Yep, I'm pretty happy with WooCommerce. I've started working with this tremendous Ecommerce platform recently for some of my clients and it's been a great experience, so far.

It is a very powerful gateway to giving people the ability to manage their own online experiences. So many turn to Etsy or Amazon to sell products. While those services have their benefits, business owners think launching an Etsy or Amazon shop will derive immediate benefits in terms of customer acquisition, but that is not the case. Business owners must still market their online stores, no matter where they happen to be.

The benefit over Etsy and Amazon is that your own WooCommerce powered shop keeps you in control of how you sell, what you sell. The rules don't change when you own your shop. Having ultimate control over your products and shopping experience is critical. When you combine WordPress and WooCommerce, you keep that control. Plus, why drive traffic to Etsy and Amazon? That does nothing for your long term strategy and only pushes your customers into those environments, where they can find other sellers and just maybe not order from you in the first place!

Yes, it may be more expensive to hire a designer to stylistically design your WooCommerce shop and a developer to implement, but one can get away with simply launching WooCommerce on their base Ecommerce theme, Storefront, and have a shop up and running in minutes with no developers and limited effort. I just did this for my client, https://copperrivertrading.com, who now has a simple storefront and was able to sell products this Christmas season.

One interesting plugin I found for another client gives the seller the ability to set a local pickup location. This is great for orders that can ship nationally, but can also be picked up locally.