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Four Reasons to Choose WooCommerce as Your Ecommerce Platform
Choosing an eCommerce platform can be a very stressful process. You know you want the best platform that makes the shopping experience smooth and easy for your customers to use. On top of that, you also want one that offers the best security and support to ensure you and your customer’s data is safe and secure.
There are many different platforms to choose from. While there are many opinions about which platform to go with, my platform of choice is WooCommerce, which is an open source eCommerce plugin from WordPress.
FREE!
Most eCommerce platforms will cost you extra money. It might be perceived that because WooCommerce is free that it is a basic platform with limited options. However, that is quite far from the truth! It offers detailed options that help make the management of transactions smooth and efficient. These options include order tracking, customer engagement tools, changing delivery statuses, use of discounts, tax settings, inventory management, multiple shipping options, and coupon coding. It basically has everything one would want from an eCommerce store option.
Ease of Use
WooCommerce is an extremely friendly and easy to use platform. Beings it is a WordPress, which is known for it’s ease of use, plugin, it is also easy to use itself. Since 53% of all websites are designed on the WordPress platform, using WooCommerce is natural choice since it functions and operates like WordPress.
Customizable
Not only is WooCommerce free, but it can be extremely customizable with additional FREE plugins to add functionality to your store. The extensions can include applications and services to enhance your accounting system, different payment options to accept, enhanced marketing to your customers, different reports, and so much more. With all the WooCommerce extensions and plugins available, the combination and options are endless for customizing your eCommerce store. Having customizable options, the web design of the website can then be consistent with the brand image that is desired.
Great Reputation
WooCommerce has been around since 2011. Over this time, they have enhanced and expanded their functionality. It has become very well known for being super reliable and user friendly. If you have any questions on how to complete any tasks associated with the platform, their customer service support is very user friendly as well. To date, WooCommerce is the platform of choice on 29% of eCommerce sites. Of all WordPress eCommerce websites, 94% of those use WooCommerce. These facts alone show it is trusted, reliable, and the best option.
So if you are looking to make a decision on which platform to use to build your eCommerce store, look no further than the user-friendly, easily customizable platform in WooCommerce.
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