E-commerce platform

How it is used

Used when choosing, comparing or moving between systems such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento or local providers. Teams build on, migrate to or outgrow a platform. Many platforms are SaaS, paid as a monthly subscription.

Example sentences

1. We're moving to a new e-commerce platform because the old one can't handle our traffic.

2. Which e-commerce platform has the best integration with the Turkish marketplaces?

Common collocations

• choose an e-commerce platform
• migrate to a new platform
• hosted e-commerce platform
• platform fees

Related terms

• online storeA website or app where a business shows its products and customers can order and pay for them without visiting a physical shop.
• headless commerceA way of building an online store in which the customer-facing front end is separate from the back-end commerce system, and the two communicate through APIs.
• storefrontThe customer-facing part of an online store: the pages, design and navigation that shoppers see, as opposed to the admin panel behind it.
• product catalogThe full set of products a business sells, together with their information such as names, categories, prices, variants and images.
• payment gatewayA service that securely sends a customer's card or other payment details from the online store to the banks and returns whether the payment is approved.

More terms: Online Stores and Marketplaces

• e-commerce
• marketplace
• B2C
• B2B
• direct-to-consumer
• third-party seller
• commission
• omnichannel