Shopify Vs. WooCommerce Vs. Magento – Which eCommerce Platform Ranks the Best in 2021?

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Shopify Vs. WooCommerce Vs. Magento Which
eCommerce Platform Ranks the Best in 2021?
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• Most of the eCommerce websites on the internet
  today run on one of these three platforms
  Shopify, WooCommerce, or Magento.
• While all three platforms are highly competent
  and effective, the best eCommerce platform for
  you is the one that fulfils all your online
  selling needs.
• To help you pick the right eCommerce platform for
  your business, we will walk you through the main
  features of each one as well as the advantages
  and disadvantages.

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• 1. Overview
• Shopify
• Launched in 2004, with nearly 1 million global
  users, Shopify powers roughly 4 of online stores
  worldwide. Its a leading eCommerce platform
  usually favoured by start-ups and small business
  owners as its simple to use and easy to set up.
• Shopify is a subscription-based platform that can
  be operated even by users with limited technical
  knowledge. Due to its recent integration with
  Amazon, you can sell products on Amazon through a
  simple Shopify Admin Panel.

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• Cost-effective and popular, you can also directly
  access customers from online channels like
  Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
• WooCommerce
• In terms of global usage numbers, WooCommerce
  boasts the largest customer base out of the
  three. WooCommerce is an open-source, freeware
  plugin offered by WordPress developers.
• Convenient, affordable, and powerful with
  WooCommerce you can build an online shop from
  scratch and upload products to Amazon, Google
  Shopping and other retailers with ease and
  simplicity.

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• With roughly 3 million active online shopping
  websites, WooCommerce powers nearly 30 of all
  eCommerce stores worldwide today. Offering an
  almost infinite selection of affordable,
  customizable themes, payment gateway options, and
  built-in SEO features, it is the go-to platform
  preferred by most small to medium sized
  businesses and eCommerce web design companies.
• Magento
• Launched in 2008 and owned by tech giant Adobe
  since 2018. Though Its popularity has waned in
  the last several years, Magento is still a very
  popular eCommerce platform that hosts two
  editions Open Source and Magento Commerce.

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• Powering nearly 8 of online stores globally,
  with more than 250,000 customers, Magento boasts
  of a great reputation among the current most
  active eCommerce sites.
• With several built-in functions and a wide range
  of templates and extensions, Magento is the most
  customizable platform out of the three. However,
  it is immensely complex for business owners to
  use, both in terms of set-up and shop management.
  It Is mostly geared towards those with very
  complex and unique needs or eCommerce developers,
  rather than regular users.

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• 2. Scalability and Performance
• Shopify
• Shopify fares well in terms of website speed,
  performance, and handling high traffic volume.
  However, when it comes to scalability, it is not
  as good as the other two.
• Shopify mainly caters to start-up and small
  business needs, which can be a problem if you
  plan to grow your online store massively. For
  seamless scalability, you will need Shopify Plus
  starting at 2,000 per month which will
  considerably increase your expense.

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• WooCommerce
• When it comes to eCommerce website development,
  you can practically achieve anything and
  everything you want with WooCommerce.
• Due to its immense popularity and open-source
  nature, WooCommerce has attracted the largest
  community of third-party eCommerce developers.
  Therefore, it boasts the most comprehensive
  catalogue of free and affordable plugins which
  meet nearly every need, including website speed
  and performance optimization.

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• Installing a new plugin with WooCommerce is
  typically a matter of a few clicks. If you would
  like to scale your website to achieve complex
  functions that are unique and are unfulfilled by
  using available plugins, you will need to hire
  someone experienced or invest in some coding
  lessons.
• Magento
• From optimizing the website for better
  performance to minimizing the server response
  time for all website actions Magento offers
  superior scalability options.

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• It also provides extensive flexibility in terms
  of database management and complex backend
  operations. A dynamic and robust eCommerce
  platform, its equipped to accommodate thousands
  of products, high website traffic, and peak loads
  efficiently.
• Hence, if you have big future expansion plans for
  your online store development, Magentos powerful
  content management system may be the best option.
  Consult an eCommerce developer to understand
  which platform would be best for your unique
  needs.

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• 3. Themes, Designs, and Customization
• Shopify
• High-quality design themes are one of Shopifys
  key selling points. Shopifys famed theme store
  offers highly responsive, SEO-friendly themes
  which you can simply purchase, download, and use
  to enhance your e-stores look and feel.
• However, since Shopify is a hosted solution with
  a patented codebase, you will not have direct
  access to the underlying software, so
  customization flexibilities are restricted, even
  when you hire a developer. Moreover, youll have
  to pay additional fees to use payment gateways
  that are not pre-installed.

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• WooCommerce
• Featuring a practically infinite library of free
  and premium themes, plugins, and extensions, the
  sky is the limit when it comes to customization
  on WooCommerce. This is one of the core reasons
  why thousands of eCommerce web development
  services and eCommerce website design companies
  choose this platform for their business needs or
  for those of their clients.
• Furthermore, extensions exist that let you change
  the style, layout and content of your website
  through simple click-and-edit, as well as
  drag-and-drop, methods. For those more
  technically inclined, WooCommerce provides direct
  access to HTML code, CSS, and PHP.

