Shopify is enormous.
That is its edge and its cost.
Shopify scales to millions of orders. Almost no business needs that, and everyone pays for the complexity required to support it.
International volume
If you sell across countries and currencies at tens of thousands of orders, Shopify is built for that and we are not. That is a sincere recommendation.
An unmatched ecosystem
Thousands of apps, agencies and developers. Almost anything you can think of already exists as an app.
Infrastructure that holds
It survives Black Friday without blinking. It is a serious platform built by serious people.
Every feature is another subscription
The list price is the floor. Reviews, subscriptions, reports, multi-language: each is an app with its own fee. Over a year, the sum surprises people.
It is still only the store
With twenty apps on top you still do not have suppliers, quotes or social assets in one place. That is where we start.
Someone has to build it
Shopify does not come built: it comes ready for someone to build. That someone is an agency, or you learning Liquid on a Sunday.
We hand it over running
In days it is on your domain, with your products loaded and your team trained. Implementation is not an add-on: it is the work.
| What you need | PAVMedia | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Scale ceiling | Comfortable for a mid-size business. | Practically none. Their strongest point. |
| Real annual cost | One fee, everything included. | Plan + apps + theme + agency. |
| Per-sale commission | None from us. | Extra fee if you skip their gateway. |
| Implementation included | Yes, that is the model. | No. You or an agency. |
| CRM, suppliers, quotes | In the same panel. | Separate apps. |
| Argentine Spanish and Mercado Pago | Out of the box. | Possible, with detours. |
| Support | The team that built your site, over WhatsApp. | Global 24/7 support, ticket-based. |
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Shopify or PAVMedia for a small store?
For a small store, Shopify is usually more platform than needed and pricier than it looks, because the list price excludes apps. PAVMedia hands over a working store for a single fee. That said: if your plan is multi-country, high-volume selling, Shopify is the right call and we will tell you so.
What does Shopify really cost?
The plan is the floor, not the total. On top go the theme, the apps —reviews, multi-language, reporting, subscriptions— and often an agency to build it. That is why the fair comparison is total annual cost, not plan price.