Cock-a-doodle Doo ! Yes, let's be a little chauvinistic but the solution we are going to talk to you about here is French. Have you ever heard of Wizishop ? It's about French CMS allowing you to create an e-commerce site in a simple and fast way.
Wizishop, what is it?
As we saw in the beginning of our article, Wizishop is a CMS in mode Saas, as is Shopify. This company is French and was born from the idea of two friends, we will here retrace the history of this company.
In 2008, two French friends, Grégory Beyrouti and René Cotton, who were at that time directors of theagence Web Absolut Creations are faced with a problem to which they do not have the solution. Indeed, one of their client wants to create an online store but he does not have a large enough budget to carry out this project. The two friends then have a slightly crazy idea. They agree to create your shop, but, in return, they want a percentage of sales. From this proposal was born Wizishop, the new French e-commerce solution. In 2018, a new service specializing in dropshipping is officially created under the name of Dropizi. In 2020, as the Covid-19 hits the world and causes the closure of physical stores, Wizishop is committed to merchants through #ECommerceSolidaire and offers closed stores of their create an online store in order to compensate for their potential losses.
The operation of Wizishop is based on five essential values:
- Innovation → Wizishop are always researching and developing new solutions and technologies in order to improve and always be more efficient.
- Transparency → The company wants to be completely transparent with its customers, it exposes and does not hide any information on their services and their development paths
- Kindness → Accompaniment is present in order to lead a client to success regardless of their level of knowledge or skill.
- Excellence → Wizishop wishes to offer a service of excellent quality in order to always achieve a final objective: success for their customers
- Trust → Finally, it is important to build healthy relationships with the people you work with. It is important for them to keep their commitments to secure and efficient sites so as not to break this climate of trust.
Diffusion
Wizishop has made a name for itself among its competitors and has enabled the creation of numerous e-commerce sites. We are therefore going to present a small selection of the sites that we preferred:
The football club of theOGC Nice built its online store via the Wizishop e-commerce platform. They opted for this solution because it allows them to create and manage commercial actions in a faster and more intuitive way. Indeed, Wizishop has created a feature called Speedy Change which makes it possible to manage batches of products quickly. Thus, the customer can collect his products in order to apply discounts to them, change them from page to page…
Life peak is an online store offering backpacks for travel and for everyday life in the city to meet the expectations of the greatest number of customers. The creators of this brand chose to launch their site with Wizishop because there was a possibility of creating a dropshipping site. In fact, the functionality Dropizi allows you to offer products in dropshipping in addition to your products in stock.
Finally, The Bandidas Shop which is a women's clothing store. The designer chose Wizishop for a simple reason, ease of use. Indeed, theinterface is intuitive and in addition coaches are available to help you in the event of a problem. In end of many designs are available at no additional cost and are customizable to the customer's wishes.
Advantages
As you may have started to see with site submission, Wizishop has a number of benefits that make it a popular solution. We have compiled a list of 8 advantages that we have noted in using this solution:
- L'interface is easy to use and intuitive what makes Wizishop to the greatest number even to the person very little or not qualified on all that relates to the field of the e-commerce
- There are many tools available for everything related to referencing and improving the performance of your site (security certificates, 404 errors, search engine markup, etc.)
- Of many predefined designs and templates are available. They can thus serve as a working basis so that you don't start completely blind. In addition, all these models are fully customizable to the wishes of each client.
- You can launch e-mailing campaigns in a simple way, you can then send personalized e-mails according to your customers, to make reminders of abandoned or unfinished baskets... To monitor the impact of your campaigns, monitoring tools will give you information and statistics to know where you to improve.
- All the sites created with Wizishop are responsives, that is to say that they adapt to all screen sizes and allow you to offer a mobile version of your site.
- Wizishop offers you the possibility of create mono-product shops, this feature allows you to highlight products that you have selected, this can be your flagship products or lesser-known selections. These shops can allow you to improve your conversion rate because your customers on these sites are focused on a single product.
- The solution offers a little more than 400 functionalities in various fields and varied such as SEO, design… They therefore allow you to create a site with all the necessary essentials.
Price
Wizishop is a platform that wants to be accessible to the greatest number and therefore at very advantageous prices. They also offer a free trial period to find out how it works. Thereafter, three rates are offered to you, the first is 27€ excluding tax per month, the pro rate is at a price of 77€ excluding tax, and, finally, the last price offered is 297€ excluding tax per month.
The operation of Wizishop is based on the fact that transaction fees are applied to your turnover. Indeed, if you choose the €27 subscription, 2% transaction fee will be applied. Concretely, if for example you realize €5,000 turnover, then Wizishop will charge 100€. Ultimately, your subscription will cost you 127€ per month.
