Top 13 eCommerce Platforms in 2020

Technology is seeming to advance at warp speed. With the revolution it has brought in to the world, probably every other aspect of living has been digitalized. From driving cars to turning on the lights in a house, everything seems to take lesser human efforts. Since everything is being made easier why not shopping?

The internet has done a great favour to the shopping world as well. In the last 5 years, people have moved from going to the retail stores to going to the online stores. There is every kind of product available on the web. This is what Ecommerce is. Buying anything and everything that you want or need, without having to actually go out for shopping. But ecommerce is not only about buying. You can also sell using ecommerce platforms. It has practically changed the way the world shops entirely.

CompuServe was the first ever major commercial online service provider which was established in 1969 in the U.S. It provided services to people around the globe. But we cannot speak of ecommerce without Amazon. Founded by Jeff Bezos 1995, Amazon was primarily built to sell books to people online. And today, the company provides a lot of other services along with that. In 2018, Amazon made up a whopping 49% of the total ecommerce in the entire U.S. Though it allows you to sell on its platform, it doesn’t let you create your own online business or an ecommerce website.

A fascinating statistic about Amazon is that about 50% of its sales are generated from third party sellers, who sell products on Amazon while sitting at home. But this is just about Amazon. There are more than 400 ecommerce platform available to choose from if you decide to start your own business online.

What are Ecommerce platforms?

In simple terms, ecommerce platform is a software which allows you to build and manage your business online, mainly with the use of a website. It provides you tools for marketing, sales, and operations of your business.

Not all ecommerce platforms are the same. Every platform has its own features and services to provide. Depending on the type of business, you can choose from any of the platforms, whether you are just starting out, or are in a need to switch platforms. Ecommerce platforms provide solutions for everything from digital to B2B sales, or dropshipping to online services.

With the number of online shoppers rising drastically, the industry has seen a parallel rise in the number of ecommerce platforms. Having stated that, there are tons of platforms to choose from. And the number is so huge that it would send you in a loop of confusion, as to which platform to choose.

So what are some of the best ecommerce platforms? Which ones stand out from the rest?

Fret not. We have got you covered. We have come up with a list of 13 best ecommerce platforms. These platforms sit on the top spots in the industry, offering a good amount of services that you can use, and see your business flourish.

 

 

1.      BIGCOMMERCE

BigCommerce has been in business for over a decade now. It is one of the leading ecommerce platforms available in the market today, with more than $17 billion in merchant sales. It provides a large catalogue of feature, probably more than any other ecommerce platforms.

BigCommerce offers products for both, large enterprises and small businesses. This makes it easier for you to choose the services that you want. It allows you look over multiple channels for sales management. This includes wholesale stores, B2B stores, and even WordPress. BigCommerce is considered to be a great platform for small businesses. Because small businesses need to have a strong online presence in order to generate sales, BigCommerce’s large list of features and functionalities can prove to be rewarding.

The customer service at BigCommerce is also remarkable. They provide a 24 hour helpline in case of any urgencies. Other than that they have support services like live chat, email support, online help centres, and even community forums. Once you start with your business, you also get multiple levels of analytics to track your business’s growth. These analytics include product reports, dashboards, traffic reports, Google analytics, referral reports, and export reports. All of this together provide an eagle-eyed view on all the aspects of your business and its growth.

A unique feature BigCommerce offers is the ability to sell in multiple currencies. This is something that other major ecommerce platforms lack.

To take your business online with BigCommerce, you will need to buy a subscription plan. Their plan comes in three different levels

·         Standard- $29.95 per month

·         Plus- $79.95 per month

·         Pro- $249.95 per month

·         Enterprise- available upon request

Another very unique feature it offers is that it auto-upgrades your subscription plans depending upon your sales every 12 month. The milestones for Standard, Plus, and Pro subscriptions are sales up to $50,000, up to 150,000, and up to 4000,000 respectively.

So if your sales cross the $50,000 milestone in a year, your subscription will automatically be upgraded from Standard to Pro. BigCommerce provides a trial period of 15 days. You get a 10% discount on buying the annual subscriptions for the Plus and Pro plans.

