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Both WooCommerce and Shopify offer a variety of third-party plugins and themes which can be used to customise your store and add additional features. However, WooCommerce’s sheer number of plugins and themes mean that it is at an advantage here.

With WooCommerce, you have access to over 46,000 WordPress plugins, meaning there is basically a plugin for everything. A significant amount of these plugins are free, meaning that all of their basic features will be available to you without you having to pay. In regards to dropshipping, this is a great thing. For dropshippers, WordPress has third-party plugins that manage your dropshipping inventory, add custom shipping methods for specific product types, and much more.

#WordPress also has a huge amount of free and paid themes which usually work well with WooCommerce. It should be noted that many of these free themes will not be as polished as a premium Shopify theme, meaning extra customisation will often be needed. However, WordPress has a variety of paid themes, many of which are made with #eCommerce owners and dropshipping in mind. This means that premium solutions are there if you need them. There are also many multi-purpose WordPress themes, which means that they can adapt to whatever route your business ends up taking.

Shopify has an integrated app store, which allows you to easily add custom functionality to your website. However, the main issue is that the apps are a lot more expensive. Many apps will require monthly subscriptions for the functionality you could get from a free plugin a #WooCommerce store. This leads to increased store-running costs.

Shopify has a range of very premium themes, which often work exactly how they should out of the box. This makes installing a custom theme a really simple process. You can also trial a theme before you buy it, allowing you to make sure the theme works as it should on your dropshipping store. Just like their apps, Shopify themes usually come at a higher price than WooCommerce themes. However, what you get (most of the time) is a solution that simply works, with little to no extra customisation needed.

Both WooCommerce and #Shopify allow you to edit your #dropshipping website with custom code. WordPress is coded using PHP whereas Shopify uses a language called Liquid. Since Liquid is built to work with Shopify, it is generally easier to learn. However, it should be noted that #PHP has been around for a long time and there are lots of resources and information to help you learn the language.

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