Shopify and opencart are best ecommerce solutions/platform for small business. Shopify and opencart comparison based on ecommerce for small business.

1. Best ecommerce solutions/platform for
small business
Author: Maheswaran Date: 7th
may 2016
This is the right time sell your products with ecommerce, if it may small business? Don't
worry we have best ecommerce solution for small business enterprise. In this global no
one ready to spend time for shopping, only few buddies still love real shopping. Now
virtual shopping with ecommerce store and VR(virtual reality) online shopping also
coming in upcoming days. In this technical period still you are going to sell your
products with retail only? It's come on guys, let we check how ecommerce solutions are
support for small business with it's features. We will check one by what are the practical
difficulties we have with small business enterprise.
Practical issues with business business enterprise:
1. Can't able to appoint any person to maintain the ecommerce portal.
2. Can't able to spend big money for ecommerce marketing services.
3. Can't able to spend big budget for ecommerce development
these are few practical difficulties with the business enterprise when to choose the
eCommerce platform for small business concern we need to consider this one.
Best eCommerce solutions/platform for small business?
We had two platform, which is suitable for suitable for your small business solution.
1. Opencart
2. Shopify
We had decided these platforms from various features of eCommerce technology.

2. 1. Opencart:
Opencart it's a self-hosted eCommerce solution, widely used by a various number of
online shops. PHP opensource platform simply and powerful one. Here in this scenario,
it's best plat form for the small business enterprise from following points.
1. Simply and powerful one
2. Supportable with various themes, which was available in online.
3. Affordable theme prices
4. Easy for customization
5. Suitable for all stream products
6. No computer genius need for maintain this one.
7. Flexible UI/UX
8. Responsive
9. Multi currency supported
10. Codes are flexible and user-friendly, we can able to do custom development
easily.
11. Low costing
12. SEO supported
13. multiple payment gateways supported
14. Flexible product management
15. Simply order management
16. Free and paid plugins for ecommerce marketing
17. Supported with Product data feed management
18. Order status & invoice generation
19. Perfect inventory management
20.News letter management
21. Promotional offers
22.Suitable for up to 5000 products
23.Database with our end. (100% secure)
24.API supported (need to purchase)

3. Dis-advantages:
1. Hosting needs to maintain from our end, now the cloud is best for
all ecommerce platform. Need to source a developer, who have a knowledge of
cloud hosting solutions.
2. It has one-time development cost, it will start from 300 USD
3. Minimum for each 3 or 6 months needs developer support, to recheck everything
working better.
4. Not supported with Amazon fulfillment integration (But, you can create a custom
application with PHP development for this)

4. 5. Not support with multi-vendor
6. For API need to purchase a extension
Basically, in self-hosted eCommerce solution (you can check why self-hosted
eCommerce website is best) this is the lower cost one to develop an eCommerce
platform in online. It will starts from small level of business to large level of eCommerce
portals.
2. Shopify:
It's a host eCommerce solution, next to Magento Shopify is maximum used eCommerce
solution for developing online shop. We know that, it's suitable for small level
eCommerce solution. Here, we going to check why it's a best one?
1. Simply one
2. Supportable with various themes, which was available in online.
3. Suitable for all stream products
4. No computer genius need for maintain this one.
5. Flexible UI/UX
6. Responsive
7. Low costing
8. SEO supported
9. multiple payment gateways supported
10. Flexible product management
11. Simply order management
12. Free and paid app for ecommerce marketing
13. Supported with Product data feed management (automatic fetch supported)
14. Order status & invoice generation
15. Perfect inventory management
16. News letter management
17. Promotional offers
18. Suitable for up to 1000 products
19. API supported
20.Free amazon fulfilment integration
21. Drop shipping supported
22.No need of developer support

5. 23.Hosted with cloud solution
Disadvantages:
1. Not a powerful ecommerce solution
2. Theme price is too high
3. Not an easy one for customization
4. Not supported with multi currency
5. Codes are not supported user friendly, it was developed with ruby on rails.
6. Database does not access able with our end.
7. Not supported with multi-vendor
it's the best solution for Shopify, don't want to hire an eCommerce developer to develop
an eCommerce website. For this one itself huge number of people choosing Shopify as
their solution. But, let we check how best it was compared to open cart.

6. Conclusion:
From our detailed analysis, opencart is the best eCommerce solutions/platform for
small business. Because both opencart and Shopify support small business enterprise.
But, you are not going to stay always a small business enterprise. Everyone want to grow
if one day your business was growth is up. Shopify is not suitable for middle or large
enterprise. When you had thought about the ecommerce platform
migration, shopify not supports better. For opencart small initial development cost is
not a big problem. But, in future, you can plan up to any level of development. It will
support. But, shopify not supports that much better.
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