Best Scalable Ecommerce platforms

  • Resolved flamingo2009

    (@flamingo2009)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    We are currently on CS-Cart platform with 10,000 unique visitors daily and we expect this to go up to 100,000 and more in the next few months. We have only around 600 products in our catalogue. Due to lack of developers for cs-cart, we would like to move on to some other platform like Woocommerce which has a larger pool of developers available and something which will serve us for at least the next 5-7 years so that we can invest money in the right code development and infrastructure.

    Things we are looking in our next platform are :

    – Fast and lightweight.
    – Scale quickly and serve tons of customers without getting bogged down ideally with support for some high end caching systems (We are ready to invest money on good hosting).
    – Availability of extensions/addons for future growth and enterprise level automation and inventory controls.
    – Great product options, attributes and option combination functionality (cs-cart is excellent in this regard).
    – Easy availability of Developers (we are actually looking for someone who can join our team).
    – Highly Secure or something which can be secured with some best practices.

    We have taken Magento out of the equation due to the high cost and timelines for development. Moreover due to the heavy resources it requires, it suffers in speed even on good hosting setups.

    We are getting torn between Drupal Commerce, Woocommerce and Prestashop. Can anyone recommend the best one among these 3 that will tick all the above boxes?

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  • I would check out this video. I was in attendance at WooConf for this talk in it is rather amazing what they pulled off.

    All 3 of your options hit at least 3.

    Regarding – Availability of extensions/addons for future growth and enterprise level automation and inventory controls.

    WordPress/WooCommerce have a crazy amount of options but that does come at a pitfall of not all options are created equal or great.

    AJ a11n

    (@amandasjackson)

    @flamingo2009

    Keep in mind, this is a WooCommerce support forum ??

    We have written a blog post to help you out with the initial setup. It will guide you through every step, from downloading WordPress to installing and extending WooCommerce. You will find it here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/start-with-woocommerce-in-5-steps/

    If you would like additional information on getting started with WooCommerce, here’s a great link to help:

    https://docs.woocommerce.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/getting-started/

    Thread Starter flamingo2009

    (@flamingo2009)

    @mtruitt Thanks. Great video..lots of insights into misconceptions people have around woocommerce..

    Which 3 factors does woocommerce tick of the above mentioned ones?

    @flamingo2009 As @amandasjackson said this really for support so I will keep this brief.

    – Scale quickly and serve tons of customers without getting bogged down ideally with support for some high end caching systems (We are ready to invest money on good hosting).

    Caching is money here. WP Engine is a great choice. I’ve personally used them for years. Avoid paid themes either go with custom to keep it light as possible or something like Storefront which is made by the same people that made WooCommerce.

    – Availability of extensions/addons for future growth and enterprise level automation and inventory controls.

    I haven’t seen a CMS with more extensions/addons.

    – Great product options, attributes and option combination functionality (cs-cart is excellent in this regard).

    See above you can find plugins or developers to extend this to just about anything you can imagine as you can overwrite the template or unhook parts of it and add your own thing to it.

    – Easy availability of Developers (we are actually looking for someone who can join our team).

    This one I have to say is good and bad. You will run into people who are “developers” but really are people that understand

    – Highly Secure or something which can be secured with some best practices.

    As you stated secured with best practices plus keeping things up to date is key with this. Avoiding TONS of plugins also helps.

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