# The Shopify alternative that doesn't replace your website. > Shopify wants to replace your website. Shoprocket adds ecommerce to the site you already have - one line of HTML, 0% transaction fees, no lock-in. Shopify wants you to rebuild on their stack. Shoprocket adds ecommerce to the site you already have, in one line of HTML. [Start Free Trial](https://app-v3.shoprocket.io/signup)[See the real cost](#real-cost) 14-Day Free Trial No Credit Card 0% Fees 4.9★ Trustpilot 0% Platform fees Any Website 200+ Payment methods 21 Languages ● The honest answer ## Shopify or Shoprocket? Here's when to pick which. We're not pretending Shopify is bad. For huge brands with complex ops, it's excellent. But most people searching "Shopify alternative" aren't that person. 01 ### You have 10,000+ products. Shopify's catalogue tooling at scale, bulk editing, metafields, CSV workflows, is genuinely best-in-class. If your inventory runs into five digits, we're not the right fit. 02 ### You need POS and wholesale. Shopify POS for physical stores and Shopify B2B are mature ecosystems. If in-person selling or wholesale is core to how you operate, stay put. 03 ### You have a dedicated dev team. If engineers are on hand to maintain Liquid themes, build custom apps and wrangle the API, Shopify's depth becomes a superpower rather than a tax. ● The better fit ## Then there's the rest of us. You have a site. You want to sell on it. You don't want to rebuild, pay app-tax, or climb a four-tier pricing ladder. 01 ### Your site already works. Your brand, blog, portfolio, or landing page doesn't need to become a Shopify theme. Keep it, just add a buy button. 02 ### You hate fee-stacking. Keep your own payment processor on Shopify and every sale pays an extra 2% on Basic (1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced). Ours doesn't. 0% to us on every processor, ever: you only pay your payment processor. 03 ### You want to own your stack. No theme lock-in. No app-store tax. Export your data any time. Your content, your customers, your store. ● The real cost ## How the fees stack up. A $39 Basic plan gets you in the door. What you pay at scale is the real conversation. The Shopify ladder ### From $39 to $2,300 a month. Then the add-ons. Shopify's Basic plan tempts you in at $39/mo, but growth pushes you up the ladder: Grow, Advanced, and then Plus (from $2,300/mo). And the sticker price is only part of it: keep your own payment processor and every tier takes a percentage of every order, app-marketplace subscriptions, and theme upgrades on top. The number that matters isn't the one on the pricing page, it's what you're actually paying at scale. The Shoprocket answer ### One flat plan. That's all you pay. No revenue tiers, no transaction fees, no per-app subscriptions quietly stacking up as you grow. You pick a plan from $29/mo and that is what you pay, whether you do $1,000 or $1,000,000 in sales. The essentials (live chat, AI content, custom domain, real-time analytics) are included from Starter, not sold back to you as add-ons. The plan you subscribe to is the whole bill. - ✓ Same price at any sales volume - ✓ 0% transaction fees on every plan - ✓ Essentials included, never bolt-on add-ons Side by side ## Shopify vs Shoprocket. Every row below is a real difference, not marketing spin. Shopify Shoprocket How you install it Shopify Rebuild your site on a Liquid theme, configure products, pick apps, then launch. Shoprocket Paste two lines of HTML into the site you already have. Transaction fees Shopify 2% (Basic), 1% (Grow) or 0.6% (Advanced) on every order unless you move your payments to Shopify Payments. Shoprocket 0% on top of your payment processor. Ever. Plan range Shopify Four tiers from $39 → $105 → $399 → from $2,300/mo for Plus (monthly billing). Huge gap between plans. Shoprocket Four tiers from $29 → $49 → $79 → $199/mo. Tight ladder, 0% fees throughout. Live chat widget Shopify Shopify Inbox app or 3rd-party (Gorgias, Tidio), $20–$90/mo. Shoprocket Built-in live chat on every plan. AI auto-translates between you and the customer. AI content generation Shopify Shopify Magic, limited, mostly product descriptions. Shoprocket AI generates descriptions, meta, and translations across 21 languages. Product reviews Shopify Judge.me, Yotpo or Loox, $15–$60/mo per store. Shoprocket Built in. No extra subscription, no extra install. Email marketing Shopify Shopify Email (separate pricing) or Klaviyo/Mailchimp integration. Shoprocket Built-in email campaigns via Amazon SES. Editor + templates included. Affiliate programme Shopify Refersion, Goaffpro, or LeadDyno, $29–$119/mo. Shoprocket Built in. Track affiliates, pay commissions, done. Automated tax & nexus Shopify TaxJar or Avalara, $19–$150+/mo on top of Shopify. Shoprocket Auto tax across 90+ jurisdictions + nexus monitoring, built in. Apps & add-ons Shopify Most features (subs, reviews, translation, invoices, email) are paid apps, $20–$200/mo each. Shoprocket Subs, reviews, translations, invoices, email, affiliates, all built in, no extra cost. Themes Shopify Free themes are basic; premium themes cost $180–$350 