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    Adobe Commerce

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Commerce delivers personalized shopping at scale. Delivered as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service (ACCS), it boosts conversion with an AI-powered storefront, built-in merchandising, and GenAI-driven content. ACCS supports rapid expansion through multi-site, multi-language, and multi-brand capabilities, handling millions of SKUs, complex catalogs, and custom pricing. Always-on SaaS innovation lowers total cost of ownership by removing upgrade overhead and minimizing…N/A

    Shopify

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AShopify is a commerce platform designed for both online stores and retail locations. Shopify offers a professional online storefront, a payment solution to accept credit cards, and the Shopify POS application to power retail sales.

    $39

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe CommerceShopify
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic Shopify
    $39
    per month
    Grow
    $105
    per month
    Advanced
    $399
    per month
    Shopify Plus
    2,000
    per month
    Shopify Plus
    2,300
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe CommerceShopify
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.A 25% discount is offered for annual billing.
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    Adobe CommerceShopify
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Shopify is just better. In my opinion, it can save quotes, have different pricing for resellers, have multiple catalogues, do blogs, change the website, etc. It feels like Shopify is designed to do everything and does it all quite well overall, whilst Magento is for one thing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Shopify has the bad habit of charging transaction fees unless you use Shopify Payments, and this aspect only is usually a no-go if you have a big eCommerce to handle.
    Salesforce has very similar capabilities and probably has a better ecosystem, but it's customization capability …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Shopify and BigCommerce are great if you are a small business that is creating your first business and don't have many Skus or complex pricing. For us, having over 2 million Skus and a very complex inventory management of those Skus, Adobe Commerce (Magento Commerce) being …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Magento is a great mid market product. It give you the ability to customize and can handle more complex business needs than both Shopify and BigCommerce. The ability to host the platform yourself and have full access to the source code allows for larger more complex catalogs, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Magento scales much better than any of the other software when it comes to very large e-commerce websites. But all the other options are more user-friendly for smaller sites as there is a bit of a learning curve in learning to manage Magento. Customization is better along with W…
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    3dcart and Shopify are basic placeholder platforms used either to help wireframe projects that will eventually move to other platforms or were legacy platforms migrated to Magento after acquisitions. 3dcart provided an easier Customer Service Agent interface but failed to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Magento:
    • Scalable
    • Expensive to maintain and modify
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    The only platform listed above that competes with Magento in full functionality is Demandware, in my opinion. However, Demandware is even more development resource intensive than Magento. NetSuite has several realms of customization, but their API is quite limited. Shopify, BigC…
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    While Magento is more customizable, all the main features I need can be done through Shopify and the cost is $300 per month instead of the $4,000 in development I am spending and the $600 in hosting per month.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Shopify is also a great solution for the customers that comes with different set of benefits and limits when comparing with Adobe Commerce. Shopify provided very limited b2b support, limits in the integration with third party, checkout and theme custimization is limited, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    more alignment to biz and since we were using already AEM
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Great balance of flexibility and power features. Also great B2B functionality and multi store and multi source inventory options.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Magento Commerce was previously put into place and used right when I came onboard. We used it for quite some time, but ultimately the need for our company's specific customizations became too difficult to manage during core updates. We specifically needed a more specialized way …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Easy of customization lacks recurring options limited by Magento plugins.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Magento was far superior in terms of its global abilities... It excels in offering multi-currency/language/warehouse/credit card payments.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Our procurement team chose Magento over the alternatives we considered primarily because of the level of personalization it offers and because of the level of ownership and security it offers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Magento is not technically a master of any portion of building an ecommerce webpage but it certainly is very good at a lot of things which ultimately was the deciding factor. Primarily its versatility was above that of the other choices. Wordpress created beautiful content …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Magento is a more enterprise level solution. It is viable for smaller businesses, however requires a higher upfront investment while others have lower upfront but more maintenance.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Commerce
    Shopify, BigCommerce, oscommerce, etc - Magento, provides merchants with lower budgets and less manpower, the ability to have a fully-featured web storefront without the cost of flexibility. Magento allows merchants the ability to fully customize their platform as they see fit

    We…
    Shopify
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify allows for companies to quickly and easily get online and selling. However, the more you want to customize the platform, the more you'll realize that other platforms (such as Wordpress + WooCommerce) end up being better because you have access to all of the core code …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify is so much easier to use, and much more user-friendly than both BigCommerce and Magento. The reporting, product management, and app marketplace are much better as well. Shopify also integrates with other systems very easily with apps and sales channels, so it saves a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify is much much simpler than these 2 alternatives. It is aimed at small entrepreneurs or start-ups that cannot afford big costly developments of e-commerce solutions.
    Shopify works in a plug-and-play way that allows you to start selling right away and not lose time on the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify allowed my team to build a great, user-friendly website, and manage the store from desktop and mobile. Compared to Magento, it stacks [up] in terms of ease of use. It is by far the easiest platform I have tried to create websites, manage inventory and logistics and it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    You can build an e-commerce site very quickly and easily. Bulk upload of products is a very convenient feature. There are regular features and roadmap updates on Shopify as compared to others in the market. The quality of customer support is also good. Shopify meets all the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    It’s better than WooCommerce, in my opinion, and the best opinion overall for e-commerce
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Magento is more serious; you'll need support from your digital agency and a retainer for promotions and updates.