 

2.      SHOPIFY

Founded in 2004, Shopify has become a leading name in the ecommerce industry today. The brainchild of 3 snowboarding enthusiasts, Tobias Lutke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake, Shopify now hosts over a whopping 400,000 merchants around the world. The group intended to develop a platform named Snowdevil in order to sell snowboarding equipment online. They renamed it to Shopify in 2006.

Shopify is the one-stop-shop for all kind of merchants alike. Be it an enterprise, or a small business, Shopify has resources for everyone. In fact, Kylie Jenner has also used Shopify to build her cosmetics company, Kylie Cosmetics. With ample number of integrations and plugins, even the most inexperienced person can use it to build their own small-scale start-up.

In terms of usability, Shopify is a piece of cake. It offer codeless interface and development tools that allows building an online store even if someone is not much familiar with development concepts. In addition to this, it provides a large number of extension and add-ons to enhance your store functions.

But unlike BigCommerce, it lacks the ability to support the sales of a large number of product variations. It is limited to 100 products variants only. Which can be a drawback if you have a large variety of products to sell

Shopify offers three subscription plans

·         Basic Shopify- $29 per month

·         Shopify- $79 per month

·         Advanced Shopify- $299 per month

 

3.      WIX

You may have seen those WIX logo maker ads on YouTube videos. And if you’re getting in touch with the ecommerce industry just recently, chances are that you might not be fully aware of WIX.

WIX has been in the industry since 2006. It is one of the well preferred ecommerce platforms for absolute beginners. It is extremely easy to use and also offers subscription plans which are very affordable. WIX is a little similar to the programming language learning platform Scratch, concept-wise. You get drag and drop elements with a lot of functions that can be easily added in order to build a full-fledged website for your business.

WIX provides a vast array of pre-defined templates and designs for a business website. Along with this they also provide designs for product galleries, functions for easy order and shipping management, and even promotions and offers. What’s more is that, websites built can also be viewed easily on a cell phone without any extra efforts. WIX does not support dropshipping services as of yet, but it is in the pipeline and may be available very soon.

WIX not only makes website building extremely simple, it also offers subscription plans at highly competitive prices. You get to choose from a lot of different plans that also offers a discount on yearly subscriptions

·         Combo- $17 per month ($13 if subscribed annually)

·         Unlimited- $22 per month (&17 if subscribed annually)

·         Pro- $27 per month ($22 if subscribed annually)

·         eCommerce- $28 per month ($23 if subscribed annually)

·         VIP- $47 per month ($39 if subscribed annually)

·         Enterprise- $750 per month ($500 if subscribed annually)

Most of the plans come with unlimited bandwidth and a large storage space, in addition to a lot of other features like ad removal, free domain, and much more.

 

4.      WOOCOMMERCE

Owned and developed by WordPress, WooCommerce is not exactly an ecommerce platform but a plugin made for WordPress.

WooCommerce is absolutely free to download and install on your WordPress website. But that’s the catch here. To use WooCommerce you need to have a hosted domain, and a WordPress site already set up. Once you have all of this ready, you can download and install the WooCommerce plugin to the site.

With WooCommerce, there a few limitation when it comes to functionalities. It does not offer advanced functionalities like other platforms, nor does it enables you to build a full-fledged website. But even with a drawback, it does not stop you from enhancing you WordPress site. There are tons of extensions offered by WooCommerce. They allow you to add certain customizations to your virtual store. While a majority of the extensions are free, you may have to pay a price to use some of the advanced extensions.

What is special about WooCommerce running on WordPress is that, WordPress is an outstanding platforms when it comes to SEO. You can optimize your content endlessly in order to generate more traffic and potential customers for your business.

On the whole, all you need is an up and running WordPress site, and you can use the WooCommerce plugin for free.

 

5.      SELLFY

It won’t be wrong to call Sellfy one of the most versatile ecommerce platforms available in today’s time. It is absolutely the most rich in features and functionalities, very easy to use, and also not as expensive as some of the other platforms.

Sellfy is initially was built to sell digital content. It offered services for businesses selling content like music, videos, eBooks, and similar digital content. But with growing competition and increase in success, Sellfy now offers a full-fledged ecommerce platform that gives you the ability to sell products that are not only digital but physical too. It also allows you to connect to more than 2000 third party application using Zapier, and lets you automate your work instantly.

