Shopify alternative
Shopify is the best-known name in online shops. Here is how the costs that grow with a shop compare: the plan, card payments with a provider of your choice, and a POS for each shop.
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Each comparison quotes the other platform’s own pricing page, with the day it was read and a link, so you can check it yourself.
WooCommerce alternative
WooCommerce is a free plugin for WordPress: the shop is free, and everything around it is yours to buy and look after. Here is what that means next to a shop that is run for you.
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Wix is a website builder with a shop inside. Here is how its plans for selling online compare with a platform built only for shops.
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Shopware is German shop software: a free Community Edition you host yourself, and paid editions priced by what you sell. Here is how that compares with a shop that is run for you, at one monthly price.
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PrestaShop is French open-source shop software you host yourself, with a paid hosted version. Here is how it compares with a shop that is run for you.
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Squarespace is a website builder with a shop, bookings and memberships inside. Here is how its plans compare with a platform built only for shops.
See the comparisonBigCommerce alternative
BigCommerce is a US platform for larger online shops, with plans that rise with your yearly sales. Here is how it compares.
See the comparisonLightspeed alternative
Lightspeed sells POS systems for shops and restaurants, and an online shop, Lightspeed eCom, widely across Europe. Here is how the two together compare with one platform for both.
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Square is a payments company whose POS comes with a free basic online shop, Square Online. Here is how it compares, with prices from Square’s Irish pages.
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Ecwid, by Lightspeed, is an online shop you add to a website or social page you already have. Here is how it compares with a shop that is its own website.
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Walk round a real shop: its dashboard, its POS and its storefront. No sign-up, no card.