When it comes to independent stations, we talk about shopify. Many novices tell me whether they can build a station without shopify. The first thing is that the monthly rent is expensive. Shopify is just a website building tool. There are many tools that can help us build websites. So whether we should use Shopify to build a website or not? This article will help you analyze in depth the major website building tools.
What are the common site building tools?
1. SaaS station building: suppliers deploy application software on their own servers in a unified way, and sellers order different services and service duration according to their own needs (for example: Shopify, XShop, Ueeshop, Shoptago, Shoplazza, etc.)
2. Open source website building: suppliers open source code, and sellers can carry out secondary development by themselves to achieve the desired functions (for example: Woocommerce, Magento, Wordpress, Opencart, etc.)
3. Self development: do not rely on any website building platform, and develop websites by self owned or outsourced technical teams.
Before deciding which system to use to build an independent station, let's compare the advantages and disadvantages of Magento, Opencart, Shopyy, Shopify and Wordpress.
Magento
advantage:
1. There is a large community supporting users.
If you are in trouble, Magento Forum We will provide you with all solutions to help you go online as soon as possible.
You can also search and query on a huge database of user generated content.
2. A very flexible platform that can provide you with complete freedom.
With Magento, you have no restrictions on the design of the store.
3. Cost
Magento is an open source platform, which means it can be used in the public domain, so it can be used for free.
Disadvantages:
1. Magento has high technical requirements for station construction and high operation and maintenance costs
2. There are many operation problems in the background, which can be solved only by programmers with certain professional knowledge. Another is that Magento's backstage needs operators to spend time to operate and become familiar with it, which is more difficult than other backstage operations.
Summary:
Magento is suitable for enterprises with many SKUs, large traffic and high investment.
Opencart
OpenCart is a popular open source e-commerce website building system at home and abroad. It was developed independently by Daniel Kerr, an Englishman in the early days. Because the system is open source and the code is clean and concise, it is popular with users, so a large group of OpenCart enthusiasts gathered. There are special OpenCart technical exchange forums at home and abroad. You can also see many posts related to OpenCart on other open source technical forums.
advantage:
1. OpenCart is an open source system, which can provide source code. The code is simple and easy to get started.
2. It is convenient for later maintenance and secondary development opencart There are template website building and customized development. The template website building fee is generally charged once and used for life. Opencart is not a platform. Local e-commerce, domestic e-commerce and foreign trade e-commerce can use opencart to build their own websites.
Disadvantages:
1. Opencart's core architecture is doomed to have poor scalability and many system bugs.
2. Poor capacity expansion in the later stage
Summary:
It is positioned as an entry-level B2C shopping website and suitable for personal entrepreneurship with low budget.
Prestashop
Prestashop is a free open source e-commerce software that provides solutions. It has complete functions and can span multiple platforms. Through the rapid development in the past two years, there are more than 40000 in the world Cross border E-commerce has deployed prestashop.
advantage:
1. Prestashop is an open source software, which can easily add and adjust the display of the foreground page according to the simplicity and practicality of prestashop. By setting additional module components, the administrator can simply layout the foreground page into the desired panel without expert guidance.
2. Prestashop's beautiful interface design, strong logic and fast startup speed can provide customers with a good operating experience, which also proves that image is very important for a good website.
Disadvantages:
The disadvantage is that the organization of MVC is strange. The code structure and quality are inferior to Opencart and Magento. There are relatively many bugs. Like Magento, Smarty templates are not simple and direct enough. The performance is worse than Opencart.
Summary:
Compared with other cross-border e-commerce self built station platforms, prestashop is more suitable for creating free hosting or semi hosting stores.
WordPress
WordPress is a system developed abroad. It was first used to make blogs, but now it is also widely used in the production of enterprise websites. It is now the open source software with the highest market share of CMS. There are many plug-ins and templates. Programmers can directly call templates and plug-ins in the user background interface, which is very easy to use.
advantage:
The WordPress platform is very easy to use. Ideal for new bloggers and entrepreneurs. This is very intuitive. If you know how to use standard Microsoft programs such as Word or Excel, you probably already know how to publish your own content on the website you want to build.
Disadvantages:
1. WordPress itself is free, but on the whole, it has to pay a high price. WordPress has many good plug-ins and themes that need to be charged.
2. For B2C order shopping, it is really not recommended to use wordpress. If you want to do long-term shopping, and have a little idea, you will not use WP to do order shopping.
Summary:
As the most famous open source software with the highest share in the industry, its simple and easy to use, rich plug-ins and other features are very suitable for individuals, small and micro enterprises to build websites, but its lack of security is bound to make it not suitable for enterprises to use it to develop websites.
Shopify
Shopify is an e-commerce software developer headquartered in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. It was listed in the United States on May 21, 2015. At present, Shopify serves more than 500000 businesses.
advantage:
1. It's easy to use. Shopify is a fool's website. You can buy themes, templates, and payment information directly on it. A beautiful and professional Shopify website can be built.
2. Just because Shopify is such a fool, users only need to choose their favorite templates and add their own plug-ins, so they basically do not need programmers. It is suitable for small users who want to save time.
3. If you use shopify, you don't need to care about CDN, HTTPS, servers, website architecture clarity, etc These shopify have basically been done for you.
Disadvantages:
1. You cannot install it by yourself. You can only select a template. The monthly rental fee is $29-299, corresponding to the commission of your product orders! It is not convenient for personalized display and expansion of the website in the future.
2. There are many free topics for you to choose from. Of course, most of them are paid, about 180.
Summary:
However, it must also be emphasized that this collection fee is not only collected by shopify. If you use other website programs, such as magento, opencart, and wordpress, as long as your website has orders, this fee is inevitable. Therefore, at the beginning, we suggest that we should think carefully and never do things halfway.
There are many third-party companies on the market who use their own developed programs, not open source. For example; Ueshop，Shopyy
There are not many introductions here. If you are interested, you can compare them yourself.
What are the benefits of self-developed programs?
The biggest advantage is that everything is under control.
We know that open source programs, such as magento, opencart，prestarshop， In fact, these open source systems are very good, but there is also a problem that there are many small bugs, including plug-ins that you need to install. After these things are too many, the system will have bugs from time to time, which often need someone to check and maintain.
So we have a good idea of what kind of website building tool we are suitable for.
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