Coming to features of Sellfy, one good thing is that it doesn’t ask you to buy a domain from Sellfy. You have an option to add a custom domain. It allows customizations for design with a great flexibility. Analytics-wise it offers a great overview and also a deep dive in to your products, and lets you know the performance of you products. It also gives a statistical data on the traffic generated to your website through different modes. It also comes with a 14 day free trial period, allowing you to get your hand on the platform before you decide to choose a plan.

Sellfy is pretty straightforward when it comes to pricing. There are only three subscription plans that also offers some discount on buying an annual subscription of any of the plans

·         Starter- $19 per month ($228 instead of $348 for annual subscription)

·         Business- $39 per month ($468 instead of $708 for annual subscription)

·         Premium- $89 per month ($1068 instead of $1548 for annual subscription)

The features in all the plans are almost the same, which includes unlimited products, store customizations, discount codes, and custom domain. The Business plan provides additional 10,000 email credits, whereas the Premium plan provides 50,000 email credits in a year.

Overall, Sellfy is the go-to ecommerce platform for creators and small business owners who wish to sell their digital content, or even physical good, online. It allows you to integrate your website to your social media accounts, and also add a “buy now” button to your products for faster sales.

 

6.      VOLUSION

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Kevin Sproles, in 1999 founded Volusion in 1999. He was only 16 years old at the time. It has since been a little over two decades, and Volusion has grown exceptionally, with over $28 billion in sales via websites created on Volusion.

Volusion is a very robust platform with lot of features, but is easy to use. It enables you to build up a business website in any vertical, as it is not limited to any specific businesses. With that being stated, it offers unlimited product variety for sales. It also has the Content Builder functionality which lets you edit articles and texts on your storefront, without having to utilize a third party platform.

It offers four subscription plans

·         Personal- $26 per month

·         Professional- $71 per month

·         Startup- $161 per month

·         Business- $269 per month

The subscription plans also come with different customer support services. For an instance, the Personal subscription plan would not offer a phone support which you would get with the Startup plan or the Business plan. And just like BigCommerce, your subscription plan will upgrade automatically if you reach a certain milestone in a year.

 

7.      SQUARESPACE

In the long list of best ecommerce platforms, Squarespace is definitely a worthy inclusion. By far it is probably the easiest platform to use, and also the most affordable. But the low prices also come with their own pros and cons.

Squarespace is an all-round ecommerce platform that lets you build a business website and sell any kind of products you want. It also offers unlimited products along with the extensive variety. You can sell both digital and physical goods. You also get the ability to manage subscriptions and gift card, and you can also add multiple payment methods to your site. You will also find most of the popular applications integrated in it. But it doesn’t provide an app store for any integrating any other apps other than those already built in.

A major advantage of building a business website with Squarespace is that it is extremely easy to use. It has a drag and drop interface that lets you put any content on your website without the need of any technical knowledge. It also comes with tons of pre-designed templates to choose from. Depending on the plan, you can choose to add multiple designs to your website, and can switch between them.

Squarespace is by far the least expensive ecommerce platforms. It offers four different subscription plans

·         Personal Plan- $12 per month

·         Business Plan- $18 per month

·         Basic Commerce- $30 per month

·         Advanced Commerce- $46 per month

The Personal and Business plans are only website builders. The Basic and Advanced Commerce plans come with ecommerce capabilities. Out of the four, the Personal Plan comes with least advantages and is not much recommended. If you are just starting out and wish to build a website on this platform, the best recommendation would be the Basic Commerce plan. With this plan you get features like ecommerce sales, social media sales, POS, and much more. You also don’t have to pay any transaction fees with this plan, unlike the Advanced Commerce plan that charges a 3% transaction fee.

 

8.      WEEBLY

Founded in 2006, Weebly is not a full-fledged ecommerce platform, but a website builder with some of the ecommerce capabilities. It could be a great option for small businesses that are just entering the market but do not necessarily require a strong online presence.

Weebly comes with great marketing features that lets you automate a lot of things from analytics to some of the elements on your website. It lets you manage a wide range of products in a single builder and track the inventory. It comes with an option to auto-alert on out of stock items and also displays a minimum stick alert to the customers.

