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Shopify vs. WooCommerce

Shopify · shopify.com Free Beginner

Shopify's own comparison page is unavoidably self-interested, but it's the clearest side-by-side of the structural difference that actually matters - hosted-and-managed versus self-hosted-and-owned - before you get lost in feature lists.

  • Shopify is a fully hosted SaaS platform; WooCommerce is a free plugin you self-host on WordPress and are responsible for maintaining.
  • Shopify bundles hosting, security, PCI compliance and updates into the subscription; on WooCommerce you or a developer own all of that.
  • Read platform vendor comparisons for the structural facts, then cross-check the opinionated claims against independent sources.
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It answers 2 questions

  1. Shopify or WooCommerce for my first store in India?
  2. Shopify, WooCommerce, Dukaan or Zoho Commerce - which fits a bootstrapped Indian D2C brand?

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  4. An honest, India-first review of Dukaan that doesn't oversell it - useful precisely because it names where Dukaan is genuinely... kripeshadwani.com Article Dukaan App Review: A Cheap Shopify Alternative Kripesh Adwani
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