Compare Shopit with Shopify
See how Shopit compares with the Shopify eCommerce platform
Our Opinion
Shopify is one of the world’s most popular ecommerce platforms, offering several different tiers of functionality with equally tiered pricing. With Basic/Standard/Pro packages costing £29/£79/229 you only get what you pay for
And that isn’t an awful lot.
Yes, being in the business for 15 years means they have successfully built up a bucketload of paid templates and a growing community of plugins too; but that’s a sly way of increasing costs after the initial sign-up. Many merchants report paying 150% more than the base price to run their store.
Lack of Native Features
Shopify is another platform to fundamentally hold back any growing eCommerce business. The lower level packages lack proper categorisation, no ability to build additional websites natively, and financially penalise you for choosing an alternative payment gateway to their own.
They are another platform that also limits the amount of users you can have operating the platform – 2/5/15 users across the three main levels. This is why more people are migrating away from Shopify
It’s only once you can somehow afford Shopify Plus on £24,000 per year that you get real powerful functionality – like multiple sites for example.
Shopify Comparison Table
| Shopit | Shopify Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Price | from £20 | £2,000 |
| Feature Set | Unlimited | Limited |
| Free Trial (days) | 30 | 14 |
| Comparison based on core features (functionality may be available via paid/free plugins) | ||
| Selling Online | ||
| Online Stores | Unlimited | 10 |
| Stock Locations | Unlimited | 20 |
| Staff Accounts | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Unlimited Products | ✔ | ✔ |
| Free SSL certificate | ✔ | ✔ |
| Payment Gateways | ||
| Native gateway (no development needed) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Online Credit Card Rates Compare | 1.0% + 10p | 1.6% + 20p |
| Third Party Gateway Surcharges (e.g. Paypal) | 0% | 0.5% |
| Store Management | ||
| Centralised Product Management | ✔ | ✘ |
| Custom User Workflows | ✔ | ✘ |
| Product Prioritisation | ✔ | ✘ |
| Build an Order | ✔ | ✔ |
| Discount Management | ✔ | ✔ |
| Easy Stock Transfer | ✔ | ✔ |
| Advanced Reporting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fully Editable Templates | ✔ | ✔ |
| Editable Checkout | ✔ | ✔ |
| Native Blog | ✔ | ✔ |
| B2B Specific Features | ||
| Estimates/Proforma Invoices | ✔ | ✔ |
| Approve Customer Accounts | ✔ | ✔ |
| Volume Discounts | ✔ | ✔ |
| Allow 30 Day 'On Account' Payments | ✔ | ✘ |
| Technical | ||
| Choice of Hosting Location | ✔ | ✘ |
| Autoscale Hosting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Open API Access | ✔ | ✔ |
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