Weebly may not be a great platform for ecommerce, but it definitely is a good place to start. It offers three different subscription plans

·         Personal- $6 per month

·         Professional- $12 per month

·         Performance- $25 per month

 

9.      SELZ

This is without a doubt the most outreached ecommerce platform available in the industry. With a great amount of features and functions, Selz can also help in expanding the visibility of your business and generate more traffic.

Being an all-round platform, Selz takes care of all of your ecommerce needs. You can build a website to sell a number of product without any limitations. You can build your website AND host it using its backend services. It also offers an unlimited bandwidth. The features also include statistical analysis of the product performance and traffic. Selz is a platform that is built to let you reach a maximum group of audiences. With Selz you can effortlessly integrate any social media app and display your product on them. You can also add custom button to allow the viewers to buy the product directly, or view more information about it.

With Selz it is also possible to sell your product on an existing website. You can directly link your products on to that website and start selling. This means you can use Selz to provide services without having to create a new website, and use an existing one. How great is that!

Selz offers four subscription plans

·         Basic- $26 per month

·         Standard- $53 per month

·         Advanced- $179 per month

·         Do It For Me- $599 per month

A majority of features are common across all the plans. More features are added as you go higher on the plans. Their most popular plan is the Standard plan that comes with extensive features, real-time fraud protection, and priority customer support. The plan that stands out is the Do It For Me plan. It basically means that you pay $599 to Selz and they create an experienced team that does all the work for you. This includes building advanced webstores, expert marketing strategies, continuous evaluation and optimisation, a much more.

 

10.  ECWID

Ecwid, founded on 2009, is an ecommerce platform essentially for small businesses. Ecwid stands for ECommerce WIDget. It is a small, but power-packed platform allowing business owners to create an all-out website, or even integrate Ecwid to their existing websites.

With Ecwid you can sell a ton of products under multiple verticals. You also have the option of selling your own products, or resell other manufacturers’ products. In addition to this you can also use dropshipping services. In terms of services and flexibility, Ecwid sits on the top spots of the ecommerce industry.

Ecwid also allows a great visibility on the statistics and analytics of your business. You get an Ecwid control panel where you can easily see new orders, manage old ones, overlook inventory, and do much more with the control panel. The fact that the Ecwid control panel can be accessed from a computer system or the Ecwid mobile app makes it highly accessible from anywhere.

Furthermore, you also get a free Instant site, which is fully customizable and can be ready to go in a matter of minutes. All you have to do is add your content and products to your storefront. That’s it! But this free site comes with its own limitations, like you will not get an extensive customer support, and you also won’t be able to integrate it on any of the social media apps for sales. Other than the Instant site, Ecwid offers three subscription plans

·         Venture- $15 per month

·         Business- $35 per month

·         Unlimited- $99 per month

Websites created with Ecwid are also automatically compatible with desktop, phone, and tablet.

 

11.  3DCART

3dcart was founded in 1997 as one of the longest running ecommerce platforms. It provides total ecommerce services and digital marketing. Because of its remarkable service and robustness, 3dcart is one of the Inc. 5000 companies today.

3dcart boasts a vast catalogue of services when it comes to website building. There is not a single business website that 3dcart cannot build and support. You can sell every kind of product, be it physical goods or digital media. 3dcart is by far the most extensive services provider. You get services like website building, store design, order management, marketing and SEO, hosting, and even mobile eCommerce. And the list of products you can sell on your business website is endless.

3dcart offers tons of themes for your website. These themes are developed using the Core Template Engine framework that makes is compatible and supported on any devices. With this you get responsive design, faster webpages with integrated Google AMP, and Google-preferred designs that always rank higher on the search results. This means that your website is already optimized and is ready to be visible from the word go. This can be advantageous for businesses of any sizes.

3dcart offers five subscription offers. The unending list of features and benefits make it look way cheaper that most of the ecommerce platforms.

The subscription plans are as follows

·         Startup- $19 per month

·         Basic- $29 per month

·         Plus- $79 per month

·         Power- $129 per month

·         Pro- $229 per month

Just like many of the other platforms, 3dcart also upgrades you subscription automatically after reaching a fixed sales threshold for one year. All the plans come with a lot of common features. You get additional features as you go higher on the subscription plans.

