Magento vs. Marketpress vs. Shopify
Magento vs. Marketpress vs. Shopify
E-commerce is becoming an easier more effective way of conducting business online than ever before. For the most part, three platforms that we use to build e-commerce websites are Magento, Shopify and the Wordpress plugin Marketpress. Factors including the design, payment methods, and the goal of your website will determine which platform is best for you.
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Magento is an e-commerce platform built on open-source technology that provides online merchants with a new way to flexibly control the look and improve the functionality of their e-commerce store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface provides powerful features that enhance marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools to allow merchants to create sites that are designed to their specific business needs. Magento is backed by Varien’s support network and offers business the best e-commerce solution.
Magento’s general feature list:
- Marketing, Promotions and Conversion Tools
- Site Management
- Search Engine Optimization
- Catalog Management
- Checkout, Payment and Shipping
- Catalog Browsing
- Product Browsing
- Order management
- Customer Accounts
- Customer Service
- International Support
- Mobile Commerce
- Analytics and Reporting
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Marketpress is easy to use and the most powerful plugin up to date. Marketpress has all of the features you need including:
- Multiple payment gateways (including PayPal, Authorize.net, Google checkout, 2checkout, Moneybookers, eWay, Cubepoints and more)
- Works great with any WordPress theme
- Fully internationalized by the WPML crew
- Easily sell real objects or digital downloads
- Shipping
- Coupons
- Analytics E-commerce tracking
- Sale pricing
- Unlimited product variations etc.
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Shopify is an e-commerce platform that includes an array of intuitive customization features that gives merchants the opportunity to create/design their website. Shopify is a user friendly e-commerce platform. Add products, modify your theme and maintain web pages for blogs. Shopify offers flexibility. Simply choose a free theme or use html and css to customize your own.
Some features include but are not limited to:
- Design – a customizable site set up and in succession within minutes.
- CMS product management – easily add, edit, organize, and list products.
- Orders – new order notifications sent directly to your email and to your mobile phone.
- E-commerce Marketing – XML sitemap is automatically generated for indexing in the search engine.
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