Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) vs. Shopify

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) provides companies with a platform to manage, personalize, and optimize the commerce experience across every touch point and across the customer journey. ACC is built on Magento Commerce Pro and is integrated with Adobe Experience Manager. It was originally developed as an open-source eCommerce content management solution by Varien, Inc. Varien was acquired by eBay in…N/A
Shopify
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Shopify is a commerce platform designed for both online stores and retail locations. Shopify offers a professional online storefront, a payment solution to accept credit cards, and the Shopify POS application to power retail sales.
$29
per month
Pricing
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)Shopify
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Shopify Lite
$9
per month
Basic Shopify
$29
per month
Shopify
$79
per month
Advanced Shopify
$299
per month
Shopify Plus
2,000
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)Shopify
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)Shopify
Considered Both Products
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
The only platform listed above that competes with Magento in full functionality is Demandware, in my opinion. However, Demandware is even more development resource intensive than Magento. NetSuite has several realms of customization, but their API is quite limited. Shopify, BigC…
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Magento:
  • Scalable
  • Expensive to maintain and modify
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
3dcart and Shopify are basic placeholder platforms used either to help wireframe projects that will eventually move to other platforms or were legacy platforms migrated to Magento after acquisitions. 3dcart provided an easier Customer Service Agent interface but failed to …
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Magento scales much better than any of the other software when it comes to very large e-commerce websites. But all the other options are more user-friendly for smaller sites as there is a bit of a learning curve in learning to manage Magento. Customization is better along with W…
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Magento is a great mid market product. It give you the ability to customize and can handle more complex business needs than both Shopify and BigCommerce. The ability to host the platform yourself and have full access to the source code allows for larger more complex catalogs, …
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
While Magento is more customizable, all the main features I need can be done through Shopify and the cost is $300 per month instead of the $4,000 in development I am spending and the $600 in hosting per month.
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Magento Commerce was previously put into place and used right when I came onboard. We used it for quite some time, but ultimately the need for our company's specific customizations became too difficult to manage during core updates. We specifically needed a more specialized way …
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Easy of customization lacks recurring options limited by Magento plugins.
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Magento was far superior in terms of its global abilities... It excels in offering multi-currency/language/warehouse/credit card payments.
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Our procurement team chose Magento over the alternatives we considered primarily because of the level of personalization it offers and because of the level of ownership and security it offers.
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Magento is not technically a master of any portion of building an ecommerce webpage but it certainly is very good at a lot of things which ultimately was the deciding factor. Primarily its versatility was above that of the other choices. Wordpress created beautiful content …
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Magento is a more enterprise level solution. It is viable for smaller businesses, however requires a higher upfront investment while others have lower upfront but more maintenance.
Chose Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
Shopify, BigCommerce, oscommerce, etc - Magento, provides merchants with lower budgets and less manpower, the ability to have a fully-featured web storefront without the cost of flexibility. Magento allows merchants the ability to fully customize their platform as they see fit

We…
Shopify
Chose Shopify
Magento, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce for WordPress were the main alternatives we considered.
  • Magento - we had a negative experience with the complexity involved in maintaining the site backend and product catalog with a previous client and decided it wasn't suitable for the …
Chose Shopify
We evaluated building our own site on servers with other software such as open-source. Include Magento.
None compare to the easy setup and scalability that Shopify has. Being on the cloud allows us not to worry about servers or anything else such as downtime or traffic spikes …
Chose Shopify
Shopify is the most accessible website management tool to make custom edits to and is the quickest to learn. The file structure is easy to understand, but on Magento, it is very complicated. BigCommerce offers more default options than Shopify, but Shopify has more apps. 3D …
Chose Shopify
Magento is more serious; you'll need support from your digital agency and a retainer for promotions and updates.

