Shopify has quickly catapulted itself as the leading cloud-based solution for online stores and retail point-of-sales systems. It now powers over 600,000 businesses and has more than $82 billion in sales.

In less than 15 years, Shopify has drastically affected the way businesses sell their products online. We’re seeing an increasing amount of new merchants use this tool to power their stores. Small to large scale businesses are leaving legacy systems and moving towards something better.

Here is a list of 10 Reasons why your business should move to Shopify.

An All-In-One Ecommerce Solution

Shopify is an ecommerce platform that combines hosting, cart functionality, security and sales channel integrations into one complete package. This can save a significant amount of time, money, and energy while building an online storefront for your business. By substantially limiting your investment, you’re able to compete on a larger scale with less operating costs.

Ease of Use

Shopify stands apart from the competition with an easy-to-use and intuitive backend interface. With a comprehensive dashboard, you’ll have a better understanding of sales, orders, and the audience you’re marketing your product towards. Their built in drag-and-drop store builder will help you customize colors, imagery, and fonts with little to no design/development knowledge.

App & Theme Stores

With the Shopify App Store you can easily integrate additional features and functionality. They have over 2,200 apps to help you start, manage, and grow your business. A couple of popular app extensions used in the marketplace are Mail Chimp, Yotpo Reviews, Bold Subscriptions, and Shogun Page Builder. They all have their own unique purposes and can help solve a variety of business problems. Shopify has a bunch of free and premade themes to choose from. You can easily browse by industry and find a theme that matches the look and feel of your business.

Security

Shopify is very serious about securing hosting and account information. They’ve invested a significant amount of time and money obtaining their Level 1 PCI certification. This industry-leading security covers your online store, shopping cart, and hosting.

Reliability

Shopify servers have a 99.8% uptime rate and unlimited bandwidth to handle an increase in traffic loads. With ongoing platform maintenance to reduce downtime you can stay at ease knowing that your business is running smoothly.

Support

Shopify’s support team is available 24/7 by email, live chat, and phone. Shopify experts can easily troubleshoot problems and find the best solution for you. Their help center includes resources and tutorials to help you get started and sell your products.

Scalability

The ability to scale a business is imperative for success. With Shopify Plus an enterprise-grade solution is available when you need it. Once enrolled, you’ll be assigned a dedicated Merchant Success Manager. They’ll be able to define your business goals and position you for future growth.

No Hidden Fees

Shopify is completely open and transparent with their pricing plans. You’ll never receive a miscellaneous charge or be billed for something without knowing it. With plans starting as low as $29/month you can easily get set up with no long-term commitment. If you purchased hosting, security, content delivery and credit card processing separately you would easily spend over $100-200 a month.

SEO Friendly

If you’re migrating over to Shopify, your product URLs are more than likely going to change. You’ll be happy to know this will have little to no effect on your search engine rankings. With the proper preparation you’ll be able to create page redirects, minimize on-page changes, monitor duplicate content, and keep your page performance. Many retailers fail to realize that a replatform may actually improve SEO rankings. This an opportunity to use high-performing keywords, shorter URL strings, and a simpler directory with fewer levels of depth.

Peformance

Shopify is the first hosted e-commerce solution to include a CDN ( Content Delivery Network). Their CDN Fastly is an edge cloud platform that enhances web and mobile delivery by accelerating dynamic assets and caching changing content. By serving images faster, this can reduce traffic and improve your site's performance.

We’re seeing more and more businesses reduce overhead expenses and make the switch over to Shopify. Hiring a full-time development team to manage and maintain an ecommerce platform can be costly. As ecommerce evolves, we’re going to see more businesses embrace an easy-to-use cloud based solution for their online marketing needs.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Should Move to Shopify