Bagisto vs Shopify
Bagisto and Shopify are both e-commerce software. Bagisto is open source under MIT, with 28k GitHub stars. Shopify is a commercial product from Shopify Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Bagisto when
- A business with PHP developers wants a self-hosted store or marketplace it can customise in Laravel.
- Pick Shopify when
- A merchant wants to sell online quickly without managing hosting, and can work within Shopify's data model.
Side by side
A Laravel and Vue ecommerce platform for single stores, B2B shops and multi-vendor marketplaces, with Docker images ready to run.
Hosted e-commerce platform for building online stores with themes, checkout, payments, point-of-sale and a large app store.
Many features such as the multi-vendor marketplace and B2B suite are paid Webkul extensions.
Monthly app costs add up, and checkout and URL structure are only partly customisable.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and mobile app
PHP, Laravel, Vue, MySQL, Redis and Elasticsearch
Ruby on Rails and Liquid
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Shopify Inc.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
28k GitHub stars
11k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 8 years ago, latest release v2.5.0.
Not known
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.