Why Shopify is much better then Magento

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform known globally.

So the question which arises in everybody's mind is, which among the two is the best known e-commerce platform globally?

Talking about Magento

It's software originally being developed by Varien Inc., a US private company, headquartered in California, with assistance from several volunteers and software contributors.

100,000 plus online stores have been created on the platform. With the data of platform code being downloaded for more than 2 million times and an amount of more than $150 billion of goods being sold alone in 2019. As of last April Magento holds a 2.32% market share in the global e-commerce platforms.

Shopify Agency on the other hand is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ontario. It is also the known name for its online stores and retail point-of-sale systems.

Reportedly verified that the company has over 17 lakhs business running by the site with its emergence in over more than 170 countries.

So till here it could be made out that both the top known e-commerce site has its presence and acknowledgement to over million of people around the world.

Now let's take some of the other factors into consideration like -

1. Set Up

It offers quick launch of an online store into its platform by the retailers without the hustle bustle of servers and incurring plenty of development costs like in the case of Magento. The interface of an admin is tidy and user-friendly with all the features being logically structured.

2. Technicals

Where in Magento every technical aspect should have to be looked at by the seller or the retailer. Shopify gives its retailers a lot of relief in this aspect by looking into all the technical needs from software to hosting and much more. Which indeed results in sellers putting in all their valuable time into work of buying and selling and getting the transaction down, without worrying about the secondary things.

3. Payment

For using the services of Shopify one needs to pay a certain amount to the shopify. While in the case of Mogento, its an open source free service which means no amount is to be paid for its usage.

As a result there are more chances of people ordering stuff to cancel later in the case of Mogento.

Because of the price given by the customer to the shopify it's a place of genuine buyers thus having less chances of people suffering the site and ordering stuff just for fun.

4. Sensitive

As both are e-commerce platforms its easily understood that all the transactions will be online. And thus all the personal information like bank details, Account holder name, address etc. is to be provided. Thus its always recommended to give sensitive information as per the convenience keeping in mind the reliability of the platform. Thus In this case Shopify should be prefered above Mogento for its trust among the people.

5. Verity

People can use both the platforms to create their digital store and sell their product or service to a wider range of audience globally.

And every seller wants to attract the potential buyers in as low a time as possible.

Thus it would be better to Use Shopify as it gives a wide range of templates to its retailers to choose the best option among all.

which will indeed result in potential buyers turning into customers at a much faster and easier rate.

6. Currency

In the case of Mogento it offers support for more than 200 currencies around the world while Shopify offers support for more than 130 currencies.

In the scenario above with Shopify dealing with comparatively less currencies has its advantage over mogento in a number of ways such as it will incur less cost, less time taking etc.

7. Size

Since Mogento is packed up with various difficult features and is comparatively hard to use then in the case of Shopify.

As Mogento offers high theme prices for free to 499 dollars. Shopify comparatively offers a low theme price of free to 350 dollars. Both of the above aspects of features and theme prices tells us that it is more beneficial for the usage of large enterprises.

As it not only requires time but considerable efforts of the enterprise to run their digital store in Magento.

Looking into all the above aspects and considering all the factors it could be concluded that Shopify is much easy to use, full of verity, trustworthy platform then that of Mogento. And thus for any retailers who want to take up their small scale firm to the digital sources, it is recommended to use Shopify.

In order to get genuine buyers of their product or services, a wide variety of templates to use from, and much more benefits out of it.

But this was all the analysis made while considering the aspects above. But more of what needs to be recommended is to have your own personalised research before using any of the two platforms or thinking of taking the store digital.

Hey, I am Ashish, eCommerce Seo Expert at Noir & Blanco, located in Mumbai, India. I have 3 years of experience in this field.