 

12.  SHOPBASE

ShopBase is the youngest of all the ecommerce platforms. Freshly introduced in 2019, the platform has done a remarkable job, making its way to the list of vest ecommerce platforms.

ShopBase is a complete ecommerce platform which supports businesses of all sizes. If you are into cross-border commerce or dropshipping business, then ShopBase is the platform for you! It offers unique, well designed, highly converted themes that can make your website stand out from the rest. These designs are fully customizable, even in terms of functionalities. It gives you access to the HTML and CSS of every webpage of the store, so that you can customize it according to your needs and taste. All the designs and customizations are robust, and are automatically compatible on mobile phones. You don’t need to put in extra efforts to make your website run on a mobile phone.

ShopBase also provides one of the greatest hosting services compared to other platforms. When you opt for hosting, you get an unlimited bandwidth, making your site accessible to the largest of audience without breaking a sweat. It also provides a 256-bit SSL certificate, making your customers’ data secure. In addition to this you get 99.98% of up time and a round the clock monitoring so that you website always stays up. You can sell unlimited products of different variations on your website.

ShopBase offer a 14 days free trial period for you to look at their services closely and choose a longer subscription plan that best suits your business. You can choose from three different plans

·         Basic Base- $19 per month

·         Standard Base- $59 per month

·         Pro Base- $249 per month

Unlike any other ecommerce platforms, ShopBase provides an unlimited bandwidth and 24/7 customer support across all the plans.

 

13.  PINNACLECART

Last on our list is PinnacleCart. It was founded in 2003 by two childhood friends who had their fair shares of experience with online marketing, but eventually gathered up and created PinnacleCart. It is an ecommerce platform that offers extensive store building tools and feature to let you create a pleasant online presence.

PinnacleCart, like some of the other ecommerce platforms, provides great pre-designed themes and templates to choose from for your business website. They are also customizable and can be re-designed in your desired way. It also offers a free Cart Designer feature that allows you to change the look and feel of you site with easy drag-and-drop and point-and-click interface. PinnacleCart is also flexible in terms of content. You can add you own images and logo, and can also add customized header and footer to your site. Additionally, you have the flexibility to add third party content as well. Just like ShopBase, you can also take over the HTML and CSS of the page and can tweak it according to you requirements.

One major advantage of building your business website with PinnacleCart is its SEO and marketing capabilities. All the pages that you create for your website are indexable by Google and other search engines. You can also create your own custom URL or use flat URLs suggested by the platform. PinnacleCart also integrates tracking tools like Google Analytics and Google Adwords for better marketing. It also lets you automatically capture emails for newsletters, and also stores the captured email in a spreadsheet. This makes PinnacleCart one of the most SEO-able ecommerce platforms.

PinnacleCart offers three levels of subscription plans

·         Standard- $79.95 per month

·         Advanced- $199.95 per month

·         Enterprise- Available on request

You can choose from these plans if you wish to host your website with the platform. If you wish to hot the website ono your own, you can buy a perpetual license of PinnacleCart for $1,495 per domain, which includes all the advanced features.

 

Best Ecommerce Platforms for SEO

SEO is one the most important features your business needs, whether you are a startup, or even if your business is established well. The ability of your products to appear when a customer searches for them is one thing. But when they appear in a search without being specifically searched for, that is what will make your business visible and reachable.

There are multiple factors to consider when it comes to SEO such as meta tags, user experience, speed, and much more. The number of these features your website include determines the reach of your business. There are also a number of other things to look into, such as

·         Independent H1 tags

·         Independent domain name or URLs

·         Page titles

·         Meta descriptions

·         Redirections

All of these work together in order to put your website as high as possible in the search engine results. Now, if you are new to this you might miss out on a great deal of SEO features, if you choose an ecommerce platform that does not provide a wide range of SEO services.

There are many platforms that offer SEO abilities for your business website. But only a few of them can really make your website visible on the search results. The top three platforms in terms of SEO services are Shopify, WooCommerce, and 3dcart.