WooCommerce is good but becomes expensive with all the extras that shopify has out of the box. And this relies on WordPress which you'll need to maintain and keep …
Chose Shopify
Shopify allowed my team to build a great, user-friendly website, and manage the store from desktop and mobile. Compared to Magento, it stacks [up] in terms of ease of use. It is by far the easiest platform I have tried to create websites, manage inventory and logistics and it …
Chose Shopify
It’s better than WooCommerce, in my opinion, and the best opinion overall for e-commerce
Chose Shopify
Shopify is much much simpler than these 2 alternatives. It is aimed at small entrepreneurs or start-ups that cannot afford big costly developments of e-commerce solutions.
Shopify works in a plug-and-play way that allows you to start selling right away and not lose time on the …
Chose Shopify
You can build an e-commerce site very quickly and easily. Bulk upload of products is a very convenient feature. There are regular features and roadmap updates on Shopify as compared to others in the market. The quality of customer support is also good. Shopify meets all the …
Chose Shopify
Shopify performs a great marketing influence by having ads and different kinds of branding on various social media. Also, their utilities promotion creates a great impact on the people's mind, and after executing action on the platform, in my experience I liked it how …
Chose Shopify
Shopify as a business is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce solutions in the world. And for good reason, because it's core functionality is set up in such a way that you can literally start an online business in a couple of hours. They have a massive suite of applications …
Chose Shopify
Shopify is by far the easiest platform to launch and scale a small to medium-sized e-commerce platform. Their growing fast, which means that new features are always being added. But they do so without compromising their stability or their customer support. Shopify comes with a …
Chose Shopify
Shopify is so much cheaper to run and easier to use than Magento. As I mentioned before if you are a huge company, then yes, use Magento. But if you are a small to medium sized company, Shopify is a must and will save you time and money over the years of using it.
Chose Shopify
Shopify is much easier and intuitive for our clients. Shopify is built much better for developers to come in and make customizations to both design and functionality. Finally, there's speed - Shopify has typically always been significantly faster.
Chose Shopify
We have used Magento for higher end projects. Magento is open source and therefore has better customization capabilities. Shopify on the other had, is more user-friendly, more cost effective and has superior customer service, which some Magento versions don't have at all. …
Chose Shopify
Choosing Magento Enterprise is a cost-effective way to achieve the goal of a more synergistic brand image online but the ROI is not immediately quantifiable. Magento is not easy to use at all if you’re a beginner. The downside of Magento is you will also have a hosting …
Chose Shopify
I've used both Magento and WordPress for running stores and while I typically suggest Shopify, WordPress and Magento both give much more room to customize the store. Since you host the software you have the freedom to customize the entire store from the home page to the …
Chose Shopify
BigCommerce is the closest competitor. It is a little less expensive and has more flexible product options, but Shopify is more intuitive to use and more flexible with site styling and functionality.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)Shopify
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
8.3
32 Ratings
8% above category average
Shopify
7.5
131 Ratings
2% below category average
Product catalog & listings8.031 Ratings8.6131 Ratings
Product management8.032 Ratings7.4129 Ratings
Bulk product upload6.927 Ratings7.6110 Ratings
Branding8.128 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
Mobile storefront8.230 Ratings7.5126 Ratings
Product variations9.530 Ratings6.5123 Ratings
Website integration9.530 Ratings9.2124 Ratings
Visual customization7.932 Ratings7.5129 Ratings
CMS8.531 Ratings4.7105 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
7.0
31 Ratings
8% below category average
Shopify
8.1
125 Ratings
7% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery7.026 Ratings7.6116 Ratings
Checkout user experience7.131 Ratings8.5123 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
9.1
31 Ratings
9% above category average
Shopify
9.0
127 Ratings
8% above category average
eCommerce security9.131 Ratings9.0127 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
7.4
30 Ratings
1% below category average
Shopify
8.0
129 Ratings
7% above category average
Promotions & discounts8.730 Ratings7.3124 Ratings
Personalized recommendations6.727 Ratings8.432 Ratings
SEO6.827 Ratings8.4120 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)
8.9
32 Ratings
13% above category average
Shopify
8.0
130 Ratings
3% above category average
Multi-site management9.826 Ratings6.719 Ratings
Order processing9.731 Ratings9.1128 Ratings
Inventory management8.731 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
Shipping7.929 Ratings8.2120 Ratings
Custom functionality8.431 Ratings7.2120 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)Shopify
Small Businesses
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 9.0 out of 10
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
IBM Digital Commerce
IBM Digital Commerce
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)Shopify
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(40 ratings)
9.0
(144 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(8 ratings)
9.2
(15 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce)Shopify
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Ultimately, if a company is looking for a solid industry-known E-Commerce system, Magento Commerce does exactly what it's intended to do. The headaches start when your company wants to start getting granular in customizations of the platform to meet specific business needs (which every company eventually has). This becomes a major issue down the road when trying to upgrade said customizations as the core software updates.