    WooCommerce is good but becomes expensive with all the extras that shopify has out of the box. And this relies on WordPress which you'll need to maintain and keep …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    More complex and higher cost to customize, operate and maintain.
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify is the most accessible website management tool to make custom edits to and is the quickest to learn. The file structure is easy to understand, but on Magento, it is very complicated. BigCommerce offers more default options than Shopify, but Shopify has more apps. 3D …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify as a business is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce solutions in the world. And for good reason, because it's core functionality is set up in such a way that you can literally start an online business in a couple of hours. They have a massive suite of applications …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    We evaluated building our own site on servers with other software such as open-source. Include Magento.
    None compare to the easy setup and scalability that Shopify has. Being on the cloud allows us not to worry about servers or anything else such as downtime or traffic spikes …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify is by far the easiest platform to launch and scale a small to medium-sized e-commerce platform. Their growing fast, which means that new features are always being added. But they do so without compromising their stability or their customer support. Shopify comes with a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify performs a great marketing influence by having ads and different kinds of branding on various social media. Also, their utilities promotion creates a great impact on the people's mind, and after executing action on the platform, in my experience I liked it how …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Magento, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce for WordPress were the main alternatives we considered.
    • Magento - we had a negative experience with the complexity involved in maintaining the site backend and product catalog with a previous client and decided it wasn't suitable for the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify is so much cheaper to run and easier to use than Magento. As I mentioned before if you are a huge company, then yes, use Magento. But if you are a small to medium sized company, Shopify is a must and will save you time and money over the years of using it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    I think Shopify was most similar to BigCommerce, but a good cart before needing to use Magento which felt more enterprise.
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify is much easier and intuitive for our clients. Shopify is built much better for developers to come in and make customizations to both design and functionality. Finally, there's speed - Shopify has typically always been significantly faster.
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    We have used Magento for higher end projects. Magento is open source and therefore has better customization capabilities. Shopify on the other had, is more user-friendly, more cost effective and has superior customer service, which some Magento versions don't have at all. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Shopify does bring a great product to market and the cost is great.
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    Choosing Magento Enterprise is a cost-effective way to achieve the goal of a more synergistic brand image online but the ROI is not immediately quantifiable. Magento is not easy to use at all if you’re a beginner. The downside of Magento is you will also have a hosting …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    I've used both Magento and WordPress for running stores and while I typically suggest Shopify, WordPress and Magento both give much more room to customize the store. Since you host the software you have the freedom to customize the entire store from the home page to the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Shopify
    BigCommerce is the closest competitor. It is a little less expensive and has more flexible product options, but Shopify is more intuitive to use and more flexible with site styling and functionality.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Adobe CommerceShopify
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Adobe Commerce and Shopify
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    7.6
    34 Ratings
    Shopify
    8.7
    136 Ratings
    Product catalog & listings8.233 Ratings9.5136 Ratings
    Product management9.034 Ratings8.7134 Ratings
    Bulk product upload8.829 Ratings8.6115 Ratings
    Branding6.130 Ratings8.8134 Ratings
    Mobile storefront5.232 Ratings8.9130 Ratings
    Product variations7.132 Ratings9.0127 Ratings
    Website integration9.132 Ratings8.6127 Ratings
    Visual customization9.034 Ratings8.0133 Ratings
    CMS6.133 Ratings8.1109 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Adobe Commerce and Shopify
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    6.2
    33 Ratings
    Shopify
    7.9
    129 Ratings
    Abandoned cart recovery5.228 Ratings7.9120 Ratings
    Checkout user experience7.133 Ratings7.8127 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Adobe Commerce and Shopify
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    6.3
    33 Ratings
    Shopify
    9.6
    131 Ratings
    eCommerce security6.333 Ratings9.6131 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Adobe Commerce and Shopify
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    7.3
    32 Ratings
    Shopify
    8.4
    133 Ratings
    Promotions & discounts7.332 Ratings9.2128 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations8.129 Ratings8.432 Ratings
    SEO6.429 Ratings7.6124 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Adobe Commerce and Shopify
    Feature
    Adobe Commerce
    8.9
    34 Ratings
    Shopify
    8.2
    134 Ratings
    Multi-site management10.027 Ratings6.719 Ratings
    Order processing8.233 Ratings9.8132 Ratings
    Inventory management8.233 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
    Shipping8.931 Ratings7.8124 Ratings
    Custom functionality9.133 Ratings8.6124 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Adobe CommerceShopify
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (42 ratings)
    8.2
    (149 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)