Shopify vs WooCommerce – Which Is The Best One for You?

shopify will milk your pockets by their apps for the most basic features, their customer support is useless, takes years for them to fix an issue. They want you to pay for 3rd party apps. Then you realize your paying $500 a month to have a normal running store. shopify doesnt have the feature to calculate shipping at checkout for items that have different dimensions of package than the ONE default package size they have. basically if you have a bigger or smaller item you can charge accurate shipping cause its lock on only one size, which is stupid to think of when they call themselves a e commerce platform. dont waste your time

Well Woo Commerce Store Still needs Hosting and Domain Related fees, It should be include as well

what about bigcommerce?

Are the addons necessary with woocomerce? I downloaded the plug-in and in the walkthrough it recommended a lot like woocomerce tax, google ads, jet pack etc

While I do hear a lot of good things with shopify. I feel like they make it extremely complex to run your ads.

It has to do-it-yourself system Which can make it complex on websites like wix everything is already made for you. So when you run ads, you don't run into any complications.

Thanks for the video. It walked me through step by step

WordPress The Best 👍

Man I'm sorry to admit I skipped straight to the end as I'm supposed to be winding down for bed and this is the third "vs" video I've watched in a row! But even so that was a great delivery and great point you made at the end, they're both tools.

I'm finally getting back into ecom after 4-5 years, and seeing new faces in the niches, you well and truly know your s**t, subbed!

Phenomenal video. Thanks! Here's what I wanna add on top of it: As a person with solid technical affinity (former software engineer) and starting with a lower budget, I'll start out with WooCommerce and see how the business develops. If it runs bad, I'll anyway use neither of the two :-). If it runs smoothly I'll reassess the situation, since I'm not gonna waste my time on technical maintenance in the long run. I'll have plenty of time to calculate whether I should hire a developer to do "the dirty work" for me or I'll simply migrate to shopify once I already have a brand that has built a solid customer base and a good reputation. What really scares me about shopify is the transaction fee that doubles(!) the already really pricey transaction fees of payment gateways like paypal. We'll see... EDIT: I was biased before I came accross this video, since I'm in the development stage of a project and encountered one of the natural things that happen when you're running wordpress: you change a setting in a plugin that later on crashes everything without you initially even knowing it. I took into consideration to quit and start from scratch with Shopify to save myself this pain in future, because even with an advanced, analytical skillset, it took me hours to find and fix the error. If you technically don't really(!) know what you're doing, save yourself the pain and go for something that just works out of the box. Nothing comes for free, and I'm willing to trade off some time to save the additional bucks, but without my technical experience I would have been completely lost at that point!

Shopify = iOS. Woocommerce = Early Android.

This analysis is perfection! Just what I needed. Thank you!

Great Video, Learned A Lot - Thanks

Really good review 👏🏼

Great presentation. Keep it up Ninja

This helped a lot! I have been between shopify as the crowd favorite but WOO because well I am not technologically or web building challenged .... Woo is my choice! Thanks!

succinct and super helpful. subscribed

Costs shouldn't be an issue if your business is profitable. My products and customer journey are complex. Lots of guiding, comparisons, education needed for my customers to make a decision. My competitors using headless shopify but that's like 2k a month. Ok ya those costs matter to me lol. Yes shopifys do rank but more people can SEO woo. Been researching like 6 months to get here. We will see how this all goes lol. Thanks for your videos ninja.

Wait maybe I'm doing it wrong, bolting on shopify to woo. You said bolt woo/word on shopify. Back to the drawing board dammit!!

I'm going woo w shopify bolt on. Want to sync w social shops and have shop pay button. It wa hard to figure out but there's a plugin for it. Not many Deva know about it. Found 2 out of 50 lol.

The most thorough comparison I've seen!

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I have watched different video's on comparison Shopify versus Woocommerce and this video goes into pros and cons that are overlooked by other video's and answers some questions I have about the two platforms. It definitely helps me to make the decision. Thank you!

im a bit confused. What's the difference between Wordpress and woo commerce?

I love your British accent! Would Ease of Use n Support be better if I go with Woo under Bluehost?

Finally, some good stuff

Thank you for sharing this video. I was waiting for you to talk about the security. Would've been helpful.

Thank you!

Really good review. It makes perfect sense of the pros and cons.

hi. i want to start a blog where i can sell print on demand merch and possibly e-books. it sounds like what i need is WORDPRESS + WOOCOMMERCE + PRINTFUL and then maybe an e-book sales program i can also plug into WooCommerce? advice from anyone appreciated. please give my comment a thumbs up if you reply so i am notified. thank you

I've been having a terrible time with square online, and now making the decision between these two platforms. This video was super helpful, thank you so much!

You know your gear! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
I never subscribe but did after 10mins

One of the things that was not mentioned was the fact that if you choose to use Shopify for your e-commerce platform you're essentially stuck if they suddenly decide to up their charges significantly. If $30 a month suddenly becomes $40 what are you going to do then? And the same goes for their other fees.

Thanks, I’m an aspiring freelance developer looking to niche down and decided on e-commerce and therefore woo commerce. However it’s been daunting to wrap my head around why people would choose me instead of just using a shopify app. Basically if they take a maintenance plan with me they can save money hand over fist with none of the extra “Wordpress responsibilities” rather than using shopify.

Shopify is good if you are focusing on Business

You cannot phone Shopify, I repeat you cannot phone Shopify...

Never use the first child as a templet..lol

amazing info

Thank you for your great humour and info!

Great video. Amazing work. Thank you, sir.

Actually, joining Shopify means they will cut off your whole entire store when there is a false accusation of copyright. I was specifically told by shopify I had until the 2nd of May to transfer my store (see emails attached). This morning I woke up to find they had completely removed my store from existence. I have had my store since 2016 and it has hundreds of thousands of customer order details which I now cannot access. I have tried calling and emailing and live chat and no one can give me an answer. As of today I will be sending ALL of our customer enquiries directly to shopify as we no longer have access to ANY of our customer details so we cannot answer any customer queries.

great video... very helpful ❤

Also starting Wordpress and woocometce enforces your knowledge how the web works

I don’t like the thought when the business takes ff the fees will pile up so I’ll sti ck with woocommerce.

Support is also great if you get it from reputable plugins or themes with one theme click instal.

I was having anxiety, but I see clearly which eCommerce company I need to decide one. I will be reaching out for that free consultation. I think that would help so much

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great video man
I am going with wordpress.

A fantastic video. Ironically, you hit the nail on the head in the very last section in which you talk about the platforms "only" being the tool. I am still at the stage of "bells and whistles" and pretending that these will sell my product rather that blood sweat and tears....... and a tool of course! Very many thanks.

Excellent analysis.

I never heard of woo is that in America

good stuff right here🙏

You nailed it in a couple of minutes! Thank you so much for squeezing it to the major points. It answered all my questions... Staying with Woocommerce so far :) Good luck with your channel and business!

Thank you!

Great video