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Who doesn’t like shopping online? The ease and facilities an e-store provides cannot be provided by an offline store. No wonder the popularity of e-stores is increasing by the day. Magento is a popular e-commerce website development platform. If you are a developer, who has developed quite a few stores, you would know why Magento has soared to popularity. Apart from Magento, other platforms that have soared to popularity are Shopify, BigCommerce and WordPress. Yes, the CMS platform has been used to develop e-commerce websites too. Let’s see how these various platforms work and which one is best suited when.
Shopify: Budding Platform
This one’s the easiest and the best platform if you wish to start a small e-store. It’s meant for start-ups who don’t wish to invest too much money on building a store. It’s gives you a fully functional e-store with front and back end support. This store can be built by anyone with just basic knowledge of web applications and websites. Within a short period a fully functional store is ready. But, the problem occurs when there are too many products on display. Shopify does not give enough justice to big e-stores. This e-store jumped to popularity thanks to the word of mouth it generated but, it cannot be used for big stores. The best part is it involves no complexity which makes it the perfect platform for people who are planning to make low investments.
BigCommerce: The Any Size Store
Unlike shopify, with BigCommerce, you need not be a small store to develop your e-store here. You can be any sized a startup or a running business and yet create your e-store using this platform. With BigCommerce, though it looks like a free platform for ecommerce website development, you would see that no free themes are really available with this platform. If you are planning to customize using this platform, you will probably face complexities which cannot be turned out. Also, this platform does not really support third party applications which can be a major issue.
Magento: Redefining e-store
This platform is complex; it comes with a certain price and can’t be really installed without a developer. But for a fully functional e-store the price is worth it. You will find major ecommerce website development being performed on this platform. It’s one of the best platform that is adjoined by a community which provides you complete support. The extensions that come with this platform, though slightly priced, can prove to be effective for your e-store.
Apart from the typical e-store platforms, you will also see many e-stores being developed on CMS platforms like WordPress. It’s one of the burgeoning platforms that has captured a lot of attention. It’s best when your e-store has a lot of content to store. But, in case it is a typical e-store, try not to consider this platform.
With so many platforms supporting ecommerce website development, you would see nice options for shopping working up their way very soon in time.