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BestWebby vs Shopify

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, and recalls in the core — with live shopping and AR try-on available when connected — and keeps your payments in your own gateway with 0% added platform fees.

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An honest take

The honest tradeoff: Shopify grew up as a storefront with a third-party app and theme ecosystem, so matching a full operation on it usually means buying, wiring up, and paying monthly for a stack of apps. BestWebby takes the opposite approach — POS, subscriptions, B2B, recalls, inbox, and insights are already native in one subscription, so there is far less to buy and integrate, and your payments stay in your own gateway with 0% added platform fees.

CapabilityBestWebbyShopify
Money
Added platform fee on your own gatewayShopify adds up to 2% unless you use Shopify Payments0%2%
Bring your own Stripe (direct charge)
Built-in subscriptions & billingShopify subscriptions require an app Roadmap
Sell everywhere
Native POS (offline, split tender, PINs)Shopify POS is a separate paid productApp
Multi-location inventory
Marketplace sync (Shopify, Etsy)App
B2B / wholesaleB2B is Shopify Plus onlyApp
Live shopping studioRuns on LiveKit — available once your streaming service is connectedWhen connectedApp
AR try-onProxied to an external try-on service you enableWhen connected
Insights & operations
Business insights (grounded in your data)
Recommended actions you review and approveYou set the rules and floors; every action is approval-gated with an audit trail
Predictive inventory & reorderApp
Fraud scoringShopify Fraud Protect on eligible orders
Product recalls & regulatory export
Unified inbox with SLA & CSATApp
Ecosystem & extensibility
Depth without buying add-on appsOn Shopify the same operational depth is assembled from paid third-party apps; on BestWebby it is native and includedpaid apps
Custom-branded storefront themesShopify sources many themes from a paid third-party marketplace; BestWebby storefronts are branded and customizable out of the box
Custom domains & multi-site
REST API & webhooks

Built in On the roadmap Not available / paid app

The math

A store doing $10,000/month in sales

Cost lineBestWebbyShopify
Platform subscriptionCustom$105/mo
Added transaction fee (own gateway)$0$200/mo
POS subscriptionIncluded$89/mo
Subscriptions / loyalty appsIncluded~$50/mo
Estimated monthly totalCustom~$444

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.

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