Difference Between WooCommerce and Shopify

I read that WooCommerce is a free plugin in WordPress whereas Shopify is not free it's a self-hosted platform with drag and drop features.

But, is there any major difference between both of them or both are quite similar?


If any developer has experience with both of them? I need your suggestions

Thanks
A.

Hi @adamkostka90,
I'm using them both at my full-time job.

I'll try to write down a few features that should help you decide between them.

Shopify:
- self-hosted
- the payment system is already integrated
- you have access only to the front-end ( this if you don't want to write your own apps and connect them with your shop )
- there are not a big amount of custom fields and attributes that you could play with
- a bit hard to create unique product pages and add special features to your shop ( not impossible )
- your theme needs to be written using their own template system, Liquid ( luckily I had experience with Django, and it was very similar )

WooCommerce
- free, but! you need to pay for your hosting
- it doesn't look that professional unless you'll either rebuild the cart and checkout process or buy a theme that already did that.
- you need to do your own payment integration ( mainly, just activate a plugin and use stripe )
- you have full control over the template and you can write your own logic by creating custom functions and hooks inside the WordPress
- more easily to customize if you know how to write PHP code

As a developer, I would go with WordPress rather than Shopify, because this will give me more control, and it will be cheaper to run it.