each, one-time. Shoprocket 40+ themes included, plus a drag-and-drop site builder. Multi-language Shopify Shopify Markets add-on. Manual translation workflow or paid 3rd-party apps. Shoprocket 21 languages, auto-translated by AI, translatable slugs included. Your storefront Shopify Your content moves into Shopify. Your domain points at their platform. Shoprocket Your site stays yours. Commerce is embedded, not a replacement. Data export Shopify CSV exports for core data, but leaving Shopify is a project. Shoprocket Export customers, orders, and products any time. Leave whenever. Time to launch Shopify Weeks. Theme build + product setup + app selection + training. Shoprocket Minutes. Paste the snippet, add products, start selling. ● Switching ## Migrating from Shopify takes an afternoon. Your products, customers, and orders come with you. Your URL strategy keeps its SEO juice. Lunch-to-dinner. What comes with you ## Nothing gets left behind. 01 ### Your products. Full catalogue, variants, inventory, images, descriptions, SKUs, imports via CSV in a single pass. 02 ### Your customers & orders. Customer list with past orders, addresses, and tags moves with you. Order history stays intact. 03 ### Your payment setup. Keep the Stripe or PayPal account you already have. Nothing to re-verify, no lost processor history. 04 ### Your SEO. Redirect your {store}.myshopify.com URLs to your new Shoprocket-powered pages and preserve the rankings you've built. 05 ### Your domain. Keep your custom domain. Update DNS records once, and your new Shoprocket store is live on the URL your customers already know. 06 ### Your pricing rules. Discount codes, shipping zones, tax settings, and customer tags transfer with your catalogue. No re-configuring from scratch. The switch · 4 steps ### Export. Import. Embed. Redirect. Shopify has built-in CSV export for products, customers and orders, drop the files into Shoprocket and everything comes with you. Paste our embed on your existing site. Point your old {yourstore}.myshopify.com at the new store to preserve the SEO you already built. Done before lunch, and you're out of the app-store trap. 0.4s WIDGET LOAD 0% TRANSACTION FEES 28 LANGUAGES 15 MIN TO GO LIVE ● Switching questions ## Common questions from Shopify sellers. The honest answers. How do I migrate my products from Shopify? + Shopify has a built-in CSV export for products, customers and orders. Drop the files into Shoprocket's importer and everything comes with you, including variants, inventory, and customer history. Most stores migrate in under an hour. Will I lose my customer data? + No. Export your customer list (including past orders) from Shopify's admin and import it in one click. Your relationships move with you. Do I have to rebuild my site to use Shoprocket? + No, that's the whole point. Shoprocket embeds into the site you already have. Whatever you built on (Webflow, Squarespace, a custom site, even WordPress), it stays. You just paste two lines of HTML and start selling. What about the Shopify apps I depend on? + Most of them, reviews, subscriptions, invoices, multi-language, email marketing, affiliates, live chat, are built into Shoprocket at no extra cost. For anything niche, our REST API and webhooks let you plug in what you need without the app-marketplace tax. Is Shoprocket really 0% transaction fees? + Yes. Your payment processor (Stripe, PayPal, etc.) still charges their standard fee, that's the cost of moving money, but we add nothing on top. 0% platform fees apply on every Shoprocket plan, including Starter. What about Shopify POS for in-person sales? + Shoprocket is online-first. If physical POS is core to your business, Shopify remains the better fit, we're transparent about that. For online-only stores (or hybrid setups where online is primary), you won't miss POS. Can I keep my Shopify Payments / Shop Pay customers? + Shop Pay tokens are tied to Shopify's platform, so that specific one-click experience doesn't transfer. But your Stripe / PayPal / card-on-file data via these processors stays yours, you keep the payment processor, you just change what's on top of it. Does Shoprocket work for stores with 5,000+ products? + Yes, up to our plan limits (Business plan: 1,000; Plus plan: unlimited). If you're above 10,000 SKUs and rely heavily on Shopify's bulk editors and metafields, check in with us first, we'll give you an honest answer about fit. What about subscriptions, can I migrate them? + Recurring subscription customers need re-authorization when migrating between any platforms (this is a payment-processor constraint, not a platform limitation). We'll help you design a re-auth flow that preserves as much MRR as possible. How long does a typical Shopify migration take? + For a catalogue under 1,000 products with a straightforward theme: an afternoon. Larger catalogues or heavy customisation: 1–3 days. We have a migration checklist and can walk you through it if you need a hand. ## Ready to leave the ladder? 14-day free trial. No credit card. Migrate from Shopify in an afternoon. 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