As someone who works regularly with the Shopify platform, exploring features, reviewing apps, and even helping to build and optimize websites, I always look forward to the company’s bi-annual “Editions” event.
Twice a year, Shopify’s “Editions” announcements give me an insight into the new innovations the brand is investing in, and its evolving strategy for enhancing ecommerce.
VTEX vs Shopify: Which is best? After reviewing both options, I think Shopify is the best solution overall. It’s far more flexible (and easy to use) than VTEX, and offers solutions for businesses from a range of different industries, alongside omnichannel selling capabilities.
VTEX is definitely a robust commerce platform, but it’s designed for larger enterprises with more technical experience. On the plus side it does have excellent omnichannel options, and features powerful AI tools to help boost your sales.
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Shopify vs Etsy Pattern: What’s the best option for your business?
The easy answer is Shopify. Although Etsy Pattern is an easy-to-use tool for building your own branded website, it only allows you to sell certain products, and limits your scalability. Shopify is a fully flexible and versatile commerce platform, with much greater functionality.
With Shopify, you get more advanced inventory and order management tools, a more powerful website builder, integrated marketing solutions, and the option to enable omnichannel sales.
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Shopify vs AliDropship: Which solution do you need? Ultimately, the answer depends on what you’re trying to accomplish.
If you want a comprehensive omnichannel commerce platform that allows you to build an attractive store, manage customers, inventory and orders, and leverage marketing in one place, Shopify is my number one pick.
If you want to launch a dropshipping business, selling products from AliExpress for a profit, then AliDropship is the ideal tool. It allows you to add AliExpress products to your existing website, with a simple plugin, or have a dropshipping store (integrated with AliExpress) built for you.
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Shopify takes between 2.4% to 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction when using Shopify Payments, depending on your subscription plan. If you choose to use third-party payment processors such as PayPal or Stripe, Shopify adds an additional transaction fee ranging from 0.5% to 2%, also depending on your plan. These fees can add up quickly, especially for high-volume stores, so understanding how they work is crucial to maintaining healthy profit margins.
The exact fee Shopify takes from each sale is tied directly to your monthly subscription plan. As of 2025, Shopify offers Basic, Grow, and Advanced plans, along with Shopify Plus for enterprise-level businesses. Each plan comes with its own transaction fee rates, monthly subscription cost, and features. Knowing how each fee works—and when it applies—can help you make smarter financial decisions as you grow your ecommerce store.
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Did you just see an exciting product on a Shopify website and want to purchase it? It has happened to me so many times.
Shopify stores look great and their products are displayed in an exciting way. So much so that I’m totally compelled to buy them.
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For this Be Yours Shopify theme review, the Ecommerce-Platforms team took a behind-the-scenes look at the features, styles, and unique components of the popular premium theme choice.
Designed by the experts at “RoarTheme”, the Be Yours theme is a highly versatile choice for store owners.
Like most premium themes it’s ultra-fast and responsive, but it also comes with a range of different styles to choose from, and unique features, like an age verifier and countdown timer.
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Shopify launched in 2006, rolling out its first secure shopping cart system a year later. Since it began, Shopify has processed a whopping $886 billion in eCommerce sales, and today, there are more than 4 million Shopify stores worldwide.
Brands using Shopify range from small ecommerce outlets to bigger and better-known businesses, including those fronted by celebrities.
Interestingly, over half of Shopify stores enjoy repeat purchases, with the average customer buying 3.8 times from the same store. Perhaps that’s just one of the many reasons it’s such a popular choice among ecommerce merchants.
Given its phenomenal success, I thought we’d look at some bigger brands using Shopify.
Interested? Great! Keep reading.
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