Many people wonder what WooCommerce or Shopify or Tiendanube is. These three names correspond to different e-commerce platforms that allow entrepreneurs to have a web page to sell.
doShopify vs. WooCommerce? doCloudStore vs WooCommerce? docloudstore vs. Shopify? Are you thinking of opening your online store and don’t know which is the best platform to do it? Haven’t you started yet and are you already dizzy from so much information? Don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place to understand how the three most used platforms in Latin America work: Shopify vs. WooCommerce vs. cloudstore.
We’ll look at each of the three platforms in depth, so you don’t have to spend any more time researching and get started on building your online store instead. They all have their advantages and disadvantages, so we have divided the review into a few categories that we think can help you understand a little more about how each one works.
How does Shopify vs. WooCommerce vs. cloudstore?
To be clear, WooCommerce is not a program or application itself, but rather a plugin for WordPress. In other words, it offers the possibility of “transforming” any site built on WordPress into an online store.
WordPress is a CMS ―content management system or in Spanish content management system― which has the characteristic of allowing the use of plugins to develop and edit web pages.
The main disadvantage of this is that you have to start from scratch, so it can be a bit cumbersome. As having a WordPress site implies taking care of its maintenance, you will have to hire a (the server where your site will be hosted), set up the site, design it, layout it and modify the necessary code. Only after you have done all this can you install the WooCommerce plugin and start selling.
📌 In short: with Tiendanube and Shopify practically alone, you upload your products, choose how to charge, how your products will be delivered and that’s it, you’re already selling! With WooCommerce, on the other hand, you have to have a site built on WordPress yes or yes (and take care of maintaining it).
Shopify costs vs. cloudstore vs. woocommerce 2022
Let’s review the prices of these three platforms and the factors that can influence them.
How much does WooCommerce charge to use it?
Calculating the price of setting up a WooCommerce store is particularly difficult. Although the plugin itself is free, there are many factors to consider that can make up the total investment you make in your store. From the server where your page is hosted, the development and maintenance costs, the monthly price of the different plugins you buy, the sales commission charged by the chosen payment operator, etc.
How much does Shopify charge per month?
Shopify has three plans: The Basic Shopify Plan costs $29 per month plus a 2% transaction fee; the Shopify Plan is $79 per month and 1% transaction fee; The Advanced Shopify Plan, finally, is $299 per month plus a 0.5% transaction fee. They also have a Shopify Lite plan for $9 per month you can add products to previously developed websites.
This is one of the main disadvantages of Shopify, charging commission per transaction the more you sell the more you pay. Similar to the model of a marketplace.
What are Tiendanube prices?
At Tiendanube we offer a single plan that costs $99 MXN per month with no transaction fees, which includes all the features and applications available from the moment you create your . But if your business needs specialized attention, there is Business Cloud Store. A personalized plan to meet the needs of your business. No plan has limits on the number of products, visits or sales.
Unlike in the case of Shopify, the main advantage of Tiendanube is that you do not pay commission for sales.
Tiendanube, the only one with a local team
We don’t want to brag, but out of the three we are also the only platform with a local team. This means that from the person who will give you support to the applications that you can integrate, going through the development of the product and the generation of content (like this!) they are designed to meet the needs of Mexicans. This is a great advantage of cloudstore vs. Shopify or WooCommerce. We are here to support you!
In addition, we are proud to be the most chosen e-commerce platform in Latin America. More than 90,000 stores trust us to help them achieve their goals in the digital world.
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installation and boarding
As we told you before, WooCommerce runs on top of WordPress. This means that before you can start selling, yes or yes you will have to develop a site on this platform. We are not going to expand here on everything that implies creating a web page, but in broad strokes it would be:
- Choose and buy a domain.
- Choose and buy a hosting service.
- Design the site (what will it look like?).
- Layout the site (that is, transform the design into a real web page).
- Install the WooCommerce plugin.
- Manually configure payment and shipping methods.
- Upload the products.
