WooCommerce
WooCommere is a plugin that's installed within WordPress; and out the box is free to use, and you can be up and running within minutes. One of the biggest "selling" points of WooCommerce is the amount of extendable plugins available for purchase to enhance certain aspects of the entire system. Most of these plugins are annual fee based, so it's always a good idea to plan very carefully around what you want your store to do, and where you plan on to go with your website; but don't worry we take of all that for you, and will always choose the most cost effective route for your long term goals.
As mentioned, WooCommerce is highly scalable and will handle just about any amount of products and associated categories you need. Having a WooCommerce store is easy to use for both clients and developers, so the breadth of customisation is endless, giving you full control of every aspect in the online eCommerce processes. The only limitation to WooCommerce is how resource hungry it can be, but so long as your hosting company provides good solid fast hosting, you can't go wrong. All of our servers from budget to dedicated are optimised specifically for WooCommerce and Magento, so you won't have to worry about that.
Magento
Magento is what the industry considers the crème de la crème of eCommerce solutions, but it comes at a price. Using Magento has many advantages and is usually considered for larger sites, and there is a free Community Edition, but you will still be need to pay for most plugins to extend its' functionality.
- Although the Community Edition is free to use, the setup costs and development can range from £5,500 - £15,000 for Magento V1.
- The cost for a Magento V2 storefront can range anywhere from £7,000 - £20,000 and if you already have a Magento V1 storefront, you can't just upgrade from V1 to V2 as they are built on two entirely different Zend frameworks.
There are 2 versions of the Magento software, with most current Magento storefronts still using Magento 1, with others either upgrading to Magento 2, or outright rebuilding within Magento 2. The latest version of Magento 2 has significant performance differences over it's little brother Magento 1, most of which are reduced checkout times, increased hourly transaction rates and overall simultaneous website traffic handling.
Burclea offer both Magento V1 and V2 Community Editions as standard for our clients who require Magento as a storefront solution, along with full design and development as per the clients specifications.