What to choose - CMS or online designer for a small online store?

Question

CMS

Good afternoon!
This is my first time dealing with the creation of an online store.
The store is small. The maximum number of goods is 300 units.
The most important thing that I want to realize in this store is a unique design, because I'm going to sell designer street clothes. The templates that have come across so far seem very boring and standard.
I have a mockup, it will soon acquire a design, and I want to make a store based on it.
Searching for information on the Internet, I ran into several questions:
1) What CMS to use?
Joomla, Drupal are too complicated, as I understand it for my project. So I settled on WordPress and ModX
2) Okay, there is a CMS, but what to do next, take a ready-made template and redo it, or is everything not so simple?
In general, I thought that I would choose a CMS, take a template, tweak the CSS for my design, add plugins and everything will work.
In general, what worries me the most is how the back office itself will work. Acceptance of the order, sending information about the order to the client's mail, where will the information about the order be sent to me, how will the authorization go? Is it all in the template, or is it tedious to look for something else?
3) Isn't it easier to take a shop website builder, like WIX?
How flexible are these systems? Or is it all templated?
4) Do I need a CRM system?
Of course, I understand that I have to determine this for myself. But am I right in thinking that for my scale a complex system is not needed. But where will all the information about clients, sales, etc. go then? Are these basic functions of an online store implemented in any CMS system. Or is it completely "from another opera"?
I apologize for my incompetence. I would be grateful for any advice

Answer 1

I didn’t eat the dog in this case, but I also went through a lot of information myself. I think it's best to choose a CMS originally designed for an online store. I recommend taking Opencart, or rather its localized version for Russia - OsStore. By itself, she is "naked" (so they wrote about her in the reviews), but she has a lot of templates and modules. It is better to take a simple CMS and, as necessary, install the necessary modules on it than to take an initially complex and clumsy CMS and then dance with a tambourine trying to adapt it for yourself. Options like Wix as far as I know are SaaS services (monthly fee for the ability to manage content and hosting). In general, I think it's better to take the free CMS OsStore and drag it to hosting and pay only for hosting. SaaS is more expensive. Such things as operations with orders are there in the box of this store and, if desired, you can install more paid or free modules. I use OsStore with the Ava template and install all the necessary modules. It seems to me that CRM is needed for those who already have a large flow of customers. If there are only 300 products, then I think such a simple system as OsStore is perfect. And if you put a template, then it will be more than enough. I put it on a local server in 15-20 minutes. But do not think that it is quite simple. Everything you need is in it. And if you put a template, then it will be more than enough. I put it on a local server in 15-20 minutes. But do not think that it is quite simple. Everything you need is in it. And if you put a template, then it will be more than enough. I put it on a local server in 15-20 minutes. But do not think that it is quite simple. Everything you need is in it.

Answer 2

Wordpress is the worst thing ever. No, WIX is even worse.
Take any free online store and order your design to it. Any of them will cover half of your needs out of the box, you can add the rest as you go.

Answer 3

Wordpress + Woocommerce is fine. You can cut the template yourself, since there are enough lessons for this. True, Woocommerce page templating is a bit more complicated, you need to have at least some experience with wordpress templates.
And the back office of Woocommerce is normal, and there are a lot of payment modules.

Answer 4

Wp + Woocometse will be fine. No online constructors.
You can also try OpenCart, it is designed exclusively for online stores.

Answer 5

If you have knowledge in html + css and at least a basic understanding of PHP - a clear choice of CMS.
I write sites on Wordpress and am very pleased with this CMS. The only thing I will say right away: do not abuse plugins. I also liked to experiment with plugins at first, and as a result, a couple of sites got hacked, as some plugins open huge holes for hackers.
And writing your own wordpress template is actually very easy (provided that you understand html + css).
When I started this course of video tutorials helped me a lot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamClmyOoms
If you create an online store, don't forget to support the woocommerce plugin for the theme (in my opinion this is the best plugin for organizing a store).
Regarding the "Back office", there are plugins for each of the tasks listed ... however, when I was faced with the need for a rather complicated personal account, it became necessary to seriously finish these plugins (therefore knowledge of php is welcome).

Answer 6

Try ShopScript 6 in the cloud (there's also a boxed version). CMS is excellent, with wide functionality for any task.

Answer 7

You can also look at this Minicart.ru - site
Minicart.su - demo