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Shopify
Shopify is a great platform for small to medium-sized businesses looking to set up an online store. It's easy to use, offers a wide range of features and integrations, and is perfect for businesses in the retail and food industry. However, large enterprise businesses with complex and custom needs may find Shopify less suitable.
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Pros
Adobe
  • Magento Commerce Cloud allows us to develop our own custom solutions for problems that we need solved.
  • Magento Commerce Cloud can also be integrated with many of the third part vendors that we use. This has made many implementations go very smoothly and tends to be much quicker than developing our own custom solution.
  • There are many features available right out of the box. Many of them we have not implemented yet, but it is great to have them available to us when we are ready.
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Shopify
  • It is definitely easy to set up and get going. This does not take a lot of work or effort on the user end, especially if using templates.
  • Low code platform. You can. make customizations without code.
  • The integrations are diverse and increase functionality.
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Cons
Adobe
  • The platform is difficult to tune and can be slow. Even with expensive best in class hardware the platform performance can be an issue. Even with caching poor coding can lead to unacceptable performance and user experiences.
  • The total cost of ownership for the platform can be quite high as a great deal of technical expertise is required to modify, develop, troubleshoot and maintain the platform. The costs of initial development are only a down payment on what a Magento store will cost. For mid size companies with substantial web revenues this can be overcome for smaller businesses the total cost of ownership may be prohibitive.
  • Security of the platform can be an issue. Magento is often targeted by hackers and much of the security is the responsibility of the store owner.
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Shopify
  • The main drawback that I am facing in Shopify for a long time is that their sales analytics system is not up to mark. As I am using Shopify to run different stores for my organization it does not get updated after-sales and does not provide the right analytics about the product strength and number of sales.
  • Secondly, Shopify has different apps which are best to run the store on max strength but they are very much costly like inventory management, generating multiple discount codes, and more robust customizable editing.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
Magento is well-supported by a big development team at eBay, which not only addresses bug reports very quickly, but also is constantly working on improvements to the platform. The wealth of Magento third party modules ensures that the platform will be up to date with future changes to
Payment or ERP systems.
Security is always a concern and with the Zend framework as a foundation, Magento has had very few security-related patches since I have started to work with it
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Shopify
Nothing we have used in the past or have seen thus far even comes close to offering what we get with Shopify Plus, especially for the price. You cannot even come close to getting what we are getting at the price we pay. We are beyond thrilled and Shopify Plus meets and exceeds all of our needs and expectations. We love it!
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Usability
Adobe
Magento offers lots of templates and themes to customize the look and feel of the store, and even optimize it for mobile phones. The have an extensive library of forms and templates.
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Shopify
I think most people are able to suer Shopify that have used a computer. There are some features that take a bit longer to learn. If you are not a creative person it may be a bit more difficult to learn the website customization, but with a help guide or tutorial it will only take a few tries to understand how to work the interface
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Support Rating
Adobe
The technical service was impeccable. They were on point and were very knowledgeable.
