3 Reasons Why You Should Use…

WordPress the WooCommerce Edition

The question of, “Why WordPress?” is asked by tons of new and old developers of all different skill levels and experience. Chances are you have done some research about WordPress or even heard about it from a coworker or friend.

So what is WordPress?

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP[4] and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.

The best analogy to better explain this is “WordPress is a factory that makes webpages.” I am going to share with you some of the benefits of using WordPress with WooCommerce for E-commerce business!

E-commerce business owners are faced with a ton of challenges these days. Both launching an online store and managing merchandise is extremely time-consuming and they need tools that will increase their performance and product optimization to ensure the business is successful.

This is where WooCommerece on WordPress saves the day!

What is WooCommerece?

WooCommerce was created by two developers, Mike Jolley and James Koster.

It is an E-commerce plugin for WordPress that makes creating and managing an online store simple. It provides tons of flexibility and several important features such as inventory and tax management, secure payments, and shipping integration.

Developers love WooCommerce for several reasons. The best among them is how relatively easy it is to install and configure. As a developer, this makes the profitability of developing e-commerce sites skyrocket!

Here are the reasons you as a developer should pitch woo commerce as your web solution for e-commerce.

Pricing

WooCommerce is competitive with all of the leading enterprise e-commerce applications. But keep in mind it is free, which does enable any business to take advantage of its capabilities without having to make a financial commitment. If the business finds there are needs that lie outside the scope of the free features, WooCommerce has tons of first and third-party applications that can be enabled for a low cost.

WooCommerece Is In fact WordPress

Because WooCommerece is constrained by WordPress, it ensures it is built to do exactly what it is supposed to do! You as a developer don't have to worry about those annoying “side effects” of certain code because WordPress sets all the boundaries for you.

WooCommerce inherits all of the strength and reliability of WordPress and uses it to build a world-class e-commerce experience for customers as well as their target audience.

The Community

Because WordPress is such a successful open-source software the userbase isn’t limited by pricing, premium customer support, or even skill level! This is why the community is so large, and why you can find tons of support online.

WooCommerece is a plugin that has gained the community size as WordPress overall! WooCommerce retailers benefit from a large pool of developers and WooCommerce professionals. If you need to make changes to your WooCommerce store, it won’t be hard to find someone to do the work for you.