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Should You Use WooCommerce or Shopify in 2025?

15 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube commentary (wise-echidna) comparing WooCommerce and Shopify for hosting online stores. The speaker contrasts Shopify’s bundled hosting and closed portability with WooCommerce’s flexibility to use any hosting provider (example: Cloudways), and compares theme marketplaces and costs (many WooCommerce themes priced around $49 vs Shopify templates that can cost $300–$400). The piece also briefly notes extensions (Stripe, Google) and ends with a CTA offering the full video link.

Questions this video answers

Yes — the speaker states Shopify’s plans include hosting ("comes with all the hosting embedded").

Yes — the speaker says WooCommerce offers flexibility to host on any hosting provider and cites Cloudways as an example.

About $49 each (speaker: "Most of them are $49").

They can cost up to $300–$400 (speaker: "They do get expensive. They can be up to 3 to $400").

Chapters

If you're building an online store, should you host your website on WooCommerce or Shopify? Now with Shopify it is self hosted. So when you do pay for a plan it already comes with all the hosting embedded within it or one system. You can't move your website, you can't migrate it. Now with WooCommerce you have the flexibility to host on any hosting provider. You can use something like Cloudways to set up your website. With WordPress and WooCommerce installed, really easy to do. You have full control over the back end and everything to do with setting up your website. Now in the WooCommerce marketplace they have hundreds and hundreds of themes. Most of them are $49. They've also got extensions, things like Stripe or Google. Now if we look at Shopify they have amazing templates, very premium professional. They do get expensive. They can be up to 3 to $400. If you want to watch the full video, just comment the word Cloudways and I'll send you the link to the full video.