PrestaShop vs Shopify
PrestaShop or Shopify? If you haven't decided yet, scroll down to find out which online store builder best fits for you and your business!
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PrestaShop
Shopify
Pricing
Free download and installation
No monthly fees
Subscription plan from $29 to $299/month
Commissions per sale
No commissions on your sales
Commissions from 2% to 0.5%
Design
2,500+ templates
260 templates
Ecommerce features
4,000+ modules
4,000+ modules
Customizability
Access to core file
No access to core file
Interface
User-friendly
User-friendly
SEO
SEO friendly
Weak SEO
(requires paid modules installation)
Multiple languages supported
Back office in +75 languages
Back office in 21 languages
Multi-store management
Marketplace
PrestaShop vs Shopify: What are the main pricing differences?
PrestaShop is an open source platform allowing you to download and install your online store freely. Costs related to web and domain hosting are assumed by the merchant.
Shopify offers you 14 days of free trial, after which you will have to pay a monthly fee depending on your subscription plan (from $29 to $299/month).
Are PrestaShop and Shopify suitable for beginners?
PrestaShop is suitable for both beginners who want to launch their online business for the first time, as well as for large online stores that have a much more extensive product catalog.
Shopify, on the other hand, is a solution oriented towards beginners and retailers with smaller volumes.
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Why choose PrestaShop vs Shopify
Create a fully custom-made online store
As an open source platform, everything about PrestaShop can be 100% edited, modified, and adapted to your business. Shopify is a proprietary code software and thus does not give you access to the code in case you want to modify a functionality.
Run multiple stores from your dashboard
Unlike the paid modules proposed by Shopify, PrestaShop provides the multi-store option pre-installed in your back office allowing you to manage multiple stores from the same interface.
Sell cross-border
PrestaShop enables you to set currencies, create multi-language product sheets and to ensure that your checkout process is compliant with European laws.
Be the exclusive owner of your ecommerce
Unlike SaaS solutions like Shopify, PrestaShop’s open source software enables you to get full access to the source code of your online store and be the exclusive owner of your data, sales, and management.
The whole PrestaShop universe by your side
Ecommerce websites
selling online with PrestaShop
Community members
ready to help and give you advice
PrestaShop contributors
making the CMS evolve every day
PrestaShop partners
to help you build your online store
Additional resources to help you
Help Center
Documentation, tutorials, technical support, trainings... Visit our Help Center to find everything you need to run your business.
Expert Partners
Agencies, developers and technological partners... PrestaShop offers over 250 partners available to help you create your online store.
FAQ PrestaShop vs Shopify
What is a CMS?
A CMS (Content Management System) is a software that helps you create and modify the content of your website without any coding skills required.
As both CMS solutions, PrestaShop and Shopify will simplify the task of creating your virtual store without having to code it on your end.
What is a SaaS?
A SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), like Shopify, is hosted on a provider's server, accessible remotely (e.g. through a web browser), and for which billing is done in the form of a subscription. With SaaS, end-users do not have to spend time installing the software.
What is open source and which are the advantages of an open source software?
Open source refers to a source code, design plans, or content that can be accessed, studied, modified, or redistributed unlimitedly.
PrestaShop is an open source CMS that will allow you to modify the source code and make your store evolve without limits according to your needs.
On the contrary, Shopify is a proprietary code software which means that it does not give the possibility to access and modify its source code. As a result, the e-merchant is not the full owner of its store and data while having to pay a fee to preserve them.
Does PrestaShop and Shopify provide hosting?
While Shopify includes hosting on your subscription plan, PrestaShop in collaboration with IONOS offers you in just a few clicks a pre-installed and secured hosted solution, perfectly compatible with your PrestaShop store.
You can find all PrestaShop hosting partners here.
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Page last updated June 2021
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