WordPress.com Business Users: eCommerce Has Arrived!

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Brent

It’s incredibly exciting to see WordPress.com offer eCommerce, but a real shame to see the many excellent open-source options snubbed – especially those built specifically for WordPress.

A good sign that there are many great opportunities for a hosted WooCommerce (and hosted Easy Digital Downloads for that matter).

Update: after reading Chris Lema and Brian Krogsgard’s excellent posts on the matter, I now suspect WordPress.com would actually prove to be the perfect hosted WooCommerce and hosted EDD. As I mentioned on Chris’ blog:

With the exception of WP e-Commerce, none of these WordPress plugins have an official hosted service yet. I think that’s because their greatest selling point is in being fully integrated with your WordPress site …. A hosted WooCommerce alone wouldn’t do that and ultimately, wouldn’t add that much more value than Shopify or Bigcommerce.

WooCommerce inside WordPress.com is a whole other story.

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2 Responses to WordPress.com Business Users: eCommerce Has Arrived!

  1. Gabriel Reguly's avatar Gabriel Reguly says:
    March 3, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    Hi Brent,

    We have one service here in Brazil offering hosted WooCommerce, http://maxistore.com.br.
    I knew they had plans to use their own forked version starting at WC 2.1, but have not confirmed it.

    Anyway I do agree with you, it is exciting to see WordPress.com offering ecommerce.

    Cheers,
    Gabriel

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