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So I know this battle has been fought long and hard! I’m looking to get some collaborative knowledge on the matter to help me out.

I’m a huge fan of EE and how it tremendously speeds up development time because of it’s flexibility and ease of use. I used to work with Wordpress but was constantly frustrated by how much harder it was to accomplish something that should have been so simple.

Anyway, I’m looking for some good input on the pros/cons of each system. I’m going to be working with a client that is very pro-Wordpress and would like to sway them.

The website will be eCommerce based with fairly heavy traffic and large sales. Currently they’re using a flat site with a payment portal for orders and would like to streamline everything.

They want to use Wordpress and WooCommerce, as well as an assortment of plugins I’m sure. I would like to know if there is more of a security concern using such a setup, and in what ways would EE + CartThrob/Exp:resso Shop/Brilliant Retail be more beneficial?

Now the prerequisites are for CSV import (which doesn’t seem to be a problem on any eCommerce solution) and QuickBooks integration (a little more difficult, don’t know which solutions for EE offer this), as well as live shipping rates for USP.

Any and all input is greatly appreciated!

Wow, no input on this huh? I expected at least one reply by now 😊

I’m an eCommerce Manager. My sites do 15 million a year. What level of sales are you looking at? If you plan of selling T-Shirts, then either one will do. Have they considered dedicated eCommerce software, for example Magento?

As for me, I think security needs to be at the forefront of the decision. You can install a ton of various plugins from different developers to do A through Z, but I would worry about that.

Most dedicated shopping carts will have elements of CMS, like static pages. So if the main thrust is to run a store that makes money, I think that is best. Rather than, ‘Let’s install a CMS with all its potential security holes and tack on eCommerce.’

Hope what I am saying makes sense.

If they must have a CMS with addition of eCommerce, and they expect boutique-store level of sales (ie small), then I suppose you can go for it. Both systems have various caching which you will need. You will need to be very vigilant with harding WordPress and keeping up on its plugins. Might be that EE solutions won’t have all the bells and whistles but as a platform, it has had a good track record with security.

Thank you for the input! I was originally trying to push towards Magento as well but after discussing the main goals of the website I decided it wasn’t the right choice. They’re looking to clean up the site (which has a TON of informational content) and organize it in a more semantic way, and then relate some products to certain informational (FAQ) type pages.

So really the company and the information about it is going to be at the forefront with the store as and added convenience. They don’t really sell as much on the site as I had initially thought and try and push customers to resellers instead. So I think a small scale store add-on route is the right approach here.