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Reaction Commerce vs Shopify: What are the differences?
What is Reaction Commerce? API-first, headless commerce platform. It is an API-first, modular commerce stack made for ambitious brands and retailers. It’s service-based architecture is built to deliver flexibility and freedom at scale.
What is Shopify? Quickly and easily create a beautiful online store with Shopify. Shopify powers tens of thousands of online retailers including General Electric, Amnesty International, CrossFit, Tesla Motors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Foo Fighters, GitHub, and more. Our platform allows users to easily and quickly create their own online store without all the technical work involved in developing their own website, or the huge expense of having someone else build it. Shopify lets merchants manage all aspects of their shops: uploading products, changing the design, accepting credit card orders, and viewing their incoming orders and completed transactions.
Reaction Commerce and Shopify can be primarily classified as "Ecommerce" tools.
Some of the features offered by Reaction Commerce are:
- 1 million+ SKU catalogs
- Millions of price and inventory changes streamed per day
- Tens of thousands of orders processed per day
On the other hand, Shopify provides the following key features:
- Choose from 100+ professional themes
- Customize the look of your online store
- Start accepting orders in minutes
We devised SwiftERM to generate additional income from existing consumers on ecommerce websites. Available for those using Shopify, Magento, Woocommerce or Opencart, it runs in alongside (not instead of) existing email marketing software like Mailchimp, Drupal or Emarsys. It is 100% automatic so needs zero additional staff. It uses predictive analytics to identify imminent consumer purchases. The average additional turnover achieved is 10.5%. It is the only software in the world authorised to send Trustpilot to send product ratings in outbound emails. Developers and ecommerce retailers are invited to try to it for free, to establish viability this predictive analytics system is. SwiftERM is a certified Microsoft Partner MPN ID 6197468.
we've had alot of shopify clients and do alot of those website builds, but we decided a little while back to transfer any client possible to woocommerce, for our e-com web development, as there is alot more functionality available with zoo-commerce. you can have a look at our examples and even our own website in the link provided.
Pros of Reaction Commerce
- Open source2
- Headless API2
- GraphQL2
Pros of Shopify
- Affordable yet comprehensive23
- Great API & integration options14
- Business-friendly11
- Intuitive interface10
- Quick9
- Liquid3
- Awesome customer support3
- POS & Mobile2
- Dummy Proof1
- Nopcommerce0
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Cons of Reaction Commerce
Cons of Shopify
- User is stuck with building a site from a template1
