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Ecwid

#1 Ecommerce Shopping Cart & Online Store

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What is Ecwid?

Ecwid is a hosted e-commerce platform enabling businesses to sell online across multiple channels including websites, social media, and marketplaces, with built-in inventory, order, and payment management.

Independently observed

Ecwid pricing

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Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $5/moSubscription

From $5/month to $149/month. No transaction fees. Annual billing saves 16%.

Starter

$5/month

For beginners

products
10
  • Up to 10 products
  • 70+ site templates
  • Default company.site domain
  • Add a store to any site
  • Email support

Venture

$35/month ($29/month when billed annually)

For solo visionaries

products
100
  • Up to 100 products + e-goods
  • Selling on Instagram & Facebook
  • Mobile store management app
  • Live chat support
  • Access to App Market
  • Automated tax calculations
  • Discount coupons
  • Custom checkout
  • Buy a custom domain
  • Built-in reports & analytics

Business

$65/month ($49/month when billed annually)

For small but mighty teams

products
2500
  • Up to 2,500 products
  • Selling on marketplaces
  • Selling subscriptions
  • Add staff (2 accounts)
  • Phone support
  • Abandoned carts recovery
  • Wholesale pricing groups
  • Multi-lingual store
  • Promotions (3)
  • Custom URL slugs
  • Product reviews
  • Advanced reports & analytics

Unlimited

$149/month ($119/month when billed annually)

For businesses focused on growth

  • Unlimited products
  • Sell in-person (POS integration)
  • Unlimited Staff accounts
  • Priority Support
  • Promotions (500)

What Ecwid does

The capabilities that matter for e-commerce platforms, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Platform type
Hosted all-in-one SaaS
Licensing
Open-source
-
Deployment
Self-hostable
-
Pricing
Free / open tier
✗
Transaction fees beyond plan
✗
Payments
Payments model
-
Architecture
Headless / API-first storefront
✓
Compliance
PCI-DSS compliance provided
-
Reach
Multi-currency / multi-language
✓
Selling
B2B / wholesale features
✓
POS / omnichannel
✓
Extensibility
App / extension ecosystem size
App Market for developers and third-party integrations
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (12)

Independently observed
  • Amazon
  • eBay
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • Snapchat
  • Pinterest
  • Google Marketplaces
  • Lightspeed Retail POS
  • WordPress
  • Wix
  • Squarespace

Ecwid alternatives

Other e-commerce platforms we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

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Balanced composite 71 / 100
low · 48%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Integrations7830.002329.3✓
Pricing Transparency7516.001200.0✓
Capabilities6716.001073.9✓
Price Level8010.00800.0✓
Reliability5014.00700.0✓
Security Posture014.000.0-

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All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"headless":true,"free_tier":false,"b2b_features":true,"platform_type":"hosted_saas","pos_omnichannel":true,"transaction_fees":false,"extension_ecosystem":"App Market for developers and third-party integrations","multi_currency_language":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count500mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierNomediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
Starting gbp5mediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-04 · 60%