CMS for eCommerce: Magento, PrestaShop, and Shopify
The three CMSs that are possibly most popular right now are Magento, PrestaShop, and Shopify.
Magento started to take off in mid-2007, while PrestaShop did so one year later, and interest in Shopify wasn’t significant until 2011. The growth of Magento seems to have become stagnant since 2011, possibly due to the appearance of other solutions by other companies. Even though the level of interest in Shopify is still lower than the other two solutions, its growth curve is very promising.
Even though Magento and PrestaShop use a similar model in which customers install their solution in their hosting, Shopify opts for a SaaS model that includes hosting. It should be pointed out that both Magento and Shopify have created SaaS solutions, although so far they don’t seem to be very popular.
As regards the technology used, both Magento and PrestaShop use PHP and MySQL. In the case of Shopify, even though it’s implemented using Ruby on Rails, this is not relevant to its SaaS model. All platforms use an API that makes it possible to automate store processes, and even though this may not seem relevant for store users, it allows for greater flexibility when it comes to creating extensions.
As we have said before, one of the factors when it comes to choosing a system of this type is the existence of extensions created by the CMS creators or else by the community that surrounds them. In this sense, there are extension marketplaces for all three systems where you can find modules that cover practically any need and which are not given in the standard version.
It is just a view from my eyes. It is your choice where to go!
