Shopify Plus is a premium ecommerce platform designed to meet the advanced needs of high-volume businesses. With customizable tools and powerful management, Shopify Plus serves the biggest players in the industry, including Proctor & Gamble, General Electric, Budweiser, and Red Bull.
Shopify Plus' scalable solution provides flexibility without the need for extra costs for customization, personalization, and long delivery times, things that are often found on other platforms on the market.
The Shopify Plus plan is best suited for growing businesses with an average annual revenue of over $1 million. However, Shopify also offers options for all types of merchants, regardless of size. Click here to see all available plans and choose the best option for you.
Based on page Shopify Plus official website , we have compiled all the platform's benefits and differences in this article:
1. EASE OF USE AND SCALEABILITY
“ SELL EVERYWHERE AND MANAGE EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE!”
- Shopify Plus offers full omnichannel selling built right in, without the need for additional customization and coding costs. You can unify your sales, strategies, data, and insights from retail + online channels all in one place.
- Grow your global audience across 100+ social media channels and 80+ online marketplaces.
- Use Shopify POS to sell virtually anywhere, including marketplaces, brick-and-mortar stores, and pop-ups, with loyalty program integration, unlimited catalog, inventory, checkout, team and customer management, and a fully synchronized checkout!
- Manage both sides of your business from one store! You can choose between a single online store for your direct and wholesale business or a dedicated B2B store;
- Shopify Plus gives you the support you need to simplify your global business expansion. Sell globally in minutes with localized currencies, languages, and experiences across all markets;
- Give customers flexible purchasing options like subscriptions, try before you buy, and pre-orders;
2. PERSONALIZATION
“MAKE YOUR E-COMMERCE STAND OUT BY CREATING UNIQUE EXPERIENCES FOR YOUR CUSTOMER”
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, major brands on Shopify Plus have created over 27,000 discount codes using Shopify Scripts to creatively streamline and automate their online store checkouts.
Shopify Scripts are snippets of code that allow you to create personalized experiences for your customers in the cart and checkout. Additionally, with the Script Editor app, you can edit these scripts and include advanced and fully customized discount rules for your site, such as: Discount codes based on the customer's spending level, "buy one, get one free" promotions, free gifts with purchase, and more.
Another advantage of Shopify is that you can customize your checkout intuitively and develop stores using pre-defined themes created by experienced designers. The theme store has over 100 responsive and customizable themes designed for conversion. In addition, you can make instant changes with a drag-and-drop editor and more advanced customizations in Liquid, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
3. AUTOMATION
SPEND LESS TIME, DO MORE!
Running a business can be stressful and overwhelming. Especially if your store is growing and needs a lot of work. With Shopify Plus, you can have an assistant take care of the day-to-day tasks of your ecommerce business, giving you more confidence and time to focus on growing your business. With Shopify Flow, you can turn manual tasks into automated workflows across all your stores.
What makes it even better is that there’s no coding or development knowledge required to use Shopify Flow, and anyone, whether beginner or experienced, can use it. You can use pre-built automation templates or create your own multi-step workflow that connects to your apps.
Another exclusive automation app for Shopify Plus merchants is Launchpad . This app lets you automate any upcoming event or campaign, stress-free. You can easily schedule product launches across multiple channels, run marketing campaigns from start to finish, and review campaign performance in real-time. This is extremely useful for retailers during peak sales seasons like Black Friday.
- Schedule campaigns based on product tags, such as pre-order or high-spending customer;
- Automate inventory management for low-stock products;
- Automatically cancel high-risk orders or request a review;
Notify customers when sales start and wishlist items are back in stock;
With all these automation tools, you can increase sales and customer loyalty, as well as help you save effort and focus on what really matters!
4. PAYMENTS
“SAFETY AND EASE”
Shopify Plus lets your customers pay through 100+ international payment providers, installments, or digital wallets. With Shopify Payments, you can accept credit cards and other popular payment methods with a quick and easy setup, without the hassle of waiting for time-consuming third-party activations.
Additionally, Shopify offers accelerated checkout. Shop Pay allows customers to securely save their payment and shipping information for faster checkouts across any Shopify store, with top-notch fraud protection. This helps save your customers time when checking out, especially if they’ve already opted into Shop Pay on any Shopify store.
