Author: Bogdan Rancea

The ultimate Shopify $1 offer is back! If you’re ready to launch a new ecommerce store, you can now access Shopify’s plans for just $1 per month for the first three months.

If you’re familiar with Shopify (one of the best ecommerce platform providers in the world), you probably know they’ve offered this deal before.

However Shopify deals change quickly. For instance, between January 2024, and November 2024, you could only take advantage of the $1 for one month.

When comparing website builders and e-commerce platforms Squarespace and BigCommerce always come up. I’ve done the testing and comparison so you can see which one wins in each category.

Squarespace is known for its beautiful high res themes and ease of customization so if design is your top priority. BigCommerce has big inventory and international sales support and a ton of payment gateways and no extra transaction fees.

With over 200 hours researching and testing 15 of the best platforms for selling art online, our team has shortlisted the top picks for every type of artist, from beginners listing their first print to established painters building a serious collector base. Shopify is our number one choice for long-term growth, giving artists full control over their brand, pricing, and customer relationships. But the right platform depends heavily on where you are in your art business journey.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the pricing, commission structures, and real drawbacks of each platform so you can find the right fit, whether you’re selling originals, prints, or digital work.

Shopify and Bluehost take fundamentally different approaches to ecommerce.

One is an all-in-one platform built for selling online, the other is a web host you pair with WordPress and WooCommerce to build a store from the ground up. I’ve spent considerable time analyzing both options to help you figure out which makes sense for your business.

As a result of our testing, Shopify is the stronger choice for most ecommerce-focused businesses. It handles hosting, checkout, payments, and security under one roof, so you can focus on selling rather than managing infrastructure.

Bluehost, paired with WooCommerce, is better suited for people who want deep control over their WordPress stack and are comfortable handling more of the technical work themselves.

What is Stan Store? At a glance, it might seem like just another link-in-bio tool; that’s what I thought before I started experimenting with the platform myself. However, Stan Store is a little more comprehensive than most of the monetization tools I’ve seen for content creators.

Stan Store is a focused monetization tool for creators who want to sell digital products, courses, and coaching directly from their social media bio, and it’s fast to set up. It won’t replace a full ecommerce platform, but with 0% transaction fees, built-in email marketing, and the new AutoDM feature, it punches above its weight for digital-only sellers. Not ideal if you need physical product support or advanced customization.

Primarily, it allows you to create a store page where you can sell digital products to your social media profiles. However, you can also use Stan Store to create and sell unlimited courses, promote subscriptions, design email campaigns, and more.

I’ve experimented with a lot of Shopify apps over the years, from tools designed to enhance marketing campaigns, to solutions for content generation.

In this Kopy Shopify app review, I’m going to show you why Kopy is one of my favorite products for resellers and dropshippers.

Kopy is an AI-powered app that saves you time creating product pages for your store. Rather than having to manually input data, you can simply “copy” product information from any location, edit it to match your brand strategy, and even translate content for different customer groups.

The fact that I’m writing this comparison guide shows how far we’ve come in the ecommerce landscape. Not only do we have more advanced ecommerce platforms than ever before, offering access to omnichannel selling, AI, and powerful automation tools – we now have platforms designed explicitly for specific types of sellers.