Shopify is an all-round ecommerce platform that offers extensive features and functionalities. With its ability to handle large-scale and small-scale businesses, it already is great platform to build your website. When it comes to SEO, Shopify swoops one of the top ranks because if its ability to integrate features in to your website, that can help you show up higher in searches. Though it may not allow you to build custom URLs, they provide you with URLs that have a higher potential in terms of optimization.

WooCommerce could not be left out while naming the best ecommerce platforms for SEO. The fact that it is specially built for WordPress, which itself is an SEO monster, proves its ability to provide you the benefits of optimization when you put your business online. The only drawback of WooCommerce if that it is a plugin and not a standalone ecommerce platform. In order to use its powers, you’ll need a WordPress site already set up.

Lastly, there’s 3dcart. It absolutely goes all out in the SEO services. Imagine a combination of all the ecommerce platforms listed above. That’s how powerful 3dcart is when it comes to optimization. It offers features like customizable URLs, customizable meta tags, page title, and H1 headings, PageSpeed optimization, breadcrumb navigation, canonical URLs, and a lot more.

Since it is not limited to businesses of any specific size or product types, and offers the most valuable features for optimizing your website, 3dcart is the best ecommerce platform for SEO.

 

Best Free Ecommerce Platforms

When it comes to pricing, all the ecommerce platforms have their own subscription plans in place. Some of them offer very competitive pricing that are very much affordable. And even though most of them have a free trial period, none of the platforms are entirely free to use. After the trial is over, you have to pay for a subscription plan to use their features.

But among all the platforms on the list, there is only one platform that offers its features for free, and that is WooCommerce. The WordPress plugin is absolutely free to download and use. Though it may not be a separate platform in itself, it is a great tool to customize your WordPress site, and add a vast array of features to it, to make it stand out. A majority of its extensions are free to use and can me integrated easily. These features are more than enough for any kind of customizations or additions to your site. But if you need some out-of-the-box features, you can get the extensions from WooCommerce at a reasonable cost. Among a lot of other free ecommerce platforms, WooCommerce is the best one out there.

 

Best Ecommerce Platforms for Small Business

With the growing world, people’s need are also on the rise. And so are new businesses, to fulfil those needs. Though there are existing businesses in the market, the startup culture has really caught on, and entrepreneurs are leaving no stones unturned to put their business out in the market. Some intend to grow big eventually, and some are meant to provide services at a smaller scale. But every business come under the “small” tag until it outgrows itself.

There are a number of different ecommerce platforms that provide services to small businesses and help them grow. Whether your business needs a strong online presence or not, these platforms help your website stay updated and ensure reachability to the customers. Out of the list there are three best platforms that serves the small businesses best.

The first one is WIX. It is a start when it comes to design and usability. With a tremendous amount of pre-designed, fully customizable templates, you can build your website just like that. It offers a drag and drop interface which allow you to build and customize your website’s deign and features without knowing how to code. WIX also offer great prices for its subscription plans, starting from $17 for a basic Combo plan all the way up to the Enterprise plan for $750. Unlike many other platforms, WIX’s basic plan includes a good amount of features and very less limitation, to get your website up and running.

Next is Squarespace. Very much similar to WIX, Squarespace also provides a lot of pre-designed templates to choose from while building your business website. It also comes with a drag and drop interface that lets you customize the templates and add features and functionalities to your website in no time. In terms of pricing, Squarespace offers the least expensive subscription rates, but only a couple of them are actually useful. If you intend to sell products on your website, you will need to buy the Basic Commerce or the Advanced Commerce plan. If you only need a website and do not need to sell any products, you can buy their Personal or Business plan, which can be useful if you have a physical retail store as well and just need to make it visible on the web.

Another great choice for a website builder, is Weebly. It is not a complete ecommerce platform per se. It lets you build engaging websites for your businesses, but do not necessarily come with an option to sell online.

Out of the three, WIX is the strongest recommendation if you need to build a business website and sell your products on it as well. If you only need a website without the major ecommerce features, Weebly the best choice at is offers great website building features at a very low cost.

 

Best Ecommerce Platforms for Dropshipping

Dropshipping is one of the most preferred ways to conduct and ecommerce business. It is also very convenient. All you need to do is get the orders from your customers, and transfer them, along with the shipment details, to another wholesaler, retailer, or a manufacturer. These vendors then directly ships the products to your customers. For dropshipping you don’t need to keep stocks of your products.

