Category — 3 tools tracked daily

Best e-commerce platforms

Transaction fees and payment-processing rates sit on top of the monthly plan here, and they usually matter more than the plan once a shop is actually selling. Every figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date beside it. The ordering is cheapest entry price first — a basis you can check rather than a ranking you have to trust.

What “best” means on this page

“Best” is not a mood — it is whichever axis you actually care about, measured. Our record can say which tool is cheapest to start, whose free plan is real, who bills local currency and whose prices just moved; it cannot say which tool fits your work, which is what the full comparisons are for. Cheapest never means best — it means cheapest. Each verdict below names its axis, and every tool links to its own site so you can check us against the source. No vendor paid for any position.

Cheapest way inSellfy

Entry at $29/mo — the lowest published paid plan in this set. Cheap is a fact, not a verdict; the profile below says what you get for it.

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Bills local currencyShopify

Showed us different money in different countries on the same day — measured, not assumed. The profiles carry the figures.

Tool by tool

Sellfysite ↗pricing ↗

A storefront for creators selling digital products, print-on-demand and subscriptions without building a shop. Paid plans start at $29/mo (Starter); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $159/mo (Premium).

Shopifysite ↗pricing ↗

The dominant hosted e-commerce platform — storefront, checkout, payments and apps, rented monthly. Paid plans start at $29/mo (Basic); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at $2300/mo (Plus). It bills by country — entry £19/mo to a UK reader, from our same-day reads.

BigCommercesite ↗pricing ↗

A hosted e-commerce platform aimed at larger and faster-growing stores, with multi-channel selling built in. Paid plans start at $399/mo (Scale); no free plan is published.

Side by side

Tool	Paid from	Free plan	Currency	Read	Source
Sellfy	$29/mo	—	USD	2026-08-29	page
Shopify	$29/mo	—	USD	2026-08-29	page
BigCommerce	$399/mo	—	USD	2026-08-27	page

How this page is ordered: by lowest published paid plan shown to a United States reader on the dates given, so every row is comparable. No vendor paid for placement and no ordering here is influenced by commission. We also track Ecwid here but hold no named plan ladder for them in US dollars yet, so they are absent rather than converted or guessed. The method →