WooCommerce Vs Shopify: Which One is Ahead of the Pack?

By: Amanda Cline 

E-commerce is a big business and has been dictating trends incredibly. E-commerce websites have been around for a while now and have really made an unconventional leap when it comes to claiming their fame among their users. It’s easy to become the part of an online retail space. With so many themes, extensions, and platform choices available, one can easily start selling products and services online. But, if you want something robust in less investment then you have two options: Shopify and WooCommerce.

In this article, I am bringing you a comparison between Shopify and WooCommerce. You can consider the comparison to dissect their features and functions. By the end of this post, you’d be able to make their decision on which platform you can invest your resources.

WooCommerce and Shopify: Basis
WooCommerce

WooCommerce is basically a WordPress plugin and has been around for a while now. Installing this plugin one can conveniently turn their website into a fully-featured online store. As an open-source project from WordPress theme firm WooThemes, the plugin is also benefited from bespoke features, intuitive interface, and a simple representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API), which provides online merchants better ways to satisfy their shipping and oder fulfillment related needs.

Shopify is an amazing platform that lets you build a dynamic e-commerce website. The platform is designed best and is one of the best cloud-hosted e-commerce solutions available today. Being a hosted solution, Shopify allows you host your online store on their servers and doesn’t provide you an access to its backend code. However, this might not be the problem of many retailers, you still have a lot of options to customize your website as per your needs.

WooCommerce and Shopify: Design
WooCommerce

As far as aesthetics is concerned, WooCommerce comes with a handy collection of themes where you simply need to invest some efforts to select the one which serves you better. Since WooCommerce is a plugin developed by WooThemes, you also need to purchase a theme affiliated with them. However, you also have the freedom to integrate the plugin with any existing theme. You are provided with 5 free themes, and the rest of them are available with one time fee that ranges between $79 to $39 coupled with Adobe Photoshop options. You can also choose to purchase all the themes at $399 to add an edge to your online business.

Shopify
One thing that makes Shopify truly stand out is its wonderful collection of free and paid designs. The platform boasts an outstanding selection of free themes, and you can also pay for them up to $150 to give them a professional touch. The templates please merchants due to their fashionable design, clean aesthetic, and coloring options.

Some functionalities are already built-in to the themes, so consider this aspect carefully while choosing your theme. The developer should be knowledgeable enough to unleash the full potential of platform’s ‘liquid’ language to introduce more changes to make their website unique. WooCommerce is based on PHP which has grown as a standard among PHP developers and other webmasters, thus making this plugin all the more attractive choice.

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