PaperWeight vs. Shopify

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PaperWeight
Score 8.7 out of 10
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PaperWeight is an advanced clone script tool for building an online essay or academic writing job platform. It was developed by one of India’s leading web solution providers, FATbit Technologies. PaperWeight is comprised of all the features of top essay writing job portals like EssayShark, PaperDueNow, and EssayOnTime. All the typical marketplace features such as placing an order, bid management, writer selection, account management, and payment transaction are included. According…N/A
Shopify
Score 8.8 out of 10
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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
PaperWeightShopify
Editions & Modules
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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
PaperWeightShopify
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$2,500 No setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
PaperWeightShopify
Considered Both Products
PaperWeight
Chose PaperWeight
We like the light-weightedness of PaperWeight, scalability, and its ability to meet our needs at a reasonable cost. Pre-existing relationships and business process outcomes helped in making the decision to go with PaperWeight. The product roadmap being aligned with our own …
Shopify

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
PaperWeightShopify
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
PaperWeight
8.9
2 Ratings
15% above category average
Shopify
7.4
131 Ratings
4% below category average
Product catalog & listings9.52 Ratings8.6131 Ratings
Product management9.52 Ratings7.2129 Ratings
Bulk product upload9.02 Ratings7.6110 Ratings
Branding8.12 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
Mobile storefront8.12 Ratings7.4126 Ratings
Product variations8.01 Ratings6.3123 Ratings
Website integration10.02 Ratings9.2124 Ratings
Visual customization9.52 Ratings7.5129 Ratings
CMS8.52 Ratings4.3105 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
PaperWeight
9.0
2 Ratings
8% above category average
Shopify
9.0
127 Ratings
8% above category average
eCommerce security9.02 Ratings9.0127 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
PaperWeight
9.7
2 Ratings
26% above category average
Shopify
8.0
129 Ratings
7% above category average
Promotions & discounts10.01 Ratings7.2124 Ratings
Personalized recommendations10.01 Ratings8.432 Ratings
SEO9.02 Ratings8.5120 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
PaperWeight
8.8
2 Ratings
12% above category average
Shopify
8.0
130 Ratings
2% above category average
Multi-site management8.52 Ratings6.719 Ratings
Order processing9.02 Ratings9.1128 Ratings
Inventory management8.01 Ratings8.8127 Ratings
Custom functionality9.52 Ratings7.1120 Ratings
Shipping00 Ratings8.2120 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
PaperWeight
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Ratings
Shopify
8.1
125 Ratings
7% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings7.6116 Ratings
Checkout user experience00 Ratings8.5123 Ratings
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User Ratings
PaperWeightShopify
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(2 ratings)
9.0
(144 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(15 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PaperWeightShopify
Likelihood to Recommend
FATbit Technologies
Very easy to use and customize homepage, dashboard, and multiple landing pages of courses. Easy for setting up intuitive dashboards, rating users, and receiving ratings. Create and edit content or upload documents and make edits. Easy to segregate functions based on user roles. Multi-device support is not so seamless though overall it is responsive and scalable on the web.
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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
FATbit Technologies
  • PaperWeight has amazing features for freelance reviewers who can provide insights on how a course can be structured using interactive content.
  • PaperWeight is scalable, responsive, secure.
  • Freelance reviewers find easy to use PaperWeight.
  • We could also rate and provide feedback on the work delivered by freelancers which is visible to a group of users who can allocate future work based on the profile feedback.
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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
FATbit Technologies
  • PaperWeight could improve its usability experience across all devices. Sometimes there are some glitches when viewing on another device.
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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
FATbit Technologies
No answers on this topic
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
FATbit Technologies
No answers on this topic
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
FATbit Technologies
No answers on this topic
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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Implementation Rating
FATbit Technologies
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
FATbit Technologies
We like the light-weightedness of PaperWeight, scalability, and its ability to meet our needs at a reasonable cost. Pre-existing relationships and business process outcomes helped in making the decision to go with PaperWeight. The product roadmap being aligned with our own roadmap also was a huge factor in the decision-making in favor of PaperWeight.
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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
FATbit Technologies
  • It has [made it easy to] find freelancers for our course reviews.
  • We can trust the reviewers who are onboarded on our portal and we feel safe to share business content with them on PaperWeight.
  • We are able to prevent [unauthorised] downloads of our content.
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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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