Shopify Vs StoreHippo Headless Commerce

Stay ahead of trends by reaching your customers where they are. Use StoreHippo’s pure headless ecommerce solution to offer innovative and customized buying experiences to your customers. Unlike Shopify where you need to work with multiple technologies to optimize the performance, StoreHippo uses 250+ decoupled headless API endpoints to create customized buying experiences. Implement quick changes without compromising performance with StoreHippo’s decoupled frontend and backend. 

• Designed on a framework with headless commerce at the core of the framework 
• Stay competitive with multi-tier caching and extreme optimization for faster performance
• Create consistent and personalized customer experience with custom hooks and built-in events
• Think anything, build anything using headless commerce just like StoreHippo built its Admin Panel, Help Center, StoreHippo website and StoreHippo Forums 

Built on the premise of offering inbuilt, native solutions, Storehippo offers a well-rounded ecommerce platform . Manage and grow your business with a host of tools and features needed that take care of all your requirements. Unlike Shopify’s  premium-apps based architecture, get inbuilt support for decoupled headless commerce for B2B, B2C or out-of-box business models.

• 300+ inbuilt features and tools
• Native multi-vendor marketplace solution
• Inbuilt multi-store solution with a central admin
• Complete B2B solutions with whitelabelling

Get full multilingual support out-of-box  with StoreHippo. Unlike Shopify Plus where you need coding knowledge and multiple apps to create a multilingual site and theme, StoreHippo does not require any apps or coding. Implement 100+ languages on your multilingual store and use headless ecommerce to create a variety of customer touchpoints. Get support for bulk translation and rule-based translation with StoreHippo multilingual solutions.

• Arabic, Hebrew and other RTL languages supported
• Add multilingual static content and action buttons 
• Implement store-messages in multiple languages 
• Add multiple languages to your mobile apps 

Offer multi-currency prices to your global customers. StoreHippo offers an inbuilt multi-currency solution that does not require plugins or apps. Implementing multi-currency in Shopify Plus is limited to certain countries where Shopify payments are applicable. On the other hand, StoreHippo has no such restrictions and allows you to add multi-currency for any country. Implement multi-currency in themes and invoice also using StoreHippo solution.  

• Add multiple currencies with inbuilt solution 
• Use automatic and manual conversions
• Automatic currency conversion based on IP
• Payment gateway level automatic currency conversion

Reach new markets by building technologically superior stores that grow your business.Unlike Shopify’s complex technologies Liquid and GraphQL, create innovative user experiences with headless commerce using StoreHippo’s user-friendly and easy to use REST APIs . Go for event driven programming to do away with messy coding.

• Innovative solutions using widget based modular approach and client side templating
• Powerful templating engine for quick customizations
• Full control over store data and DOM
• ZERO javascript coding

8 out of 10 new-age buyers will not buy from you if your online store has slow speed. 1-second delay in site loading time can diminish your sales by 7%. Alternatively, a single second increase in site-speed can help you get upto 20% more sales. Build your high-performance selling touch-points with StoreHippo headless commerce to improve user experience.

• Superfast performance with <50ms average API response time 
• Scalable frontend and backend with inherent headless commerce decoupling 
• Peak load tolerance of millions of users
• Resilient to failures and recovery

Selling online is predominantly selling on mobile. Offer an unforgettable buying-on-the-go experience to your customers using. Build intuitive cross-device buying experiences using StoreHippo’s mobile first technology which is designed for the small screen. With Shopify, mobile is an afterthought and selling points built for smaller screens need lots of additional fine tuning. 

• MEAN-stack architecture with mobile-first design at core
• SPA builds fast and lightweight stores
• PWA stores that look, feel and work like apps
• Build mobile apps right from your admin dashboard

Maximize personalization with extensive customizations. Leverage StoreHippo’s inherent flexibility and decoupled headless commerce approach allows to tweak the platform inside out for creating personalized buying experiences. Unlike Shopify, no coding needed to implement a variety of customizations.

• Easily customizable frontend as well as backend
• Add custom entities or tweak the existing ones
• Customize design themes with inbuilt drag and drop tools
• Build dynamic pages in no time

Make your brand stay ahead of trends by offering personalized payment choices to your customers. Offer IP based, device based or customer group based payment alternatives to your buyers. Unlike Shopify’s additional charges for using payment gateway of your choice, StoreHippo doesn't add  hidden charges for choosing a preferred payment gateway.

• 50+ integrated international and domestic payment gateways
• ZERO additional multiple payment gateways or other payment options
• Discounted TDR for using selected partner payment gateways 
• Offer easier and frictionless checkouts with payment wallets, netbanking, offline payment etc.

Get transparent pricing  that includes a comprehensive online solution for various selling points. 

No additional charges for implementing headless commerce along with other inbuilt features and services. Go with a plan that suits your budget and get a one-stop solution to build cross-device buying experiences. 

• Auto-scalable model that grows with your business
• No additional cost to build mobile apps
• Free SSL for secure sites that create customer trust
• Save costs of hiring developers with zero coding architecture

Unlike Shopify where you need to buy marketing extensions and plugins StoreHippo offers a host of inbuilt marketing tools. Offer personalized buying experience using the headless commerce approach incorporated in the marketing module. Build custom marketing landing pages, customize notifications and use other marketing tools to strategize your marketing for higher ROI. 

• Add custom forms to collect personal  information for marketing 
• Offer device or IP login based discounted pricing
• Recover abandoned cart orders with inbuilt tools
• Automatic sync with popular mailing software

Get a seamless and automated logistics solution from StoreHippo to deliver anywhere, anytime. Deliver across 26000+ PIN codes by using multiple shipping partners that help you optimize your deliveries. Inherent headless commerce structure to help you integrate with as many shipping partners of your choice as you desire. Full support for COD delivery and payment options.

• Discounted shipping rates using partner logistics providers
• No added charges for using multiple logistics partners
• Integrate logistics providers for customized shipping operations 
• Inbuilt module to add and manage your own fleet of delivery boys 

Become the trusted and most loved brand in your city or neighbourhood using StoreHippo’s inbuilt hyperlocal ecommerce solution. Win your local buyers with quick and timely services using a  host of solutions for local deliveries. Use headless commerce solutions to make buying through various selling touch points as easy and engaging as buying in a real store. 

• Personalize shipping, taxes, discounts etc. with rules based on customer IP detection
• Ensure better deliveries by enabling Google map and SMS notifications
• Make deliveries faster with automatic order routing
• Build multilingual store to engage customers in their native language 

Inbuilt “audit log” feature of StoreHippo ensures additional security for your various customer selling points. Get added protection from changes to one selling channel being accidentally or intentionally mixed up with changes across all channels. Revert damages or accidental changes using detailed “audit trail” feature. Unlike Shopify which lacks these must-have features, StoreHippo ensures your security at every step. 

• Monitor and track potential security breaches
• Get detailed report on updates and versions of edits done through your dashboard
• Search and tracking down errors or malicious changes 
• Identify “updated data” and compare it with the unchanged version to check unwanted changes