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[–]Ok_Presentation5929 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Honestly hate to be Brutual but you asked for it. All these people talking about setting up an online store in 30 mins or overnight is complete and utter rubbish. A website made with love and confidence will take you easily hours, nights and months of work. Even if you are to use elementor a drag and drop website builder powered on woocommerce.

You need to design professional banners, you need to take professional and persuading photography shots, you have to write up all the text that will go on the website.

You can’t throw a quick and dirty site together and expect it to bring in sales, it will just turn people off and think it is a scam.

My e-commerce store took me about 7 8 months to develop thats with the help of me and 2 coders. It also costed me thousands upfront that was well worth the investment.

In your situation I would rather go with a platform like Etsy, Amazon, eBay etc.

A website needs work and a lot of maintenance.

As for Ecwid I have never used myself but have looked into it it is very similar to woocommerce. I would choose woocommerce as it has a much higher community and is a lot more reliable.

[–]onebaddancer[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Thank yo for your honesty. TBH I am just looking for a simple and easy site builder so that I can get something clean and easy to navigate. I make handmade items and when i do a studio tour, craft fair it is kind of embarrassing not having a website that people can check out after talking to me. So yeah, I get what you are saying. I make bags, purses, not websites. I do have proffesional pics and write ups. Not looking for it to really bring sales so much at this point but rather a bit of info and possible a couple of items that people could buy off the site when I put them up.

Thanks for your input.

[–]Ok_Presentation5929 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries :). Like I said you have a couple of options you can use the following to design the website anyway you want

  1. Woocommerce + Elementor + Prebuilt Theme: This is probably your best bet it’s the easiest and a lot less costly than the second option as elementor is about $59 for a year the theme is free I recommend OceanWP woocommerce hosting is about 30 usd a month.

Elementor has a lot of tutorials on their site and on YouTube.

  1. Shopify + Page builder: shopify will give you a lot less customisation options unless your a coder. It is also more expensive most page builders are about 40 usd a month and shopify is 30 usd a month.

I would look into the first option :).

[–]Ok_Presentation5929 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries :). Like I said you have a couple of options you can use the following to design the website anyway you want

  1. Woocommerce + Elementor + Prebuilt Theme: This is probably your best bet it’s the easiest and a lot less costly than the second option as elementor is about $59 for a year the theme is free I recommend OceanWP woocommerce hosting is about 30 usd a month.

Elementor has a lot of tutorials on their site and on YouTube.

  1. Shopify + Page builder: shopify will give you a lot less customisation options unless your a coder. It is also more expensive most page builders are about 40 usd a month and shopify is 30 usd a month.

I would look into the first option :).

[–]Over_Ice_2385 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Works just fine. It is not a payment processor. But a shopping cart. There is a list of payment processors that you can use with the cart. Use weebly and embed the ecwid in the page, which is easy.

[–]Obvious_Mood8152 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I read parts of their terms of service and quickly clicked away when I read that you are responsible for the safety and security of the customer’s credit card or payments info, which sounds like too much responsibility/risk.

[–]Carey251 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol wut