Magneto is an e-commerce platform owned by Adobe. It is one of the top platforms in the United State and it’s increasing around the world also. It provides the users with to access the various features.

Shopify is also an e-commerce platform. It allows you to sell your products on Shopify.

Magneto vs Shopify – Differences

Apps

Shopify App Store contains more than 1200 apps for both free and premium holders. 

Magneto has more than 5000 extensions from which 1970 are free and 10% of the extensions cost up to $30 while all the remaining cost up to $2000. The prices may vary. The few apps which Magneto includes Multi vendor marketplace, Remarkety, Instagram pro, Facebook pixel etc.

Shopify Apps are easier to use and offer more specialised apps than the Magneto, whereas Magneto does not have that many extensions, it also requires coding knowledge to run installation.

Payment processor and Fees

A payment processor helps your store to accept online payments. Both Shopify and Magneto offer this facility of online payment, which makes it easy to accept the payment.

Shopify has its payment processor, so it does not charge any kind of fees on the payment, whereas Magneto doesn’t have its processor. It supports 150 payment gateways.

Magneto has better payment processor options because it supports more payment gateways rather than Shopify.

Support service

Support service is the much-required thing for the online store. It helps you to solve your problem within the seconds, then you will be able to make sales and it also attracts new customers. 

Shopify offers 24/7 phone and lives chat support. It also gives Email support and video tutorials. Also provides Social media support and specialist support.

Magneto is a user community-based platform that offers user guides that guide you step by step. It doesn’t provide any call or chat support.

Rather than that, Magneto’s support is much more helpful than Shopify’s because Magneto’s user guide has that much calibre that it solves your issues faster than Shopify support.

Transaction fees

Shopify charges transaction fees according to different structures. For Shopify basic, it will charge 2.9% + 30$ per structure.

For shopify, 2.6% + 30$ per transaction.

For Shopify Advanced, 2.4% + 30$ per transaction whereas, Magneto will not charge any transaction fees.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Search Engine Optimisation helps websites to increase traffic with organic means, without paying for the ads. 

Shopify needs to search and then install apps for the SEO, whereas Magneto has a wide range of SEO features which are previously built-in.

Pricing

Magneto is free to install, but you have to pay for its services. Both offer three types of plans according to their prices. 

Shopify plans:

Shopify basic, which costs $29 per month. Shopify, which costs $79 per month. Shopify advanced, which costs $299 per month.

Magneto plans:

The startup costs $9. 95 per month. Grow Big costs $19. 95 per month. Go Geek costs $29. 95 per month.

Easy to use

The platform, which is easy to use gains more sales and customers. Shopify is easy to use than Magento, you can easily customize your score. But Magento is somewhat difficult from Shopify. You have to keep the idea of coding if you want to change anything in Magento.

Both of them are the different e-commerce platform, which offers different plans according to your requirement.

Tools

Marketing tools are the things which a website needs the most. Tools help in providing better services. Shopify has excellent marketing tools which serve the best services, whereas Magneto depends on the marketplace for the marketing tools.

So by the above paragraph Magneto vs Shopify differences are clear.

Overview

Shopify

Shopify provides a wide range of apps. It allows you to sell on multiple platforms such as Facebook, Instagram etc. It provides a wide range of themes, and some premium themes also which costs are starting from $140.

Magneto

There will be no limitations for you in designing your store. It is suitable for medium to large businesses. This was designed in a very specific manner a person without any knowledge cannot use this. It is very difficult to install it.

Shopify and Magneto both provide different services to their customers but always provide satisfaction to the customers. In addition, they provide many facilities which help them to increase their sales. Shopify is the one which is used for buying or selling the products. But magneto is used for providing hosting plans for their websites.

What does Magneto use for?

Magneto is a kind of service provider which hosts the website for the customers and helps them to 

Which platform is the fastest E-commerce platform?

Shopify is one of the fastest e-commerce platforms on average.

Which has more rating?

The overall rating of Shopify is more than the Magneto in terms of apps, features, themes, support, etc.