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Top Ecommerce Software Review

10 Best Shopping Carts Compared
Shopify
A fantastic solution for those who have a bit more money to spend on cool apps, stylish custom themes and transaction fees. Great for more established stores.
Shopify Review
Shopify Site
BigCommerce
A very easy-to-use, customizable solution with nice custom templates and good features with higher costing plans. Good for beginners but great for medium to large stores.
BigCommerce Review
BigCommerce Site
InstanteStore
An affordable, easy-to-use solution with fantastic features across the board. Good for beginners but medium sized stores would be a better fit for this all-rounder.
InstanteStore Review
InstanteStore Site
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Overall Rating (Out of 10)
7.8 7.78 7.76 7.75 7.68 7.25 6.55 6.43 5.75 5.75
Price Range
$ 29
-
299
$ 29.95
-
249.95
$ 19.97
-
149.97
$ 15
-
136
$ 19
-
600
$ 29
-
229.99
$ 44.95
-
199.95
$ 39
-
299
$ 5.99
-
19.99
$ 5
-
10
Pros
- User friendly- Beautiful   templates- Great selection of apps

- Offers domain  registration   service

- Highly   customizable- User friendly- Feature   packed - User friendly- Lots of free   features - User friendly- Nice free
templates- Affordable
paid   templates

- Fraud Score

- User friendly- Nice free   templates - User friendly- Make Me An   Offer- Group Deals - Integrated with   popular   business apps- Comes with   QR code   generator - Highly   customizable- Custom   shopping cart   packages - Simple set up- Affordable   pricing- Free hosting - Domain name   registration- Unlimited data   transfer, disk   space and   email storage
Cons
- Glitches
- Charges   transaction   fees- Cool apps   cost money
- Free templates   outdated
- Useful features   only for higher   plans
- Shipping   instruction   cumbersome
- Lacking stylish   templates
- Glitches
- High overage   charges   - SSL Cert Fee
  - PCI Security
- No outstanding   features
- Basic plan  must use  core payments
- Process flow   tedious
- Premium   templates do   not look   premium
-Templates look outdated
-$14.95/month Product Filters
- Slow uploading   images &   products
- Only 26 free   templates
- Not very user   friendly
- Simple templates
-Social Media Integration only for $14.95/month onwards
- Templates   outdated
- No free trials
- Transaction   fees
- Price increase   after 1st year
- Overall solution   outdated
Summary
Best Themes, user friendly, many apps, scalable. Very user friendly & customizable, scalable, Best Interface. Many free useful features, user friendly, low overage charges, scalable, Best Value. Feature rich but not available across the board, user friendly, scalable. Nice interface & themes, many apps, scalable.
Monthly charge for recurring billing
Easy to use, many free features, scalable. smooth interface, option for small to medium biz.
Monthly charge for recurring billing to product filtering
Customizable solution, many features but not available across the board.
CLOSED ON JAN 2018
Cheap upfront pricing, additional charges, lacks features. Unlimited disk storage, bandwidth, email; low price first year only.
Bandwidth
Unlimited Unlimited 2GB
-
30GB
1GB
-
35GB
2GB
-
Unlimited
Unlimited 2GB
-
Unlimited
2
-
50GB
150GB
-
1000GB
Unlimited
Storage
Unlimited Unlimited 100 products 100 products
-
Unlimited
1GB
-
Unlimited
Unlimited 1GB
-
Unlimited
1GB
-
Unlimited
Upto 1500 products Unlimited
Transaction Fee
0
-
2%
None None None None None None None None 0.75
-
1.5%
Setup Fee
None None None None None None None 0
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$49
None None
Templates/Themes (Out of 10)
8 7 7.7 7.5 7.7 6 4 4.5 4 4
Free Useful Features (Out of 10)
7.5 7.7 8 7.7 7.8 7.3 7.7 7 6.7 7.7
Interface (Out of 10)
8 8.6 7.8 8 7.8 7.9 7.5 6.5 6 6
Support (Out of 10)
7.7 7.8 7.6 7.8 7.4 7.8 7 7 6.3 6
SKU/Number of Products
Unlimited 100
-
Unlimited
Unlimited 100
-
Unlimited
3
-
Unlimited
Unlimited Unlimited 500
-
Unlimited
N/A Unlimited
Free Trial Period
14 Days 15 Days 15 Days 14 Days 15 Days 15 Days 14 Days 14 Days 30 Days None
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Shared SSL
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Additional Information
Unlimited
staff accounts
Custom SSL only for
$249.95/month
plan
Unlimited
staff logins
2 to Unlimited
email
accounts
2 to
Unlimited
staff
logins
Unlimited
staff logins
Up to 100
email
accounts
Abandoned cart
products reviews
on higher plans
Unlimited
email
storage

 

Selecting a suitable shopping cart for a business is a very important matter but it can be very time consuming. Which is why perusing top ecommerce software review sites such as this can save a budding entrepreneur a lot of time.

Are There Too Many Online Stores Already?
Well, shoppers do not seem to think so. Online spending has increased dramatically over the years. Despite the US economy still being in recovery mode, US shoppers still managed to out do the 2011 spending during the Thanksgiving Day/Black Friday holiday period.

A total of 13.7 billion was spent online during this period, a 16 percent increase over the same period last year. Black Friday saw just over a billion in online sales, a 26 percent increase year over year, making it the biggest online spending day so far in 2012. Thanksgiving Day posted a 32 percent increase to $633 million. That is impressive in both percentage and monetary figures.

What Should You Look Out For?
Most of the best ecommerce software solutions on the market contain just about the same essential tools and features you would need to run a successful ecommerce store. Every few months or so, an online store software developer will introduce a new feature. A month or two after that, competitors will have a similar feature on their respective platforms. However, some shopping cart software providers do a better job at implementing certain features than their competitors.

My contributors and I will look at the features and tools and tell you which we think does a better job and why. As you read more top ecommerce software reviews, you will notice that no one software gets everything right.

The trick is to decide which features are really important to your business and select the ecommerce software hosting provider which does a good job with those features.

For example, a store selling fine Swiss made watches would not have much use for a ‘Make Me An Offer’ feature but would benefit greatly from an ‘Automatic Zoom Out On Mouse Over’ feature. To find out more about those features and which shopping carts has them, you’ll have to read our shopping cart reviews.

Additional Information
Unlike other top shopping cart review sites, we will also look at what is said about various hosted ecommerce software providers on social sites, forums and consumer sites. This will give a better idea of what problems a shopping cart has had or is plagued by. This will also reveal if their support system is up to mark at handling issues, inquiries and complaints.

With the help of your valuable feedback, we hope to make this one of the best ecommerce software review sites in the net.

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