{"id":1980,"date":"2020-07-28T00:29:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2024-01-14T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T01:21:23","slug":"is-magento-a-shopping-cart-or-is-it-a-service-like-shopify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1980\/is-magento-a-shopping-cart-or-is-it-a-service-like-shopify\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Magento a shopping cart, or is it a service like Shopify?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Magento is an open source<\/a> platform that you can use to have an e-commerce<\/a> website. You can download it and use it on the web hosting of your choice. Shopify is a hosted website builder<\/a> – you have to use their web hosting if you want to use their website builder. Another option is UltimateWB<\/a> – it has a lot more built-in features, and you can choose to host there or download it and host somewhere else. You can compare the different e-commerce website builders in this comparison chart: E-Commerce Website Builder Comparison, software feature comparisons to create your online store<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related Posts: Magento: Overly complicated, buggy, bloated, and resource hog, reviewers say<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the Drawbacks of Using an Open Source Website Builder?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you ready to design & build your own website? Learn more about UltimateWB<\/a>! We also offer web design packages<\/a> if you would like your website designed and built for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got a techy\/website question? Whether it\u2019s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question in the \u201cAsk David!\u201d form<\/a>. We will email you when the answer is posted on the UltimateWB \u201cAsk David!\u201d section.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Magento is an open source platform that you can use to have an e-commerce website. You can download it and use it on the web hosting of your choice. Shopify is a hosted website builder – you have to use … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034,94],"tags":[1203,121,1251,960,1214,126],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-david","category-website-builder-software-comparison","tag-best-e-commerce-website-builder","tag-e-commerce-website-builder","tag-e-commerce-website-builder-comparison-chart","tag-magento","tag-magento-vs-shopify","tag-shopify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}