for having a back for your website data and settings might not seem too profitable. However, woo-commerce does it for free for you. As woo-commerce offers you a number of free websites back up plans. So you don’t have to worry about your data being lost just because of technical failure or mishappening. Being safe is important that is why woo-commerce also offers some paid, dynamic backup plans if you need.
Flexibility And Customisation
Well till now we have talked about the flexibility WooCommerce can provide to your website, however, woo itself is also highly flexible and customisable according to your business requirements. Unlike Shopify which does not have an open-source code which can be customised by anyone according to their need. WooCommerce source code is also available for use for free if you have more specific requirements.
Hermit Chawla is an MD at AIS Technolabs which is Web design and Development Company, helping global businesses to grow by Development services. I would love to share thoughts on Social Media Marketing Services and Game Design Development etc.
