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How to Create an Online Store: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide (2026)
A plain-English guide to creating your first online store — products, platform, payments, shipping, and launch, with real 2026 costs.

A plain-English guide to creating your first online store — products, platform, payments, shipping, and launch, with real 2026 costs.

Both Squarespace and Shopify let you build a store without code, but they were built for different jobs. This comparison shows where each one wins.

Wix is a website builder that added selling; Shopify is a selling platform first. That one difference explains almost every trade-off in this comparison.