Magento or BigCommerce or Shopify?

When comparing Magento vs. BigCommerce, you’ll find that BigCommerce offers a drag-and-drop editor. However, it isn’t as robust as Shopify’s editor for creating an ecommerce storefront. Shopify’s intuitive “sections” make it easy to show, hide, rearrange, and edit sections to build the optimal online shopping experience for your customers.

Magento and BigCommerce integrate with many of the same third-party POS solutions as Shopify, but they focus primarily on the online merchant. Shopify, on the other hand, comes with a fully integrated POS solution that lets you manage online and offline sales from a single dashboard with built-in tipping, in-store pickup, and other functionality for brick-and-mortar retailers.

Magento and BigCommerce both have app stores, but they aren’t as vast as the app store of Shopify. With over 6,000 ecommerce-focused apps, the Shopify App Store has everything you need to scale your business. Automate customer support to save time, implement a loyalty program, improve your customer experience with branded order tracking—the choice is yours.

Unlike Magento and BigCommerce, Shopify has its own payment gateway, called Shopify Payments. Eligible merchants in 17 countries around the world can use it to offer all major payment methods out of the box. Shopify Payments comes with no transaction fees and lets you enable accelerated checkout, making online shopping faster and easier.

Magento and BigCommerce both let you sell on various online sales channels. However, Shopify is a more attractive platform due to its growing list of partnerships and integrations. Shopify merchants can market their products on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, Google, Amazon, Walmart, and more. Shopify also tracks orders and inventory itself, making it easy to run a business.

Magento users are limited to selling products on their own websites. By comparison, BigCommerce and Shopify offer Buy buttons that let you sell on other websites. Shopify makes adding the Buy Button to any site as simple as embedding a code, whereas BigCommerce requires users to install a Buy Button application.

Shopify is building a platform for the way tomorrow’s consumers will navigate storefronts. Experiences like AR shopping, curbside pickup, and 3D product views are already achievable via Shopify.