Both separate-site and WordPress embedded ecommerce plugins are great tools for building a website however each tool has its own benefits.
However, WordPress provides a multitude of plugins to customize your site just the way you want it. WordPress also helps you to control your costs by providing you full control over your choice of hosting provider and what plugins you decide to use.
With WordPress you have control over your search engine results for relevant keywords, ability to translate your site to an unlimited amount of languages, and the ability to create multiple sites with one account.
Comparing WordPress to another ecommerce site, WordPress overall has the most benefits.
- Thousands of themes to choose from
- Offers free and paid plugins
- Ability to sell products beyond the ecommerce store
- Cost effective
- Easy to install and set up
- Search Engine and SEO Friendly
- Responsive Web Design
- Regular automatic updates to make using WordPress even easier