When choosing the perfect e-commerce platform for your online business, there are certain things that you need to consider. The foremost concern is to select a platform that you will be using for creating an e-commerce website. Out of all the available options, here are the two best open-source platforms we plan to discuss – WooCommerce and Magento. Both these different platforms have managed to create a ripple in the market through their vast functionality and usability. What comes out as a tricky situation is choosing one out of the two available platforms as making a wrong choice can affect your business significantly. To make your task easy, we have side-lined a few differences between WooCommerce & Magento.

HOSTING REQUIREMENTS

WooCommerce

Since WooCommerce is an extension of the popular WordPress platform, the server requirements are confined. WooCommerce is an efficient plug-in that is very light about the server load and occupies minimum disk space. Till the time your server supports MySQL or PHP, you could be sure about a smooth-running system. As a whole, WooCommerce is an accessible and cost effective means., Advance – 10600

Magento   

In the case of Magento, the list of server requirements is a bit longer. You need to have the specific technical knowledge to avoid any sort of lapse in the setup. Considering the complexity in Magento, the system requires comparatively more server power and disk space. The installation of Magento requires you to do some homework. Magento installations on budget servers become annoyingly slow, which is why you need to rely upon a high-performance hosting provider.

Verdict:

Considering the ease of use, WooCommerce is a leg-up than Magento, but this is only in case the users are comparatively less sophisticated. However, Magento is a more flexible and powerful platform for all sophisticated clients selling operating at an enterprise level.

PRICING

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is free initially but has some features that get paid with time. However, overall, WooCommerce offers affordable hosting with less expensive plug-ins, and most importantly, the least development costs. Considering the affordability factor, WooCommerce seems very efficient until you start realizing that some individual bits and pieces are missing.

Magento

Magento’s Community Edition is free to download, hence putting it in the same queue as WooCommerce. However, for bigger businesses, the functionality is a bit restricted. The solution is Magento Enterprise, which has been designed specifically keeping in mind the requirements of large scale online businesses. The overall cost can escalate owing to the costly extensions, significantly high development costs and expensive server requirements.

Verdict:

Magento is best suited for handling the medium & large businesses. It is quite challenging to run a portal with thousands of products and hefty plug-ins while using WooCommerce. Despite being a bit expensive, Magento is highly capable of managing ecommerce portals while offering long-term flexibility and impressive suite of features and scope for growth.

What gives Magento an Edge over WooCommerce

-Offers Cross-selling & Up-selling

-Provision for product comparisons

-Availability of coupon codes and discounts

-Easy Integration with Google Analytics

-Provision to manage multiple stores from a      single account

-Advanced navigation filters

In contrast, WooCommerce has limited scope and restricted in terms of features. It is probably, the reason why Magento dominates the e-commerce world. Having a look at the pie-chart below, it could be seen how maximum businesses are getting the best bang for their bucks with Magento.

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