Understand in detail about the two most popular and established content management systems, Shopify and Magento. Choose what's best for your e-commerce website.

2. Shopify Vs Magento – E-commerce
CMS Comparison
• Choosing the right content management system plays a
crucial part in determining the success of your online store.
• Shopify and Magento are two powerful CMS platform, that
is used widely by wed developers for creating e-commerce
stores.
• Lets discuss and compare them in detail to identify who
among these two can be titled the best Content
Management System

3. Introduction
• Magento is a free and open-source software with a huge
community backing. The only cost you incur is for the
hosting and other services that accompanies that.
Therefore, You would need well-equipped, open source
developers to host, install, configure and setup your online
store.
• Shopify is a commercialized software that offers you the
complete solution.

4. Features
Functionality
• Shopify and Magento, both are known for offering easy-to-maintain and
powerful functionalities for the online store.
Inventory Management
• Shopify has a starter plan that offers a maximum of 24 store items, while
all the other plans offers unlimited store items
• Magento, being a free software has no restrictions on the number of items
and they are all available for free.
• The only factor that has to be keep in mind while using Magento, is the
server speed, as it may slow down the site when a lot of items are being
added.

5. Payment Gateway Options
• Up to 70 various payment gateway options are supported by Shopify
• Magento on the other hand supports, considerably less amount of
payment gateways. However more option can be added through third-
party add-ons.
Themes & Templates
• Both Shopify and Magento offers you a wild range of themes and
templates. The themes and Templates they offers are both free and paid
ones.
• Magento's paid theme is $1, while Shopify offer paid themes, starting at a
whopping $80

6. Add-ons & Apps
• Shopify offers more than 100 apps and add-ons
• The community-driven nature of Magento has resulted in
the formation of 5000+ apps and add-ons.
• Both the platforms offer a mix of paid and free apps and
add-ons

7. Capabilities
SEO
• Magento and Shopify are well-built to offer extensive SEO
capabilities that will help you draw more digital footfalls to
your online store
Customization
• Shopify with its menu-driven methods, has a slight advantage
with it comes to customization. This means that a novice user
will be able to customize the store with ease.
• With Magento, a person with a deeper knowledge of the
platform or an established open source development
company is required to customized the store.

8. Multi-Lingual
• Shopify offers limited, multi-lingual capabilities and requires you to
use third party apps to achieve more support.
• Magento offers complete multi-lingual capabilities
User Experience
• Both Shopify and Magento offer a platform that is well-integrated
and easy to use.
• What works in the favor of Shopify is the Wizard mode, which
allows the users to easily setup the stores.
• Magento, which lacks a hosting solution, makes it quite hard for
users to setup online stores on their own.

9. Costs
• Shopify's usage cost is spread across the various fees (setup,
monthly and transaction) and the bandwidth charges
• Modify only cost comes through the hosting and other
services that assists it.

10. Final Words
• The comparison leads us to the conclusion that, Shopify offers full
hosting and managing services and is easy to use
• Magento offers numerous free services with a huge community
support
• It's quite hard to point out, one particular CMS as a clear winner, as
both has an equal share of advantages and disadvantages. It's upto
the web host to decide the CMS platform that will best-suit the
functions of the online store and plan the development accordingly.

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