What are the main disadvantages of WooCommerce for B2C online store? and what is the best engine for an online store?

Question

Electronic commerce

What are the main disadvantages of WooCommerce for B2C online store?
and what is the best engine for an online store?

Answer 1

WooCommerce is no worse than the listed opencart, PrestaShop, Bitrix, etc. There is no
best engine for all stores. Specify your requirements and functions that are needed now and may be needed in the future, then it will be possible to make a recommendation.

Answer 2

The best one is the one that makes a lot of money and is inexpensive to maintain (and therefore one that your developers know very well).
Of course, there are downsides to WooCommerce. Just like any other engine. But I will have my minuses, Petya will have others, and Masha will have third ones. What kind of store, niche, products? Geography? Peculiarities?
From the general point - in WC, such a thing as variable goods is very difficult to understand and manage at first. On the other hand, if you master it properly, it is a very powerful and useful thing. Also, WC itself is free, but a lot of useful and convenient tools are paid, but this is normal, given that the store brings money, and it’s a sin to spare X$ for optimizing work and / or increasing sales. Plus, developers should know both WordPress and WooCommerce well, this narrows the circle of specialists (although there are still no less of them than PrestaShop, for example) ...
In general, give more details, a specific case.
Yes, I forgot to mention. Not long ago, WooCommerce was bought by Automattic, which, as many know, owns the world's largest WordPress.com service, the WordPress VIP platform, and many other interesting things.

Answer 3

I recommend opencart - we worked with it, it's very good.
An online store engine is worthless without those who can maintain it , that is, without a person or team that can provide you with stable operation, improvements and refinements, updates at least once a year (engine), bug fixes and other things.
That is, the engine is just a tool, we tried a lot and eventually wrote our own, which is most convenient for us as for people who make stores.
The bottom line is that when a client contacts you, he almost always doesn’t care what engine , most likely it doesn’t matter to you either what it is and what it’s called, it’s important for you that everything works well, is inexpensively supported and updated periodically .

Answer 4

I recommend looking towards SAAS engines. Then you don't care about maintenance at all, only development.
For a new online store, a quick start is more important than features and all sorts of beauties. I use Shopify for my online store.