PLATFORM COMPARISON
Adobe Commerce vs Shopify Plus for B2B and Enterprise
Adobe Commerce is the licensed Magento edition, sold under an ordering document with Adobe. Shopify Plus starts at $2,300 a month on a 3-year term (US pricing, checked October 2026). This page compares B2B tools, content scheduling, inventory and support as each vendor documents them.
✦ FEATURES
Feature comparison.
| FEATURE | ADOBE COMMERCE | SHOPIFY PLUS |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing and contract | The Magento README says each source file is licensed under OSL 3.0 or under the terms of the applicable ordering document between the customer and Adobe (or Magento). It adds that the ordering terms supersede OSL 3.0 once fees are paid. | Plus is sold as a plan. US pricing, checked October 2026: $2,500 a month on a 1-year term, $2,300 on a 3-year term, or a variable platform fee for more complex business structures. |
| B2B company structure | Adobe's B2B docs describe company accounts with divisions, subdivisions and users, company hierarchies that can be managed as a group, and roles and permissions that company administrators assign. | Shopify's B2B help says B2B customers are set up as companies. Pricing, currency, products, payment and shipping methods and store content can be tailored for each company. |
| B2B buying tools | Adobe lists Quick Order by product name or SKU, requisition lists, Negotiable Quotes, purchase order approval rules and Pay on Account credit when it is enabled. | Shopify's B2B help lists draft orders among the features that support B2B. The text reviewed does not describe quotes or purchase order approval rules. |
| Which plans include B2B | The Adobe B2B pages reviewed give no pricing or edition detail for the B2B features. | Shopify's B2B help says B2B is available on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans, and that the features you get depend on the plan. |
| Content scheduling | Content Staging lets business users create, preview and schedule content changes from the Admin. Campaigns can be previewed for any date or date range and shared. Adobe says it is available only in Adobe Commerce, not Magento Open Source. | Launchpad schedules sales, product drops and inventory restocks. It covers price changes, product release to sales channels, inventory boosts, theme changes and a password-protected storefront before launch. Shopify says it is available only on Plus. |
| Scheduling limits | Each entity can have only one scheduled update at a time, and campaigns for the same asset cannot overlap. Staged entities are products, categories, catalog and cart price rules, CMS pages and CMS blocks. | Launchpad includes a real-time analytics dashboard that tracks results while an event runs. |
| Inventory model | Adobe's Inventory Management uses sources (physical locations that store and ship products) and stocks that link a website to its sources. A stock can serve several sales channels, but each channel belongs to one stock. | Shopify tracks inventory at locations, where you store and fulfill it. Shopify says a product must be active at a minimum of 1 location to be sellable. |
| Stock across locations | Adobe totals Aggregate Salable Quantity across every source assigned to a stock. Reservations are made as shoppers add to carts and check out, and the shipped amounts are deducted from specific sources when an order ships. | Shopify says each location holds its own quantity, and stock cannot be shared or pooled between locations. You can create inventory transfers to move stock between them. |
| Bulk catalog edits | The Adobe inventory page reviewed gives no bulk-edit figure. | Shopify's bulk editor updates up to 50 products at a time, and it says to use a CSV file for catalogs with more than 100 products. |
| Catalog and product model | Adobe's product docs list simple, configurable, grouped, virtual, bundle and downloadable types, plus gift cards in the Adobe Commerce edition only. A configurable product's options are each a separate simple product with its own SKU. The page states no numeric variant limit. | Shopify says a product can have up to 2,048 variants and up to three options. The page lists no Plus exception to either limit. It points to third-party apps or theme code for products that need more. |
| SEO controls | Adobe's SEO overview covers metadata, sitemaps, URL rewrites and robots.txt. The metadata, sitemap and URL rewrite sections carry a "PaaS only" badge, which the page says means Adobe Commerce on Cloud and on-premises projects. A tip sends Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service users to separate SEO guidelines. | Shopify's SEO help page has sections on editing robots.txt.liquid, submitting a sitemap, hiding a page from search engines, adding keywords and crawling a store. The index page itself states no limits. |
| Support and lifecycle | Adobe lists regular support for the 2.4.9 line until May 31, 2029 and recommends the latest security patch for each release. The versions page states no SLA. | The Plus pricing page lists ongoing 24/7 priority support, plus Shopify Plus Academy and the Community forums. It also lists professional services for design, development, data migration and launch support. |
| Hosting and operating model | Adobe describes Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure as Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosting, with an automated hosting platform for building, deploying and managing your application. For on-premises, Adobe says you host and manage your own infrastructure and are responsible for its performance, security and scalability. | Shopify's Plus page says you can host anywhere or deploy with its React-based headless stack at no extra cost. It also cites 99.99% uptime on average across worldwide flash sales and events. |
| Customization and extensibility | Adobe's extensibility docs describe in-process customizations (PHP modules, plugins, observers) and out-of-process extensibility, where custom code runs outside the Commerce application. They say App Builder provides the platform for building Commerce applications. | Shopify Functions let developers customize backend logic, for example hiding a payment option or blocking a checkout when cart quantities exceed a limit. Developers ship them inside an app that merchants install. |
| Apps and ecosystem | Adobe Commerce Marketplace is a platform for selling Adobe Commerce extensions, with guidance for buyers on purchasing, downloading and installing them. | Shopify's Plus page cites thousands of app and service partners. The Shopify App Store page cites more than 16,000 apps, each reviewed. |
| Security and compliance | Adobe's compliance documentation says merchants are obligated to meet industry guidelines for a secure environment, and that some requirements need additional development work from the merchant. | Shopify's security page states: "Shopify is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant." The Plus page lists full compliance, data encryption, and fraud and bot protection. |
✦ COST OF OWNERSHIP
Cost of ownership.
