Shopify is a hosted, template-based platform that offers an abundance of features easy to use for e-commerce novices. . On top of that, the default platform features include: automated store backups, Paypal payment options, Google Checkout and the su...

Wix is our favorite website builder and scores highly across the board in our testing. It’s super fast to get started with Wix, and brilliantly simple to create a website using one of its top class templates. Its streamlined artificial design intelli...

A great, easy-to-use option for website builder rookies. Although good, Weebly isn’t quite as good as Wix. It doesn’t have as many website templates to choose from, and the ecommerce functions are expensive compared to Wix.

Offers the best templates on the market – perfect for novices after a stunning site. If you want your website to look fantastic, Squarespace is the website builder for you. It only has 91 templates to choose from, but since they’re developed in-house...

Not the best, but a solid offering for building business sites quickly GoDaddy is a big name in the world of website development, and perhaps best known for its website hosting and 24/7 on-the-phone support.

Buffer is a simple Web-based app that lets you keep multiple social media accounts regularly updated. With the software you can automate posting across various social media and analyze how well your social media marketing strategies work.

HootSuite is Web-based software that combines all of your social media account streams into one user-friendly dashboard. The app is a great time-saver. In addition to the ability to schedule posting across multiple networks, HootSuite lets you perfor...

CoSchedule brands is a full-fledged marketing suite. Not only does it integrate with many of the popular social networks, but it integrates with email marketing platforms, blogs, and other marketing essentials. This puts everything you need in one pl...

Like CoSchedule, Sprinklr’s social media and marketing suite. Its standard account has social scheduling and reporting tools, but you can subscribe to other packages for insights on social advertising, customer support, and content marketing.

Oktopost is another newer player in the social media marketing tools space. The app has a full suite of scheduling, monitoring and reporting tools for a wide variety of social networks. It even has a built-in sweepstakes tool that lets you run giveaw...

QuickBooks Online is perhaps the most popular online-based accounting software with about 700,000 businesses using it, and 1.3 million unique users. It is highly rated by its users, and has garnered a number of awards over the recent years.

FreshBooks is another cloud-based accounting software that is popular with startup online entrepreneurs. It is is of great help in creating and managing invoices, tracking time and managing products. Small web businesses can also use the tool for ef...

FreeAgent is a cloud-based accounting solution for small businesses owners to manage invoices, expenses, payroll, tax returns and other accounting tasks.

Wave is a web-based integrated accounting solution exclusively designed for small businesses. With the bank reconciliation feature, businesses can link their bank accounts, PayPal accounts, and other sources of data for real-time transaction records.

NetSuite combines core finance and accounting functions with strong compliance management. This combination improves business performance and increases financial close efficiency while reducing back-office costs.

Stripe is a popular payment processing service designed to help online merchants accept payments through their websites. The service is fitted with “over 100 features” that can help in processing various types of online payments. Also, Stripe can be ...

PayPal is a global payment provider that is available in 203 markets all over the globe. It lets online merchants accept payments in over 100 currencies, withdraw funds to bank accounts in 57 currencies, and hold balances in 26 currencies.

Authorize.Net is one of the most recognizable and oldest payment gateways operating on the web. They've been around since 1996 and have been making it possible for businesses of any kind to accept payments on the web and in person.

Payline has been in the payment gateway business for a while now. They offer clear fees and a beneficial interchange-plus pricing model. If you're going to be accepting mainly credit cards, this might be the best solution for you. In this model, you'...

2Checkout has been around since 2006 and now offers services in over 180 countries. They provide you with a complete solution to process payments online, giving you access to an advanced platform where you can manage your business' finances and e-com...

ShippingEasy lives up to its name by providing a user-friendly, web-based shipping solution that’s perfect for small to medium-sized businesses. It’s free if you ship 50 or fewer orders per month, with pricing tiers ranging from $29 per month for a m...

Easy to set up and use, Shippo offers the features and functionality most small businesses are looking for in a web-based shipping platform. Its best feature, however, might be its pay-as-you go pricing model. This allows merchants who ship up to 200...

A good choice for small to large-scale businesses, especially those that ship a high volume of orders or use truck freight. Ordoro offers Basic shipping-only plans that run from free (no more than 50 orders per month), to $129 (unlimited orders), to ...

If you’re already using Shopify for your shopping cart and point-of-sale needs, you might be tempted to give Shopify Shipping a try. After all, it’s already included in your Shopify subscription. This makes it a fantastic deal for existing Shopify cu...

ShipStation is a competitively-priced, web-based platform that’s fairly intuitive to use, though some of its features have a steeper learning curve than you might expect. One of the best things about ShipStation is that it’s packed with great feature...

