India is the fastest-growing e-commerce market place, with the introduction of 4G in 2016 in India, the e-commerce market have boomed from 28% market share to 42% in retail and B2B Market, and it is increasing day by day.

Every month approximately 1000+ eCommerce Websites are being launched in different metro and small cities in India. But do all the website resists the competition? The answer is no only 10 -15 portals developed and maintained themselves and get active users and customers.

Which is only 1% of total competition.

So, the main reason behind this result is the digital promotion, UI & UX, Development Strategies and features.  With the development in technology many webstore platforms have been developed and to choose from these platforms, you have to consider various factors which are as follows:

• Easy and well-designed UI & UX to showcase the products.
• The platform should provide rich features to enhance search-ability, design, and customization
• The smooth and simple cart processing flow, Extra features such as Buy Now, Easy Cart Adding.
• Robust data reporting tools
• Easy integration with multiple payment gateways

Content management systems, frameworks, and online shopping portals have become an alternative for web/mobile development world. The conventional long span in developing a website or application has been replaced by available plug-ins, extension codes, etc.

And what if the website/application is found unfit for any platform or device, or disliked by the public just because of an occult mistake that you have missed even after countless rechecks?

When dilemma hits your head regarding the selection of best CMS/platform, and before making a crucial decision about it, get some idea about three of the world’s topmost e-commerce solutions, their features, nature of compatibility, about the services they render, how much they cost and their readiness with any other platform.

OpenCart

OpenCart is an online store management system, which usually comes with a free demo installation. “It has PHP written code, MySQL database support, and runs on AJAX technology”.

“AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technology through which the application gets capable of sending and retrieving data without hindering the page and its behavior.”

• Its basic installation doesn’t involve any add-ons and content. You have to purchase the paid version of OpenCart to get add-ons and its contrasting features.
• OpenCart 2.0 allows you access the ADMIN panel from mobile itself.
• Good thing is, unlike Shopify or WordPress, you won’t have to rely completely on them for your design, and functionalities.
• The extensions and modules that OpenCart provide are customizable to the core.
• A thing to keep in mind is; as it is customizable, you need to take care of its operation. If there are any changes made in the core of code or extensions, its update will be as difficult as its customization was.
• It is an open-source free to use Framework, which has many add-ons(paid) which you can purchase, ranging in between $0 to more than $90,000…
• It is being surveyed that in terms of User-friendliness, OPENCART wins over MAGENTO but lags behind Woo-Commerce.

Magento

Magento is one of the best CMS which is developed for e-commerce portals only.

• Unlike Shopify, its code is completely accessible. Including extensions, plug-ins, modules.
• It provides you a diversified cost window. (Hosting starts from $10 to $250 a month.)
• It works over multiple languages, currencies and provides tax-rates per location.
• It is available in 2 versions as CE and EE (Community edition and Enterprise edition).
• Magento is really very SEO friendly framework of PHP, which is factually the second-highest after Shopify.
• Magento Open Source is provided for free of cost while Magento Commerce have paid plans.
• Magento has various eCommerce oriented features such as Conical tags for categories & products, Metatags for products & home pages. Moreover, it have promotional features as well as customer segmentation module.
• Some articles claim that the Magento 2 Enterprise Edition pricing begins at $22,000 to $32,000 per year which is a powerful system for large and fast-growing businesses. However, it is quite expensive to afford for small businesses and beginners.
• Crisp Multimedia Solutions Pvt. Ltd provides end-to-end Magento development services for simple as well as complex enterprise grade eCommerce website.

History of Magento

Shopify

Shopify- the best SEO Friendly and light-weight eCommerce framework

Shopify is one of the biggest and most popular E-commerce platforms which is developed on PHP framework, with which anyone can create an e-commerce website or online store, and start selling their products online.

