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Shopify vs Zoho Checkout
March 12, 2025 | Author: Sandeep Sharma
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Simple, Beautiful, and Flexible End-to-End E-Commerce Solution. Simply choose a stylish ecommerce website design, easily customize your online store, add products, and you're pretty much ready to accept payments. Whether you already have products, are looking to sell digital goods or are interested in drop shipping — Shopify has a complete solution for you.
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Zoho Checkout allows to build a custom, branded payment page in a matter of minutes and start accepting payments right away.
Shopify and Zoho Checkout, in a way, are like two intergalactic travel agencies that both claim to get you from point A to point B, but with very different ideas on what constitutes a "journey." They both let businesses create checkout pages, accept money from strangers on the internet and analyze how well they’re doing it—probably while sipping something expensive. They also offer recurring payments, which means customers can continuously part with their money without the inconvenience of remembering to do so. In short, they both exist to make the transfer of funds delightfully inevitable.
Shopify, the older and arguably more ambitious of the two, emerged from Canada in 2006 and quickly decided that merely handling payments was a dull affair. Instead, it built an entire universe of online stores, an app ecosystem so vast that one might get lost before ever making a sale. It caters to merchants of all kinds, from the humble seller of oddly-shaped mugs to the aspiring overlord of an intergalactic sneaker empire. There’s even a built-in payment system, Shopify Payments, which reduces the number of financial middlemen taking a cut—something quite rare in the known universe.
Zoho Checkout, hailing from India since 2017, takes a rather different approach, like a minimalist poet in a room full of marketing executives. It doesn’t concern itself with building vast digital empires but instead focuses on simple, effective transactions. Ideal for freelancers, nonprofits and anyone who just wants to collect money without an entire storefront, it integrates beautifully with Zoho’s ever-expanding suite of tools. Unlike Shopify, it doesn’t bother with inventory management or multi-channel sales, because frankly, it has better things to do—like making sure you get paid without unnecessary complications.
See also: Top 10 Payment Processing platforms
Shopify, the older and arguably more ambitious of the two, emerged from Canada in 2006 and quickly decided that merely handling payments was a dull affair. Instead, it built an entire universe of online stores, an app ecosystem so vast that one might get lost before ever making a sale. It caters to merchants of all kinds, from the humble seller of oddly-shaped mugs to the aspiring overlord of an intergalactic sneaker empire. There’s even a built-in payment system, Shopify Payments, which reduces the number of financial middlemen taking a cut—something quite rare in the known universe.
Zoho Checkout, hailing from India since 2017, takes a rather different approach, like a minimalist poet in a room full of marketing executives. It doesn’t concern itself with building vast digital empires but instead focuses on simple, effective transactions. Ideal for freelancers, nonprofits and anyone who just wants to collect money without an entire storefront, it integrates beautifully with Zoho’s ever-expanding suite of tools. Unlike Shopify, it doesn’t bother with inventory management or multi-channel sales, because frankly, it has better things to do—like making sure you get paid without unnecessary complications.
See also: Top 10 Payment Processing platforms
