Comparision b/w Online marketplace and open-source ecommerce

platform

Features Online ecommerce Hosted open source Self-hosted open

platform platform source platform

Registration Select your online Sign in and select a Buy a Domain and
marketplace, Sign in membership plane install your desire
and register yourself according to your CMS and upload
business coding file

Price Have a fix monthly and Buying domain + Price vary domain to
yearly prime plane install apps {high domain, hosting, ssl
Price} certificate, apps and
plugin, Business email
{higher price}

commission Pay fix commision Commission based No commision

Marketing Less effort on advertise Store owner take care Store owner take care
also support celler help of advertise, lead of advertise, lead
generation/nurturing generation/nurturing

Traffic Huge Target audience Need to attract traffic Need to attract traffic
at marketplace, by different channels, by different channels,
built-in search engine SEO, Email SEO, Email
marketing,SEM.. marketing,SEM.

Security/PCI High Secure your High Secure your Vulnerable security

Transaction and data Transaction and data

Trustability market place feels Little Effort to feel Effort to feel comfort
comfort to buyers comfort and trust to and trust to buyers
buyers

limitation Stricted about Term Partially limited No limitation, full

and policies access to some feature control

support Get complete support Have support No support from any

reliable source

Compitative Direct compete Don’t know your Don’t know your

competitor directly competitor directly
Customization Only access to front Only access to front Back-end access, huge
end , limited end , limited opportunity to
customization customization customize

Brand You can register a Build a brand Build a brand

Awareness brand, fulfill to
marketplace rules

pages One page store Build multi pages, Build multi pages,
blog, shipping, term blog, shipping, term
and policies, contact and policies, contact
us us

Manage Take care by Manage inventory by Manage inventory by

inventory marketplace yourself yourself

Multi-channel Store:

In this fast growing world, only one channel is not enough. You can
interlink a given platform and target more audience, create a Multi channel
store and sell across the global.