Best Ecommerce Platforms

All of that starting at the price of $29 / month, or as low as $9 / month if you’re okay with not having an online storefront but instead selling via social media and other channels. I wouldn’t have a problem recommending this platform to anyone looking to get started in the ecommerce industry.

Next to Shopify,

Adding your products is also very easy to do with the important product attributes clearly accessible. Instead of putting every little detail about a product on a single screen, BigCommerce uses tabs, with each one getting into a different characteristic of the product.Overall, BigCommerce is a nice alternative to Shopify if that’s what you’re looking for. The feature set is just as vast and impressive with roughly the same pricing (that is until your sales grow too much, at which point Shopify is the cheaper option).

Wix is known for its simple website builder, with a drag and drop interface and a development wonderland for complete beginners. Wix ecommerce has also seen some success, with competitive pricing and decent-looking themes.

Basically, the Wix ecommerce system allows for selling anything from clothing to specialty cakes. There’s even support for digital goods like audio files and eBooks.

The company has taken the website building world by storm, helping small business owners leapfrog over expensive website design companies and put their own time into generating a stylish website–without having to pay the hefty costs.

Wix still can’t beat out more powerful ecommerce platforms like Shopify, or more beautiful systems like Squarespace, but that’s not exactly what Wix is trying to do.

I’ve played around with Wix in the past, and I find the tools to be simple and intuitive, but that doesn’t mean that the company’s ecommerce system reflects past achievements. We know that other newer ecommerce companies like Squarespace have seen their share of hurdles, since making an online store creation interface is rather difficult.

The way it actually works is that you can go into the Ecwid App Market and buy some pre-made themes from third-party sites.

Apart from that, you can customize the basic details about your store’s look. Things like image sizes, aspect ratios, product card details, category positions, product page layout, navigation, and a couple more things.

Overall, this might be a good solution for a certain type of user – someone who just wants to get going with a good-enough store and not bother with the design too much – but it doesn’t appeal too much to me personally, and it’s probably not the best ecommerce platform out there.

While you might think that the number of themes offered by a platform isn’t such a big deal. You need to remember that if your store lacks originality, such as having the same theme as 50 other stores, then customers are quick to attribute this to poor quality management from the store owner.

This is much more likely to make them leave your site without even giving you a fair shot.

While all of them look good, there’s perhaps not that much variety compared to Shopify or BigCommerce. Also, the size of the catalog itself is a factor as well, meaning that you might find it hard to pick a theme that truly matches your needs.

On the plus side, all of them are responsive. However, when it comes to customizations, all you can do is tweak the fonts and colors. Or, you can get into raw HTML and CSS editing, which is also a possibility.