[Resolved] Alternatives to using WooCommerce?

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[jennZ]

I hate WooCommerce for so many reasons, so it's extremely frustrating that we're forced to use WooCommerce if we want to directly integrate payment for user-submitted content. It appears that LearnDash works as well, but I'm getting ready to stop using them because I'm using another plugin now. What needs to be done to hook in another e-commerce plugin so that Toolset can access their product lists? Clearly it's possible, so if I can add a little extra code somewhere, I will happily do it!

[Nigel]

Sorry, but there is more to it than adding a little extra code somewhere, as WooCommerce is fairly tightly integrated with Forms.

That integration happens in the Toolset Forms Commerce plugin.

You could not use that plugin, and then use the Forms API to code a bespoke integration with some other ecommerce solution.

See this page for details of the Forms API: https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/cred-api/

Think of the workflow scenarios that you need to handle: between the Forms API and the APIs of your ecommerce solution and WordPress itself it should be possible to come up with a solution.

[jennZ]

Got it. Thank you for the ideas - I'll brainstorm a bit more based on that and in the meantime, just redirect to an outside checkout page.