Hey! Have you researched properly that the webstore builder you have chosen is appropriate for your marketplace current requirement, is potent enough to fulfill customer requirements, and is efficient and flexible enough to cater the future needs and marketplace requirements? No, then probably you should hold your thought of subscribing to that marketplace and list down your marketplace idea, map it with the user requirements, start again the research for an ideal web store builder and check it against your budget quotient as well.
There are various platforms that claim to offer features and services that would help the users create free eCommerce software. But only a handful of them enables the user to do it. Platforms like Nopcommerce, BigCommerce, Shopify, Sharetribe, CS-Cart, Virtuemart, etc. tend to levy heavy charges on the continuous use of their features with the passage of time and increasing audience at your marketplace. Moreover, BigCommerce will start imposing certain hidden charges on a few of the key features. Shopify and WooCommerce, are extensively relying on third-party extensions to fill in the gaps of their incompetence.
For example, you have to subscribe to third-party solutions to get your marketplace equipped with the capabilities to run a multi-vendor store. Hence, heavy constraints on your pocket. This may also leave you in debt if those features fail miserably to gain more ROI.
There are platforms like CS-Cart and Sharetribe that provide almost everything in their premium version. Every key feature which would have been given as an introductory feature in the freemium version to give a picture to the end-user about its feasibility and benefits of use for your marketplace will not be created. Thus a user who has researched less in terms of more competent web store builder options may feel bound with these as the ultimate options and may leave out subscribing to their poorly organized premium version. Moreover, CS-Cart has paid customer service even to hear out the inquiries and grievances.
When researching more about platforms that are open source, one of the platforms named NopCommerce popped out. NopCommerce could be one of the nightmares which has provision for some basic features but most of the advanced features are missing. This platform has literally abided by the term “open source” so much that the subscriber has to build everything on their own. There is no provision to define features that could filter the sellers and their offering based on the radius of the customer's location, no feature for the seller/vendor to state the store’s opening and closing time.
There are platforms like CS-Cart and Sharetribe that provide almost everything in their premium version. Every key feature which would have been given as an introductory feature in the freemium version to give a picture to the end-user about its feasibility and benefits of use for your marketplace will not be created. Thus a user who has researched less in terms of more competent web store builder options may feel bound with these as the ultimate options and may leave out subscribing to their poorly organized premium version. Moreover, CS-Cart has paid customer service even to hear out the inquiries and grievances.
When researching more about platforms that are open source, one of the platforms named NopCommerce popped out. NopCommerce could be one of the nightmares which has provision for some basic features but most of the advanced features are missing. This platform has literally abided by the term “open source” so much that the subscriber has to build everything on their own. There is no provision to define features that could filter the sellers and their offering based on the radius of the customer's location, no feature for the seller/vendor to state the store’s opening and closing time.
When talking of some dynamicity of the multi-vendor features, this platform fails miserably to give a relishing experience to the marketplace owner. They cannot define multiple sellers to sell a single product at multiple prices and stocks. They don’t even provide a built-in e-wallet. Hence, users either need to build their own or embed the third-party ones. You will feel so left out that when you get to know that they don’t even provide custom development services and you too don’t have a technical background or the sources to get the things done.
NopCommerce didn't even focus on making a website store builder that could help create a free eCommerce software that competes in such a highly competitive industry. There are barely any mediums to show your online presence via SEO/SMO. There are no features to Search keywords customization without code, to do Cache layer of search, Average second Search query time (within 2 M products), to do URL integration. They rely on third-party plugins for Google shopping integration.
Such drawbacks could incur in many web store builders like Magento. The question is, which is the best marketplace builder that overcomes all such challenges, provide a feature for each and every provision that one could think that should be there in their marketplace, provide customization facility, is open source, have well-defined documentation, have well-supported community support, have 24x7 freely available customer support, and much more?
Sellacious is the ultimate free eCommerce software development platform that is potent enough to let anyone create a b2b, c2c, b2c - niche or multi-vendor, single or multiple stores that could be PWA compliant and follows the omnichannel mode of operation, that too for free! Contact customer support to know more.
NopCommerce didn't even focus on making a website store builder that could help create a free eCommerce software that competes in such a highly competitive industry. There are barely any mediums to show your online presence via SEO/SMO. There are no features to Search keywords customization without code, to do Cache layer of search, Average second Search query time (within 2 M products), to do URL integration. They rely on third-party plugins for Google shopping integration.
Such drawbacks could incur in many web store builders like Magento. The question is, which is the best marketplace builder that overcomes all such challenges, provide a feature for each and every provision that one could think that should be there in their marketplace, provide customization facility, is open source, have well-defined documentation, have well-supported community support, have 24x7 freely available customer support, and much more?
Sellacious is the ultimate free eCommerce software development platform that is potent enough to let anyone create a b2b, c2c, b2c - niche or multi-vendor, single or multiple stores that could be PWA compliant and follows the omnichannel mode of operation, that too for free! Contact customer support to know more.
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