Why do you favour Wordpress websites over Shopify for e-commerce businesses?
We treat the web space as valuable real estate. Our goal is to help our customers build a legacy on the web vs just a temporary solution. When you build your website in hosted platforms such as the popular Shopify, you actually do not own your website as “real estate” and you are often controlled more than you think.
Meaning that as it stands right now in 2021, you will not be able to take your entire site with all its content, away from Shopify and move to another service provider. So in case you happen to not pay for your monthly Shopify fee because those fees do add up, or you dislike the politics or else around the company itself, you will be at a risk of losing your entire website. You become completely dependent on that one service provider. Lately, too, many Shopify business owners have been reporting instances of Shopify deactivating their shop payments, especially for drop shipping types of businesses. By contrast, creating your online store with WooCommerce in Wordpress, if one payment gateway like Paypal freezes your account for whatever reason, you will still have other ways to get your e-store to accept payments by going to another provider.
With a proper backup copy in Wordpress, you will always be able to move your entire existing website to another hosting provider of your choice. So you have more freedom of movement, as well as significantly lower fees.
Also, additional Shopify Apps (if you want your site to be able to perform more complex actions) and per transaction fees add up to often hundreds of dollars that Wordpress websites may not have. Of course, there are pros and cons to everything, including the Wordpress platform with its steeper development learning curve and the need to keep up with the plugin updates and overall security of the site, but the bottom line is that we choose Wordpress because we are able to not only treat your website as a piece of real estate, but also lower your operational costs.