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Moving an Instagram shop to your own website
How to move an Instagram shop to your own website. What transfers, what is lost for good, and how to launch without switching the channel off overnight.
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Comparisons
Mobile app or web service
Most small and mid-sized companies get everything they need from a web service in the browser. When a mobile app is worth the money, what a PWA covers and what the budgets look like.
10 min read
Off-the-shelf CRM or a custom system
A ready-made CRM covers sales after a few days of setup. A custom system takes over stock, production and settlements. How to tell which one your business needs now.
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When your business needs a web app instead of a website
A website brings you inquiries, a web app runs the work that follows. Signs your business has outgrown spreadsheets, what an app includes and how long it takes.
10 min read
How to move from a hosted platform to your own online store
Leaving a hosted platform for your own website without taking the store offline. What you can export, where stores usually move and where owners lose traffic on the way.
12 min read
Ready-made solution or custom online store development
A fast start on a website builder or your own store on OpenCart or WooCommerce? The pros, cons and scenarios for each option.
9 min read
Landing page or multi-page website
A landing page quickly sells a single offer, while a multi-page website builds up search traffic. How to choose the format for your ad channel without overpaying for clicks.
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OpenCart vs WooCommerce: choosing a CMS for your store
We work with OpenCart and WooCommerce daily, so we have no reason to favor either one. The comparison covers catalog, content, integrations and team, with clear criteria for choosing the right CMS for your store.
10 min read
Instagram shop or your own website
Instagram is great for launching sales, but as orders grow it becomes a bottleneck. When a social page is enough and when it is time to launch your own website.
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Choosing when both options still look workable
The hardest cases are the ones where both options work and the difference only surfaces after the first year of use. So every comparison here looks past the launch price: how much maintenance an option needs, how hard it is to add a new feature, and what has to be rebuilt once the catalog or the team doubles.
- Platform choice drives support costs for years. What that choice costs later is compared in our articles on OpenCart versus WooCommerce and ready-made versus custom online stores.
- Whether to build sales on someone else's platform is covered in our articles on online stores versus marketplaces and an Instagram shop versus your own website. Both give you a fast start, but they leave you without a customer base of your own, playing by rules you do not set.
- Sometimes one page is all a business needs. The point where that stops being true is set out in our article on landing pages versus multi-page websites.
- Whether a website builder or shared hosting is enough is covered in our articles on choosing between Wix, Squarespace and your own website, and between your own server and shared hosting.
- The point where a business outgrows spreadsheets and an off-the-shelf CRM is covered in our articles on off-the-shelf CRM versus a custom system and when a business needs a web app instead of a website. Our article on choosing between a mobile app and a web service explains when you need a separate mobile app and when a browser-based customer account is enough.
Once the decision is made, see what our online store development or web application development covers, along with indicative timelines and price ranges.
