Shopify and BigCommerce are popular shopping cart web applications.
Shopify is a good shopping cart application that grows with your business. It has a lot of features but you don’t have to use all the features at once. One of the best features is the Shopify App store. As your business grows, you can add more functionality to “manage and automate a lot of your business.” (Wong). It’s easy to use, has modern templates, and a point of sale system. It has five different payment plans, lowest starting at $9.00 per month, which include transaction fees but also a 14 day free trial so this allows you to play around with it before committing. The UX for both the customer and the seller is seamless which makes it easy to use on both ends. It was voted by PCMag as “Editors’ Choice for online shopping cart services.” (Rashid et al.).
Just like Shopify, BigCommerce has a lot of powerful features for any type of business, like adding more functionality through their app store as well as an easy UX experience. Unlike Shopify, it provide more ecommerce tools in their packages It also can integrate social media channels so you can sell products on Facebook, eBay, Google Shopping, and many other channels (Wong). Another great feature is that BigCommerce allows you to “import product databases from a comma-delimited file instead of making you enter each item individually.” BigCommerce has an extensive tutorial library as well as customer support so learning how to use the application will not be hard. If you want control over the site design, there’s an HTML editor, otherwise you can use the built-in edoort to create the storefront. It’s also constantly adding professional mobile templates. It has 4 different packages, lowest starting at $29.95, and a 15 day trail (Rashid et al.).