| COST ITEM | ADOBE COMMERCE | SHOPIFY PLUS |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | Set by the ordering document with Adobe. No Adobe Commerce price was found on the Adobe pages reviewed. | US pricing, checked October 2026: $30,000 a year on the 1-year term and $27,600 a year on the 3-year term. A variable platform fee can apply to more complex businesses. |
| Hosting | Cloud: AWS hosting on Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure. On-premises: you host and manage your own infrastructure. No hosting figure appears on the Adobe pages reviewed. | Shopify's Plus page says to host anywhere or deploy its React-based headless stack at no extra cost. It lists no separate hosting fee. |
| Support and development hours | Orange Collar Media's own rates for Magento support, not Adobe's: a 20-hour block for $3,800 ($190 an hour), or a 12-month contract of 20 hours a month at $160 an hour ($3,200 a month, $38,400 over 12 months). | Shopify lists no other platform costs, but says custom development means budgeting for a Shopify Plus Partner. |
| Apps and themes | The Adobe Commerce Marketplace page reviewed states no buyer prices for extensions and does not mention themes. | Shopify lists one-time theme purchases and third-party apps as optional extra costs. |
| Migration in | The Adobe Commerce Marketplace page reviewed does not mention migration, and no Adobe migration cost was found. | Shopify says it does not charge you to migrate, and paid services are available for custom needs. |
✦ MIGRATION
Migration effort.
Moving between the two means a data map first. Customer accounts, order history, B2B company structures and shared catalogs or price lists each need field-level scoping. Content Staging campaigns and Launchpad events are scheduled work that gets rebuilt on the target, and Adobe sources and stocks have to be remapped to Shopify locations. Every integration (ERP, OMS, payments) is reconnected and tested on a staging copy, and the full URL set gets redirects before cutover. No sourced implementation timeline was found for either platform, so scope dates from your own data map.
✦ CHOOSING
Which fits your store.
Choose Adobe Commerce if
- You need company hierarchies, Negotiable Quotes or purchase order approval rules, which Adobe documents.
- You want Content Staging campaigns with a calendar preview, and can work within one scheduled update per entity.
- You want sources and stocks that map websites to physical locations, with reservations at checkout.
Choose Shopify Plus if
- You want a published monthly price and a fixed 1-year or 3-year term.
- You want Launchpad to run price changes, product releases and restocks as one event.
- You want 24/7 priority support and Plus Academy included in the plan.
✦ QUESTIONS MERCHANTS ASK
Common questions.
What does Adobe Commerce cost?+–
No Adobe Commerce price was found on the Adobe pages reviewed. The Magento README names OSL 3.0 and says files may instead be licensed under the terms of an ordering document with Adobe (or Magento).
How much does Shopify Plus cost?+–
US pricing, checked October 2026: Plus is $2,300 a month on a 3-year term or $2,500 on a 1-year term. Shopify moves more complex, higher volume businesses to a variable platform fee.
Does Shopify B2B need Plus?+–
Shopify's B2B help says B2B is available on Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus. The features you get depend on the plan.
Can both schedule content changes?+–
Yes. Adobe Commerce has Content Staging, with one scheduled update per entity at a time. Shopify has Launchpad, which is available only on Plus.
How do they handle stock in several warehouses?+–
Adobe adds up salable quantity across the sources in a stock and reserves it at checkout. Shopify tracks a quantity at each location and does not pool stock between them.
What do the vendors say about support?+–
Shopify lists 24/7 priority support on Plus. Adobe lists regular support for 2.4.9 until May 31, 2029 and states no SLA on its versions page.
✦ KEEP COMPARING
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✦ KEEP EXPLORING
Related services.
SOURCES
- Magento on GitHub (README and license) (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify Plus pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce B2B introduction (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify B2B help (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce Content Staging (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify Launchpad help (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce Inventory Management (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify multi-location inventory help (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce product types (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify variants help (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce SEO overview (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify SEO help (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce release versions (opens in a new tab)
- Orange Collar Media Magento support pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce on cloud overview (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce on-premises installation overview (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce extensibility (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce Marketplace (opens in a new tab)
- Adobe Commerce security and compliance (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify Plus (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify Functions (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify App Store (opens in a new tab)
- Shopify security (opens in a new tab)