nopCommerce vs Shopify

• Excellent modular architecture, which makes it very easy to customize for different kinds of needs.
• It is open source, free and is constantly updated to keep it up to the latest technologies.
• The latest version in ASP.NET Core runs in Windows and Linux with excellent performance (Google Page Speed of 100/100).
• It has a very active community which helps to enhance the solution, develop extensions and themes and helps other users.
• It is full of features including Multi-Store, Multi-Vendor, and Multi-Warehouse.

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• Ease of Use - Very user friendly. Anyone can pick it up within a couple days and know how to do almost everything.
• Great Customer Service - The help is excellent. Also, they have a huge community where people are happy to help.
• Ton of Add-Ons - You can find a ton of add-ons and modules to use that can be installed by you. They don't require developers.
• Inexpensive - Because it's easy to use and doesn't require a ton of developer time, it's so much cheaper to run.

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• More community templates would be great.
• Some of the pricing can be a bit tricky, especially configured items... there is a likelihood of mispriced items with the current structure

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• Shopping cart is hard to customize and it's hosted by Shopify separately
• Transaction fees can get high if you have a lot of transactions
• To do any special customizations, you will need a developer and the platform is somewhat rigid with capabilities.

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• It saved development cost and time for our development team who don't have eCommerce experience. It saved us six months worth of designing and implementing the eCommerce application. No need to mention that our management team and business users were so happy about it.
• Because of well architectural design, it was so easy to maintain the whole application and include add-on new features from time to time. Making changes and deployment can be done just within a few hours was absolutely phenomenal. It was the trust that technical team gain from management team to make the whole business process running smooth and so every one can sleep sound at night.
• As our online eCommerce site, http://www.luxegourmets.com has been running more than two years now using nopCommerce, business users are looking to expand and integrate with third party tools. Without further investing and looking for solutions, we have all the tools and add-on features are already provided by the framework.

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• Shopify has allowed me to add more products than I could have ordered on my own with investment upfront. Their dropshipping apps and tools make it the perfect add on to any clothing businesses to get started with less investment up front.
• Within Shopify's app store I was able to use an affiliate app to help track influencers and sales that originated from those influencers to drive more sales. This paid app returns 100x its original cost each month and serves as a significant revenue generator to our store's sales.

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