Expert Village Media Blog Best Ecommerce Platform to Choose in 2016

Are you new to ecommerce industry? Are you searching for a suitable ecommerce platform to get started with? Or you may have a ecommerce website already and looking for a complete redesign for that. I am writing up this post based on the questions we receive most of the time from new clients and existing ones. Based on the changing technology, competition between different available platforms and requirement of eCommerce users, its not easy to answer that which is best eCommerce platform for a particular user. There are so many options available. Most of the time users prefer to go with the trending resources like Shopify, Bigcommerce or Magento. Shopify is the most popular among all available ecommerce platforms though, its true. You can see the Google trends graph below to compare between these platforms. Clearly, Shopify is the winner. Lets talk about all of these platforms and some other platforms as well which are not in trends but definitely growing their customer base very fast. 1 - Shopify: We are adding this at first position because of several positives with this platform. Shopify is the most easy to use, faster, and the most reliable eCommerce platform available these days. Shopify is really a frontrunner in keeping the platform updated as per changing needs of Ecommerce businesses and the reliable payment gateways it offers. Shopify is also best due to the kind of support they provide to customers. Most of the ecommerce users are not so technical and always need assistance in running the store so a good customer support plays a vital role in this. Shopify's support team is easily available anytime you need and resolves your issues online quickly. We have seen that support is a major thing that other platforms are lacking. Many customers switch to shopify just Shopify of poor support by other platforms. Besides support, Shopify provides several apps to enhance your store features which can be integrated without much technical knowledge. It also provides an easy to use admin section from where you can easily manage your store content, products, orders etc. It provides all important seo features like editing your page meta tags, generating xml sitemap to submit it to search engines etc. That makes your site seo ready. Shopify has 3 pricing structures which they updates recently. Pricing is $29, $79 and $299 for basic, premium and advanced plans respectively. All 3 plans have different features and offerings so customers can choose based on their needs. If you are a startup and just launching your store, you can go with basic plan and if you want to launch a store on large scale and expect much traffic and sales, you can go for higher plans. Basic plan is for startups who dont want to invest a fortune initially as we can understand budget is always a constraint while launching and online business. You have to save money for marketing and other stuffs as well. You can upgrade anytime though. Transaction fee: This is an important [...]