WooCommerce VS Singlebag

[Delison]

Hi Santhosh,

I have a stores developed on both the platforms. I have listed out them below. Hope it helps!

WooCommerce

1.     Cheaper option to get started with

2.     There is a slight learning curve, to get started with your e-commerce store

3.     At the start it may seem a little overwhelming

4.     Easy inventory, and category management. But not as simple as compared to Singlebag

5.     Features are easy to use and understandable

6.     Can customize your store as you want using the free plugins and themes available (slightly more complex than Shopify)

7.     SEO and Mobile friendly Themes and Plugins available to optimize your site

8.     There is a dedicated plugin to give you better control of that specific feature (too many plugins can affect the SEO score)

9.     Easily scalable, as you have the option to upgrade your hosting

10.  Using a multivendor plugin, you can make your multivendor store.

Singlebag

1.     Great If you are a beginner and want to start your store quickly

2.     Easily understand the features

3.     There is no learning curve

4.     Need to pay a yearly charge for using it

5.     Many features available that focus on E-Commerce

6.     Many free apps and Themes available to get started with your fully functional e-commerce site

7.     14- days free trial provided.

8.     Great if you just want to focus on the e-commerce

9.     Integrate easily with social media and marketing

10.  Easy in-built analytics, reports, suggestions

11.  Easily manage your store using the mobile app

Cheers!

[Srisachin K]

Highlight features:

Singlebag

o  International domain: Merchants have global websites and can use region-specific domains to create localized user experiences. You can choose to display your site in multi-languages and currencies in accordance with the domain.

o  Own delivery module: With Singlebag you manage your own deliveries.

In the basic, start-up, and business plans, the module is included, and the system allows you to deliver your own products using your own delivery agent.

o  Product performance insights on the product page: You can see specific product sale reports directly from the product page. The information includes how the products are sold, where traffic comes from, and who is buying them.

WooCommerce

• High level of design flexibility: You can customize your WooCommerce themes to a very large extent. However, to make the most out of them, you need to equip some technical skills such as the ability to use HTML/CSS editors.
• Enormous collection of 3-rd party plugins: WooCommerce runs on the most powerful content management system WordPress. This means users can benefit from enormous plugin collections of both WordPress and WooCommerce stores and even from other plugin websites.

Ease of use

·       Singlebag is really easy to use. Their users won’t need to spend a lot of time and effort to set up and manage the store. The most important feature that contributes to its usability is user-friendliness.

·       WooCommerce: things can be a little more complicated setting your first steps with WooCommerce. The platform itself is preferable for users who have acquired a certain level of technical skills. For tasks like domain registration, setting up web hosts and security certificates you’ll have to carry them all on your own. Therefore, having some good IT skills would certainly help a lot to get your online store up and running.

Price:

Singlebag:

o  Basic Singlebag plan: 4999 per year

o  Startup plan: 9999 per year

o  Business plan: 19999 per year

WooCommerce

To register a domain, you’ll pay a fair amount of the annual bill at around $15. Hosting services cost you a wide range of monthly bills from $2.95 up to $5000, depending on the scale of your store.

Hope this helps you out!

[Vidhya]

Starting a new business, To select the e-commerce platform on which confused between Singlebag and WooCommerce? This answer discusses two of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the market with their best advantages and disadvantages in the market.

WooCommerce:

When you create a WooCommerce store, you must do two things separately:

• Install WordPress and learn the WordPress interface
• Install and configure WooCommerce and learn the WooCommerce interface.

Singlebag:

With Singlebag, there is very little for you to create your first product and start selling it.

Basically, all you do is:

• Create a Singlebag account
• Select and buy a domain or synchronize an existing domain name
• Choose your theme

And assuming you’re using Singlebag’s own payment gateway, it’s easy to start accepting credit card payments from day one.

It’s hard to beat the simplicity of Singlebag.

How much control do you have over the functionality of your site?

WooCommerce:

With WooCommerce, you have some ways to customize the functionality of your store:

• Your theme
• More than 50,000 WordPress plugins, including many designed specifically for WooCommerce
• Custom code

 With WooCommerce, there is no strict limit to the number of product variations you can use.

 Singlebag:

 There is no strict limit to the number of product variations you can use.

What payment methods does each platform offer?

WooCommerce:

Due to the open nature of WooCommerce and the large community of plugins, you can find many WooCommerce payment gateways.

First, WooCommerce supports all popular gateways, such as:

• Stripe
• PayPal
• Square
• Authorize.Net

Singlebag:

Singlebag has its own payment gateway that essentially requires zero configuration. But if you prefer to use a third-party payment gateway, Singlebag also supports all benefits, such as:

• PayPal
• Stripe
• Razorpay
• Instamojo
• mollie

Who controls your data on each platform?

WooCommerce:

There is not much to write here: with WooCommerce you are the owner of everything. This means that, if necessary, you can even access your database and access the raw data.

Singlebag:

While Singlebag provides access to all your data, the live copy is still on Singlebag’s servers. This means that you never completely control your data.

That said, Singlebag offers many ways to access your data, which is better than many hosted platforms.

• Export a CSV file of your products.
• Make a backup of your site through an application
• Connect to your data through an API

 How does each platform handle Ongoing maintenance?

Because Singlebag is a hosted solution, its maintenance is much more care-free than WooCommerce.

WooCommerce:

Previously, we said that WooCommerce gives you maximum control and ownership of your store. Well, the disadvantage of all this flexibility is that you are responsible for maintaining and protecting your store.

Singlebag:

Singlebag manages the maintenance and protection of your store, so very little maintenance is required to worry about. That said, you should be aware of all the applications you use in your store to ensure that they continue to function properly.

 

Hope this helps!