Stay, or move
your shop?
Keep WooCommerce when it fits your shop and the upkeep is manageable. Choose Shopify when its hosted platform and apps cover what you need. Consider Gax when you want Revitt to run the platform and build around how you work, after we check what can move.
WooCommerce, Shopify or Gax?
- Stay with WooCommerce if your WordPress content, theme or specialist plugins are central to the business. One identified conflict may need a repair, not a new platform. Use the repair-or-move guide first.
- Choose Shopify if you want a hosted platform and a large app catalogue, and you have checked that its checkout, apps and payment options fit. Compare Shopify and Gax, including the rules for other payment providers.
- Consider Gax if you want a shop built, hosted and run by Revitt, with supported payment providers and connections planned around how you trade. WordPress plugins and theme code do not move across: agree what replaces them before you commit, and we quote anything outside the setup scope before that work starts.
This is Revitt’s comparison of its own platform. Read WooCommerce’s comparison and Shopify’s comparison too. Both describe their own commercial offer. Their cost and performance claims do not measure your shop or Gax. Sources checked 12 November 2026.
What actually changes.
| What you live with | WooCommerce on WordPress | On Gax |
|---|---|---|
| Updates | WordPress, your theme and every plugin each update on their own schedule. Check compatibility before a major update. | One platform, updated by the people who host it. |
| Conflicts | WooCommerce’s own guide says almost half of the support requests it receives come from third-party theme and plugin conflicts. | Small connections built around your shop, instead of a pile of plugins. |
| Hosting | Your hosting has to keep up with the software WooCommerce needs (PHP, MySQL and memory). Below that, WooCommerce warns of security and performance problems. | Hosted by Revitt. No server to size, patch or restart. |
| Checkout | WooCommerce, plus whichever checkout and payment plugins you run. | A checkout built in, with a payment connection from the routes we support. |
| Payments | Whatever your installed plugins and providers support. | Supported providers, chosen shop by shop, as your plan allows — see payment choice. |
| Daily admin | Product, order and stock screens run on the same software as the shop front, with active plugins loaded alongside. How quick they feel depends on your hosting and your plugins. | Rehearse your product, order and stock work in the new admin before you agree the switch. |
| Cost | Your hosting bill, plus what your theme, plugins and developer time cost. | Small shop: £19.99 a month + VAT and £299 + VAT setup. Growing shop: £99 a month + VAT and £999 + VAT setup. Hosting and updates are included. The plans differ in hosting, payment connections and the setup work included. Pricing |
WooCommerce self-service guide and server requirements, checked 7 November 2026.
A quick shop front does not mean a quick admin. Cached pages can serve customers fast while each admin screen runs the shop software and its plugins again. Before you choose, time the two separately: the product page a customer sees, then the products list and an order screen in your admin. The repair-or-move guide sets out how to narrow down the cause.
What a move covers — products and options, customers and orders, redirects, payments, other services — is set out line by line. Explore the shop examples: The Embroidery Shed and Trig Prints.
Three checks before you choose.
- Write down the jobs your shop must keep doing. Include product options, subscriptions, shipping rules, customer accounts and delivery connections. Ask to see your essential journey working. The Embroidery Shed example shows product options and mixed sizes; Trig Prints shows a design tool and prices that follow the customer’s design. They show particular ways of working, not compatibility with every plugin.
- Compare the full running cost. Include hosting or the platform subscription, paid extensions or apps, support and maintenance time, the move itself, payment processing and any platform transaction fee. Use your own bills and the features you need. Gax’s published price and fair use set out its offer. We assume no saving for your shop.
- Agree the move, and the way out. Confirm data, redirects (your blog and pages included), saved cards, customer logins and subscriptions in the migration checklist. Agree how you check the new shop, and when you can still go back. Your domain and your data stay yours. Gax is software owned and hosted by Revitt, and its source code is not part of the handover.
Handled about five times as many catalogue and basket requests in one test.
On 22 October 2026, a matched catalogue and cart test measured 94.69 operations a second on Gax and 18.89 on WordPress with WooCommerce. Both backends had one CPU and 1 GiB of memory.
This result covers that catalogue and cart workload under those resource limits. It does not measure your own shop, the speed of your admin screens, your page speed or your sales.
Read the retained method and results →
Want to move your WooCommerce shop?
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