These days you do not need to code your own E Commerce solution or even a website. There are plenty of website builders which help you, even if you are a beginner to start a website and manage your business. In addition to just listing of the product they provide multiple services like integrations with payment gateways and social media platforms. It helps you in launching your online business quickly instead of getting bogged down in the details.
Here we have listed a few of top E Commerce platform builders with their prime features gleaned from their sales pages
SquareUp
SquareUp provides affordable options to start your E Commerce journey. Their three-tiered package includes Square Free, Plus and Premium with features added based on increased pricing.
They have their products structured to industry basis and verticals include Food and Beverages, Retail, Beauty and Services as main offering.
On a broad level they provide various services related to a website, inventory management, payment processing, reporting and analytics. Their specific product verticals provide services related to for e.g., table management for a restaurant. They also provide AI services such as business recommendations based on your industry and which features may serve you best.
Wix
Wix boasts of creating a website based on AI , just from a prompt or use pre defined templates to help you take your business online. Once you set up your website, you can easily list your products , add a complete E Commerce suit, add portfolios and blogs for Search Engine Optimization.
It supports multiple payment options such a Paypal, Google Pay and Apple Pay in addition to credit cards.
They also claim to have AI based fraud detection available 24*7.
In addition to this, they provide CRM suit for lead management and customer engagement. They also provide data analytics for your business reporting needs. You can manage your website from their Wix mobile App.
As for the pricing , there are four tiers: Lite , Core , Business and Business Elite with varying level of accesses and tools available.
Shopify
Shopify is probably one of the largest customizable Ecommerce software. With Shopify, a seller can instantly creating a website based on AI prompt or use their industry standard E Commerce theme for it. Once created you can use Shopify hosting space to host your website.
Shopify boasts of automation including Email and E Commerce automation. Using these automations you can create workflows based on specific trigger conditions to perform any operation that you need in your E Commerce process.
It has checkout module and all APIs to access your checkout process. These tools can be used either directly by business owners or by developers working to create custom processes for your needs.
You may utilize inventory management tools, marketing automation tools and various analytics tools to learn more about your business performance.
In addition they provide order management tools, returns management, point of sales and shipping options.
In terms of pricing they have four plans
Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus with varying accesses and tools availability. You can also purchase add on tools such as POS Pro for physical storefronts.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is one of the best in the breed open source E Commerce Software. The best part is that it does not lock you into any host. Even your data remains with you, private.
Woo Commerce is based on powerful and well known platform of WordPress, which means that your WordPress skills can transfer into Woo Commerce with relative ease.
It provides WooPayment options for integrating multiple modes of payment.
There are two different editions , one for developers to build their solutions on top of WooCommerce and one for enterprise to help them access advanced tools .
With multichannel Ecommerce , you can use various extensions to directly sell on multiple social media platforms and e commerce platforms such as Amazon and eBay.
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