Cloudshops or Shopify

Point by point, with their figures taken from their own site. Including where Shopify wins.

Cloudshops

Choose Cloudshops if

  • you sell in Romania or the Netherlands and want the local essentials from day one
  • you don’t want to pay for and maintain apps for the basics
  • you want a flat price, with no percentage of your sales
Shopify

Choose Shopify if

  • you need niche apps or a visual editor
  • you sell across many countries, currencies and languages
  • you want a native phone app for your admin

Point by point

What your plan includes, with nothing extra installed.

IncludedThird-party appPartly / manualNo

Romania

e-Factura (ANAF)
Generated and validated against ANAF
Third-party app
Cash on delivery
Amount goes on the waybill
Manual method, no waybill
Sameday waybills and easybox
Included
Third-party app
Cards via Netopia, on your own contract
No platform fee
Only as a third-party provider: +2% / 1% / 0.6% Shopify fee

The Netherlands

iDEAL and cards
Via Stripe
Via Shopify Payments
bol.com orders and stock
Built-in integration
Third-party app
Pay later (Klarna, Riverty)
Not yet
Via app or provider
PostNL shipping labels
Not yet
Third-party app

Catalogue

Variants (size, colour, weight)
Included, with shelf filters
Included
Product import from CSV
Checked before anything is written
Included
Automatic discounts and codes
Included, AI assistant from Business
Included

Design

Themes
26 presets
Theme store
Visual page editor
No
Included

Extending

App store
No — local integrations are built in
Thousands of apps
Multiple currencies and languages per store
One currency and language per store
Included
Admin on your phone
Installable web app
Native iOS and Android app

Search and AI

Structured product data
On every product, with the cart price
In their themes

Data

Full export
CSV any time
CSV any time
Platform commission on sales
0%
0% with Shopify Payments

What it costs

Our prices and theirs, per month. The Shopify figures are copied from their site.

Cloudshops

Starter 19 €
Business 39 €
Professional 79 €

0% 0% platform commission. Card processing fees (Stripe or Netopia) are paid straight to the processor.

Shopify (Europe, in euro)

Billed yearlyBilled monthlyCard, Shopify PaymentsFee with another provider
Basic21 €28 € 1.9% + 0.25 €2%
Grow59 €78 € 1.8% + 0.25 €1%
Advanced289 €384 € 1.6% + 0.25 €0.6%
Example

You take €5,000 a month by card through a provider other than Shopify Payments, on Basic: Shopify adds 2%, so €100 a month on top of the plan. With Shopify Payments or cash on delivery, that fee doesn’t apply.

Source: shopify.com/pricing and the Shopify Help Center, checked on 26 September 2026. shopify.com/pricing

Moving from Shopify

  1. 1

    You export your products

    From the Shopify admin, as a CSV file. You send it to us.

  2. 2

    We import them

    We check what goes in before anything is written: prices, variants, stock.

  3. 3

    You move your domain

    Once the store is ready and approved, not before.

Where we are better

Local rules are built in, not bolted on

E-invoicing, cash on delivery, Sameday and bol.com ship with the platform. You are not depending on a third-party app that may go unmaintained exactly when the law changes.

Every store has its own database

Your store’s data doesn’t sit in the same database as everyone else’s. No programming mistake can show it to someone else.

The price does not grow when you do well

You pay a flat monthly plan. The platform takes no percentage of your sales, however much you sell.

Where Shopify is the better choice

If you need apps

Shopify has an ecosystem we cannot match and are not trying to match.

If you sell across countries and currencies

We do Romania and the Netherlands, one currency per store. Multi-currency and multi-language per store are not on our roadmap.

If you want to design your own theme

We have 26 presets and no visual editor. If design is your selling point, you need something else.

If you need pay-later or PostNL labels today

We don’t have them yet. Shopify offers them through apps or providers.

Questions

Can I move my store from Shopify?

Yes. Send us your product export and we import it. Assisted migration is included from the Professional plan.

Do I lose what I built on Shopify?

Products and categories come across. Themes and apps do not — they belong to their ecosystem and have no one-to-one equivalent here.

Does Shopify charge a fee on cash on delivery?

No. The extra Shopify fee only applies to card payments through a provider other than Shopify Payments. Cash on delivery and other manual payments don’t carry it.

Why is there no app store?

Because we chose something else: the integrations that matter in our markets come included, not as apps to install and pay for separately.

See for yourself, no account needed

The demo shops are real, with a panel and products. You walk straight in, no registration.