Prestashop vs. Shopify vs. Magento vs. Woocommerce Comparison 2019/2020

December 6, 2019genkiware adminPrestashop

Since many of our clients asked us the opinions about different eCommerce platforms, we make up my mind to do research and find out the pros and cons of each platform. We wish this table can help you to get a distinct idea which eCommerce is appropiate on your business.

Features	Prestashop	Magento	Shopify	WooCommerce
License Type	open source	(openSource as Community) / (Enterprise)	subscription basis & centrally hosted	open source
Platform Type	On-Premises (host anywhere), PaaS (host in France)	On-Premises (host anywhere), PaaS (host in US)	SaaS (host in US)	On-Premises (host anywhere), PaaS (host in US)
Program Language	PHP, Symfony, HTML, CSS, JavaScript	PHP, Symfony, HTML, CSS, JavaScript	Liquid for template editing and HTML & CSS	HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript
Database	MySql / PhpAdmin	MySql / PhpAdmin	Access through API	MySql / PhpAdmin
Language Support	65	56	20	180
Customization	Flexible because of open source	extensively Flexible because of open source	Limited customization because of closed platform	Flexible because of open source
SEO function	Fair	Extensive	Great but not flexible	Great but need Plugin
Cost	As cheap as $6/month from godaddy	Community (US$6/month from godaddy), Enterprise (US$18,000/year)	(Basic US$29/month with 2.9% + 30¢ per online transaction), (Advanced US$299/month, with 2.9% + 30¢ per online transaction)	As cheap as $6/month from godaddy
Theme Editing	drag-and-drop with page builder and easy theme editing	drag-and-drop with page builder and need some program language as well	drag-and-drop and easy theme editing	drag-and-drop with page builder and easy theme editing
Installation Process	Easy	Hard	no user-installation required	Easy
Customer Support	community forum & partner	direct support only available with Enterprise version	direct support	community forum & partner
Ease of Use	Easy	Hard	Easy	Easy
Tech Knowlege requirement	Medium	High	Low	Medium
Plugin Cost	cheap (usually below US$250)	Very expensive (US$500 above is not rare)	expensive (usually monthly subscription basis)	Cheapest (free to $200)
Project / Business Size	small to large	large to huge	small to large	small due to limitation of blogging structure
Theme Cost	US$28 – US$89 in themeforest	$45 – $99 in themeforest	$24 – $69 in themeforest	$19 – $59 in themeforest
Multi Store	Natively support with some flawed, but improved in latest version	Natively support	Only Shopify Plus support	Natively not support
Customer Group like VIP, Basic, Vistor, etc	Natively support	Natively support	Support, but not a true customer group	Natively not support
System requirement	Light resource required	Intensive resource required, better to use dedicated server with modern linux kernel, recent Apache or Nginx web daemon, modern database and PHP versions too	no need to care	Light resource required
Scalability	Fair	High	limited because of closed platform	not native eCommerce skeleton, so hard to scale
Popularity	4	3	2	1
Number of Plugin	around 25,000	around 5,000	around 20,000	around 50,000 (including wordpress)

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