eCommerce API comparison API2Cart vs In-House Integration

eCommerce API Integration comparison: API2Cart vs In-House Integration

eCommerce API comparison is essential when choosing between an in-house integration and a unified API service. API2Cart offers a smarter, more scalable alternative to building your own in-house integration. With API2Cart, you can easily connect to 60+ popular shopping platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and OpenCart, among others.

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Building integrations in-house means long development cycles, high costs, and constant maintenance. API2Cart cuts integration time, reduces costs, and ensures real-time data sync across 60+ platforms. Plus, you get dedicated support to keep your systems running smoothly — no downtime, no headaches. Additionally, API2Cart offers dedicated support to ensure smooth integration and ongoing technical assistance. This level of support is essential for businesses that depend on continuous uptime and need expert assistance whenever they face challenges with their integrations.

Key Benefits of API2Cart

Access to 60+ shopping platforms

Simplify your operations with a single integration to multiple platforms.

Unified API methods

API2Cart offers 100+ methods to manage eCommerce operations such as products, orders, payments, and more.

Cost-effective

Save thousands of dollars on development and maintenance costs compared to building custom integrations.

Fast time-to-market

Get your integration up and running quickly, without the long development cycles.

Customer support

API2Cart provides round-the-clock technical support, ensuring your integrations run smoothly at all times.

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In-House Integration Development

API2Cart API integration

Subscription costs

Subscription (annually):

*In-house integration development involves subscription costs for tools and services your developers need like VCS (code repository), CI/CD Services, Cloud Services, etc.

Subscription fee (annually):

*API2Cart offers a few pricing plans, starting from $300/month. At the end of your free trial you can choose a suitable plan that will satisfy your business needs.

Integration development cost

Number of developers:

Number of shopping platforms:

The average salary of your developer (monthly):

*Each integration with shopping platform requires from one to two months of your developers' work. Furthermore, support of the integration needs development team efforts. The average salary of one developer is 5000$/month.

Number of developers:

Number of shopping platforms:

Your API2Cart integration specialist salary (monthly):

*The use of our service requires you to have just one developer for building and supporting the integration with API2Cart.

Maintenance expenses

Integration maintenance costs (annually):

Platform versions updates costs (annually):

*To maintain the integration, you need at least one developer. Moreover, platform versions updates require specialist skills and additional expenses.

Integration maintenance costs (annually):

Platform versions updates costs (annually):

*API2Cart pricing plans include expenses connected with ongoing integration maintenance and updates.

Server hardware costs

Year-one new hardware required:

Hardware life expectancy in years:

Additional hardware cost each year:

*You will likely require new or upgraded hardware to properly run the system.

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*As API2Cart is a hosted software, you won’t need to have your own infrastructure to host the application or buy any server hardware.

Training of employees

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*This may involve the participation of employees in webinars or creating custom courses and documentation. And of course, you will need to train new employees as they come on board.

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*API2Cart provides the clients with a team of high-quality specialists that will give you all necessary information about the work of the service for free. Also, we have detailed API documentation and user guides.

Other costs

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*A few other costs you may have include storage and backup, redundant Internet connections, or other network infrastructure.

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