In this video we’re going to do a review and compare Shopify and BigCommerce. So these two are probably the biggest juggernauts of online stores and hosting online stores and if you’re going to go with one of the two I recommend if you’re going to go with a store that’s a hosted shopping cart I recommend going with one of these two and I’ll reveal at the end of this video which my pick is but first let’s go over the pros and cons of each of these. So let’s start off with Shopify.

Pros of Shopify
– Better credit card rates you get a better credit card processing fees when using Shopify which means you make more money from your online store it’s a pretty big deal now the difference between Shopify and Bigcommerce isn’t huge as far as how much it is you can do more research into that if you want but it does exist. So you’ll make a little bit more using Shopify
– Better and cheaper templates. BigCommerce is a little bit the templates there are a little bit more expensive and from what I’ve seen in my research Shopify has better templates and since the template is a very big part of your online store it’s going to be what your online store looks like at least before you customize it that’s that’s a pretty big deal
– Better add-ons and apps once again this is a really big deal because there’s add-ons that you can add your store things such as being able to leave ratings things such as Apple as people are checking out saying hey if you like this you might also like this things that aren’t built into Shopify you can pay a little extra money and get them as an add-on and Shopify (more…)