But such a business needs to be conducted with great precision. With features like shipment tracking and 24/7 customer connectivity, you can easily run a dropshipping business. Not many ecommerce platforms support dropshipping. And only a few of those who do, do it efficiently. Two of the best platforms for your dropshipping business are Ecwid and ShopBase.

Ecwid is a powerful platform to develop a business online. It allows you to build a complete business website, and also integrate its features to existing websites. Ecwid is mainly intended as a platform for small businesses. It allows you to integrate its dropshipping apps to your website. Currently there are only two apps offered by Ecwid, to get your dropshipping on the go.

The best ecommerce platform for a dropshipping business is ShopBase. It is comparatively the most fresh ecommerce platform. With is remarkable services, it had certainly made a big name in the industry. With pre-designed templates and access to HTML and CSS of every page, it is the best platform to create customized business websites. When it comes to dropshipping, ShopBase is a topper. It allows cross-border dropshipping services and also enable you to white-label your products.

 

Benefits of Using an Ecommerce Platform

The world is constantly developing and upgrading the way we live and carry out our tasks. The most affected are by this advancement is shopping. In today’s time, any product that you can think of is available on the web. You can buy it from any of the ecommerce websites in an instant, without having to go outside. And the same goes for selling your products too. You can easily sell your products online, even if you don’t have a physical retails store in pace.

This is what ecommerce platforms helps you with. They allow you to use their services to build your own business website, and sell your products on it. You don’t even need much of a technical knowledge to build your website. From building to taking it online, ecommerce platforms take care of everything. There are tons of benefits of using ecommerce platforms

·         Search Engine Visibility

Taking your business online can provide a great boost to your sales. Ecommerce platforms allow you to optimize your website and products in such way that they appear on the top spots of the search engine results. This results in greater visibility of your business,

·         Overcome Geographical Limitations

One of the major obstacles when selling products out of a physical store is the geographical constraints. Your business may only be limited to your city or even state, which drastically limits the reach of your business. Using an ecommerce platform to take your business online can help you overcome this obstacle. You can generate a great customer base across different countries.

·         Lower Costs

Ecommerce platforms can be a real advantage in terms of costs. They offer extensive services, from building your website, to customizing the design and features, at very affordable prices. The lower the price you pay to the platform, the higher benefits you can provide to the customers. These benefits can be in the form of discount and offers on your products and services.

·         Faster Product Locating

Selling products online is a good way to increase the sales of your business. Unlike a physical store, ecommerce stores make it very easy to browse through the products and even find a specific product that customers wish to buy.

 

 

·         Round the Clock Availability

Unlike a physical retail store, ecommerce websites keeps the store open 24/7. You can shop on them anytime you like.

The list of benefits go on and on. This is why ecommerce platforms are known to be the best way to take your business on the web.

 

Tips and Strategies for Using Ecommerce Platforms

·         Make your website good looking- to attract customers. A majority of buyers browse through a retail website if it is visually appealing to them.

·         Provide easy navigation- for easy browsing. People like to find the right product without much efforts. Easy navigation can create a positive impact of the website on the customers.

·         Expand your reach- with multi-platform integration. Make your business visible on social media platforms, and allow the customers to take direct actions.

·         Provide discounts and offers- for better customer retention. Providing custom offers to customers can also prove to be a beneficial marketing.

·         Ease of access- from any device. Customers like to have the option of accessing their favourite products without limiting themselves to a particular device. Building a website that is compatible on multiple devices like mobile phones and tables can allow customers to access your website anytime, anywhere.

 

Summary

Holistically, ecommerce platforms are one of the best assets to build and grow your business online. With a number of platforms available in the market, you can build your website in a matter if hours, depending on the size and needs of your business.

·         If you have greater SEO needs and want your business to rank higher in searches, 3dcart is the best for the purpose.

·         For the best dropshipping business experience, go for ShopBase.

·         WIX is the best when it comes to small businesses. So if you are just starting out with your business or already have a small business and need a new ecommerce platform, WIX is the one.

·         Lastly, if you need all the features in one place, no matter the size of your business, and a great looking website, Selz is the go-to ecommerce platform for you. It provides the most number of functionalities and services that can make your business stand out.