WooCommerce is an open-source and customisable eCommerce platform targeted towards small to medium enterprises globally. In this article, we give you 7 key benefits of using WooCommerce.
2. WooCommerce is an open-source and customisable eCommerce platform
targeted towards small to medium enterprises. It officially launched in 2011 and
has been one of the easiest and cost-effective CMS platforms to start an online
store. In addition, WooCommerce is built on WordPress, a popular and familiar
platform already used by millions of websites across the globe.
What is WooCommerce?
3. Here, I will be discussing a few WooCommerce benefits
1. Free wordpress plugin
2. Full control of your data
3. Thousand of unique store designs via wordpress theme
4. Features available
5. Security
6. Make SEO easy
7. Fast loading speed in both the backend and frontend
4. As mentioned, WooCommerce is built on WordPress. Take full advantage of the
content editing tools at your disposal for your blog and other web pages. Being able to
easily manage both your eCommerce and WordPress on the same user-friendly CMS
system is one of the many WooCommerce benefits.
Other platforms may have limited options with regards to the addition of content-rich
subpages. Meanwhile, WooCommerce is great if you want to create a corporate
website with eCommerce capabilities.
Free Wordpress Plugin
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5. Third-party eCommerce platforms will always run the risk of losing data associated
with them when the platform closes. On occasion, it may also subject your website to
their party’s terms resulting in significant difficulties when trying to access data.
WooCommerce understands that data related to your customer purchases and order
history is very important to you and your customers. Hence with WooCommerce, you
get a backup platform if ever another third-party eCommerce platform/vendor/service
provider is down.
Full Control of your Data
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6. After a customised website has gone ‘Live’, it is often difficult and expensive to make
further design changes to it. But with WooCommerce, you can easily switch back and
forth between themes to update your website appearance with a variety of paid or free
unique themes.
Thousands of Unique Store Designs via
WordPress Theme
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7. WooCommerce can reliably support key features for your new online store. Do note
that these features are pretty standard and will require plugins or customisation.
Main features include:
● Different location customization: language, measurement units and currency from listing a
product to orders and its billing
● built-in blog
● easy product categories management
● tags and attributes
● rating of products and reviews
● product filtering and sorting
Features Available
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8. In WooCommerce, the development team works closely with some of the biggest
security providers such as Sucuri.net to enable a more secure online experience.
WooCommerce also makes updating the security of your online store simpleby
implementing new website security features with just one ‘click’. With constant
updates to your WooCommerce platform and plugins, this will also provide a more
reliable and safer environment to conduct your online business.
Security
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9. As WooCommerce is one of the most well-known platforms in the world, it is also
highly adapted to SEO guidelines provided by Google. This also makes SEO
optimization for your products and other content pages much simpler because of its
intuitive interface.
Both product details and other content information can be entered and stored easily.
Additionally, there is also a third-party SEO plugin available to further optimise your
web pages and blog articles on your online website.
Makes Search Engine Optimization Easy
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10. To complete the list of WooCommerce benefits in this article, we talk about speed.
Websites built on the WooCommerce platform are very fast to load as compared to
other platforms.
As its database and files are very lightweight, the websites load faster and also require
fewer resources from the server. This makes WooCommerce a cost-effective
eCommerce solution in terms of hosting a new online store website.
Fast loading speed in both the
backend and frontend
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