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– After the technology revolution, building stores is no longer the preserve of big merchants or big companies, but it is possible for anyone to create an online store and without programming experience as well.
But the most important question remains: What is the best platform for setting up my store?
So in this article we will make a comprehensive comparison of the two most famous platforms in this field, namely, Shopify and Woocommece, as well as we will learn about the advantages of each, their faults and which is better for you!
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comparison: Shopify VS woocommrece
Shopify
Hosting (price): $ 29 per month after completing the 14-day trial period, for more explanation on site setup and settings, read the following article: start shopify store – guide
SSL Certificate: Free
SEO: Shopify is the optimized and search engine friendly solution. As all plans include the most important search engine standards required in each site such as editable titles, meta description, change of page links, image alt tags, and more ..
Designs and Templates: Shopify has a large collection of online store designs that you can find beautifully designed with a great response to browsers and screen measurements. You will also find E-Business templates, though, and because Shopify is a hosted shopping cart, you will have limited customization options.
woocommrece
Hosting (price): free, but you must buy hosting between $ 2 to $ 10 a month and time payment for one year = approximately $ 60, we recommend you to buy bluehost hosting to explain more read the following article: How to start a successful blog and grow for free.
SSL Certificate: You must purchase it, starting from $ 9 or more.
SEO: Woocommers is friend to search engines thanks to a wide range of customizations and access to the source code of your store.
Simply by using Wokomers you will benefit from the integration and features of WordPress, or what is available through plugins with the add-ons. As a result, Woocommers gives you very varied options for SEO.
Templates and designs: To be honest, wokomers has a serious advantage over Shopify when it comes to designs. what do you mean? Put limited word templates on the side: D, you can use any WordPress theme to work with the plugin and plug-in. You can see hundreds of these models online.
So, in most cases, you are able to specify which WordPress template you want, and be sure it will work in conjunction with the WordPress.
Detailed explanation and comprehensive comparison
1- Shopify platform
In recent years, with successive challenges, the Shopify has become one of the best platforms for creating an online store, offering solutions and applications that help you to increase your profits in your own store. This platform also allows you to sell your products directly using Facebook platform as well as “Pinterest”. As of this year, about 500,000 companies are working on the Shopify e-commerce platform.
Shopify features:
One of the most prominent feature of Shopify is the POS system. This system allows retailers to easily receive Shopify payments in their store.
– Free pro templates that you can start with that support the mobile imaginatively, which contributes to increasing sales, as there are more professional templates but paid templates.
– Built-in analytics tools which facilitate the analysis process in order to increase productivity as well as profits.
– Accepted about 70 payment service providers, including Paypal.
– Ease of setup in the store without programming experience.
– You can also add unlimited products.
– Unlimited space by simply subscribing to the basic offer that costs $ 29.
– The download speed of the site (the store) is super fast, because the Shopify platform is own the hosting.
– You can also modify your store with the “HTML and CSS” editor if you want.
– Unlimited apps that you can add to your store.
– Technical support 24/24 hours
– Free SSL certificate on your website. (SSL certificates provide secure and encrypted communication between your Shopify store and an internet browser, which increases the customer’s confidence in the store).
Free domain “myshopify.com” Or you can add one paid “.com” from shopify / Godaddy.
For the prices on the Shopify platform:
You can try Shopify for 14 days before considering buying it. After the free trial, you can choose to plan and pay monthly without any contracts or setup fees.
Disadvantages of the shopify platform:
Unfortunately, despite these more than the wonderful features that it offers to marketers, it does have some disadvantages, the most important of which are fees for each sale, it is up to 2% in the case you are using the offer that costs $ 29.00 and 1% if you use the $ 79 offer، and $ 0.5 in the case You are using the professional offer which costs $ 299.00 per month.
2- Woocommerce platform
In fact, Woocommerce is just a free “plugin” that you add to your “WordPress_website”, this add-on allows you to convert your site into an integrated online store for your project !
In order to create your store with woocomerce all you need is as follows:
-Obtaining a domain name is always preferred “.Com”.
-Sign up for a hosting account (read this article) and install WordPress.
-Download the Woocommerce free plugin (how to add plugins to WordPress, with an explanation of the best free plugins)
-Get a template for your WooCommerce store.
Now we will look at the features of Woocomerce:
– Unlimited free and paid templates compared to Shopify.
– 100% free plugain (but you must buy hosting 1 year = 60$).
– Accept about 50 payment service providers, including Paypal.
– Unlimited number of products added.
– Unlimited number of add-ons in woocommerce at very low prices.
– You can use external analytics tools, such as Google Analytics.
Woocommerce disadvantages:
Unfortunately, despite the features of Wokomers, its faults remain many of the most important. Hosting. In case your hosting is low quality, this depends on the efficiency of your site. There is a saying to all marketers, especially commissioners, that says, “Every time your website speed increases, your earnings increase.” So we recommend that you purchase the hosting that we explained in detail (How to Build a website from scratch).
The second disadvantage of woocommerce is the “SSL certificate”. It is not free and this certificate costs $ 100 – but you can get it for free if you read our article: How to build a site (this certificate increases customer confidence).
Which platform is recommended to work properly and professionally?
After this article, you can decide which platform suits you and your business / budget, so my advice to you is: shopify is good and the woocomerce are good and excellent as well. But for me (personally), I prefer shopify. Why …?
With Shopify you can:
1) Build an email list
2) Add a blog to your store
3) Customize your packaging
4) Add more custom branding to your t-shirts
Simply, Shopify works very simple, as we mentioned, the platform is famous for its strength, flexibility and speed, and it does not need a large resources ( unlimited hosting are fast).
The nice thing about shopify, is that it enables you to create your own brand, Which enables you to profit huge amounts.
On the other hand, woocommerce: you will get a strong and fast store with a hosting reservation of $ 60 annually, there are no monthly subscriptions and all the add-ons that you need to make your store distinctive are free and even if you have to use paid additions you will pay for it once and not monthly subscriptions like Shopify, except that Showify is The most popular tool, especially in terms of the support it provides.
In this article we explain in detail how to make your own brand from scratch
