Ecwid – good, bad, or indifferent?
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Anyone have experience (assuming the biz plan ugrade) they are willing to share re the Ecwid plugin? A list of gotchas would be most useful.
This plugin solution sounds alluringly cheap (the ECWID bit anyway), but it sounds that you have two maintain two pic/products dbs, as the images and prices cannot be drawn from a common repository — with the ECWID stuff being hosted on Amazon, of all places, with its own schema separate from WP.
Also it appears that Ecwid works with a fairly limited # of gateways — it does not support the one I use for my store, for example.
Finally, what exactly is the WP 300 dollars for, since we are talking about a youtube style embed, it looks like, and not a plugin that is actually functionally integrated with your blog in a tightly coupled way (embedding a product pic and price in page is not that tightly coupled IMHO).
Would love to here any experience any eCommerce folks have had with this product offering from WP.
Any advice most welcome.
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Hi, Ecwid support here.
Regarding the payment gateways: at the moment we have an integration with a number of payment gateways (a complete list of them can be found here), so they can be enabled in a store as payment methods in a matter of minutes.
Yet, even if an integration with a particular gateway isn’t done yet, it’s still possible to use the gateway in your store as a custom solution. More details:
http://help.ecwid.com/customer/portal/articles/1163984-authorizenet-emulationRegarding Ecwid itself: well, due to its architecture Ecwid would work in your blog like a “window to our server”. Or, to be precise, a frame
In practical terms this means, that the visitors of your blog could browse your store, view different product pages, and even go through full checkout process inside it, without leaving the page where it’s located. In other words, you’ll get a fully-functional store embedded into your blog page.
The “YouTube video” comparison was chosen to accent the ease of adding a store to the page, not its functionality.To get an impression of how it shall look I can suggest visiting a couple of websites from our showcase, to see Ecwid in action: http://www.ecwid.com/showcase/
Also this means that most Ecwid-related changes (including CSS changes, that you might want to apply in order to make Ecwid’s design match your store’s) should be made in Ecwid control panel. Please, also refer to this article about Ecwid on wordpress.com for more info: http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecwid/
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Please, also refer to this article about Ecwid on wordpress.com for more info: http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecwid/
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecwid-plug-single-sign-on?replies=5#post-2225991
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thank you very much for this feedback.
my existing US-based gateway provider supports Qantum and Authorize.net AIM, but not Authorize.net SIM or emulation
also SIM means you lose your URL during checkout, which my customers would not be comfortable with
too bad, as it would have been neat to also have one plugin available from one vendor for other platforms, such as FB, in addition to WP
but time is critical here and I don’t want the hassle of reapplying to another underwriter/gateway vendor
so i will stick with my existing B&M cc gateway provider which is highly competitive from a price standpoint and offers excellent service
and can be directly integrated with shopify (for which WP also supplies a plugin) in order to begin offering an online shopping cart for my store in as seamless a fashion as possiblebut again, thank you for replying to my query, and thank you for mentioning the CSS uniformity aspect, which is something I overlooked.
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