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Just had an email that product importer deluxe for woo commerce should be rolling out support for attributes tomorrow, also have to say woo commerce have been absolutely brill on the customer service side.

Just had an email that product importer deluxe for woo commerce should be rolling out support for attributes tomorrow, also have to say woo commerce have been absolutely brill on the customer service side.

Is that for moving from Magento?

Am currently migrating from Magento to Woocommerce.

I'm sick of having to rely on unreliable developers to do what should be the simplest things in Magento. In Wordpress I should be able to make most any changes I need as Wordpress actually cares about being relatively user-friendly.

Magento is a big pile of wank IMO, and that the only reason developers recommend it is that they need to be hired to operate it! 

We just did integration to an important Danish payment processor and the whole experience with Woocommerce and Wishlist Membership software was really good. WooCommerce is actually pretty cool for a small store and day-to-day operations are a breeze.

Thumbs up for Woocommerce for smaller stores.

That's a nice size store to set-up and manage

I agree with what you say. Magento is so over complicated but for most they think it's the route to go down because of all the developers shouting about it, saying they need a jet plane to go to the shops in.
But then it's not a bad business model to have. It's lucky we're in the know

Open cart is my normal choice of weapon now, but I might have to find the time to play with woocommerce now, cheers Brian :p

Well, I'm all set up with Woocommerce now, and everything is running fine as I need it.

There are still a few niggles with Woocommerce - it doesn't feel like a mature platform yet, more an advanced beta. The main flaw is the stock management process, specifically dealing with "cost", which is still not built into Woocommerce by default. However, it's easy to create a custom field in the WP-admin section to apply to all products and enter the value there.

The downside with that method is that I have to set up all products as "grouped" (the equivalent of Magento "configurable") - when Woocommerce provides an extremely simple "variable" option where you simply add product variations by SKU, attribute, and stock level to an existing product - how Magento should have done it - but you can't apply different "cost" levels here.

There are also a few issues with "hidden" products still being displayed in templates or used in the Google feed.

However, these are issues I figure will be resolved as it grows.

Also, because it's Wordpress, it's damn easy to tweak most everything, and when I have had to post in their support forum, answers have come relatively quickly (as opposed to the Magento forums where no one really seems to know how to do anything).

Hopefully Woocommerce will mature into a more comprehensive platform on issues such as cost, but the variety of extensions take up much of the slack of additional functionality.

Another pointer is that it would be quite easy to set up multiple shops with different products for keyword URLs using Woocommerce, or else clones just using the export/import feature.

Frankly, I would have paid real money for Woocommerce, and at present, cannot think of a single reason for using Magento unless you want to employ a team of developers to do all the work for you. Magento may be "free" but I've already wasted a lot of time and money trying to work with it, and "open source" just makes it feel like OSCommerce - all the complications (ie, templates) but with even less usability for the store admin.

I know this is an old one but just want to drag it back up as I know many of you moved. I haven't really tested the fall down point of woo yet and am curious as to how far you can push it, is anyone running it with a large number of products/high volume traffic yet? Have any of you managed to bring it to it's knees?