Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart vs Mailchimp for WooCommerce

Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart is everything you need to add an online store to your WordPress site. Powerful, easy-to-use and Gutenberg-friendly. Hundreds of thousands of sellers in 175 countries, 45 languages supported. PayPal, Stripe and 70+ more payment options. Real-time shipping integrations. Selling on Instagram and Facebook. Automatic Shipping and Taxes The Ecwid ecommerce plugin integrates with major carriers including USPS, UPS, FedEx, Canada Post, Australia Post, and others to automatically calculate shipping rates. Taxes are also automated and can be set-up in a few clicks. Automated tax rate calculations are available for the U.S., Canada, and EU VAT. Additionally, integration with TaxJar provides automatic sales tax reporting and filing in the U.S. Sell on Facebook and Instagram Add your online store to Facebook and sell to millions of Facebook and Instagram users. No addons needed. Ecwid will automatically synchronize your products, customers, orders and inventory between your WordPress and Facebook storefronts. Join! eCommerce Mobile Apps Ecwid Shopping Cart provides mobile applications for iOS and Android to manage your store and sell on the go. Scan products, track inventory, manage sales and accept payments using your mobile device as a POS station. Your ecommerce data is automatically synchronized with your WordPress shopping cart, Facebook store and other online storefronts. Unlimited Storage, Automatic Backups and Seamless Upgrades With the Ecwid Shopping Cart, your online store data is fully hosted on our secure servers. Regardless of the WordPress hosting service you use, your Ecwid online store includes: unlimited storage regular backups seamless upgrades and security updates So you don’t need to worry about software updates, security patches and server maintenance – we do that for you. Your online store gets all the new ecommerce features and bug fixes automatically. PCI DSS validated Level 1 Service Provider Ecwid Shopping Cart is PCI DSS Level 1 certified, which is the gold standard for e-commerce solutions worldwide. This means that Ecwid helps your online store meet the security requirements of the bank you do business with. Superb Support Friendly and knowledgeable support experts available 24/5 so you can get immediate help when you need it. Support options include email, e-commerce community forums, chat and phone support. Sell Everywhere With Ecwid, you can include your ecommerce shop on multiple websites, blogs, social sites and ecommerce marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Google Shopping and sell simultaneously everywhere. Add your online store to as many sites as you want, manage it from one place. Mobile Responsive Design Ecwid works great on any WordPress site, especially those running on mobile-optimized themes. Your online store looks perfect on smartphones and automatically adapts to your customer’s screen size: laptops, tablets, smart TVs or smart watches. Hundreds of extensions and powerful API There is a lot of in-house and third party extensions built on the Ecwid Ecommerce APIs. You can find a ready made plugin extending features of your online storefront the way you want or build a custom addon yourself. The existing family of third party plugins include tax automation apps like TaxJar, fulfilment services like ShipStation, customer support tools like LiveChat and many others. Plans start at just $5/mo Start selling ealisy with no big investment. As your online shop grows, Ecwid grows with you. When the time is right, consider upgrading your store to one of our premium plans to get more robust features and preferred support. See also: Ecwid plan and pricing See Ecwid In Action Ecwid Ecommerce Control panel (you will be able to create an Ecwid account) Showcase Ecwid Site www.ecwid.com Terms of usage The plugin uses the Ecwid ecommerce cloud services (www.ecwid.com). Your store data is securely hosted with Ecwid under the terms and conditions listed here: Terms of Service Privacy Policy The plugin uses CDN services by AWS Cloudfront to speed up user stores. It is managed by the Ecwid Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and AWS Customer Agreement.

Join the 17 million customers who use Mailchimp, the world’s largest marketing automation platform, to develop their e-commerce marketing strategy. With the official Mailchimp for WooCommerce integration, your customers and their purchase data are automatically synced with your Mailchimp account, making it easy to send targeted campaigns, automatically follow up with customers post-purchase, recommend products, recover abandoned carts, and measure the ROI of your marketing efforts. And it’s completely free. What you can do with this plugin Sync to your Audience in Mailchimp with purchase data. Sync new subscribers to your Audience when they create an account and opt-in. Set up marketing automations to remind customers about items they left in their cart or viewed on your site, win back lapsed customers, and follow up post-purchase. (Now available for free accounts!) Showcase product recommendations. Track and segment customers based on purchase history and purchase frequency. View detailed data on your marketing performance in your Mailchimp Dashboard. Find new customers, connect with current ones, and drive them all to your website with Facebook and Instagram ads. Then, set up Google remarketing ads to turn your site visitors into shoppers. Automatically embed a pop-up form that converts your website visitors to subscribers. Add discount codes created in WooCommerce to your emails and automations with a Promo Code content block Create beautiful landing pages that make it easy to highlight your products, promote a sale or giveaway, and grow your audience. This plugin is WPML compatible Important Notes This plugin supports our most powerful API 3.0 features, and is intended for users who have not yet integrated their WooCommerce stores with Mailchimp. You can run this new integration at the same time as your current WooCommerce integration for Mailchimp. However, data from the older integration will display separately in subscriber profiles, and can’t be used with e-commerce features that require API 3.0. WordPress.com compatibility is limited to Business tier users only. External services Zendesk support chat The plugin settings page has a “Connect to support” button that opens a live chat with our support team, powered by Zendesk. Nothing is loaded from Zendesk until you click that button. When you do, the Zendesk chat widget is loaded from static.zdassets.com and the following is shared with Zendesk and our support team: your WordPress display name and email address, your store name and domain, your Mailchimp store ID, user ID and plan, and your sync status. Zendesk Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.