What is the best ecommerce platform?

What is the best ecommerce platform?

  • Wordpress + Woo Commerce

  • Magento

  • Shopify

  • Other


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I've done some design and development for Magento before and it was a nightmare. This was way back when it was first released though. I've played around with a failed shopify store just months ago too. Shopify is easy to use and setup, but if I wanted power and flexibility, it doesn't even compare to Magento. I'm going to assume Magento has become a lot better since but it's still going to take more time to setup.
 
I'm not saying they will disappear, I'm saying they can cancel your store?

They have a pretty thorough outline of what's acceptable and what isn't.

Yes, the store could be canceled if you break their TOS.

Code:
https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms

4. Shopify Rights
-- We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Service for any reason, without notice at any time.
-- We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
-- We may, but have no obligation to, remove Materials and suspend or terminate Accounts if we determine in our sole discretion that the goods or services offered via a store, or the Materials uploaded or posted to a store, violate our Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) or these Terms of Service.
-- It goes on...
 
Personally, I think that Shopify is the best out of the box, given that they take care of many of the rigorous tasks when it comes to performance, and it starts at a cheap cost shortly after the free trial.
 
Magento is the way to go for customization and scale. You do need either a dev partner or a in house guy to keep maintaining it tho.
 
Bump. Would like to see more opinions on this topic a year later.
 
Woocommerce, I've used it and it works well. But you will need to know a little bit about Wordpress to use it properly. Yes, it can handle 5k products and even more than that.
Avoid shared hosting, and go for a VPS at least (4cores at least), if you want a half decent response time. Add to it a CDN for a better performance too, cloudflare should be enough.

I agree about WooCommerce. It gives you more freedom in terms of design and functionality. It is also much better to have your own original domain by buying a hosting service, so you have a good branding for your business.:)
 
Magento has some bugs but it is powerful, now I want to see how is PrestaShop has someone ever used it?
 
I am working always with wordpress+woocommerce. I love wordpress because there are tons of good looking themes and a lot of free/paid plugins + you can always customize a lot of things.
 
Indeed woocommerce is being year after year a great e-commerce system
 
Shopify is the shortest route to success.

I've heard a lot of horror stories about WooCommerce. It's appealing, but you have added risk from updates, etc. Wouldn't consider it unless you have a big budget and a dedicated dev on the team.
 
I've worked with WooCommerce, Magento, Prestashop and Shopify over the years. Shopify is hands down the easiest to use and most robust.
 
If you're looking for something which will not give you a pain in butt then you should consider Shopify .
On past days Shopify was not so much customisable specially the backend but now a days the platform has too many apps which will let you to add any kinds of features you want.You should consider Shopify as your platform beacuse low cost,Free ssl,99.99% upmtime guaranteed ,24/7 customer support
and
 
I have experienced with Shopify. If you are talking about User friendly, Design, Security and other facts then Shopify is best. In the other hand it is bit costly. And it's theme and apps are also. But Shopify is good to me.
 
Personaly I like woocommerce over shopify because the themes are much better and more attractive in woocommerce. Also are more Features avaible on woocommerce.

I think shopify is good for really small stores
 
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