Contalog is a SaaS-based order management software for eCommerce which supports an integration of orders from multiple sales channels. Sales channels like an eCommerce store, Amazon/eBay, mobile shopping app, B2B ordering portal and even brick and mo...

A cloud-based order management software that caters to the needs of wholesale and retail order management. Stitchlabs lets you track your shipments 24/7 with its shipping integrations. You can manage your existing workflow at ease. Order importing op...

Tradegecko is a multichannel order management software that provides the convenience of creating your own integrations by providing an open source API. Apart from integrations like Amazon, eBay, Shipstation, Xero etc, Tradegecko specializes in provid...

Yet another eCommerce order management software built on the cloud. Veeqo supports multiple sales channel integrations. Orders can be tagged in order to make filtering and assortment of orders easy. This cloud-based order management software helps in...

Completely dedicated to retail business owners, Brightpearl eCommerce order management software provides a platform that can prove useful in managing inventory, orders, customers, and finances. This order management software for eCommerce also lets y...

Oberlo is probably the most popular of all Shopify dropshipping apps. The reason for this is because Oberlo was one of the first to implement a system that automatically syncs products, order tracking and product information with your Shopify store.

Printful offers you a different kind of a dropshipping setup. Whereas the other apps on this list offer a large selection of suppliers to choose from, and thus populate your store with a bigger number of different products, Printful is your go-to “pr...

Spocket is a highly rated, excellent alternative to Oberlo. In fact, we would argue that it's a bit more advanced than Oberlo in terms of the quality of suppliers.

SMAR7 Express is similar to Oberlo and Spocket with a few unique advantages. First of all, it's a full dropshipping solution for Shopify, with a large collection of items to choose from.

Inventory Source has gained some traction in the dropshipping world for its ability to list your products to not only Shopify but to other marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay.

SavvyCube is SAAS-based eCommece analytics for small and midsize Magento-based stores. The application lets you get precise and reliable insight into how your online business is currently doing. SavvyCube is easy to set up and doesn’t require any tec...

Heap helps teams make smarter decisions. Heap automatically captures every user action on your website or mobile app, so you can analyze the usage patterns that drive conversion and retention.

At Mixpanel, our mission is to increase the rate of innovation. Not only as a company, but for the businesses we serve. Through our analytics and engagement product, companies can analyze how and why their users engage, convert, and retain in real-ti...

Woopra is a Customer Journey Analytics solution that is redefining how companies understand, analyze, engage and retain their customers. The platform is designed to fuel optimization and growth throughout the entire customer lifecycle. Leveraging ind...

Get, keep and grow more customers with Customer Engagement Automation by Kissmetrics. Behavioral analytics, segmentation and email campaign automation all in one place.

RankWatch can be of great help with that. It is a cloud-based rank tracking tool that will let you check position on up to 250 keywords just for $29/month. The software delivers detailed ranking results based on your location. For instance, if you ar...

MySiteAuditor is an easy-to-afford, user-friendly app for checking how SEO-healthy your website is. All you need to do to run your site audit is to enter its URL and the list of targeted keywords. The software will do the rest and email you a detaile...

SimilarWeb offers a free service that lets you overview your site performance and check how the competition is doing. Just enter the URL of any website, and you will immediately get tons of valuable SEO insights.

SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that enables businesses to optimize their online presence across all key channels. SEMrush data and insights are trusted by 5,000,000 marketing professionals and over 1000...

SE Ranking is an all-included SEO software that offers all SEO tools needed to successfully complete online marketing projects. SE Ranking is perfect for small business owners, SEO pros and agencies. The software provides a complete set of tools for ...

MailChimp is a SAAS email provider that offers one of the best free plans for those who are on a tight budget and have a small list of email subscribers (up to 2,000). The forever-free plan requires no contact, or credit card details. But to get acce...

GetResponse is an email marketing service that comes with a bunch of great email templates, a set of e-newsletter design tools and dozens of useful analytics features. If you have a lengthy list of 7,000-10,000 emails on your database, GetResponse wi...

Constant Contact helps small businesses, nonprofits, and individuals dream smarter with all the tools they need to market their ideas, build a professional brand online, attract customers, and sell more products. - Email Create professional emails, f...

Sendinblue is the complete all-in-one sales and marketing toolbox. Over 80,000 customers around the world choose SendinBlue because we offer competitive pricing, active customer support, and an all-in-one solution for marketing automation, email mark...

Zoho Campaigns is an email marketing automation product that helps you reach your subscribers with the right message at the right time. You can create beautiful emails in minutes using the pre-designed templates, layouts, and the drag-and-drop editor...

