Switching from ShopWired
The best ShopWired alternatives for UK shops.
ShopWired is a capable UK platform — and every plan carries an annual turnover cap, so selling more is the trigger for paying more. If a good year shouldn't raise your software bill, here's the honest shortlist, prices checked 7 August 2026. We build Orbit Commerce, so read our first entry with that in mind.
The turnover-cap maths.
Nothing sneaky about it — the caps are published. But they change what growth costs, so they belong at the top of the page.
ShopWired's plans are priced by how much you sell in a year: Essentials (£34.95 + VAT a month) covers you to £50,000, Advanced (£79.95) to £200,000, Premium (£149.95) to £500,000, and Enterprise (from £299.95) is unlimited. Pass your cap and you move up a plan — that's £45 + VAT more a month at the first threshold, whether or not you need a single new feature. On the entry plan, staff accounts (£5 + VAT/month) and trade accounts (£10 + VAT/month) are paid add-ons, and when we checked, Amazon and Etsy integrations were still listed as "coming soon."
None of that makes ShopWired a bad platform — phone support on every plan and a long-standing native eBay integration are real strengths, and our straight two-way comparison says so. But if the pricing model is what brought you here, the shortlist below is organised around exactly that.
1. Orbit Commerce — flat pricing, no ceilings.
We build Orbit, so we're first on our own list — judge it by the numbers, which don't care who wrote them down.
Orbit's plans are flat: Solo £25, Team £85 and Pro £249 a month (£19, £64 and £187 billed yearly), and your bill only changes when you choose more features — never because you sold more. Every plan has unlimited products, 100GB to 1TB of storage, staff accounts included (1/10/40 by plan), and a drag-and-drop page builder — no support tickets to change your own site. There's no platform fee on sales; the published card rate (2%, 1.7% or 1.5% + 25p online by plan) is the whole story.
The marketplace question answers itself here: Amazon, eBay and Etsy are free plugins today — listings, stock sync, and marketplace orders arriving as native orders. Subscriptions with failed-payment recovery (Team and up), gift cards and abandoned-cart recovery are in the plan. The trial is 14 days, full platform, no card required.
Where Orbit is strongest
- Flat plans with no turnover caps — a £50k year and a £500k year cost the same.
- Amazon, eBay and Etsy plugins are free and live now, not coming soon.
- Staff accounts included by plan rather than sold as an add-on.
- Growth features (subscriptions, gift cards, cart recovery) in the plan, not an app store.
- CSV/Excel importer that creates URL redirects, so a migration keeps your rankings.
Where it isn't (told straight)
- No phone support — Orbit support is email and live chat on every plan.
- Trade/B2B features sit on the enterprise tier, where ShopWired sells them as a £10 + VAT add-on from its cheapest plan.
- ShopWired’s 35+ payment gateway list is longer; check yours is covered before switching anywhere.
The rest of the UK field.
The other UK options, with their published prices and the limits worth knowing before you commit.
| Platform | Published price | Standout | Worth checking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orbit Commercethat's us | From £25/mo (£19 yearly) | No turnover caps, unlimited products every plan, free Amazon/eBay/Etsy plugins, page builder | B2B suite is enterprise-tier only |
| Bluepark | From £29.99 + VAT/mo | No turnover caps, UK phone support every plan, trade features from £44.99 | 500–2,000 product caps and 500MB–2GB storage on main plans |
| EKM (managed) | £327 + VAT/mo | Their team builds and runs the store for you | Not self-serve — closer to an agency retainer than a platform plan |
Bluepark also prices without turnover caps and offers UK phone support on every plan, with deep trade features from £44.99 + VAT — but its main plans meter products (500 to 2,000) and storage (500MB to 2GB) instead, so a growing catalogue hits a different ceiling. EKM no longer sells self-serve plans at all: its published offer is a managed service at £327 + VAT a month, which is a different product — fair against an agency retainer, not against a platform subscription. Full breakdowns: Orbit vs Bluepark, Orbit vs EKM and the three-way table in EKM vs ShopWired vs Bluepark.
The global platforms can run a UK shop too — but dollar pricing, app-store costs for features UK platforms include, and support on other timezones are usually why you shortlisted British platforms in the first place.
Moving off ShopWired, step by step.
Switching sounds scarier than it is. Here's what actually moves, and what protects your rankings.
Export your products, customers and orders from ShopWired. Orbit's importer takes CSV or Excel with as many rows as you have — products land with variants and images mapped, customers keep their details, and order history comes across for your records. URL redirects are created as part of the import, so the links that rank on Google today keep resolving afterwards. Run it from your dashboard during the free trial, check the result, and point your domain when you're happy.
Prefer to walk it through with a person first? Book a free migration call and bring your catalogue.
Questions, answered.
Straight answers from the team building it. If we don't know, we'll tell you.
ShopWired pricing and features checked 7 August 2026 against shopwired.co.uk and other published sources, and reviewed regularly. ShopWired is a trademark of its respective owner; all figures exclude VAT unless stated. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
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