Shopify Plus Vs StoreHippo Wholesale Ecommerce

Shopify Plus uses a variety of third-party apps to handle the requirements and complexities of wholesale ecommerce. Alternatively, StoreHippo offers an inbuilt well rounded B2B ecommerce solution to automate your wholesale business end-to-end. Get a one-stop wholesale ecommerce solution that does not require additional apps to run and manage your business. 

• Tailor-made for wholesale and B2B businesses
• Manage business better with inbuilt and custom forms
• Pricing overrides and restricted login 
• Build brand identity with white labelling

StoreHippo offers native solutions to help your business keep up with the most successful trends of ecommerce. Get a host of enterprise-grade features that help you grow your wholesale ecommerce business. Unlike Shopify Plus’ multiple plugin based solutions, StoreHippo offers inbuilt solutions for complex ecommerce models which can be used to design disruptive business models.

• 300+ inbuilt features for large-scale businesses
• Inbuilt multi-vendor marketplace solution
• Manage multiple sub-stores with a central dashboard
• Detailed reports to strategize your business plans

Take your wholesale ecommerce business to global markets with StoreHippo's multilingual support out-of-box. No need for multiple apps or coding proficiency like Shopify Plus to build your multilingual site and theme. Add 100+ languages to your wholesale multilingual ecommerce store to do away with language barriers. Do bulk translation and rule-based translation with StoreHippo multilingual solutions.

• Support for multiple RTL languages including Arabic, Hebrew etc. 
• Add static content and action buttons in multiple languages 
• Show multilingual messages on your store for error, warning etc.  
• Build your mobile apps in multiple languages 

Make it easier for your international clients to pay in the currency of their choice by offering multiple currency payments.  No plugins or apps needed to implement multi-currency using StoreHippo. Sell in diverse currencies in any country unlike Shopify Plus which limits multi-currency operations to countries where Shopify Payments is applicable.

• Add automatic and manual conversions
• IP based pricing and currency selection
• Implement multi-currency in themes and invoice
• Automatic currency conversion at payment gateway level

A  delay of 1 second in page load time takes down conversions by 7%. Also, a 1-second upgrade in page load time takes up conversions by 10% to 20%(Source: Google). For a wholesale business with $100,000/day in sales, this could swing either ways. A 1-second delay could mean $2.5 million in lost sales/year. While  a 1-second improvement can mean additional yearly sales worth $3.65 to $7.3 million. Give the best user-experience to your buyers with fast and conversion-oriented B2B ecommerce websites.

• Unmatched  average API response time of <50ms 
• fast-loading pages for guaranteed high-performance 
• Inherently scalable infrastructure for peak-load tolerance
• Resilient to failures and recovery

70% of wholesale and B2B searches begin on a mobile device. 42% of the revenue of big enterprise brands comes through the mobile channel. Mobile sales are quicker and speed up large-volume purchase processes by up to 20%. Shopify Plus has developed mobile ecommerce solutions as an afterthought while StoreHippo has the mobile-first approach as its core design goal. Race ahead of competition by offering a memorable mobile experience to your customers.

• MEAN-stack architecture based on mobile-first  principle
• Create lightweight and superfast sites with SPA
• Build PWA stores that work like apps on all devices 
• CDN and offline caching for unmatched user experience

Build your wholesale ecommerce store with the technology that makes you future-proof. The simple DIY StoreHippo B2B ecommerce platform eliminates the need of learning complex as with Liquid-based Shopify Plus. StoreHippo offers a wholesale ecommerce solution that offers better user experience with personalized content and lightweight backend. Experiment with your frontend or backend using a widget-based modular approach.

• ZERO javascript coding
• Client-side templating  
• Full control over store data and DOM
• Powerful templating engine

Take your business where your customers are with StoreHippo’s headless ecommerce solutions. Unlike Shopify Plus where you have to learn a combination of technologies to implement headless ecommerce solutions using Storefront APIs, Storehippo offers 250+ API endpoints built on the decoupled headless approach. Make quick changes to the backend or the frontend without compromising performance with StoreHippo’s decoupled APIs.