InfusionSoft is marketing automation software built exclusively for small e-commerce businesses. This cloud-based platform is currently used by 20K+ online entrepreneurs whose annual revenue ranges from $50,000 – $1,000,000.

Marketo Engage helps marketing teams be the drivers of demand and growth in their companies by delivering exceptional experiences in concert with sales at every stage of the customer journey. The challenge these teams face is that everyone today expe...

ActiveCampaign's category-defining Customer Experience Automation (CXA) Platform helps over 100,000 businesses in 170 countries meaningfully engage with their customers. The platform gives businesses of all sizes access to hundreds of pre-built autom...

What do sophisticated D2C brands like ColourPop, Huckberry, and Chubbies all have in common? They rely on Klaviyo to supercharge their growth. Klaviyo is a growth marketing platform that helps you deliver more personalized experiences across owned ma...

SharpSpring is a comprehensive marketing automation platform with robust features, functionality and performance. SharpSpring is one of the most flexible platforms on the market, offering powerful, behavior-based email marketing, native or 3rd party ...

Google offers a free service for A/B and multivariate testing. The tool lets you set up basic A/B tests as well as complex experiments that involve multiple variables.

Optimizely is a reasonably priced online tool for A/B and multivariate testing. The service has a clean user-friendly interface and is easy to master even if you have little or no understanding on how A/B testing works. Also, Optimizely is not only a...

Clickfunnels is one of the world’s most popular online sales funnel platforms where users can quickly and easily create beautiful sales pages that convert visitors into leads and paying customers. No tech, design, or coding experience necessary. Hund...

Unbounce helps you convert more of your visitors into leads, sales, and customers. Using our drag-and-drop builder, you can create and publish your own landing pages without needing a developer to code ‘em. Get conversion intelligence insights and en...

AB Tasty is the fastest-growing provider of AI-powered experimentation and personalization, helping businesses drive more conversions and revenue on all their digital assets. We provide marketing and product teams with an easy-to-use optimization pla...

Crayon’s market and competitive intelligence software platform enables businesses to track, analyze, and act on market movements from their competitors, customers, and partners. Tens of thousands of teams use Crayon’s software to automatically captur...

Klue is an AI-powered Competitive Intelligence platform designed to help product marketers and CI teams collect, curate, and deliver actionable competitor insights to empower Sales to win more business. Klue enables enterprise sales teams to win more...

As the most trusted platform for measuring online behavior, millions of people rely on SimilarWeb insights daily as the ground truth for their knowledge of the digital world. We empower anyone — from the curious individual to the enterprise business ...

Brandwatch is the world’s pioneering digital consumer intelligence suite, helping over 2,000 of the world’s most admired brands and agencies including Unilever, Walmart and Dell to make insightful, data-driven business decisions. The company underwen...

Pathmatics turns the world’s marketing data into actionable insights. Pathmatics provides a marketing intelligence platform that helps the world’s top agencies, brands, and publishers answer their digital advertising questions across Facebook, Instag...

Oracle Essbase is the industry-leading multi-dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) server, providing a rich environment for effectively developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications.

Fathom provides a suite of in-depth analysis tools and metrics which help you see exactly how well your business is performing. These tools and metrics help to assess profitability, cash flow, growth and other key performance indicators (KPIs). Fatho...

Improve your cash flow with actionable forecasting and risk scoring tools and empower your finances. Access fast and affordable funds to grow your business.

BusinessRadar is a completely new way of generating financial reports and forecasts for corporate management. Comprehensive plans and accurate forecasts are created in an instant and they are seamlessly connected to actual data. All relevant aspects ...

Jirav is financial planning and analysis in the cloud. We connect your financial and operational data to let you easily explore historical operations and accurately forecast your bookings, revenues, workforce, expenses and cash flows. Build plans and...

UZIO is a SaaS-based online marketplace that provides cloud-based HR, payroll, and benefits management software and services. It is built for businesses of all sizes. This integrated solution offers local/regional brokers, employers, and employees si...

ClearCompany is a software system that works for human resources (HR) and recruiting teams across both public and private industries. The ClearCompany Talent Alignment Platform connects recruiting, new employee onboarding and performance management. ...

TimeWorksPlus is a cloud-based time, attendance, and leave management system for small to mid-size businesses. This software can capture time data from web-based clocks or physical clocks for employees onsite, mobile, and working at home. TimeWorks s...

Workforce Ready by Kronos is a human resources (HR) platform that combines workforce management with human capital management (HCM) and talent management capabilities and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It offers features including people an...

BambooHR is a cloud-based HR management software solution for small and midsize businesses. BambooHR offers small and growing companies a human resource information system (HRIS) that includes an applicant tracking system (ATS), time tracking, payrol...