Vehicle for Extensions

  • WooCommerce is fraught with issues. As soon as you go beyond one or two items to sell, you need a “WooCommerce Extension” and these cost AU$100-200 EACH! You may need as many as 5 extensions (table rate shipping $200, Exclude country $100 etc.) on a single site. A better bet might be to set up a store on Shopify or Magento – while they too are expensive, they are less likely to give you as many nightmares and settings issues as WooCommerce. Also beware the WooCommerce 5 star ratings. Woo Extension developers like to post positive reviews for obvious reasons. Read the 1 – 4 out of 5 reviews. Not the “Great plugin 5/5 but that’s all I have to say” ones. And check out the prices of the extensions (and read the forums to see if anyone responds). I just received a forum response 3 months after posting it and all it said was Check FAQ (with link). I honestly couldn’t believe how bad the support was. Amateurs.

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  • Heaven forbid you have to pay for something you actually get value from?

    Nonsense,

    I have been running Woocommerce for several years on a busy webshop (500+ items – 10K+ pageviews a day) and never had any real issues.

    There are plenty really useful free extensions and if you can’t afford official extensions, you can find cheaper alternatives at codecanyon.

    Plugin Contributor Mike Jolley (a11n)

    (@mikejolley)

    @objectman, maybe stating the obvious but those extension costs cover premium support. Why would you post on a community forum if you’ve purchased something?

    I agree with Ron, Woocommerce is great. Paying $100 for an extension that could make you that money back in a sale or two seems like a no brainer. If you had to pay a developer to create it for you custom, you’d spend thousands. Not to mention the $10s of thousands you’d spend building something like Woocommerce (which is free!) if you hired it out on your own.

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