Xcart vs wordpress woocommerce + plugins

[American Psycho]

Trying to decide between xcart multisite which is $1000 liscense fee and does everything I need OR wordpress woocommerce + plugins and some hacking / customizong work to do exactly what I need.I would need to hire a developer to do what i need in wordpress so it won't be a basic free wp install....

What direction would you go?

[Juicy D. Links]

from my POV X cart is amazing having used it for may years....

Xcart is what prefer .....and also there support if you do need it is really good.

[brassmonkey]

Trying to decide between xcart multisite which is $1000 liscense fee and does everything I need OR wordpress woocommerce + plugins and some hacking / customizong work to do exactly what I need.I would need to hire a developer to do what i need in wordpress so it won't be a basic free wp install....

What direction would you go?

what features? i have a few sites on woo

[American Psycho]

from my POV X cart is amazing having used it for may years....

Xcart is what prefer .....and also there support if you do need it is really good.

thanks for feedback.

whats your site ? what do you sell? giant black dildos for men?

[JimmyStephans]

X-Cart is the way to go. Stock, it has tons of good features.

Its been around so long that it has a large number of followers that have created additional features (plug-ins), and it can be tied to just about any payment gateway.

[AaronM]

I have no experience with Xcart but have built many Woocommerce sites and spent well under the $1k Xcart licensing fee on various plugins to make it all work.

When I've needed something more custom, I've had good luck (with one exception) using codeable.io to develop custom plugins. However, those costs are usually over $1k.

[DVTimes]

I have a week ago set up a Woocommerce.

I find it great.

So far all the plugins are what I need and so far not spent 1p on any.

By the way if anyone recommends plugins for Woocommerce that would be good.

[AmeliaG]

I have no experience with Xcart but have built many Woocommerce sites and spent well under the $1k Xcart licensing fee on various plugins to make it all work.

When I've needed something more custom, I've had good luck (with one exception) using codeable.io to develop custom plugins. However, those costs are usually over $1k.

Thanks for the link, Aaron

[stoka]

perhaps you may find it easier to go with something such as mybigcommerce.com, we have several clients ordering quite often graphics and such for their mbc shops - seems to me that they're all doing pretty well

[mikesouth]

Ive used both currently I prefer woocommerce because of the availability of plugins that are needed for site security wordfence is a really good plugin for example

I dont think woocommerce has a ccbill plugin but they do have a netbilling one and it works well for me.

I also prefer the versatility of the woocommerce either is a solid choice though for sure.

[AaronM]

Speaking of security...I've yet to find a good security plugin that lasted long term. Got sick of trying new ones so I recently put some sites behind Sucuri Security's WAF. They also cleaned up the crap the other security plugins let in.

[MrPay]

There is also SecurionPay plugin for WooCommerce!

A very nice trio of Worldpress + Woo + SecurionPay = hassle free solution.

[DVTimes]

There is also SecurionPay plugin for WooCommerce!

A very nice trio of Worldpress + Woo + SecurionPay = hassle free solution.

they have a ccbill plugin too.

[DVTimes]

Ive used both currently I prefer woocommerce because of the availability of plugins that are needed for site security wordfence is a really good plugin for example

I dont think woocommerce has a ccbill plugin but they do have a netbilling one and it works well for me.

I also prefer the versatility of the woocommerce either is a solid choice though for sure.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocom...ateway-ccbill/

[DVTimes]

Its worth looking at some of the plugins you can get:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search...&q=WooCommerce

[sinclair]

they have a ccbill plugin too.

Updates are frequent as well.

WOO FTW

[fris]

Speaking of security...I've yet to find a good security plugin that lasted long term. Got sick of trying new ones so I recently put some sites behind Sucuri Security's WAF. They also cleaned up the crap the other security plugins let in.

i use ithemes security pro on a members site, its awesome.

[fris]

Its worth looking at some of the plugins you can get:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search...&q=WooCommerce

ive setup, paxum, and netbilling and btc on one install its nice for getting payments.

[Mobius Matt]

Mobius Payments is integrated with Xcart and Woo. Let me know if you need any help.

[NETbilling]

ive setup, paxum, and netbilling and btc on one install its nice for getting payments.

Thanks for the mention. Woo commerce works awesome with us. Check out the module here:

NETbilling Payment Gateway - WooThemes

Thanks, Mitch

[mikesouth]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocom...ateway-ccbill/

Thank You admitted I hadnt looked recently this is a great backup for me

and it pushes woocommerce way over the top as my #1 choice!

[fris]

Thanks for the mention. Woo commerce works awesome with us. Check out the module here:

NETbilling Payment Gateway - WooThemes

Thanks, Mitch

yep thats the onei use.

ive implemented this with the woocommerce membership module, and stripped down the system to eliminating the traiditional shopping cart, to a more simple system when most of the ecomm stuff are geared towards products add to cart, checkout, etc, this goes right to the point on whats needed.

[DVTimes]

Thank You admitted I hadnt looked recently this is a great backup for me

and it pushes woocommerce way over the top as my #1 choice!

cool

hope it works well for you.

[AaronM]

i use ithemes security pro on a members site, its awesome.

That was one I tried...Until the company's website itself was hacked and they lost tons of credibility.

Note the #2 action they took.

https://ithemes.com/2014/09/23/impor...all-customers/

[NETbilling]

yep thats the onei use.

ive implemented this with the woocommerce membership module, and stripped down the system to eliminating the traiditional shopping cart, to a more simple system when most of the ecomm stuff are geared towards products add to cart, checkout, etc, this goes right to the point on whats needed.

Excellent! What's the link to your store if you want to share?

Mitch