It is no secret that nowadays e-commerce is more popular than ever before. The ever-growing possibilities of online shopping open the doors wide not only for large businessmen, but also for small suppliers of goods or services. 

Until recently, the start of online shopping was associated with the time-consuming and effort-consuming process of creating an online store, but today almost anyone can create a fully functioning online store. Noticing the growing demand for creating online stores and websites, various companies have introduced countless universal platforms that allow you to independently create not only informational websites, but also online stores.

At first glance, it may seem that creating a fully functioning online store is a process that requires a lot of time, effort and specific knowledge. It is for this reason that many people miss the opportunities of online shopping. Of course, although today creating online stores requires certain resources, this whole process has become much simpler and more accessible to many.

We present to you the most popular platforms that can make creating online stores not only convenient and simple, but also incredibly fast.

WooCommerce

You have probably heard about one of the most popular website creation tools, WordPress. It is no secret that WordPress is an excellent platform for creating and managing not only informational websites, but also e-shops. The WooCommerce plugin helps to ensure a simple and convenient process of creating and managing the latter on the WordPress platform. In principle, the WooCommerce plugin is created only for the WordPress platform, so there is no possibility of using it on other platforms.

More than 2 million online store owners around the world use the services provided by WooCommerce. Such popularity of this platform is created not only by its incredible flexibility, simplicity and wide functionality, but also by the fact that the service is completely free. Of course, in order to provide additional functionality to your personal online store and its administration, you may still have to open your wallet. However, even without using additional services that cost money, WooCommerce allows you to create a full-fledged e-shop with considerable functionality.

The main reasons why it is worth choosing the WooCommerce platform to create and manage an online store:

Using WooCommerce costs nothing.

  • An extremely wide selection of additional plugins that help create a much wider functionality of the online store and its administration.
  • This platform allows you to sell not only physical, but also digital products.
  • Integrated collection and display of online store data.
  • Incredibly simple process of creating and administering a store.   

In fact, although WooCommerce offers most of the same benefits as other platforms, perhaps the biggest advantage of this platform is the absence of any additional fees. However, as mentioned earlier, online store owners and administrators can also use additional plugins, most of which are paid. A wide variety of these plugins helps to effectively perform various marketing actions, as well as carefully monitor the data of the store itself.

Shopify 

Shopify is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms, which has been around for over 15 years. Today, Shopify services are used by just over 1 million online businesses from 175 countries around the world. Impressive, right?

Such a huge popularity of this platform is ensured by a particularly well-thought-out structure that allows users to create online stores extremely quickly and conveniently. It seems that the developers of this platform have invested a lot of resources in an intuitive online store management menu, where all the most important changes to the design structure are made. In order to properly emphasize the simplicity of Shopify, it would be safe to say that this platform can be used even by those who have never created a website before.

Here are the main reasons why the Shopify platform is one of the most popular choices in the entire E-commerce tools market:

  • Fast and easy creation and administration of e-stores
  • Reliability and security, allowing you to properly protect your customers' personal data.
  • 24/7 customer service center, ready to answer a wide variety of technical questions and help solve any problems that arise.
  • Automatic adaptation of e-stores not only for browsers using computers, but also for those who use other smart devices.
  • A wide selection of store design templates, allowing the creators of these stores to choose the most attractive and most suitable design.
  • Additional SEO and marketing tools, with the help of which store owners can perform various actions that can potentially increase sales.
  • Functionality, allowing you to automatically and personally remind store visitors about the interrupted purchase process.

Of course, all these advantages provided by Shopify sound really tempting, but we should not forget that the service is still paid. This platform offers several different plans that work on a monthly subscription basis. Each plan provides different benefits, which are presented along with the prices on the official Shopify website.

Naturally, in the age of digital commerce, we have a myriad of different tools available to help you start an online business. At first glance, it may seem that all of these tools offer similar benefits and features, but upon closer inspection, you can see some fundamental differences. It is this analysis of all the tools that can become the main motive for choosing the most suitable tool.