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1. drtanz
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi I am in the process of creating a website for an importer who wants to showcase his products. There are over 1,500 products and they also need to be categorised by brand.

   At this point for this client I only need to display a catalogue with no options for actual purchasing, but he wants to be able to switch on the purchasing part in the near future if required. So that is my main reason for wanting to build this right now with an ecommerce plugin, rather than going for custom post types.

   I've indentified the following plugins that seem to be the leading ones at the moment:

   • WP ECommerce
   • Shopp
   • WooCommerce
   • JigoShop

   Given my requirements any tips for which one of these four would be ideal for me? I don't mind paying for a plugin.

2. code-monkey
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I would LOVE to get feedback on this too.

   I've used Shopp for a bunch of sites. It works, but it has serious limitations and has been pretty damn frustrating for the most part (although I have been pleasantly surprised I've actually had human support *trying* to help me along the way).

   I've heard WP E-Commerce is pretty buggy but I haven't really tested it.

   WooCommerce looks pretty good. C'mon folks, what's the best WP Commerce system out there? We are all dying for the best one to be made obvious!!

3. code-monkey
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   And also, can anyone tell me if you can export all your data from Shopp to get it into one of the other ones. I'm sorry to call WP E-Commerce buggy. I really don't have an idea since I've never used it. It actually looks a heck of a lot better than it used to a year or two ago.

   My money is on WP E-Commerce or WooCommerce as the BEST... but I'm not sure which??

4. drtanz
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   One encouraging thing in favour of WooCommerce, apart from the fact that it is a fork of JigoShop (which was already good), is that the guys behind it know how to handle support and have the drive to make it the best.

   I'd love to know the opinions of others though.

5. hyperking
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   @code-monkey I have used wp-ecommerce for over a year on two sites. Wp-ecommerce is a great shop plugin to use, however here are some of my findinds:
   1: database could be cleaner (i.e having a separate table for wpsc_products) this would help migrations a whole lot. For now products are nested in the wp_posts table

   2: International Shipping is not available! which is why im looking for an alternative shop

   3:Customizing the shop is super easy!

   4: Admin Checkout form and Checkout Shipping forms seems buggy, but it may be me.( had trouble updating correct shipping totals )

   Woo Commerce thus far is Super Awesome coming from wp-ecommerce. Not so easy to customize,and the variable/attribute section pales to wp-ecommerce. I only wish they would have an option to set a global price for any attribute value and have it apply to any product you specify. Wp-ecommerce does this well.

   Ultimately its a matter of what sort of shop your setting up and how extensive your items are.

   Also look at phpurchase/Cart66 im liking the database structure a lot and wish the admin was better arranged like woo commerce.

   cheers

6. code-monkey
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thanks @hyperking. 

   We've now built over 50 commercial WordPress sites. We love WP and 90% of the plugins we come across.

   In short, WordPress continues to impress. However, after a brief early love affair, Shopp continues to disappoint. We now find ourselves desperately needing an ecommerce alternative. 

   What's wrong with Shopp? There are many glitches and frustrations that appear as soon as you start tinkering with things. An example? Try changing the default shipping option or re-ordering the shipping options... a nightmare. Try setting a tiered pricing structure for products... the Promotions options only does the most basic kind of discounting.

   But the worst thing about Shopp is the exact opposite of the best thing about WordPress: the user forums. In Shopp, these are closed to the public... open only to those who have bought the plugin. Once you've done that, you find the forums littered with unanswered questions and lost, disgruntled users aking the most basic support questions. This means that most of your answers can only be found by trawling deeply through the forums and the coding/lighthouse forum, with many of the answers coming in the form of user hacks and workarounds... some of which break and need to be changed every time you upgrade the core system.

   This is why I need to be assured there is a better plugin than Shopp, or we'll be forced to switch all our e-comm sites to non-Wordpress. Prestashop is soooo much better than Shopp... but why can't I use WordPress for ecommerce?

   We are WordPress developers. We love all that it has to offer.... except eCommerce.

   Is WooCommerce the magic, missing bullet? I hope so.

7. saddusaddu
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   WooCommerce's support forum is also for paid customers only. I see no need to pay for woothemes, since I don't like the ones I've tried and they did not even work seamlessly with WooCommerce! I'm gonna go with woo anyway, just testing now.

8. code-monkey
   Member
   Posted 4 days ago #

   This is the best info you need to know about Shopp (down the bottom!)

   Basically - Shopp would do well to let you know it's a bolt-on PHP system rather than a beautiful WordPress integrated plugin.

   Want to change things? Prepare for a crash course in PHP.

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/shopp-plugin

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