Shopify is one of the world's leading e-commerce platforms serving millions of merchants. See why it's so popular, and why we love it.
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1. Pricing
The basic plan starts at $24 per month and offers everything you may need to run a successful e-commerce business.
2. Sales Channels
Simple connection to other sales channels like Facebook, Instagram, Google, Pinterest, and many others.
3. Checkout
Shopify checkout converts up to 36% better compared to other solutions like Salesforce, Magento, and BigCommerce.
4. Support 24/7
Shopify is known for their exceptional customer service. They are ready to help at anytime and with no extra cost.
5. Design & UX
The overall Shopify UX is a pleasure for both admins and shoppers. Plus, you can easily change it yourself, no coding required.
6. Global Platform
The platform is being used by millions of merchants from all around the world. In 2020, the total GMV was unbelievable $197.2B.
Compare Shopify with competition and see why it's the fastest growing e-commerce platform with millions of merchants.
In a nutshell it runs smoothly and provides great experience – for both store owners and their customers. All of that without any technical knowledge or development resources required.
First of all, Shopify is SaaS solution (i.e. you are renting the platform as a service) that is used by millions of stores around the world. The platform is constantly developed and innovated by a team of 10,000+ Shopify employees.
Besides that, Shopify is popular due to its simple management and modern design. Store owner can tailor the store by himself without any coding or technical knowledge. If any desired functionality is missing, it can be easily "installed" by a third-party app. Shopify App Store lists more than 8,000 public apps (out of which 3,000 are free to use).
For detailed comparison of Shopify vs. other e-commerce platforms, please see our comparison section.
Shopify offers four plans: Basic ($24 per month), Standard ($69 per month), Advanced ($299 per month), and Shopify Plus (per quote, but usually around $2,500 per month). Each plan offers a risk-free 14-day trial period. For more details, see our comparison of Shopify pricing plans.
Besides the monthly fee, you also need to pay transaction fees. They start at 2.9% + $30¢ per credit card transaction.
The rest like support, hosting, SSL, CDN, fraud protection, etc. is included in the monthly fee.
You can use Shopify from any country in the world and sell to any country as well. The only exception are the embargoed countries.
The storefront can be localized into any language using the theme settings. The admin of your Shopify store is currently available in English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
You can display prices and sell in 133 currencies through the Shopify Payments gateway. Each currency can have its own price list, rounding rules, and display format settings.
The easiest way to accept payments on Shopify is using Shopify Payments. It offers all the major payment methods like Credit/Debit Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Shop Pay. But also some locally-specific ones like Boleto, Klarna, iDEAL, or Sofort. PayPal can be enabled as well. You can also integrate a custom payment gateway.
No, the whole philosophy behind the Shopify platform is to allow everyone to sell online. You don't need any technical knowledge or a dedicated development team.
You can easily adjust your store design and layout via the theme settings. If you are missing any functionality, you can add one of the 8,000 apps from the Shopify App Store.
And if there is functionality or feature that doesn't exists, we can help with custom development.
Definitely. If you are running a large e-commerce business, we recommend using a Shopify Plus plan that offers lot of customizations like custom scripts, custom checkout process, headless integrations, etc.
There are a few ways how to migrate your existing data. You can do it manually via CSV files, use a third-party migration app, or find a partner like Digismoothie to help with that.
We can help you migrate from any platform to Shopify using custom import. Migration usually includes product catalog, orders, customers, and content pages.
Yes, this is fairly easy and can be done directly from the Shopify store admin. Read our article on how to change your store domain for more details.
All our stores are beautifully designed (#eyecandy). More importantly, though, they’re optimized to sell. Customer love, guaranteed. Just don't tell the competition.
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