There are no third-party transaction fees for orders processed through Shopify Payments, Shop Pay, Shop Pay Installments, and PayPal Checkout. There are also no transaction fees for manual payment methods such as cash, cash on delivery, and bank transfers.
5. SPEED AND PERFORMANCE AND SAFETY
UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH AND WEB HOSTING. AT NO EXTRA COST
One of the biggest advantages of Shopify Plus is that the platform is designed for major players in the market and is fully prepared to handle high volumes of traffic and sales. With blazing-fast global servers, cloud-based infrastructure, and dual content delivery, merchants don’t have to worry about performance issues.
The platform optimizes website speed with automatic conversion to WebP image and SCSS.liquid minification.
Another important point is security, Shopify has a high level of data encryption, bot protection, fraud analysis, chargeback recovery and automatic reconciliation.
6. INTEGRATION AND EXTENSIBILITY
“INTEGRATE IN MINUTES AND CUSTOMIZE YOUR E-COMMERCE"
Shopify Plus allows retailers to integrate solutions into their e-commerce in a simple, plug-and-play way. The app store has over 8,000 certified apps from around the world with robust solutions to develop your business in all areas, such as logistics management, marketing, payments, among others.
Integrate existing systems like an ERP or CRM with Shopify APIs and SDKs or Shopify Plus Partners;
- Extend the platform with robust REST and GraphQL APIs;
- Work with Shopify Plus certified apps and partners to get custom solutions that scale with the world’s biggest brands;
- Offer custom discounts, shipping rates, and payment options with Shopify Functions;
- Make changes quickly with a drag-and-drop theme editor or dive into the code for advanced customizations;
The Platform also offers unlimited sandbox and development environments to test and build your store before pushing changes.
8. REPORTING AND DATA CONTROL
“MAKE SMART DECISIONS WITH DATA”
With advanced reporting, Shopify Plus lets you see your entire business’ performance in one place. You can create custom, integrated reports with advanced filters to show you the exact data you need, and get an overall analysis of your ecommerce business in minutes!
- Create custom reports for store activity, visitors, and velocity with built-in analytics;
- See sales performance across all your stores in one place, in real time;
- Go deeper by connecting Google Analytics;
9. ECOSYSTEM AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
PARTNER WITH ONLY THE BEST
Shopify has an ecosystem of over 2,000 engineers dedicated to building the world’s best commerce platform for you. There are over 195 Shopify Plus partners around the world who specialize in solutions for high-growth businesses and are handpicked for their technical expertise to help you unlock the full potential of Shopify Plus.
With 24/7 global technical support via chat, email or phone, Shopify also has an e-commerce expert Account Manager to help you from your migration to launches and successful strategies for your store.
10. PRICES
"DO MORE FOR LESS"
Shopify Plus does not operate on a fixed monthly fee basis. Instead, prices are customized based on your business's annual revenue or turnover.
With this in mind, Shopify Plus starts at $2,000 per month for standard configurations and integrations. This plan includes everything you need to manage and scale your business: B2B e-commerce, global e-commerce, open APIs, and up to 10 additional stores without the burden and cost of traditional commerce software. For more complex and high-volume business structures, the platform offers a variable rate option that adapts to your needs.
Important Update: Shopify Pricing and Fee Changes (Updated 03/07/2024)
The monthly fee will increase to $2,500 per month if the person decides to stay on the current plan. Additionally, changes are being introduced to the platform's variable fees, For online sales, the rate will be 0.40%. For business-to-business (B2B) sales, there will be a new rate of 0.18%. However, the rates for in-store sales will not change.
Special Condition: Keep the standard 2023 rates, opting for a new 3-year contract before April 24, 2024. Interested? Come talk to us!
How does migrating to Shopify Plus work?
Migrating a store can be complicated and cause you a lot of headaches, it usually takes 12 to 18 months to replace the platform with traditional software providers.
With Shopify Plus, it takes 3-4 months or faster. Shopify Plus offers a hassle-free migration plan with data migration tools, guidance through domain setup, redirects, product taxonomies, and documentation that lets you start selling in 90 days or less!
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