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• If you have the required coding skills, you can
  include any feature or component in your website
  that fulfils your unique business demands. You
  can further enhance and improve your sites
  functionality by creating custom plugins.
• Magento
• Magento offers a good selection of themes and
  extensions to improve and enhance your websites
  functionalities. Almost all its themes have
  responsive design layouts that adjust themselves
  to multiple devices, like mobile phones and
  tablets. The themes listed in the Magento
  marketplace are affordable and user-friendly, but
  for more advanced options, you can visit
  Themeforest, Template Monster, and Magenest.

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• Magento web development gives you unlimited
  customization options so that you can tweak SEO
  settings, develop a custom theme from scratch,
  integrate payment gateways, among many other
  capabilities.
• 4. Ease of Use
• Shopify
• Shopify is an all-in-one eCommerce platform with
  responsive designs, plugins, themes, and built-in
  payment gateways. To work with Shopify, you
  require no prior knowledge of coding or website
  development.

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• Although Shopify offers limited flexibility for
  eCommerce website development, its drag-and-drop
  design interface allows you to open a
  full-fledged online store in around 15 minutes
  a great option for small-scale businesses who do
  not have a lot of time on their hands.
• WooCommerce
• If you have a basic knowledge of WordPress,
  WooCommerce can be the best option for your
  online shop development.
• Online store functionalities like payment
  gateways, shipping carriers, currency conversion
  and multiple languages can easily be achieved
  with the help of its free themes and plugins.

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• Extensions exist that let you change the styles,
  layout and content of your website through simple
  click-and-edit, as well as drag-and-drop,
  methods.
• Magento
• If you have significant technical knowledge,
  Magento can be seamless and easy to use. However,
  if you do not possess the skills, it can be hard
  to manage without the help of an eCommerce
  website developer, since it has a steep learning
  curve.

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• 5. SEO Properties
• Shopify
• An ecommerce store first and foremost, Shopifys
  SEO features are excellent. Some of its prominent
  SEO features include adjusting meta tags, adding
  alt text to photos, and, generating page
  redirects to name a few. Additionally, its
  fast-loading speed drastically improves the user
  experience and indirectly contributes to better
  SERP rankings.

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• WooCommerce
• Thanks to its wide range of plugins, extensions,
  and customization options, WooCommerce is highly
  SEO-friendly. Since WooCommerce is a WordPress
  plugin, it has all the SEO features of WordPress,
  which is a powerful toolkit that has been keeping
  pace with Google for nearly 20 years.
• This includes Yoast SEO, which is a powerful and
  comprehensive search engine optimization tool,
  focus keyword placements, URL redirects,
  canonical tags, sitemaps, image optimization, and
  permalink optimization.

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• Magento
• Magento offers tons of built-in SEO features
  along with several extensions and functionalities
  to improve its SERP (Search Engine Results Page)
  rankings. SEO features like image optimization,
  meta tags optimization, product descriptions, and
  image alt-tags optimization help search engines
  crawl your online website and understand its
  content and structure.
• Furthermore, it also has some very useful
  features, like Google sitemaps, no-follow links,
  canonical tags, and page redirects.

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• 6. Security
• Shopify
• Shopify offers a built-in SSL certificate that
  protects your website and prevents customers
  personal data being stolen while their payment
  processes.
• Additionally, Shopify is completely PCI-DSS
  compliant. It allows your site to accept all card
  payments in line with the latest regulations.
• WooCommerce
• Since WooCommerce is a self-hosted eCommerce
  platform, you may have to independently procure
  an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate from
  your hosting provider, though most offer these
  preinstalled and for free nowadays.

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• WordPress developers are constantly monitoring
  and updating their security guidelines, thus
  pre-empting any impending threats, and free
  security plugins are available for advanced
  protection.
• Magento
• Magento has several security plugins and
  extensions that can predict site vulnerabilities,
  send out password-change notifications in case of
  threats, and scan files and data when it detects
  any changes.
• It also launches timely security patches to
  ensure high-level safety and protection.

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• 7. Costs and Pricing
• Shopify
• Shopify comes with several payment plans, and its
  monthly starting rate varies from 29 to 299
  based on the features included. Every payment
  plan comes with a domain name, web hosting, and
  an SSL certificate.
• One of its downsides is the indefinite monthly
  costs of the service, as well as each of its
  third-party apps, tools, and add-ons.

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• WooCommerce
• WooCommerce software is open source and will
  always be completely free to use. As it also
  enjoys a large contributor base, its extensions
  and apps are most often free or low cost as well.
  The apps and extensions that are premium either
  offer lifetime updates for free, or one year of
  updates with the option to renew each year
  (typically no more than 25 to 75 per year) to
  continue receiving the latest features.
• Therefore, even though there is usually an
  upfront investment to develop your website, as
  opposed to Shopify where you can do it yourself,
  one of WooCommerces main benefits is that it is
  the most economical of the three platforms.

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• Magento
• The Magento software can be free if you download
  and install Magento Open Source. The Magento
  Commerce edition can cost you anywhere between
  22,000 to 50,000 per year. And, as you grow
  your business you will have to pay additional
  costs for apps, plugins, and extensions.
• 8. Pros and Cons Summary

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• Conclusion
• We hope our analysis has given you valuable
  insights to help you determine the best platform
  on which to run your eCommerce business. If
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  on your unique needs and goals as well as help
  you develop a secure and successful online store.

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