PrestaShop vs Shopify?

Anonymous @Anonymous

May 2021 7 55 Report

PrestaShop vs Shopify?

Hi! I’ve read a lot of reviews on comparison of different shopping carts like Magento vs. Zen

Cart, Magento vs. Prestashop and so on. I’d like to read your opinions considering PrestaShop

and Shopify. The thing is, I’m planning to start a relatively small online store. I was thinking of

Shopify and PrestaShop. I like the simplicity of Shopify, but PrestaShop seems to have even

more functionality and is free. What do you think?

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Anonymous

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Both are rather good, not overstuffed with too many functions, quite easy-to-use -

perfect solutions for small online business. I would rather choose PrestaShop as it’s a free

solution with all the necessary features, it has a huge community, so it’s easy to find support and

solutions of any problems. And if you have any difficulties with handling it, you’d better spend the

money on some additional software, something like this: http://www.prestashopmanager.com/

Anonymous

With Prestashop, you'll need a hosting package. It's a free open source cart. I'd suggest OpenCart though. It's simple to use (it takes me about 4 hours to set up a fully functional shopping cart). There's some great tutorials on OpenCart here:

http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/opencar...

It appears Shopify hosts your cart on their servers, and is only free for 30 days. It's not open source but seems easy to use. If you have a hosting plan somewhere and a domain name I suggest using OpenCart over Prestashop or Shopify. I hope this helps!