For 200ish product site - osCommerce or WP w/WooCommerce?
He has about 200 products (and from the 'orders' section in osCommerce it looks like around <30 sales per year for the past few years), uses PayPal, and is self-admittedly not very computer savvy. Of course he has had his osCommerce site, which hasn't changed, since 2003 so he is comfortable with it.
I'm a WordPress-head ;-) I know it and am very comfortable working with it. I don't know osCommerce.
Going forward with a brand new site - I installed the latest-greatest version of osCommerce and WordPress with WooCommerce / a WooTheme on two test accounts, had some products pre-populated and gave him the admin logins.
In the meanwhile I am trying to get the misbehaving website at least view-able so I can look at all the products.
I could put together a website for him in WP + Woo quickly and with confidence that I can keep it updated, running, know all the basics of trouble shooting it (I'm very familiar with the WP help forms), etc.
I'm sure I can learn osCommerce... but rebuilding a new site in the latest version will come with a learning curve (ie billable time) and I won't know any of the typical 'problems' of it (for example how to optimize it).
I think he is leaning towards the new osCommerce because the admin looks/behaves very similar to the older site. I'm bias in favor of WP because I'm experience with it and feel I can work more efficiently with it (total project cost and going forward for any support costs).
Which platform of these two do you suggest going forward with for a 200 product website? Keeping in mind keeping the site itself (WP or OSC) updated, how it runs on a shared hosting environment, community support if the site goes wonky.
Thanks so much!
Also came back to add / ask ... if staying with osCommerce... do site owners need to do any kind of admin house keeping? For example, looking at this old misbehaving site I inherited... there are some 1300 customers and a lot of them look utter bogus to me. For example, 5 entries with the last name ";lkj;lk" and a different random string of characters for the first name.
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