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\"Shopify<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s a tricky decision when choosing an eCommerce platform that meets your exact requirements. Because they offer a lot of niche variety of features. We reviewed Shopify features, performance, SEO, Marketing, Speed, Hosting, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shopify Review Findings: 11 Pros and 7 Cons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shopify Pros<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Excellent Themes for all sizes of the business.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. It has its own Integrated Shopify payment gateway (Not available for all countries), Also you can choose from 100s of third party payment gateways from almost all countries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Shopify has a Secure Server and Updates automatic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Great support team is available 24\/7 <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Flexible with Small, Medium, and Large Business<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Easy Setup and installation of Apps<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Shopify Point of Sale features for Offline Sale<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Facilitates trade for international markets seamlessly<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Shopify app store has over 6000+ apps & most of them are above 4\/5 star rating.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Good analytics, reports, and visuals<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Scalable, Managed hosting and sudden high traffic handling capacity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Shopify Cons<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. The Pricing can be one of the issues as it is a bit high<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Transaction fees on each sale upto to 2% extra if the primary payment method used other than Shopify’s own integrated “Shopify Payments”. Also Shopify-Payments is not available in all countries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Checkout Customization not available in $39 plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Shopify page design editor is poor. You can install Page builder apps, but they are costly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Shopify markets option available to Shopify payments users only.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. You may need to install apps for most of the extra features. For example: Shopify limits product variants upto 100 & option per product is limited to only 3 (Size, color, material etc). You need to install third party app from its app store to get more options & features<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Some users have reported about how Shopify handles chargebacks and payment disputes, frozen funds or account holds etc can also happen in rare cases. See more details about it<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      Short Review<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
      Features<\/th>Ratings<\/strong><\/th>Short review<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
      Plans and Pricing
      <\/strong><\/td>      		\"\"4.2<\/strong><\/td>Shopify offers 3 plans, with pricing ranging from $39 to $399\/month<\/strong>. It also has a 3-month free trail for $1<\/strong>. Shopify also offers Enterprise Plans starting from $2000\/month.<\/td><\/tr>
      Domain & Hosting
      <\/strong><\/td>      		\"\"4.5<\/strong><\/td>You can buy a new domain from Shopify or connect an existing domain to your Shopify website. All Shopify sites will be hosted on its inbuilt hosting with unlimited storage and bandwidths<\/strong> for all plans.<\/td><\/tr>
      Themes <\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.4<\/strong><\/td>Shopify provides 15 free themes<\/strong> and plenty of paid themes ranging from $150 -$350<\/strong>. Other than this, You can also get quality templates from a third-party marketplace – Themeforest Shopify section here<\/strong><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
      Editor<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.3<\/strong><\/td>Shopify theme editor allows adding sections to the homepage and editing them for different styles, fonts, and colors. To edit special features you can take the help of the app store or do it with custom coding.<\/td><\/tr>
      Payments and Charges<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.4<\/strong><\/td>Shopify has Over 70+ payment providers including PayPal, stripe, etc. There are no transaction charges for accepting payments by Shopify payments, if used any other payment provider (ex PayPal, stripe) is to take payments then Shopify charges 2% for the $39 plan<\/strong>, 1% for the $105 plan<\/strong>, and 0.5% for the $399<\/strong> on each sale.<\/td><\/tr>
      Shipping and Delivery<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.6<\/strong><\/td>Shopify allows Setting flat shipping rates or automated carrier rates at checkout and setting separate shipping rates for domestic and international shipping. Users can Print shipping labels straight from the Shopify dashboard.<\/td><\/tr>
      Sales Channel<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.5<\/strong><\/td>Shopify sales channel integrates with eCommerce channels like Amazon,eBay, Etsy, etc., and social media channels like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc, and makes easy syncing of products, inventory, orders, etc<\/td><\/tr>
      Blogging & SEO<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.6<\/strong><\/td>Shopify has an Inbuilt blog editor and good on-page SEO features. all of the pages are mobile-friendly and provide sitemaps,robot.txt, and AMP pages<\/strong>. <\/td><\/tr>
      Support<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.6<\/strong><\/td>Shopify provides 24\/7 support through live chat, <\/strong>phone, and email. It has an active community, a collection of blogs, and videos to provide help.<\/td><\/tr>
      App store<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.6<\/strong><\/td>Shopify has over 6000+ <\/strong>applications for adding new features and adding automation to existing stores.<\/td><\/tr>
      Analytics and Reports<\/strong><\/td>\"\"4.6<\/strong><\/td>Shopify has a Good analytics dashboard, and reports providing insights on store performance. Live view option to witness present customers’ behavior on site<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      In-Depth Reviewed Topics <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Plans and Pricing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Domains Hosting<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Themes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Theme Editor<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Shopify Dashboard\n