Sean Conklin - Shopify vs. WooCommerce

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
According to BuiltWith, Shopify and WooCommerce, combined, represent 46% of e-commerce platform use. The two have very different origins, one being proprietary and cloud-based while the other is free and open-source.

Shopify and WooCommerce share much in common despite their different formats. Each has pros and cons when compared to the other. Neither is perfectly performant nor bug-free.

They both offer excellent turn-key integrations with popular services for the online storefronts that they power, such as payments, shipping, social feeds, and taxes. It’s not uncommon to use both or to pair a Shopify subdomain with a WordPress primary domain.

WooCommerce has been innovating closer to Shopify with its newer Woo Express service that maintains the open-source core.

Sean Conklin will discuss what people like and dislike about each platform, answer questions, and share tips and tricks for understanding and getting the most out of these competing technologies.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Sean Conklin has been a full-stack PHP web developer since 2002. He has specialized in WordPress-powered sites since 2011 and WooCommerce-powered shops since early 2017, adding Shopify in 2023. Sean helps his clients efficiently build and customize their storefronts, delegate with proper user roles, and gain confidence and stability through his maintenance and support services.

ATTENDING THE MEETUP
This event will be ONLINE ONLY. The Zoom link will be revealed and sent after you RSVP for the meetup.

It will be broadcast at 6:00 pm EST on Thursday, March 21 as a live Zoom online meeting.

Participants are asked to mute their audio when the presentation begins. Please hold all questions until the end. After the presentation concludes, the presenter, organizers, and members of the meetup will discuss the presentation, answer questions, and socialize in video conference mode.

This presentation will be recorded! We will post it to our YouTube channel but without the interactive Q&A at the end.

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