A client asked this and I answered… What are your thoughts?

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I’m working with a client that runs a nonprofit crowdfunding organization where we collect donations for campaigns created by users.

We’re currently using wordpress/woocommerce and I recommended switching to Adalo (native and web pwa). We’re already using a cloud server for the current site with Cloudways and all is well so far… however…

My client wants a bunch of custom features that we cannot do in Wordpress without having to build new custom plugins and spending lots of money+time to get it right. We’ve had to hire a developer to get a few things to work.

Here was his latest set of questions:

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@jessehaywood I wanted to show you my client’s concerns here with this.

Users are not able to easily share their campaigns with a URL as the URL is super long and messy. I know I’ve been barking about this one for a while.

This is a huge client with tons of major celebrity connections and this app and pwa will get thousands of users hitting the app daily; creating campaigns, submitting donations, etc. I want to ensure that Adalo is going to be able to handle this from a traffic standpoint as well as performance.

Our first test campaign got over 8,000 donations with no ad spend (on the Wordpress site).

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I’ve run into similar concerns before, and it really depends on how deep you need the customization to go. While most things can be tweaked within the platform, some clients do expect more flexibility. If analytics or automation isn’t lining up with expectations, I’ve seen cases where tools like bing traffic bot are used to test different approaches. It’s all about finding the right balance between built-in features and external solutions.