WordPress Ecommerce solution for a small shop?
July 11, 2016 3:34 PM Subscribe
I am helping redesign a website. We will be moving it to a WordPress platform. The site needs some kind of simple shopping cart system for selling real world goods. What are the best options, both for cost as well as ease of use?
The website shop will have an inventory of less than 50 items at any given time, most likely. Anticipated sales would be low, just a few items a month. The number of repeat customers will be quite low as well - perhaps not enough as to necessitate a user account system maybe?
The current static site is at BlueHost with their Shared Hosting Plus package. BlueHost has a WordPress+WooCommerce package that seems quite robust, but it may be more than we need. I do not want us spending money on resources we are not really utilizing.
Are there simpler shopping cart systems for a WordPress site? Maybe something involving some kind of form plugin and a basic PayPal gateway?
Please note: we are not interested in Etsy, Shopify, or similar services at the moment.
The website shop will have an inventory of less than 50 items at any given time, most likely. Anticipated sales would be low, just a few items a month. The number of repeat customers will be quite low as well - perhaps not enough as to necessitate a user account system maybe?
The current static site is at BlueHost with their Shared Hosting Plus package. BlueHost has a WordPress+WooCommerce package that seems quite robust, but it may be more than we need. I do not want us spending money on resources we are not really utilizing.
Are there simpler shopping cart systems for a WordPress site? Maybe something involving some kind of form plugin and a basic PayPal gateway?
Please note: we are not interested in Etsy, Shopify, or similar services at the moment.
There really isn't anything simpler/lower cost than Wordpress/WooComm, short of just creating WP posts with PayPal buttons, which won't allow for any real catalog management.
posted by randomkeystrike at 6:27 PM on July 11, 2016
posted by randomkeystrike at 6:27 PM on July 11, 2016
WooCommerce, always WooCommerce! :-)
posted by lgandme0717 at 10:25 PM on July 11, 2016
posted by lgandme0717 at 10:25 PM on July 11, 2016
Woocommerce and Stripe.
posted by DarlingBri at 11:34 PM on July 11, 2016
posted by DarlingBri at 11:34 PM on July 11, 2016
Response by poster: Thank you, good peoples. I've installed WooCommerce and it is quite easy to use.
posted by jammy at 1:43 PM on July 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by jammy at 1:43 PM on July 18, 2016 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Also, for anyone that might come upon this: avoid Blue Host! The support staff there are inept on a level I didn't think existed.
posted by jammy at 1:45 PM on July 18, 2016
posted by jammy at 1:45 PM on July 18, 2016
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The Blue Host package is basically $3 month (once you discount the cost of hosting) for WP/WC support and secure certificate. That's actually not a bad deal. I don't know anything about Blue Host, I use Webfaction.
posted by humboldt32 at 4:06 PM on July 11, 2016