When it comes to starting an online store, there are many things to take into consideration. One of the most important parts of the puzzle is which platform to use to power your e-commerce site. We work for a search engine marketing agency, AdFicient, and we do a lot of e-commerce work for our clients.

Thus what you are about to read is solely based on my experience working with the following e-commerce platforms. For stability purposes, I recommend going with hosted versions because you always have dedicated support and chances of it going down due to hosting are slim to none.