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Shopify
In terms of support I give Shopify a 9 out of 10 because they're always very friendly and thorough, and they personally can't solve my problem for me they always point me in the proper direction with the proper information I need to move forward
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Online Training
Adobe
Great value for an flexible, open source platform.
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Shopify
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Shopify
Just start now and make the switch, the sooner the better. You will love it and it is really a simple process
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
Magento scales much better than any of the other software when it comes to very large e-commerce websites. But all the other options are more user-friendly for smaller sites as there is a bit of a learning curve in learning to manage Magento. Customization is better along with WooCommerce and OpenCart as self-hosted solutions vs. BigCommerce and Shopify which are hosted. Magento should be the first choice for large, extensive e-commerce solutions,but for smaller stores, I would recommend the others first.
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Shopify
The old platform that I used could not help us to meet our requirements. It was not helping us properly, then I got to know about Shopify and started using it. After 1 month [of] usage of Shopify we could understand that this is the best platform [for E-commerce] to make better sales and goodwill. Shopify helped us to get a proper idea of the analytics of the website. Shopify [supports] most of the [applications] and helps us to make better results.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Magento definitely lets us get a return on our investment. Because we have developers who can customize Magento to our needs, we have been able to create a beautiful and effective website, run promotions, and serve up customized product display pages that are effective and beautifully branded.
  • Magento has also caused a lot of time to be invested in doing something that seems simple, but without a lot of knowledge, end up taking far more time than could otherwise be better-spent.
  • We have had to outsource some of our development work due to Magento being developer-focused rather than marketer/merchandiser-focused. I've used other website management software that is comparable to Magento's capabilities but is far easier to use, that even someone like me (with basic HTML/CSS skills) can customize the front-end without requiring a back-end developer to intervene.
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Shopify
  • It got the store up quickly so the client could start selling. She was previously selling products on Etsy and Facebook and wanted to consolidate everything onto one website, so the main thing Shopify solved was to reduce the store owner's time in managing all her products on multiple sites. Also, we had previously built a website on Wix with all the custom functionality and branding she needed - a truly great, high-end website - but it performed so slowly that it was unusable. So the speed at which Shopify can be set up and then works on the page is appreciable.
  • The website was manageable by the client - she could figure the system out herself after a while so she saved money on costs for hiring developers. She did have to hire developers to customize some of the plug-ins but costs are all relative; it wasn't a high investment compared to building a full e-commerce website. With the complexity and size of her product base and the functionality and branding she wanted to have in a website, and the potential of her business, she would have needed to invest well over $10,000 to get to where she really needs to be. In the end she kept the budget under $5000.00.
  • Costs kept climbing with plug-ins having to be added with everything. My client became more involved in building the website and began to try multiple plugins, and she did not have the skill base to evaluate the plugins functionalities so she chose plugins that did not do everything she needed, and then ended up paying the plugin developers to customize the plugins. So on one hand, it's pretty amazing to be able to bring up an e-commerce website as quickly as a week or so, but on the other hand if you need anything customized or deeper functionality in regards to product searching and filtering on the web page, and management on the backend, it quickly goes beyond the skills of the average person to manage, and above their expected budget as well. In the end my client really did not get anything close to the functionality for the website we had originally envisioned.
  • Shopify was the easiest way we could find to bring the client's products to a global market. We evaluated several other platforms and the functionality simple did not seem to be adequate, so Shopify seemed like the only solution that could do enough of what we needed and still stay within this client's budget. Really the problem in this project was not platform per se but that the budget wasn't large enough. Shopify managed to provide a solution for an ecommerce store with thousands of products on a tiny budget, so in the sense of pure functionality it provided the best value of all the platforms we evaluated. The solution still isn't big enough for this client's business though so, without having insights into this client's post-build sales results, my guess is that because her new website did not make her products easier to sort through, and she likely didn't have much more budget left to invest in SEO and other marketing of the website, her sales probably didn't increase substantially as a result of having built the website. So I think this project all in all did not likely have a high ROI.
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