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Rain specializes in niche retail markets including Music, Ski, Surf, Dive, Toy, Apparel, Quilt, Sewing, and Craft stores. It simplifies business operations and helps increase total sales.
eCommerce platform that helps small to large sized retail outlets manage multiple customer accounts, payments, orders, inventory & store.
In the beginning support was good and they really seem to care about helping your business grow. Now they want to add stuff that I don't need and keep raising the price.
We are Canadian site, and the cashing in procedure does not allow us to use our coins, and therefore we don’t use the cash in/cash out component. That is my only complaint.
Customer service has always been responsive and helpful to resolve any difficulties promptly. The value for the cost is excellent.
The website builder is so bad that I am looking for another alternative but the initial setup fee was so high it really does sting to switch to another provider (maybe that was the point).
Overall, the experience has been very good. Implementation was easy and the support was excellent.
We were disappointed it was not available when we switched to Rain, since we used that feature daily with AIMsi.
M very happy overall and customer service/support are very good - the tech folks are knowledgeable, patient and kind.
It was a rough year and a half trying to operate a business with that many mistakes from their side.
The best of WooCommerce is it helps me to see my insight quarterly, monthly, or even yearly. Also, WooCommerce allows me to send a note to my customer with order notification best feature.
The worst is when a update happens and then you have to go and find out all the issues that were caused and have to go back and figure out how to fix them.
And you have a lot of complementary plugins that works perfectly. You can have a really nice E-commerce website thanks to WooCommerce.
The setup process is really confusing and clunky, and those new to WordPress etc will certainly struggle.
This solution is highly customizable in comparison to other SaaS solution, easy to get and installgreat community to ask for help, many extensions to improve its capabilities.
WooCommerce has so many external extensions that are poorly coded, with so much bloats. This sometimes break your site may cause it to crash.
The fact that it is free is the biggest advantage it has over other applications. It helps small companies look like big Enterprises.
The only thing I dislike about WooCommerce is that it does not seem possible to add multiple images to a product listing. Of, if this option is available, it's not intuitive.
Carolyn I.: Hi, my name is Carolyn. I'm the president of a music school. I'd like to give Rain POS a five out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Before using Rain POS, I used QuickBooks POS, which we used for about six or seven years. I found that it took too much memory and it was syncing with our QuickBooks Database and it got way too expensive. I chose Rain POS because they were a startup company at the time, and they were marketing a software that both provided for POS, on a remote for a remote customer, as well as in-person customer, as well as a website. I liked that they had that dual interface for remote customers and in-person. But what I came to find out was that being able to control our own website in a very user-friendly way was one of the biggest assets for us. Getting onboarded with Rain POS wasn't completely easy. I think it took some time to get used to, but once we started working on it and getting used to the system and calling the customer support many, many times, I think we got into a place where we were all comfortable using the system. So it wasn't easy, but it paid off. In the end, we were able to really benefit from the system. I would tell someone to give Rain a try. Keep your old software going in case it doesn't work, but I think you'll find it to be a very good option. So give it a try.
Michael P.: My name is Michael. I'm a small business owner. I'm giving WooCommerce a five out of five. For more reviews, click below. Before using WooCommerce, we had just started up our business and had been doing everything by hand, all orders, just coming in directly to us. Obviously that's not sustainable as you scale up and you get more orders. WooCommerce makes it super easy to manage all your inventory and orders coming through. Super simple platform to use and has a lot of great features that can really make your small business firing on all cylinders. Love WooCommerce ... it really made my life a lot easier. We chose WooCommerce first and foremost because it integrates extremely well with the WordPress site. The site that I have for my business is made all with WordPress. It's definitely the number one platform if you are building an online shop. The features are super rich. You can do a ton of different things with WooCommerce. I like it because it's really easy to track inventory. When somebody places an order, you get an email. It shows up right in your queue. It shows exactly what they ordered and what you need to get to them. Super easy to use both on my end, as the business owner, and also integrating it into the website. It also offers a lot of third party integration. If you're using other apps and software, it's super user friendly on that front, as well as for customers who might be placing orders. The whole process just makes your business really streamlined and easy to use for online orders. Prior to having this WordPress website, I didn't have any experience with WooCommerce. A small learning curve, especially if you're trying to utilize all the different features that you can have with WooCommerce. However, very simple to get started, especially if you just want to create a basic online store. Really easy to get going with it. As you get into it more, you may need to do a little bit of research here and there, or get some help from the WooCommerce team, which is very friendly and quick with responses, but nothing too crazy to get going with it. Again, just very easy, very simple overall. I would highly recommend WooCommerce for anybody who has an online store or wants an online store, especially if you have a WordPress website. This thing is definitely made to work extremely well with WordPress. If you have a WordPress website, definitely going to go ahead and say that you need to have WooCommerce as your main hub for online orders and for your store. I wouldn't hesitate at all. I would definitely recommend getting it going. It's super easy to use and can pretty much do everything you might need to get your online business going.
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