View our Shopify portfolio- The websites which are developed and designed by Crisp Multimedia Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

More About Shopify

• It is a framework purely designed to create an e-commerce website and is the easiest one to go with. The best feature of Shopify is that with just a minimum knowledge of computer, a person can create an efficient, advanced, and appealing store with the help of its pre-existing themes and extensions.
• With Shopify, you may customize your mobile friendly Shopify store with 100+ templates already available there.
• A merchant can use its own domain name or can also buy it from Shopify.
• Shopify also provides the feature to post the blog on your eCommerce website.
• It extends you an option to add as many as 100 payment gateways to accept payment from customers.
• It provides the facility of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to get more traffics in your store.

• Not only this, you can also sell your products on Facebook through your Shopify store through Social Media Integration.
• It facilitates e-mail marketing to contact and tell your customer about new products, with the help of MailChimp.

• It has the analytics features to keep track of your customers choice, products and sales, which means your whole business. As a result, you may update your business as per the need of trends going on in the market.
• If stuck at any point, a team of experts from Shopify will be there to help you 24*7.
• Wondering about pricing? Shopify provides different pricing plans for merchants to choose according to their needs & also provides a 14-day free trial.

Note: Crisp Multimedia Solutions Pvt. Ltd provides the best Shopify Theme Customization and Development Services in Delhi NCR (Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad ).

Now if you are wishing to use Shopify and its services as a catalyst to take your business to the next level. Don’t worry as we have the answer to that too.

Many agencies offer services to create an online store on Shopify and also provide third-party integration for online store and marketplaces. With such services and support, it becomes utmost convenience for you to make your business a growing one with skyrocketing sales.

Woocommerce- a plugin for wordpress developed for physical goods.

The WooCommerce plugin was started as a product of a company called WooThemes. After unsuccessfully trying to work with Jigoshop (another eCommerce offering), WooThemes hired the main developers of Jigoshop (Mike Jolley and James Konster) and forked (created a new branch of the code) to develop their eCommerce platform, which eventually became WooCommerce.

WooCommerce was created by two developers, Mike Jolley and James Koster.

They worked on a fork (a replication) of an existing e-commerce plugin called Jigoshop, and the result was the first release of WooCommerce in 2011.

WooCommerce and WooThemes were both purchased by Automattic, the same company behind WordPress itself, in 2015.

Automattic is now the active developer for WooCommerce, which is used by over 300,000 online retailers, including some fairly large and high-traffic sites.

Users like WooCommerce for several reasons, chief among them the fact that it is relatively easy to install and configure, which is always a bonus for busy new digital retailers.

WooCommerce is neither a complete CMS, nor it is an online portal alone, not a framework as an individual. In fact, it is a plug-in developed by WordPress for its design.

• Its themes are acquired by ‘Automatic’ and it works for WordPress.
• It is free to use, easy to install and simpler for customization. The reason behind its renounce is its simplicity. It only needs a WordPress installation and hosting service.
• It has near about 1000 free plug-ins and 330 extensions. And many more if you are willing to get them on paid mode. The figure of its plug-in downloads has crossed millions.
• Its themes are available in $39 per piece but if you are a developer and want to play with all the themes, you can purchase a package for $399 which will get you all the WooCommerce based themes.
• In terms of themes, it is observed that WooCommerce has got some benefits of being an open-source e-commerce solution. As you can get other themes there which are not developed by the WooCommerce itself but sold by others.
• In terms of pricing, WooCommerce seems a free thing, but charges for the hosting and SSL certificate which consummately brings it almost equal to the other e-commerce solutions.
• In the end, it will be an injustice to compare these E-commerce giants with each other as each of them has a distinct identity yet serving to the same platform in a different manner.
• An e-commerce solution is something that keeps you away from these issues. It just asks for a zero voltage bulb that needs to be kept enlightened over it. It makes you tension free regarding its maintenance as well. An eye over the software can turn it big.

• People often search in google for knowing the differences in between Opencart, Shopify and Magento or WooCommerce which is not technically correct. And they really need to know the subtle differences in between them.