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• It currently has 55,000 online merchants.
• It offers a 15-day trial.
• It has three tiered plans - Silver for USD 29.95/month, Gold for USD 79.95/month, and Platinum for USD 199.95/month. It charges a 1.5% transaction fee for the Silver plan, which is waived for the other plans.
• It offers abandoned cart software to recover all the items that you lost during an impromptu shutdown of the PC.
• It has integrations with popular apps such as MailChimp, Xero, Google Analytics, eBay, and QuickBooks.
• It provides 24/7 email and chat support, but provides phone support only during business hours.
• It gives 300GB storage for the Silver plan, and offers unlimited storage for the Gold and Platinum plans.

• It offers a 14-day trial.
• It charges the lowest monthly rates for online merchants, with prices as low as USD 15/month.
• The pricing plans range from the Mini, starting at USD 15/month, Plus at USD 35/month, Pro at USD 75/month, and Premium at USD 135/month, respectively. The least charged plans let you display 100 products, with the Plus displaying 1,000 products, Pro displaying 10,000 products, and unlimited products for the Premium plan.
• It offers a storage of 1GB for the Mini, 3GB for the Plus, 10GB for the Pro, and 35GB for the Premium.
• Similar to Bigcommerce, it offers abandoned cart software, but only for the Plus plans and above.
• It has SmartMatch technology, which detects product combinations in stock, and displays them on the front page.

• It has a 14-day trial.
• It was founded to cater to the needs of Amazon and eBay sellers who wished to start their own store.
• It offers 2 plans - a Starter plan with a 100 product limit and a monthly price of USD 14.95; and an Exclusive plan with 10,000 products, unlimited storage, at a price of USD 29.95/month.
• It supports multiple payment gateways, including Google Checkout and PayPal.

• 3dcart has over 4,000 online merchants.
• It has an online building store that lets you customize the templates and get the design right in the first go.
• A maintenance fee of around USD 30.00 is also charged per year.
• It has a 15-day trial period.
• The plans start from the Mini at USD 19.99/month for 200 products, Starter at USD 35.99/month for 1,000 products, Professional at USD 65.99/month for 10,000 products, Professional Plus at USD 99.99/month for unlimited products, and finally the Power plan at USD 129.99/month for unlimited products.
• The best part about 3dcart is that, it charges no transaction fees for any of its plans.

• It offers a 14-day trial to check their features.
• PinnacleCart has over 35,000 merchants.
• It has 4 plans, with the Start Up plan offered at USD 29.95/month, Small Biz at USD 59.95/month, Enterprise at USD 149.95/month, and the most popular Entrepreneur at USD 94.95/month.
• It's definitely a cheaper alternative to Shopify, and doesn't require any transaction fees or migratory fees if you wish to transfer your website to this domain.
• It has direct integration with QuickBooks, to directly print invoices and packing slips.
• The best part about PinnacleCart is the scalability of the website in all platforms.

• Magento has over 35,000 merchants.
• It offers discounts for code creation.
• Magento gives out customized paid themes at an unbelievable price of USD 1.00.
• It has integrations with 5,000+ applications.
• This site offers multilingual support, a feature not offered by Shopify or any other eCommerce platform.
• It offers hosting on 3 distinct platforms - Magento Community Edition for developers who can create their own code or tech-savvy merchants; Magento Enterprise Edition for fast-growing businesses that handle large volumes of data, and is not for free; and Magento Go, a cloud-based application to support small businesses.

• Squarespace is one of the closest competitors to Shopify, as it offers more custom designs and templates.
• It lets users create a website via a drag-and-drop interface.
• It has 3 plans - with the Personal plan offered at USD 8/month for a yearly plan and USD 10 on a monthly basis; Professional at USD 16/month for a yearly plan or USD 20 on a monthly basis, Business at USD 24/month or USD 30 on a monthly basis.
• Squarespace charges 2.9% of the purchase price, plus an additional 30 cents for the transaction.
• It only supports a single payment gateway - Stripe.
• It has 24/7 phone support for all its plans.

• It has over 2,000 custom-designed templates to choose from.
• You can either start it over the Cloud platform, or download it to get a customized control over it.
• It supports other payment gateways such as DirecPay, Syspay, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, Skrill, PayPal, PayPal Payments Pro (Direct), and EBANX Checkout.
• You can contact PrestaShop only during business hours of 9am - 6pm, or submit a contact form so that they can get back to you later.
• This is a great site for small- to mid-sized businesses.

• OpenCart is another cloud-based software like Magento.
• It needs a lot of extensions to function properly, which you can test for free. It has over 13,000 extensions that you can find in their Extensions Directory.
• It allows customer support via their official forums.
• It has a lot of other features, like the shipping weight calculator for estimating shipping prices for larger deliveries.
• The only downside is that, the security of your website can't be guaranteed due to OpenCart being open-source.

• It has a 14-day trial, letting you host only 25 products.
• It has 5 plans, with the Steel plan offered at USD 24.95/month, Bronze at USD 39/month, Silver at USD 99/month, Gold at USD 149/month. and Platinum at USD 299/month.
• It lets you have storage options of 250MB, 1GB, 2GB, and 5GB respectively.
• It needs no set-up or transaction fees.
• It offers 25 free themes, as well as supports Google Analytics to better reach your target audience.
• It supports domestic payment gateways, such as Bank of America, Chase Paymentech, as well as Google Checkout and PayPal.
• It offers top-notch security, protected by Cisco-enabled firewalls.