Platforms & Frameworks
Every Platform Here Can Run a Real Store
The differences show up later, in what it costs to change something: adding a B2B price list, shipping a new template, connecting the system your operations team lives in. That is the comparison worth making, and it is the one we help you make.
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Ecommerce Platforms
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Adobe Commerce
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Right when your pricing rules, catalog structure or ERP data are genuinely complicated and nothing simpler will hold them. Wrong when you want it cheap: it rewards teams who maintain it and punishes everyone else. Read the full overview.
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Magento Open Source
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The same engine as Adobe Commerce without the licence, and without the native B2B modules. Right when you want to own the code and have someone to look after it. Mage-OS, the community distribution, sits here too and our modules are tested against it. Read the full overview.
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Shopify
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Right when you want to sell quickly and let somebody else own uptime, payments and PCI. Wrong when your pricing is different for every customer, because you will spend the savings on apps that disagree with each other at checkout. Read the full overview.
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BigCommerce
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Hosted like Shopify, with more of the B2B basics included and fewer apps needed to get there. Right for a catalog that has outgrown a page builder but does not need Adobe Commerce. Read the full overview.
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WooCommerce
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Right when the site is mostly content with a shop attached and WordPress is already the centre of gravity. Wrong for large catalogs, where it gets slow in ways that are expensive to fix. Read the full overview.
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OpenCart
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Light, open source and quick to extend. Right for a straightforward catalog on a modest budget, and the platform we most often build payment modules for. Read the full overview.
Content Management Systems
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WordPress
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Still the fastest way to give a marketing team control of a site. We use it where content is the job and commerce is a bolt-on rather than the point.
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Drupal
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Right when editorial workflow, permissions and multi-site governance matter more than speed of launch. Heavier than most teams need.
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Joomla
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We maintain Joomla sites that work and see no reason to push a rebuild nobody asked for. We would not start a new project on it.
Development Frameworks
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Laravel
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What we build our own products on, which is the honest reason it is on this list. Right when the thing you need is an application rather than a store.
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Symfony
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The components underneath a lot of PHP, Magento included. We work in it when a project already lives there.
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Firebase
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Not a framework so much as a backend you do not have to run. Useful for realtime features and quick prototypes.
Choosing a platform
The platform matters less than who maintains it.
Every platform on this page is the right answer for somebody. Tell us what you sell, who buys it, and what your operations team runs on, and we will tell you which of these fits and which one will fight you.
The system behind the storefront
Picking the platform is half the decision.
If an ERP or back-office system holds your pricing, stock and orders, the storefront has to agree with it. That constraint decides more than the platform choice does.
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