Website Design: Shopify v. Woocommerce? Tips?

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Now that you've handled the necessary business paperwork to formally form your business,


You need to focus on the basics for your website. What you will need as a business to have a fully functioning, SEO trending, customer friendly design. Before you even finalize your products, what as a business with the potential to grow not only in sales, but its overall supply chain need to succeed over time?

Lets start with two of the biggest website hosting platforms. Shopify vs. WooCommerce.
While Shopify has the same user friendly ease of design and optional additions mimicking the smooth designs such as Apple, Shopify has some limitations in comparison to woo commerce. Overall price in website growth is one. While every business owner has dreams for their business to boom, you must prepare for overall traffic and amount of products. Sizing your site is optional with both Shopify and WooCommerce, but Shopify is far more limited in not just overall capacity compared to WooCommerce, but WooCommerce is far cheaper. It becomes a matter of patience and skill vs. ease of use and instant gratification. WooCommerce and Shopify also allow business owners to apply plug ins, but WooCommerce has far more options and outside software compatibility with other vendors than Shopify.

  • Email Marketing
  • CRM Marketing and relationship management
  • SMS-MMS messaging capabilities
  • Website chat
  • Social Moderation
  • Instant/schedule postings
  • TV direct response campaigns
  • Opt-out features
  • Abandoned card features
  • Email and text shipping updates
  • Customized web and product options
  • Check-out product suggestions
  • Subscriber sign-up
  • Discount pop ups
  • After Pay - Payment options
These are just some of the basics often overlooked by many new small business owners outside of paid social, influencers and social media plug ins direct to site, customer review section, youtube video reviews, and more. What is the overall brand design, look, down to colors, sounds, landing pages, email sign ups, and more that you want consumers to experience overall when visiting your site? How easy is it for consumers to purchase? Too many pages or menus to navigate can often lose consumers. You need to develop not just your business plan, but really plan in detail how you want your brand image, and how to build consumer trust and engagement.


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