Ecwid vs Elastic Path

Ecwid is a hosted ecommerce platform for omnichannel selling, available on the web, iOS, and Android. It supports digital products, abandoned-cart recovery, and an app marketplace, with no transaction fee listed. Ecwid was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Four named plans define different product and staff capacities. Starter supports 10 products, with no price listed. Venture supports 100 products and costs $35 a month, billed monthly. Business supports 2,500 products and two staff accounts for $65 a month, billed monthly. Ecwid has no free plan, so the listed choices are paid plans. The hosted model keeps storefront operation online, while omnichannel sales support addresses businesses selling through multiple channels. Mobile platform listings extend access beyond a browser.

Elastic Path is composable commerce software for businesses that sell across channels. Its modular capabilities are available through APIs and can be used separately or together. The platform lists B2B tools for account hierarchies, quoting, pricebooks, rule-based catalogs, buyer tools, and dynamic bundles, alongside Intelligent Commerce features such as MCP servers, an AI storefront builder, semantic search, and agents. Composer supports managed no-code integrations, low-code integration building, workflow orchestration, monitoring, and alerts. It names Stripe, Adyen, PayPal, and Worldpay as payment providers and states there is no processor surcharge. Self-Managed Commerce can run on-premise, in a customer’s cloud, or through Elastic Path Managed Hosting. Listed Entry pricing is $49,500 a year, either for up to $5M GMV per year or up to 15,000 orders per year. The platform also lists unlimited SKUs, catalogs, storefronts, brands, and business users, with no per-seat fees. Elastic Path was founded in 2000.