Shopify vs WooCommerce
Shopify and WooCommerce are the two most widely used webshop platforms. Shopify takes care of everything for you; WooCommerce turns a WordPress site into a webshop that you control yourself.
Shopify vs WooCommerce at a glance
| Shopify | WooCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Indicative price | From €21 per month | From €0 per month |
| Free trial account | Yes | – |
| Demo | – | – |
| Cloud software | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch-language | Yes | Yes |
Indicative prices and characteristics as entered by the suppliers on SoftwareWatcher. Ratings are the average of the reviews on SoftwareWatcher.
The main difference
Shopify is a cloud-based webshop platform: Shopify takes care of hosting, security and updates, and you pay a fixed amount per month. WooCommerce is a free open-source plugin for WordPress: you control the code and the data yourself, but arrange hosting, updates and maintenance yourself.
Costs
Shopify costs from €21 per month with annual billing (Basic); with Shopify Payments you only pay payment costs per transaction, such as €0,29 for iDEAL. WooCommerce itself is free, but you pay for hosting, a domain name, a theme, paid extensions and maintenance. Hosting for a webshop often costs between €15 and €300 per month, depending on traffic.
Choose Shopify if
- you want to start without a developer or your own hosting;
- you also sell in a shop and want to use the same stock with Shopify POS;
- you want to sell in multiple countries, languages and currencies.
Choose WooCommerce if
- you already have a WordPress website;
- you want to customise the webshop fully and manage the data yourself;
- you work with a web agency that knows WordPress.