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Re:Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork by rmccue on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:00PM (#13342165)
Curious: what do you find missing from WooCommerce?
Re:Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork by themaveness on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:26PM (#13342230)
I find it missing a lot of things personally. Its just a mash of plugins from different sources that have not been evaluated or secured. The package itself is pretty light, because it does not have the features of other actual ecommerce packages. You have to use plugins that were not made for ecommerce packages to extend it.

A good case in point is most dedicated ecommerce platforms have one thing in common. User login and admin login is handled by a totally different system. This is a security feature. At the same time, most platforms support multiple sites or shops out of the box. Woo supports it with a plugin that was never made for ecommerce.

The lack of an MVC ... I digress. Wordpress is awesome for blogs. For something that takes money and has liability I don't want to have to read 0-day lists every day and see if I need to comment out something or update. Its counter productive to business.

Re:Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork by Implicated on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:54PM (#13342429)
I don't have the time or energy to list all of my issues with WooCommerce, but as a PHP contractor that has worked on a handful of client projects utilizing it... I could never recommend it to people trying to run a real business.

The fact that it will turn off webhook delivery after 5 un-expected responses, without sending notifications of any sort, is mind boggling.