To start selling on Shopify, you’ll first need to complete a few questions related to your business industry and e-commerce experience. After that, a form follows in which you are asked for your complete personal data, such as name, address, etc. Finally you will have to choose a design that you like and now yes, you can sell.
In , on the other hand, you only have to tell us three things: the name of your brand, your email and your password to access. Yes, nothing more than that. Then we ask for your name, WhatsApp and social networks to integrate them into your store, but this step is optional and you can skip it if you want. That easy? Yes, that easy.
📌 In conclusion: the installation and first steps are easier with Tiendanube compared to Shopify and WooCommerce because we only ask you for your brand name, your email and a password to start customizing the design of your store.
Control Panel
WooCommerce
In WooCommerce, after you install the plugin on your site the general admin or control panel will be automatically added to the left sidebar characteristic of WordPress. Usually three tabs are added per default to this menu: one called “WooCommerce”, another that you will find as “Products” and a last one called “Analytics”.
In the “WooCommerce” section is where you will do all the configuration of the store itself: in which country and currency you want to sell, what your payment and shipping methods will be, etc. The “Products” section is quite self-explanatory: there you will find everything related to the configuration of the products of your store. In the last one, “Analytics”, is where all the dashboards and metrics live so you can understand the performance of your store. Versus Shopify, WooCommerce could be more complex to manage than Shopify and Tiendanube.
📝 A word of clarification: as with any WordPress page, there are countless plugins and extensions that will allow you to change everything, including this control panel that WooCommerce comes with by default.
Shopify
Most prominent on the home page of the Shopify admin are a series of metrics and charts that the company includes so you can monitor your site’s performance. The menu itself is divided into three large sections, each with a few subcategories: “Your store”, “Your website” where your pages coexist with products and information about your brand and content such as menus and themes. “Settings”, lastly, is where you can make adjustments to your profile and personal information and add third-party apps.
Under “Your store” you will find the dashboard (panel) with metrics that we mentioned at the beginning, your orders, your customers, the discount coupons you have created, your products and your “collections” (product series that you can group together). In “Your website” your blog posts, the pages of your site, the navigation (ie the menus) and the themes coexist. Lastly, “Settings” is where you can make adjustments to your profile and personal information and add third-party apps.
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In Tiendanube, the first thing you will see will be a home screen with some tips to help you understand what are the necessary steps that you must complete to have your online store 100% optimized to start selling as quickly as possible. Some of these tips include choosing a design, adding your logo and products, setting up a payment method and shipping method.
The menu itself is divided into four large axes: the first includes the home page and “Statistics”, where you can quickly understand the performance (performance) of your store. The other three big categories are “Manage”, “Customize” and “Boost”.
In “Manage” you will find all the information regarding your sales, your products, your customers and the discount coupons or promotions that you have created. Under “Customize” you can modify the design of your store, the content of the pages, the menus, the contact information and even put a “Page under construction” sign while you make adjustments to it. Finally, under “Boost”, you will find the third-party app store and integrations with all your other sales channels (Facebook, Instagram, Google, etc.).
📌 In conclusion: Shopify and Tiendanube are ideal platforms for people who do not have programming knowledge, while WooCommerce is more complex. So if you don’t have a developer, the best option for you is Tiendanube or Shopify.
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Administration and product management
WooCommerce
As we just told you, to get to the management panel of your products in WooCommerce you will have to go to the “Products” section, located in the left sidebar of your WordPress page. There you will find different sections to manage both your products themselves and the categories, labels and product attributes (such as the size of a t-shirt, for example).
As for the products themselves, you will also see many options when you want to upload a new product. There you will be able to find even more settings related to inventory, shipping and product attributes. It must be said that this fragmentation of the settings (there are aspects related to the products in the general settings of WooCommerce, in its corresponding page of the sidebar and even when you are going to upload a new product) can sometimes be a bit dizzy.
Shopify
In Shopify, under the “Products” section, you’ll see five instances: “All Products”, “Inventory”, “Transfers”, “Collections”, and “Gift Cards”. You can add new products directly from…
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