all right today we're gonna go over the five ways magento destroys shopify we've used both
magento and shopify on hundreds of stores they're both great platforms but you have to use them for
the right cases some people will fit better into shopify and some people are going to fit better
into magento just depends on your store needs so today we're going to go over the five ways
that magenta absolutely destroys shopify if you need these five features then you're gonna want
to pick magento or shopify for sure so we've been doing e-commerce for 15 years now uh we've
worked with magento for the longest time and we've also worked with shopify so we have the
experience of both and we'll tell you today why you would pick magento or shopify but if
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that like button on this video it'll help us out a lot so like i said today we're going to top five
ways that magento crushes shopify i'll start with number five and go down to the number one reason
why you would pick magento over shopify so this is just a high level analysis of why magenta would
be better than shopify if you need additional help with picking platform please hit us up at
hyattiwdagency.com we'd love to advise you that's what we do day in and day out as far as helping
people decide what platforms to to go on design their store build it out for them and market it
and continue to optimize it ongoing to make you the most money online so if you're interested in
any of that kind of stuff hit us up at hi at iwd iwdagency.com so number five controversial items
if you're selling anything controversial online magenta would be the way to go
shopify can shut you down so for example if you start selling bat tacos online
and you're worried that someone might shut you down or someone might not be happy with the
content that you have shopify can shut you down it's a hosted platform they can just hit a switch
and shut you down where magento's open source you can go and take it and put it on your own server
wherever you want and they don't have the availability to shut you down now other people
potentially can shut you down as far as your register maybe your hosting company maybe your
credit card company as far as the platform shutting you down magenta doesn't have that
availability so that would be the the platform i would choose if you have controversial items
you know guns and ammunition pornography vape pen cbd there's a lot of products out there that you
know are controversial that you know shopify could shut you down they've done this in the past with
guns and ammunition there's a lot of store owners that had stores built on shopify shopify changed
their terms and conditions and these store owners had built their business on shopify for years
invest a lot of money in it and they had to turn around and and rebuild that on another platform
a lot of them came over to magento because of the flexibility so that's something to consider
the number four reason is the different types of products that magento offers versus shopify
shopify only offers one type of product basically a simple product magento offers over six different
types of products this allows you to do a lot of configuration and a lot of more complex things on
magento natively without having to customize it i walk through all the different products that
they have simple products they have configurable products they have virtual products they have
group products bundled products and downloadable products so all those different products you know
are treated differently in the administrative panel and then when you go to the front and then
you can see them differently on the front end as well all that's built in natively to magento
so for example just to talk about one type of product that you know magento offers is
the configurable product so take a shirt and you have the shirt sizes you have shirt colors
and you have long sleeves and short sleeves you know all those are simple products in the
administrator panel magento allows you to group them into one configurable product so that way
on the front end you can say i want a blue shirt small and long sleeve and the customer sees that
and they can pick their product on one product page but it sends it to magento as a simple
product it's inventory counts down but it allows that flexibility to be able to create those
configurable products in the administrative panel natively so you know each one of these different
products has different use cases and maybe in a different video we can go through them but it's
a very strong feature in magento magenta is really built for more complex type situations this is uh
the one of the reasons why you would want to pick magento or shopify if you have a lot of different
type of products number three is magenta's b2b and wholesale features so magento has a lot of b2b
and wholesale features built in natively shopify does not i think magento by far wins on this case
so one of the things that magento offers for an example is being able to do multi-store
so you could do one door for your retail customers and one store for your wholesalers but it all ties
back into uh one administrative panel where shopify doesn't have this you'd have to create
two different stores but also other features that are native to magento are the tier pricing you
order more items the pricing comes down you can do pricing by customer groups you could say these
whole sellers get you know 30 off of all products where all my retail customers get retail price or
whatever it is or you can even have different tiers where you have a premium wholesaler and
they get 40 off you also have extensions like iwd a b2b suite that we built and that adds a lot of
b2b features with you know one-click install it adds things such as an application process for
wholesalers to be able to apply to be a wholesaler and then get approved in the administrative panel
that offers a hub of all the features for the wholesellers to get into and be able to quickly
do different things such as product matrix where you can order different items really quickly quick
order tables you know upload orders using csv file create custom catalogs per different wholesaler
credit limits order approval process the list goes on and on we will create another video just about
the b2b features but magento by far crushes shopify when it comes to b2b and wholesale
it's definitely the platform you'd want to to go to if your main business is wholesale
if you're interested in b2b and wholesale definitely go to magenta also feel free to
hit us up as we do a whole bunch of b2b wholesale distribution sites we've kind of focused in it we
built the extensions on it we know that that landscape really really well so if you need
any assistance with that make sure to hit us up all right the number two thing is multi-store
so we covered this a little bit on number three with the b2b wholesale features but multi-store is
more than just you know adding a new store for b2b purposes it's even more than adding another store
because i have a different you know business or different product and tying it into one
administrative panel so maybe you have a clothing store and maybe have a tool store um or maybe have
the men's clothing store in a women's clothing store but also with multi-story you want to think
about international so i have an international business and i want a store front for canadian
and u.s or even france and they have different shipping methods payment processors taxes pricing
landing pages home page products all that type of stuff you're going to want to have control on the
store level and magento allows you to do this all the orders and all the information is stored in
one administrative panel this is one of magenta's strongest features it makes it being able to
customize it for international and other use cases very very well shopify lacks this feature and so
if you want to do this in shopify you're going to have to create different storefronts for each one
of them all with different administrative panels then you're gonna have to sync all your orders
and all your inventory somewhere else so it gets to be a real pain pain in the butt
if you're doing it that way so magento multi-store feature really awesome definitely one of the big
pluses that magento offers that's shopify does not alright so the number one reason why you'd want
to pick magento over shopify is the open source feature i love this feature this is my favorite
feature basically it allows you to do anything that you want to do magenta you can customize it
however you want you can build the look and feel however you want you can change the administrator
panel however you want the front end however you want you can change the checkout process you can
change whatever whatever you want to magenta you can do it and a lot of clients come to us and
say hey can we do this or that with magento it's not necessarily we you know say hey you can't do
it it's just how what's the best way to do it we always say we can do it let's just see what's the
most efficient way to do it is there an extension already out there is there a way to you know
customize it using some of the core functionality of magento but shopify on the other hand is
you're limited on what you can change there's certain areas of shopify that you cannot change
and that's because it's a hosted platform and they don't want you to be able to break it but
it also gives you a limitation of what you can do on shopify where magento is completely open
source and you can change anything you want on it so definitely a huge advantage for magento
especially for larger corporations that want to build their storefront how they want to build it
and for more complex stores that you have different use cases that you have to have
to make your business needs happen where shopify won't let you do that so anyways those are just
the top five reasons that we came up with uh why you would use magento over shopify
please comment below on what platform you're using if you want to give a shout out to your store
and you know why you use the platform you're using but anyways that's it for
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