• Built on a framework with headless commerce as the core design goal
• Multi-tier caching and extreme optimizations in the theme framework for faster performance
• Custom hooks and built-in events for offering consistent and personalized user experiences 
• Build out of box products like StoreHippo built its Admin Panel, Help Center, StoreHippo website and StoreHippo Forums using headless commerce 

Build customized wholesale online stores using StoreHippo B2B ecommerce platform. Implement extensive customizations to build innovative wholesale ecommerce business models using StoreHippo flexible ecommerce platform. No need to learn coding as with Shopify Plus to customize your B2B portal powered by StoreHippo. 

• Easily customizable frontend and backend 
• Build customize themes with drag and drop tools
• Tweak existing entities or make custom entities 
• Create dynamic pages without any coding

Choose your preferred payment gateways without worrying about paying additional charges for using third-party providers as with Shopify Plus. Get a clear and transparent transaction charge structure for using single or multiple payment gateways. No monopolizing payment gateways services like Shopify Payments. With StoreHippo there is no bar on using one or many of the pre-integrated payment partners or any custom payment gateway you choose.

• 50+ integrated domestic and international payment gateways
• Discounted TDR on select partner payment gateways
• No extra charges on multiple payment gateways integration
• Zero sales commission on orders up to 200 times of subscription value

Pay an all inclusive subscription charge that offers transparent pricing. Get the most advanced and complete wholesale ecommerce solution at a competitive price as compared to Shopify Plus cost along with multiple apps cost. Choose from the various plans that are designed to suit various phases of wholesale ecommerce businesses. 

• Auto-scalable B2B ecommerce platform 
• Cost-saving with DIY platform that doesn’t require big technical team 
• Free SSL for all your sub-stores
• Build your mobile apps at no additional cost

Implement a variety of marketing strategies using StoreHippo B2B ecommerce platform’s inbuilt marketing tools. No need to find, pay, integrate and sync multiple third-party marketing apps like Shopify Plus. Combine StoreHippo’s powerful discount engine along with inbuilt B2B features to plan multi-tier discounts and promotions. Build a strong online brand presence SEO-friendly StoreHippo B2B ecommerce platform.

• Implement personalized marketing with dynamic pages and custom forms 
• IP or login based discounts
• Auto follow up lost order with abandoned cart recovery tool 
• Integrate and auto-sync with popular mailing software

Use StoreHippo B2B ecommerce platform’s integrated logistics solution to reach out to clients in domestic and international markets. Go with the pay-as-you-go model with no upfront setup cost. Efficient and automated shipping module designed to minimize manual-errors in wholesale ecommerce businesses environment. Deliver across 26000+ PIN with COD support.

• Avail discounted logistics with selected shipping partners
• Add multiple logistics partners for optimized shipping
• Integrate domestic and international logistics providers of your choice
• Manage a fleet of delivery boys for your wholesale ecommerce business

Build a local client-base with StoreHippo B2B ecommerce platform’s inbuilt hyperlocal ecommerce solution. Rule the local market complete hyperlocal solutions from StoreHippo that helps in engaging and retaining clients. Build marketing strategies targeting a given location using insights generated through hyperlocal solutions. Streamline order deliveries with Google map and SMS notifications.

• Build and manage sub-stores with location specific inventory 
• Implement IP-detection based rules for shipping, taxes, delivery timing etc. 
• Optimize deliveries with automatic order routing
• Connect with customers’ in their native language with your multilingual online store

Enhance your wholesale business’s security with inbuilt “audit logs” of StoreHippo B2B ecommerce platform. Shopify Gold doesn’t offer an inbuilt audit log feature which leaves you blind guessing errors. Work for an easy recovery and error fix with StoreHippo’s documented protocol and audit trail that track down error and prevent intentional fraud.  

• Track and assess potential security breaches
• Monitor and track changes done by users through detailed reports 
• Contain damages by searching, tracking and troubleshooting issues
• Faster recovery by finding “updated data” and comparing it with the unchanged version