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Woocommerce. Can you elaborate more on "ideological reasons"? I'm genuinely curious why you don't feel ok to pay less than $1/sale to shopify to keep your stor
by ecesena 6y ago
Woocommerce. Can you elaborate more on "ideological reasons"?
I'm genuinely curious why you don't feel ok to pay less than $1/sale to shopify to keep your store up & running but are ok paying much more on fulfillment/shipping.
- econcon 6y agoI've a multiple stores and some stores get 5 sales a month on $10 item and for that I can't afford Shopify. I am looking for something which I can host on my own as I've nearly free servers (I receive digital ocean credit through affiliate sales on the guides I wrote) so hosting is free for me and tinkering is free as there not much work where I working so I can fix my website in that time. Also I don't like to pay monthly for closed source product. That's my ideological reason, it's low in priority but I always choose open whenever possible
- thdrdt 6y agoOpenCart and Prestashop are open PHP/MySQL shops with a lot of available payment provider plugins.
- tamiral 6y agoi love wordpress+woocommerce instead of shopify because it's an easier system to manage security + hosting + speed + code if you know what you are doing. You don't really need paid plugins, just some PHP along the way and some free plugins will get you a long way. Esp paying < $100 for a shared cpanel or 1 of the better hosts $100-200/yr is still cheaper than Shopify's 30-70 USD a month.