Everything Shopify charges extra for, built in.
Shopify is a great storefront. But running a real business on it usually means a stack of paid apps and a 2% surcharge unless you use Shopify Payments. BestWebby ships POS, insights, recalls, and live shopping in the core — and keeps your payments in your own gateway with 0% added platform fees.
An honest take
Where Shopify genuinely wins: a massive third-party app and theme ecosystem, a huge partner network, years of scale battle-testing, and Shopify Payments / Shop Pay’s polished checkout reach. If you want the largest plugin marketplace on earth, that is Shopify. BestWebby’s bet is the opposite — fewer apps to buy and wire up, because the depth is already in the platform.
Built in On the roadmap Not available / paid app
The math
A store doing $10,000/month in sales
Figures use Shopify’s published Basic plan ($105/mo billed monthly), its 2% fee for non-Shopify-Payments gateways on $10k of sales, Shopify POS Pro ($89/location), and typical subscription + loyalty app pricing. Your exact numbers depend on plan and apps — but the pattern is consistent: BestWebby’s value comes from not surcharging your sales and not selling the basics back to you as apps.
Moving from Shopify? We make it painless.
Import your products, customers, and orders, test on a staging domain, then switch DNS when you are ready — with zero downtime.