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Add to SafariWhen comparing WooCommerce vs Arastta, the Slant community recommends WooCommerce for most people. In the question“What are the best open source e-commerce platforms? ” WooCommerce is ranked 2nd while Arastta is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose WooCommerce is:
Wordpress is used by 25% of the entire web since it is well known by a lot of people, they won't get lost using WooCommerce. Wordpress is a solid CMS, it's important that the base of WooCommerce is not some amateur CMS. Wordpress evolves often.
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Pros
Pro Based on Wordpress which is very popular
Wordpress is used by 25% of the entire web since it is well known by a lot of people, they won't get lost using WooCommerce. Wordpress is a solid CMS, it's important that the base of WooCommerce is not some amateur CMS. Wordpress evolves often.
Pro Easy to use
Pro Easy to customize
Pro A lot of extensions
Pro Self hosted
Choice between hosted or self-hosted.
Pro Free
Free and open source, although extensions from the marketplace might be paid.
Cons
Con Slow Slow Slow
Self explanatory. Does not scale.
Con Poorly customizable
Woocommerce is great for a quick launch without customization. But as soon as you need to add some new features, it really becomes a pain. WooCommerce is really slow, even if you get only a few products.
Con Horrible documentation
From a developer's standpoint. Documentation is snake oil. It looks pretty and gives confidence that you are able to work on woocommerce easily to make plugins that you need. Try using it. It is outdated and breaks.
Con Runs on Wordpress
Not a dedicated out of the box solution.
Con Last release dates from 2017
No activity on GitHub since 2018.
