Shopify
E-commerce
E-commerce
Shopify is a hosted e-commerce platform: you rent the store software, hosting, security and checkout for a monthly fee plus transaction costs.
You avoid updates, servers and PCI compliance. In return you get less freedom in checkout and depend on apps for extra functionality.
It is strong on launch speed and international selling. Complex B2B pricing or deep ERP integrations hit limits sooner.
In practice
App costs pile up quietly. Total them monthly and check you still use each one.
Related terms
- E-commerceE-commerce covers everything around selling products or services online: the store, payment, stock, shipping and the service afterwards.
- WooCommerceWooCommerce is the open source store plug-in for WordPress: you run it on your own hosting and keep full control over code and data.
- CheckoutThe checkout is your shop's payment flow: from cart to confirmation. This is where most of the revenue you almost had disappears.
- Product feedA product feed is a structured file with all your products and their data, used by platforms like Google Shopping and Meta to display your items.