Magento is a not at all light weight. It is quite slow in relation to the resources you give it. If your going high volume and Magento then make sure you have it on a nice server. I’ve done consulting work for customers that got over their heads with Magento.
I’d try the easy solution with something like Forrest is using. If you find you need something custom then I suspect it will be worth your time to work with a web development team that specializes in e-commerce and use their preferred system. You end up paying consulting fees that way but I suspect the service level and experience will be worth the trouble if you end up needing more then a canned e-commerce solution. Sincerely, Joshaven Potter MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, UACA Google Hangouts: [email protected] Cell & SMS: 1-517-607-9370 [email protected] > On Sep 1, 2015, at 3:21 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I kinda get the impression that magento is good if you have the time to do > the care and feeding. I just found the integration time to be painful, and > Debbie couldn't figure out basic things. But if I was launching a high > volume site, I'd be running Magento or WooCommerce. For me, I just want > something I don't have to deal with. Or more accurately, I don't have to pay > someone lots of money to deal with. > > One thing to think about is also how many of the cool tools out there each > integrate with. For instance, bigcommerce integrates with lots and lots of > apps... see https://www.bigcommerce.com/apps/ > <https://www.bigcommerce.com/apps/> > > I find that what is useful is to look around at other third party tools and > see which ecommerce platforms are best supported. For instance: > > Shipstation (Shipping): http://www.shipstation.com/partners/ > <http://www.shipstation.com/partners/> > Zendesk (Support): https://www.zendesk.com/apps/ > <https://www.zendesk.com/apps/> > Zapier (Very cool data moving tool): https://zapier.com/zapbook/ > <https://zapier.com/zapbook/> > Note: if it connects to zapier, it connects to everything that zapier > talks to > > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Thanks Forrest, sounds like I could do worse than bigcommerce. > > Watching the after-sharktank show the other night (whatever it is called, > perhaps after the tank) , Mark Cuban was strongly urging the woman with the > red dress store to not spend $400K (of his money) on re-tooling her ecommerce > site. He had had his guys fix up her site for free (after it crashed when > she was on the regular shark tank show) and I think he was insulted that she > wanted to re-do everything with a developer. > > In any event, I discovered that she was using Magento and that is what Mark > was urging her to stay with. I figured that was a pretty good endorsement > for a business with a huge number of transactions. > > From: Forrest Christian (List Account) <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 12:58 PM > To: af <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT eCommerce > > I run on bigcommerce, but the new pricing isn't as good as I am paying. We > tried several others and it was such a pain to use them and/or they were > missing features that when I found bigcommerce and it just worked, that's > what we stuck with. Recently, they've been removing various features > (mostly all the useful reports), and wanting you to upgrade to get the "new > improved version" of them. Fortunately, I use shipstation as a shipping > platform which is going just the other way - I can run all the reports over > there. > > But... I'm seriously considering moving to WordPress+Woo Commerce. Mainly > for the WordPress integration since we're going to need a CMS soon for > corporate reasons. > > If you care about 'too big to fail', see > https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/e-commerce-platforms/ > <https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/e-commerce-platforms/> > > Note that Magento (the top market share) was one which we found just too > cumbersome to use. > > Don't discount just adding your products to amazon and the like. > > -forrest > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I am wondering about the lowest cost method of setting up an ecommerce site > with credit card payment gateway. Not for my current products but I have > some other, non internet/wisp related products that I may want to sell online. > > Lots of options out there. Been looking at the wordpress method, and > shopify, and magento etc etc. > They will all do what I want, but since these products may not actually sell, > I want to get the monthly expense down as low as possible. > > > > -- > Forrest Christian CEO, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc. > Tel: 406-449-3345 <> | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | http://www.packetflux.com > <http://www.packetflux.com/> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> > > > > > -- > Forrest Christian CEO, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc. > Tel: 406-449-3345 <> | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | http://www.packetflux.com > <http://www.packetflux.com/> > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> >
