Shopify
A hosted ecommerce platform for building and running an online store, from a single product to a full catalog.
Visit Shopify →How it helps you
Shopify handles the hard parts of selling online — checkout, payments, inventory, shipping, and taxes — so a non-technical founder can focus on products. Its huge app store and themes let you add features as you grow without custom code. It's built to scale, so you won't outgrow it as sales increase.
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- Basic plan $39/mo ($29/mo billed annually); 3-day free trial then $1/mo for the first months (promo)
- Shopify Payments fee: 2.9% + 30¢ per online transaction on Basic
- Extra 2% fee applies if you use a third-party payment gateway instead of Shopify Payments
- Powers a large share of online stores globally (millions of merchants)
Pricing: From $29/mo (annual) + ~2.9% + 30¢ per sale
Caveats
It's overkill (and pricier) if you only sell a handful of items — a simpler builder may be cheaper. Using any payment processor other than Shopify Payments triggers an added transaction fee, and premium themes/apps add up.
Bottom line
Pick Shopify when ecommerce is your core business and you want a dedicated, scalable store platform.
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