Shopify vs. Woocommerce – Best Ecommerce Platform in 2021?
The complete guide to Shopify vs. Woocommerce, including Pros and Cons and a detailed review so you can decide which one is better.
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(2:00) Pros Of Woocommerce
(3:57) Cons Of Shopify
(5:53) Cons Of Woocommerce
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In this video, I will be going in-depth about the advantages and disadvantages of both Shopify and WooCommerce.
Shopify
Pros
1. They have better templates – While WooCommerce also has some great templates, I think the Shopify templates are a little bit more professional.
2. It is easier to use – Shopify is built from the ground up for e-commerce, to make it as simple as possible for people to put their products and sell them online.
3. 24/7 Support – This is part of why Shopify is easier to use. With WooCommerce, you are pretty much on your own since it’s a free plugin to WordPress.
4. It has better addons and apps
5. It integrates better
6. Less can go wrong – With Shopify, you can’t change the checkout page too much. With WooCommerce, you can tinker with it a little bit more but there’s a bigger chance that something will break.
Cons
1. It is expensive – While it can be more expensive to start with WooCommerce since a lot of hosting sites make you pay a one-year fee at once, Shopify is still more expensive in the long run.
2. They can shut you down – If you’re in a high-risk country or if you’re selling high-risk products, do not go with Shopify.
3. Third-party apps are more expensive on Shopify than on WooCommerce.
4. Fees – Shopify does charge a fee if you want to use a third-party payment gateway. However, you don’t need to do that. Shopify has its own built-in Payments. The way it works is that every time you get a sale, Shopify takes a 2.9% fee. Depending on what plan you have, that percentage will go down.
WooCommerce
Pros
1. It is free (kind of) – WooCommerce is a free plugin for WordPress. To have a WooCommerce site, you need a WordPress site. To have a WordPress site, you need to pay a little bit for hosting.
2. It’s customizable – You can change just about everything on your website. It is open-source which means there are a lot of different developers out there working on it and trying to improve it.
3. You’ll never be shut down – The benefit of having a WooCommerce site is you don’t have to go through a 3rd party.
4. It is built with WordPress – WordPress is great for blogging. If you’re going to be doing a lot of blogging with your e-commerce site, if content marketing is a big part of your company, then WordPress is going to make it really easy for you.
Cons
1. Technical Difficulties – One of the biggest cons of WooCommerce is that you’re going to have technical problems.
2. Less Integration – It seems that there are a lot of functions that I can get with Shopify that I can’t get with WooCommerce or they won’t work as well as I would like.
3. Setup Payment Gateway – You are going to have to set up payments through either Stripe or Paypal. Either way, there is going to be a 2.9% fee in every transaction.
I currently use both of these platforms. To be honest, it really just depends on the circumstances on why you’re starting an e-commerce website. If you’re willing to pay more for a website that just is reliable, has fewer issues and is more professional, then you can go with Shopify. If you’re on a tight budget, have the technical knowledge, and want to start multiple stores, then you can go with WooCommerce.
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Straight to the point and the visuals made things extra clear. Thank you very much!
bro this is an outdated video, why do you change the title and mislead your audience that it's relevant in 2021 ?
Android for sure ! My Samsung works amazingly never have any issues
In countries where Shopify Payment is not available, you have to pay 2.9% to Shopify and 2% + Tax to your payment gateway for each transaction. Like I'm from India and we are paying more than 5% for each transaction to Shopify and the payment gateways.
Thanks so much for this video. My current situation is that after 7 months working with my e-commerce built on WoCommerce after the latest update the web crashed and it's really difficult to back to normal and it's expensive and frustrating to fix it (if you're not a skillfull developer).
I'm thinking to move to Shopify but starting from scratch is annoying. Do you know if there's any way to kind of migrate all the products from one platform to another?
very clear and straight review. thanks alot.. i dont need to find another video for this
This guy’s arms must be tired at the end of recording a video.
I've watched countless videos on this topic, but everytime they are either beating around the bush or just giving wrong information. This one 10 min video pretty much answered all the question I had on my mind. Great Job!
Your passion is VERY entertaining! Thank you Travis
You upload a video in 2019 and say 2021?
I am most annoyed by this type of titles, and for that I will give a thumbs down
Coupon code for woo?
I needed to understand this quickly, thank you for making that possible!!
Shopify is not good in India you charge a 5% fee or more because Shopify payment is not available so be careful that is bad when you calculate all fees ……
I have been watching a few of your videos and I just want to say they have all been super helpful. As a start-up, cash-flow tends to be a sticking point for me! Coming out of pocket right off the bat a couple of hundred bucks for hosting for a 2 or 3 year agreement made the decision for me. While yes, it IS less expensive in the long run, those are dollars I don't have use of right away, so I like to have a really good idea of my monthly limits, etc. For me, the Shopify route was simple and easy to set up and it is easier for me to plan that way. For others though, if you are a smart entrepreneur, you already have a budget set aside to get going, and that is the wisest way to go, lol. Anyway, thank you so much for this video, it was super helpful! 👍😊
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If you want to scale your business then you need woo commerce. I’ve used both platforms. Woo commerce is way better.
Woocomerce is so much better
Glad I watched ypur video. I'm about to relaunch a small business I ran about 8 years ago that was on Etsy. This time around I want everything to operate on my own website so it's looking like Woocommerce is the ticket for me since I'll be using blogging to promote my products.
Good video….thx
Thanks Travis !
Hi,
I see you're replying to comments. I'm only a few steps away to start building my site. But recently I've heard many complaints. Like they are banning store randomly and issues with shopify payments. I know you mentioned that they can shut you down… but in the last few months I've heard way more people talking about this. And they can't even talk to shopify's support because they are not responding to emails.
Thank you for the video, nice explanation!
In your video, you have talked about the performance and you have compared the performances of eCommerce platforms on Shopify and Woo Commerce.
Also, should we give some thought about the tech stack used will also influence the performance? How about NodeJS instead of PHP.
NodeJS has the option of non-blocking I/O systems, and thus it can handle multiple requests simultaneously and make an eCommerce store efficient in handling multiple requests at the same time. I do understand there are very few eCommerce Solutions on NodeJS. There are many on PHP.
But, there are these Reaction Commerce and Spurtcommerce, which are built on NodeJS. And, many Developers do say, in terms of request handling, NodeJS is better than Python and Ruby also.
can we Integrate WooCommerce with Amazon and ebay?
Payment fees with shopify extremely high for my business, I hope they consider different Profits margin we make .
I've had both, but iphone is better… 😀
This was really helpful, thanks so much!