Looking for a Shopify alternative?
Shopify rents you a shop on their platform: monthly fee, app subscriptions, transaction fees. The G7Cloud AI Website Builder ships a shop you own: your code, your database, Stripe checkout on your own keys, at a fixed £24/mo.
Free plan forever · no card · 30-day money-back on paid plans
About Shopify
Who Shopify are
Shopify is a hosted e-commerce platform. It offers a hosted admin, a theme marketplace, Shopify Payments and POS for in-person sales, and an app store of extensions. Basic starts at around £25/mo, with transaction fees on top unless you use Shopify Payments.
If you want fixed UK pricing, a dedicated container per site, and email, DNS and tested backups included as standard, here is why teams move to G7Cloud.
The case for switching
Why people leave Shopify for G7Cloud
Fixed pricing, a dedicated container per site, and email, DNS and tested backups included as standard. Here is what changes when you move.
You never own the shop
A Shopify store is a subscription to their platform: stop paying and the shop is gone; there is no way to export the running store as code you can host elsewhere. The G7Cloud AI Website Builder generates a full-stack application you own: your own Postgres database, your own admin panel, code you can browse and export. It is yours.
Fees on top of fees
Shopify Basic is around £25/mo, plus transaction fees unless you use Shopify Payments, plus the app subscriptions most stores end up needing. A G7Cloud shop takes payment through Stripe using your own keys (we add no transaction fee of our own), and the platform price is a fixed £24/mo on Business.
A complete shop out of the box
The AI-built shop is a complete storefront: product variants, stock control, collections, discount codes, order management, image uploads and Stripe checkout are all included, with an admin panel the owner logs into. You describe the shop; the AI builds it; you click to edit anything.
Email, domain and site on one bill
Your shop, your marketing pages, your mailboxes (with webmail and spam filtering) and your DNS all live on one G7Cloud plan. On Shopify, email hosting is a third-party arrangement and the platform bill is only part of the picture.
AI edits instead of app hunting
Changing a Shopify store usually means finding an app and paying its subscription, or hiring a Liquid developer. On G7Cloud you tell the AI Website Builder what you want. It edits the actual code, with per-turn checkpoints so you can undo anything.
G7Cloud vs Shopify, side by side
What you get on each plan, side by side.
Shopify Basic is around £25/mo plus transaction fees (unless you use Shopify Payments). App subscriptions are extra. G7Cloud Business is a fixed £24/mo with no added transaction fees.
Fixed prices, one ladder
What switching actually costs
Fixed GBP prices. The price you sign up at is the price you renew at, whatever your traffic or team size. Every plan includes the AI Website Builder, free SSL and ScaleShield protection.
Business
Up to 3 sites plus full-stack AI apps: shop, bookings, CMS.
- 3 hosted sites: any type, incl. WooCommerce & Magento
- Full-stack AI apps: online shop, bookings, CMS & more
- Database plus admin panel on AI-built sites
- Stripe checkout on your AI-built shop (your own keys)
- AI Website Builder · 5 projects, publish 3
- 1.25M AI tokens per month
- Managed PostgreSQL & Redis add-ons
- Site cloning, phpMyAdmin, WP-CLI
- Everything in Starter included
Full feature breakdown on the pricing page. 30-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan.
Moving from Shopify
We move you. Free. You approve every step.
Shopify lets you export your products as a CSV, and our team helps you bring the catalogue across, set up Stripe checkout on your own keys, and point your domain and email at the new shop. You build and preview the whole store before anything switches. Assisted and free on paid plans.
- Assisted by our team: we do it with you, not to you
- Preview everything on a temporary URL before anything switches
- Your old site stays live until you approve the cutover
- 30-day money-back guarantee if it does not work out
Shopify alternative: questions answered
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Host your site on managed UK infrastructure from £12/mo, or build something new with the AI Website Builder on the Free plan. Fixed prices, and you own the code.