Why is Zoey more expensive than its competitors?

When comparing the cost of a platform, it’s important to look at the Total Cost to run your online store, rather than just the monthly cost. Zoey is a much more sophisticated eCommerce platform right out of the box, compared to others like Shopify and Big Commerce. We’ve taken the enterprise-level tools that successful businesses typically spend hundreds of thousands of dollars with Magento, and made them available to businesses of all sizes. Then we took those tools a step further by building additional functionality on top and pre-integrated numerous apps right out of the box. When considering the Total Cost of Ownership, pay special attention to the following:

Design: Zoey has built industry leading Design Tools, and made them available to all of our merchants. With these tools you can easily build your own custom theme with a Drag-and-Drop design interface. All of our themes are free and fully-responsive. Other platforms will offer a few basic themes for free, but most come at a cost. You can make small modifications to the themes, but anything remotely custom will involve hiring a developer. If you’re looking for a theme that is unique to your business, and represents your brand, Zoey is by far the most affordable option.

Catalog and Inventory: Zoey is built on the Magento framework, which has the most comprehensive and powerful inventory tools in the industry. Even if you’re starting with very simple products, you’ll want to be on a platform that allows your inventory to grow in both size and complexity without limitations. Zoey lets you build an endlessly customizable catalog without the need pay for additional apps to manage your inventory.

Payments: Every platform offers various payment options, but what about hidden costs? With Zoey, there are no additional transaction fees applied to your orders. You can feel free to use an available payment method of choice, without worrying about rising per-transaction costs.

Shipping: Zoey integrates directly with many, popular shipping carriers such as UPS, USPS, Fedex and DHL. Through those integrations you can pull real-time rates, print shipping labels and update tracking information all directly in the platform. We’ll never come between you and your carrier, so if you have your own preferential rates you can use those as well.

When you add up the numbers, considering everything needed to run your eCommerce business, you’ll see that Zoey is much more affordable in the end!