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An Ecwid alternative for selling a few things, not running a store
Ecwid is a real store platform and Sorraia is not. Where they overlap is the small end — a product or two on a site that already exists — and there the difference is the free plan, the staff accounts, and who takes a cut.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans start at $19 a month.
Why people look for a Ecwid alternative
Ecwid is a real store and Sorraia is not, so the honest version of this comparison starts by saying what each one is for. Where they genuinely collide is the small end: one product, a handful of products, a checkout dropped onto a site that already exists. At that end the shapes differ. Ecwid’s entry plan is $5 a month capped at ten products with no access to its App Market, there is no free tier underneath it, and staff accounts — the thing an agency needs in order to give a client access — do not appear until the $65-a-month tier (all as of September 2026). Sorraia charges per plan with unlimited users on every paid tier and per-site client logins, and the money goes into a Stripe account you connect per site, so a client’s revenue can land in the client’s own Stripe rather than passing through yours. What we take instead is a percentage of each sale — 2% on Free down to 0.25% on Enterprise — and Ecwid takes no transaction fee at all. That trade is the actual decision on this page, and it goes Ecwid’s way as soon as the volume is real.
The differences that are structural, not marketing
Every claim below was read from Ecwid’s own pricing or documentation on 3 September 2026, and each one links the page it came from. If one of them has gone stale since, the linked page wins and we would rather you found out there than took our word for it.
Ecwid’s prices below were read in US dollars on 3 September 2026. Prices change and vary by region, so treat their pricing page as the authority rather than this one.
No free tier, and the entry plan caps the catalogue at ten
Ecwid’s lowest paid plan is $5 a month and holds up to ten products, with no App Market access (as of September 2026); there is no free plan below it. Sorraia’s Free plan covers one verified website with no card, and the product widget itself is not what the plan meters — websites are. For a single product on a single site, that is the difference between paying to find out and finding out first.
Source: ecwid.com · checked 3 September 2026
Staff accounts start several tiers up
Giving another person their own login to an Ecwid store means the tier that includes staff accounts, which starts at $65 a month (as of September 2026). Sorraia has no user cap on any paid plan — the billed subscription quantity is always one — and client access is granted per site against an email address, so a client sees their own site’s orders and nothing else on your account.
Source: ecwid.com · checked 3 September 2026
Both are script embeds — there is no frame difference to claim here
Ecwid’s storefront embeds as a script that renders into your page’s DOM, the same shape as a Sorraia embed. Some comparison pages will tell you otherwise; they are guessing. The real differences on this row are what the embed is for — Ecwid renders a store, we render a product or a small collection — and where the checkout goes: Sorraia hands off to Stripe’s hosted Checkout against the Stripe account connected to that site.
Source: support.ecwid.com · checked 3 September 2026
Ecwid takes no cut of a sale; Sorraia does
This is the row that argues against us, and it belongs here. Ecwid charges its subscription and no transaction fee. Sorraia takes a platform fee on each sale — 2% on Free, 1.5% on Starter, 1% on Growth, 0.5% on Business, 0.25% on Enterprise — on top of Stripe’s own processing fee, and the builder shows a live “you receive about X per sale” estimate so the number is visible while you set the price. At low volume the fee is smaller than a subscription. At real volume it stops being, and that is the point to switch.
Source: ecwid.com · checked 3 September 2026
See it working
This is a real Sorraia product widget running on our own site. Its checkout is switched off, so a Buy click returns our server’s “not ready to accept payments yet” refusal rather than a Stripe page — everything up to that point is the real thing.
What you get with Sorraia
Sell something from your website without migrating the site onto an e-commerce platform. One widget is one purchasable thing, checkout runs on Stripe, and the money goes to your own Stripe account.
Three ways to charge
A widget is a flat-price Buy Now, a pay-what-you-want donation where the customer sets the amount, or a recurring monthly or yearly subscription. You pick per widget, so a one-off product and a membership can live on the same site.
Three ways to fulfil
Digital emails a signed download link once Stripe confirms payment — the link is good for 24 hours. Physical collects a shipping address at checkout and applies one flat shipping rate, and you mark it shipped. Service skips fulfilment entirely and just tells you the sale happened.
Checkout is Stripe, and the account is yours
Payment runs as a direct charge on your own connected Stripe account, so payouts, disputes, receipts and tax settings stay in the Stripe dashboard you already use — we never hold your money in between. Sorraia takes a platform fee on top, deducted as a Stripe application fee: 2% on Free, falling to 1.5% on Starter, 1% on Growth, 0.5% on Business and 0.25% on Enterprise. Eight currencies are supported.
Orders and refunds in the dashboard
Orders land in Sorraia with the customer, the amount and the site they came from, filterable and exportable like every other list. Refunds are issued from the same place.
More detail in the Help Center: Shop basics · Plans and limits
When Ecwid is the better choice
When you are running a store rather than selling a thing. Inventory tracking, shipping rules with real carrier rates, tax by region, product options across a large catalogue, multichannel selling into marketplaces and social and point-of-sale, an app market to fill the gaps, staff roles, abandoned-cart recovery — Ecwid does all of it and Sorraia does none of it. Our shop covers a product, a subscription, a donation, or a small collection checking out through a cart, with digital delivery, physical shipping and orders in a dashboard. That is a genuinely different size of problem. If the catalogue has more than a couple of dozen things in it, or the fee arithmetic above stops favouring us, Ecwid is the right answer.
Questions
Can I import my Ecwid products?
Not directly — there is no Ecwid adapter. There is a CSV importer, and Ecwid exports its catalogue to CSV, so that is the working path: export, map the columns in the import wizard, preview what it found, and confirm. There is also a Stripe importer if the products already exist as Stripe prices, and a URL importer that reads structured product data off a page on a domain you have verified. Whichever route you take, you preview before anything is created and an undo removes exactly what the import made.
Whose Stripe account does the money go into?
One you connect, and it can be per site. A Sorraia account can hold one Stripe connection for everything, or a separate connected account for each website — a site’s connection receives all of that site’s shop revenue, which is how a client’s money reaches the client’s own Stripe rather than passing through an agency’s. Connecting a site’s account is limited to org admins, and Stripe locks a connected account’s country when it is created, so that question gets asked before anything is minted.
Try it on one site before you move anything
The free plan covers one verified website with no card, and the embed is the same one you would use on a paid plan. Build the online store, paste one line, and see how it looks on a page you already own.
Ecwid is a trademark of Lightspeed Commerce Inc.. Sorraia is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Ecwid.