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antropy

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    We are planning on opening an e-commerce store for a few selected products such as laptops, tablets etc but more in favour of dropshipping. What platforms are recommended?
    We build e-commerce stores and always recommend OpenCart, feel free to contact us for an estimate: [email protected]

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    EcomAlistair

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    Shopify is going to give you the best turnaround time on getting started, and it's got a solid API which makes it REALLY good to automate, which I imagine would be a goal of yours if going with a dropshipping model.

    Even if one day you ended up with a Wordpress site (which as others have rightly pointed out, gives you more granular control), Shopify will help you prove-out your branding and growth efforts. Then one day you can either go Shopify Plus or custom Wordpress paying out of cash being generated!

    If you do go with Shopify, I encourage you to work from their base theme Dawn. It is lightning fast and has some nice features baked in.
     
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    YasmeenLondon

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    As others have mentioned, Shopify is fairly easy to set up and start, but personally, I prefer Woocommerce, it is free and has tons of tutorials and helpful content online on how to set up and customise.
     
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    Shopify is good one because you can get all solutions which helps website to performance well online like CDN (Content Deliver Networks) .... If you will add tons of image then also website performance will be good .... and thats why shopify charge monthly or yearly basis.

    You can go with your own website but we will not recommend woocommerce for long time because its taking much space in database. Opencart is good one ..... If you have long list of products then must use CDN to manage website speed. You can get many plugins (free/paid) which will help you to bulk import or export products ... Its a bit easy to manage list of your products and update them on regular basis. Own website invest one time .... Shopify will charge monthly.
     
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    fisicx

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    Wait, nobody recommended Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce?

    I find it superb in terms of what it can do.
    But of overkill for someone just selling a few laptops.
     
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