PICK THE BEST FIT FOR YOUR ECOMMERCE BUSINESS:
MAGENTO VS SHOPIFY PRESENTED & PREPARED BY SALT CITY DIGITAL
Introduction When running an e-commerce business, it can be difficult to pick a platform. It’s challenging to choose a particular platform for your business when there are so many successful e-commerce platforms to choose from. Two expanding ecommerce platforms which assists in creating, managing, and maintaining an online store are Magento and Shopify. Keep reading to learn the pros and cons of these two widely acclaimed platforms.
First and foremost, the significant difference between these two platforms is, that one of them is free and the other is paid for from the very start. Shopify is the commercialized product which you’ll have to pay for,while Magento Community is free opensource software, accessible to anyone. Let’s move on to some head-tohead comparisons between the two platforms:
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TEMPLATES AS THEMES:
MULTILINGUAL CAPABILITIES:
ADD-ONS & APPS:
Both Magento and Shopify offer an extensive collection of templates and themes. There are larger number of templates/themes available for Magento than provided by Shopify.
Magento offers in-built multilingual support. Shopify doesn't render a direct option to support multilingual content. For building a multilingual store with Shopify, you must leverage a third-party/paid applications.
Shopify offers over 100 addons and apps which can be utilized to increase and improve the functionality of any online store. Here, Magento holds an edge over Shopify, as it extends a whopping 5000+ applications/add-ons for its users, demonstrating it’s an open source and community-driven platform. Both platforms allow a mix of free and paid addons/apps.
Both platforms allow paid/premium themes. The paid themes recognized by Magento begins at $1, while Shopify begins at a more expensive cost of $80. When it comes to templates, they both give responsive free/paid templates.
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INVENTORY ADMINISTRATION: The starter plan of Shopify (which is $14 per month) restricts the users to a maximum of 25 store items that can be added. On the other hand, Magento, in its Community Edition, allows an endless number of products. All additional plans on Shopify grant an unlimited quantity of items.
PROVISION OF DISCOUNT/COUPON CODES: Magento allows an effortless process of creating discount codes and calculation functionalities. Shopify becomes an underdog here, as it does’t offer this feature to its starter-plan users, while it’s available on other plans.
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CONCLUSION A single platform can’t become a jack of all trades. Magento and Shopify both offer a reasonably equivalent level of services along the lines of SEO, blogging functions,  and calculation of shipping charges. Magento offers endless opportunities for store owners who are tech savvy. It also emerges as a platform with more well-organized categories and features to maintain an online store. It also provides the quintessential e-commerce functionality and a wide range of options to assist you in building an ideal e-store. In the end, you must pick the platform that best suits your business models. Period. Resource
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