Why do you recommend other Plugins instead of Pods for some functionality?

We get asked this a lot, especially when people come to us wanting to build complicated forms with Pods or eCommerce solutions or Event Calendars. We believe “why re-invent the wheel?”. If it’s going to be more work for you to create an entire eCommerce solution, since Pods doesn’t support any kind of payment gateways, email notifications, etc., we always recommend WooCommerce for eCommerce websites, Gravity Forms for advanced, beautiful forms,  The Event Calendar for event management and FacetWP for excellent front-end filtering & search.