Neto is a very good ecommerce platform, but it has had a bumpy ride lately with new owners and and new name - it is now called Maropost Commerce Cloud.

This has lead a number of merchants to consider switching over to Shopify, so we have developed a Neto to Shopify migration plan that takes care of everything and provides a stress free upgrade of your online store.

We love WordPress and can honestly say that BA wouldn't be where it is without it. It's a brilliant system for informational websites, but we don't recommend it as an Ecommerce platform.

The main reason for this is that it was never designed to be used for online stores and it relies on plugins, such as WooCoomerce, to provide ecommerce functionality. So that means you have an open source platform running and open source ecommerce plugin. Both of which need constant updates and maintenance as well as separate hosting.

This leads to reliability and security issues as well as budget blow outs. If you have run a WordPress/WooCommerce store for any length of time you will know all about this.

With Shopify you have one platform that takes care of the content, ecommerce, hosting, security, reliability and much more. It is purpose built for ecommerce and has a huge support team ready to help.

So WooCommerce? More like BOOCommerce. 

Move over Magento, Shopify is the new boss.

Magento has been a major player in the ecommerce industry for many years, but Shopify came along and shook up the market and became the dominant force.

Shopify's SAAS model, its simplicity and unrivalled commitment to innovation and change has left Magento looking like a lumbering giant with an insatiable appetite for developers.

One particular part of the ecommerce market that Magento traditionally dominated was the enterprise level. But Shopify, and in particular, Shopify Plus has come in and massively disrupted the market - in a good way - to the extent that you are now very unlikely to find an international clothing brand, say, that doesn't use Shopify Plus.

So, if you want to improve your ecommerce setup, simplify, grow, save costs and get the latest features it might be time to ditch Magento and jump ship to Shopify.

BigCommerce is a great ecommerce platform - we've built some awesome sites using it. But it is no Shopify.

As a business, Shopify is more that 10xee bigger than BigCommerce and with this size comes an incredible amount of investment in development. Shopify just gets better and better, as new features and tools are rolled. 

What this means for a merchant is that if you want to use the latest and the best ecommerce platform it has to be Shopify.