Storeware against the rest
Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace and Wix, every figure sourced and dated. Then what moves over, and what merchants ask first.
The bill
Each bill below is read from that company's own pages, and dated. Totals are a month's worth, in US dollars. On WooCommerce, the four extensions alone come to $576 a year, before hosting.
Free or Starter
Total Free, or $14 a month
Every feature the other bills charge extra for is built in here, on every plan, the free one included.
Basic
Total $39 a month
Before what needs a dearer plan or a share of each sale.
On Storeware instead Half of Shopify's price or less on every paid plan, no fee of ours on any order, and reviews built in.
the free plugin
Total $73 a month
On Storeware instead No hosting to buy, nothing to update, and the four extensions on their bill are built in here on every plan.
Core
Total $39 a month
Before what needs a dearer plan or a share of each sale.
On Storeware instead Stock alerts, subscriptions and basket reminders are built in here on every plan, and no order pays a fee of ours.
Basic
Total $25 a month
Before what needs a dearer plan or a share of each sale.
On Storeware instead No fee of ours on any sale on any plan, stock alerts that send themselves, and a free plan that can take real orders.
Core
Total $36 a month
Before what needs a dearer plan or a share of each sale.
On Storeware instead Our free plan can take real orders, where Wix needs a paid plan first, and no plan of ours caps stock alerts.
| What is compared | Storeware | Shopify | WooCommerce | BigCommerce | Squarespace | Wix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest plan that sells, paid monthly | Free, or Starter at $14 a month | Basic, $39 a month | Free plugin | Core, $39 a month | Basic, $25 a month | Core, $36 a month |
| A fee of theirs on each order | No fee of ours | 2% of each order, unless you use Shopify Payments | None | 2% of each order, unless you use their own payment providers | 2% of each sale on Basic | None on product orders |
| Trying it | Free plan, no end date | 3 days, then a plan | Free software | 15 days, then a plan | 14 days, with no payments taken | Free plan cannot take payments |
| Product reviews | Built in, every plan | Through an app | Built in | Built in | Built in | Their own app, free |
| Back in stock alerts | Built in, every plan | A workflow you set up yourself | $59 a year, an extension | Through an app | From Core, $39 a month, sent by hand | Capped each month on Core |
| Subscriptions | Built in, every plan | Their own app, free | $279 a year, an extension | Through an app or a payment provider | Built in | Built in |
| Gift cards | Built in, every plan | Built in | $79 a year, an extension | Built in | Built in, digital only | Built in |
| Emails about a basket left behind | Built in, every plan | Built in | $159 a year, an extension | From Growth, $105 a month | Built in | Built in |
| Hosting and updates | Included, with updates | Included | Yours to buy and update, from $25 a month | Included | Included | Included |
Card processing is left off every bill, ours included. On ours it is Stripe’s standard fee, passed on at cost.
Compare the plansMoving over
Run the exports in your own Shopify admin and drop the files in. We read 5 kinds of export.
Each paid plan starts at half of the Shopify plan it stands against, or less. No fee of ours on any order, and the free plan has no end date.
Card processing is Stripe's standard fee, collected with each payment and passed to Stripe at cost.
See prices in your currencyDrop your Shopify products export on the page and see how many of your products a shopper's question could find. Nothing is uploaded.
Check your catalogueEvery plan is open to AI agents. What changes is how many shops and product images you can hold, and how much of the work is done for you.
Compare the plansA robot shopper can pay a shop in USDC, a digital coin that tracks the US dollar. This applies only on a shop that has opted in, with a verified deposit address, for a basket priced in US dollars.
Read how software paysNo. You describe your shop, we draft it, and you edit it in the admin the way you would edit anything else. There is no theme language to learn and nothing to set up first. When you want more, developers can add it through apps built on our API.
There are four plans and every one of them is open to AI agents. The free one has no end date, paid plans start at $14 a month, and none of them adds a fee of ours to your orders. Each paid plan starts at half or less of the Shopify plan it stands against, and the pricing page shows the whole ladder in your own currency.
Shopify's Basic plan is $39 a month, paid monthly, and a Basic shop paying through anyone but Shopify Payments gives up 2% of each order on top. Our Starter plan is $14 a month, and no order pays a fee of ours. The bill on this page says where each figure was read, and on what day.
WooCommerce is free, but its own extensions for subscriptions, gift cards, basket reminders and stock alerts come to $576 a year, and hosting is yours to buy and keep updated. Squarespace takes 2% of each sale on Basic, BigCommerce takes 2% of each order unless you use its own payment providers, and Wix's free plan cannot take a payment. Here all of those features are built in on every plan, the free one included, and no order pays a fee of ours.
Yes to both. The shop runs on your own domain, and your product web addresses stay exactly as they are, so the links Google already has keep resolving. The one honest exception is collections. Shopify has no collections export and nothing in the products export names one, so yours are rebuilt here rather than copied, and a rebuilt collection lives at the address its own title implies.
You do. Shoppers pay your business directly, through a payments account in your name that Stripe processes, with no fee of ours on top, so you are the merchant of record and no balance of yours sits with us. If we ever suspend a shop, its payouts pause until that is settled. Switch tax on and it is worked out per order on that same account, so what you owe is yours to file rather than ours to reconcile. Your shop front carries no badge of ours: no favicon, no wordmark in the corner, nothing.
Mark a gap as dealt with and the thing that shopper needed joins the hints your catalogue is read against, and the products that turned them away are read again with it. A shop whose customers keep asking about waterproofing ends up with a catalogue that knows which of its products are waterproof. It is the one place here where the search feeds the catalogue instead of the other way round.
Not as a row of fields. A product carries a summary, the words people actually search for it by, its structured details, the questions customers really ask about it, and its place in a map of everything else you sell, drawn with 8 kinds of relation. That map is what lets an assistant answer "what would go with this" without making something up.
It is built not to. Answers about your delivery terms, returns window or sizing are drawn from your own pages and come back naming the page they rest on, so you can check them. Any amount in an answer is checked against your real settings rather than the paragraph it turned up in, and one we cannot verify is reported rather than repeated. The product writer is never shown a price at all, because a figure that reaches a language model has a way of reappearing in the copy it writes, and "at this affordable price" is wrong the moment you run a sale.
No. The model is never asked for a figure. It is handed the numbers and asked what changed, and it has to name which measure it is talking about from a fixed list. The figure is put back afterwards from the analytics, and anything citing a measure that is not on the list is thrown away rather than shown to you.
Our side is ready. We answer the Agentic Commerce Protocol, with the specification committed to our repository and a test suite that checks our answers against the specification's own rules rather than our reading of them, and the Universal Commerce Protocol beside it. There is an MCP server, and a product feed built to OpenAI's commerce specification from the same data your own shop serves, so a draft product cannot be announced by us before you have launched it. Whether a given assistant buys this way is that assistant's decision, and it has changed before.
Start on the trial and move nothing. The import check runs entirely in your browser and uploads no part of your catalogue, so you can see what would happen before you commit to anything at all.
Be the shop it buys from. Free to start, no card needed.