COMPARATIV

E ANALYSIS
OF B2B
PLATFORMS

-Aditya Nutulapati
Shiv Ratna
B2B PLATFORMS COMPARED

➔ WOOCOMMERCE
BIGCOMMERCE
OPENCART
MAGENTO
STORE HIPPO
SHOPIFY
 WOOCommerce
 Plugins can provide eCommerce businesses with fast,
reliable solutions for specific areas of functionality such
as
 live chat, payment methods, multi-currency,
optimisation, analytics, the list goes on (and on).
 WooCommerce is also open source, so developers can,
just like Magento OS, create highly customised
eCommerce website elements

Pricing: Free
 BIGCommerce

 Customisation is possible with HTML, CSS and PHP

coding, but will require a development partner to
leverage that level of customisation.
 BigCommerce offers powerful business features, such
as strong SEO capability, inventory management,
custom orders, offline commerce integration, catalogue
migrations, and CRM tools, with flexible APIs and
webhooks providing headless commerce shopping
experiences.
Pricing: Standard: 29.95$/mo -- For new e-commerce with limited sales
Plus: 79.95$/mo -- Marketing tools
Pro: 299.95$/mo -- Reports and extra features
 OPENCart
 Multi-currency, Subscription services, Multi-
language
 No cap on number of products/categories
 Order management
 Sales tax management
 Permission management
 Product catalogue
 Role-based permissions
 Analytics and reporting
 SEO
 Mobile app Pricing: Free
 Shipping management
MAGENTO

 Supplier Dashboard
 Supplier Microsite
 Message Supplier
 Quick order
 Request a Quote
 Supplier subdomain
 Email notifications
 B2B bulk order management
 Inventory Management System, Quotation Management system,
Supplier Reviews and Ratings etc.
Pricing: 399$ ( +79.80$ installation ) - Lifetime
 STORE HIPPO

 Tax Rule Engine

 Integrated Shipping
 Form builder
 Bulk Order Processing
 Pricing Comparison
 Enquiry generation form
 White labelling
 Pricing Overrides
 Multilingual Webstore
SHOPIFY
 100 Payment Gateways
 24/7 support
 Google Analytics
 Product Reports
 Inventory Management
 Product Organization
 Unlimited Products
 SEO product tags
 Traffic/Referral reports
Pricing: Basic Shopify: 29$/mo -- For new e-commerce with limited
sales
Shopify: 79$/mo -- For growing business online
Advanced Shopify: 299$/mo -- Advanced reports business
 BigComm. Shopify Magento StoreHippo WooComm. OpenCart
Pricing Affordable Affordable Expensive Affordable Free Free

Ease of Use Easy Easy Complex Easy Documentation be Easy to

explored understand

Hosting Cloud-based Cloud-based On-site, Third- AWS and On-site, Third- Any hosting
party, Cloud- Google Cloud party, Cloud-based service is
based permitted.

Security Highly secure Secure Depends on your Secure Depends on your Risky as third
standards standards party add.

Best for: Small and large Small shops Huge teams, with Small and large Usually preferred Easier for
shops that want a wanting to go lots of resources enterprises by small medium to small
streamlined online businesses size Business
ecommerce
experience
COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS:
● SEO Scores are of the order (high to low) Shopify,
Woocommerce, Magento, Bigcommerce. (98,97,95,91).
● BigCommerce is not as customizable as Magento and
Woocommerce.
● Ease of use order: Shopify, Woocommerce, Bigcommerce,
Magento.
● Magento requires having good technical skills.
● Scalability: Magento, Bigcommerce, Shopify, Woocommerce.
● Though woocommerce plugin is free, it should be paid for
hosting services.
● Shopify charges 2% extra on third party payment gateways,
which is not there in Woocommerce.
● Widely used: Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce,
Bigcommerce