WordPress Ecommerce demo
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Hello,
There’s any way to get a demo of the wordpress ecommerce experience for business?
Before we have to pay a year subscription in advance, we want to see which are the functionalities and options it provides.
I’ve been looking through their site and couldn’t find any option to get a demo or even a screen to see how it is.
Can anyone provide me some information about this?
Thank you.
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Hi there, I don’t believe there is a demo site available or screenshots. This landing page for the eCommerce plan https://wordpress.com/ecommerce/ doesn’t really convey the possibilities. I definitely agree that it would be great to be able to point to examples and am also flagging this for Staff attention.
Meantime, you can find the features of the eCommerce and Business plans in these support guides:
https://wordpress.com/support/ecommerce-plan/
https://wordpress.com/support/business-plan/WordPress.com doesn’t offer free trial plans. You can pay for the full year in advance and you’ll have up to 14 days from date of purchase to cancel and request a refund (on anything other than registering a custom domain, which needs to be cancelled within 96 hours to quality for a refund).
The other option is to pay monthly instead and then you’ll have 7 days to request a refund or you could possibly turn off autorenew and terminate your plan after one month. (A custom domain registration is not included in the monthly plan.) STAFF: could you please confirm or correct me on the highlighted part? Thanks.
https://wordpress.com/support/manage-purchases/#refund-policy
Have a look at this page to see plan pricing https://wordpress.com/pricing/ and you’ll see a switch there to flip from annual to monthly pricing.
Post back here and let us know if you have any other questions.
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Hi there,
There’s no demo for the plan, as the possibilities of what you can do with that plan are literally endless – it depends entirely on what plugins, theme, and even custom code you decide to add to the site, and every single site on our eCommerce plan looks and works differently.
The page @justjennifer linked to above outlines what features are available on that plan in addition to what’s already built into WordPress.com on the lower plans. Specifically what sets it apart is that WooCommerce, the Storefront theme, and a number of add-ons for those products come pre-installed. And like with the Business Plan, you have the option to install almost any of the tens of thousands of WordPress plugins and themes out there, and you even have the option to add your own custom plugins, custom themes, or custom code to the site.
If there’s something specific you want to do, you can tell us what that is, and we can tell you whether it’s possible. But it’s quite impossible to answer the question “what’s possible on the eCommerce plan” :)
The other option is to pay monthly instead and then you’ll have 7 days to request a refund or you could possibly turn off autorenew and terminate your plan after one month. (A custom domain registration is not included in the monthly plan.)
That is correct, yes.
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Thanks for your answers @kokkieh @justjennifer
So basically, to sum it up a lot, it prevents you from setting some plugins and more customizable options to start the ecommerce and it also allows you to add payment themes and plugins freely without paying?
On our team there isn’t any one that has the knowledge more than to set the basics (products, payments, drag and drop, panel customization, etc). We thought that by acquiring this plan we wouldn’t need to hire any developer to set all the advanced structure (security protection, fixing content/code to display it correctly, speed and content optimization, etc).
Thank you.
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to sum it up a lot, it prevents you from setting some plugins and more customizable options to start the ecommerce and it also allows you to add payment themes and plugins freely without paying?
Both plan Business and eCommerce let you install third-party plugins and themes, and we wouldn’t charge you for those. Not all plugins are free; however, it’s common to see plugins that require upgrading them to a pro version to access all features – that is independent of WordPress.com.
Plan eCommerce comes with some paid extensions already pre-installed, so you would save up on those.
We thought that by acquiring this plan, we wouldn’t need to hire any developer to set all the advanced structure (security protection, fixing content/code to display it correctly, speed and content optimization, etc).
You don’t have to worry about security, coding, or site speed on WordPress.com; we take care of this behind the scenes:
https://wordpress.com/support/security/,
https://wordpress.com/support/site-speed/.I would really recommend creating a free WordPress.com site just to try out the platform. Then you can upgrade it to the desired plan and, if you’re not satisfied, you can cancel and obtain a full refund (you can read the details in @justjennifer reply above).
Let me know if you have any more questions regarding that.
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Okay staff-mckluskey, we will give it a try and start updating plans according to our needs. Thanks for clarifying the information about the advanced structure.
Take care!
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