WooCommerce vs Magento vs Shopify

 WooCommerce, Magento and Shopify are the most popular ecommerce platforms. Which one is right for the success of your business?

The biggest difference is that WooCommerce and Magento are free open-source and Shopify is a proprietary commercial product you pay for.

 Open source means that the source code is available for free and can be modified. Proprietary means no modification at all. And with WooCommerce and Magento, there are thousands of genius programmers obsessed with making them the best ecommerce platform.

 Shopify is more simple and for beginners; there are less options. For larger businesses, it does not work as well as it lacks the richer abundance of features already built into Magento or the vesatilty of WooCommerce using plugins. If you do need to add an extension to Magento, they are mostly open source and some start at a few dollars.  WooCommerce plugins are both free and paid. With Shopify, to get desired functionality, there are some free apps, but most start at $80.

 Another difference is that Woocommerce or Magento requires that you provide hosting and Shopify is a self-hosted solution. The monthly subscription fees of the different Shopify plans add up very quickly. If you sign up with a hosting company with top-notch support, you will be happy. Take a look at our happy client reviews: https://dev2host.com/dev2host-web-development-and-web-hosting-testimonials/

Overall we thing WooCommerce is the best solution for selling online, due to its versatility, ease of use and much more.

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