WooCommerce VS Shopify | The E-Commerce Battle | 2022

2 min readJan 3, 2022

The comparison is between the two favourite ecommerce management tools.

One is woo-commerce, the mighty plugin that enables wordpress users to transform their site into an e-commerce shop with some simple mouse clicks.

And on the opposite side is Shopify, the tool(site) that sets up ecommerce store for users and manages everything from finding customers to website hosting.

Lets start the battle :

Pricing

This is a very important thing to compare. WooCommerce plugin is free to use.

On the other hand shopify’s pricing starts from 29$ per month. Shopify lets you a 14 day free trial if you want to though(no credit card required).

Ease of use

WooCommerce plugin is free but it comes with some cautions that you have to manage. You have to know basics of wordpress before using woocommerce. And you also have to setup themes, other plugins, tools yourself. On the difficulty scale I will say it is 3/10. So it’s not hard but not very easy also.

Shopify is excellent choice if you have no programming knowledge. It’s just mouse clicks. On the difficulty level I will give it 1/10. Shopify is really easy to start.

Features

The woo-commerce plugin lets you :

Create beautiful, enticing storefronts with themes suited to your brand and industry.
Customize pages in minutes using modular product blocks.
Showcase physical and digital goods, product variations, custom configurations, instant downloads, and affiliate items. Bookings, memberships, subscriptions, and dynamic pricing rules are only an extension away.
Rise to the top of search results by leveraging WordPress’ SEO advantage.

But keep in mind that you need other plugins/extensions along with core woo-commerce to be able to manage sells, better SEO, support checkout payments, manage analytics etc.

On the other hand shopify is one stop solution for all this. So in this category shopify wins clearly.

My Choice

I am developer. So I like to create things and customize things. Also I don’t like to spend ahead. So my personal choice is woo-commerce.

But if you’ve less time in your hand and money is not a problem to you or you’re a big entity that want to superb e-commerce store with all the helping tools, then close your eyes and choose Shopify.

Neither woo-commerce nor shopify has paid me to say these things. This is completely my own words.

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