Best Ecommerce Platforms in Malaysia (2026): CMS Compared

Quick answer: The four platforms Malaysian sellers shortlist split by the shape of what they charge. Shopify charges a subscription in US dollars plus a percentage of every order, because Shopify Payments is not available in Malaysia and its third party provider fee applies instead. WooCommerce charges nothing for the software and everything for the hosting, maintenance and developer time behind it. EasyStore charges a ringgit subscription and publishes a 0% transaction fee. SiteGiant publishes no prices in any form we could retrieve, so it is a quote first platform.

If you are a small Malaysian seller doing most of your volume on Shopee and Lazada, and your own store is a second channel rather than your main one, EasyStore is usually the better answer and Shopify the dearer one. We build Shopify and WooCommerce stores for a living and that is still what the numbers say.

Every figure carries the date we checked it.

The comparison table

Checked 28 and 30 September 2026 on each vendor’s pages.

	Shopify	WooCommerce	SiteGiant	EasyStore
Plan price shown to a Malaysian buyer	US dollars. Basic US$19, Grow US$49, Advanced US$299 a month annual. Plus from US$2,300	Free software. You pay hosting, plugins, maintenance	Not published. Every route returned 403 or an empty app shell on 30 September 2026	Ringgit. RM249, RM499, RM899, RM1,199 a month list
Platform fee per order	2% Basic, 1% Grow, 0.6% Advanced, 0.2% Plus	None	Marketed as none. Not verifiable	“0% transaction fees… at any volume”
Malaysian gateways	Third party only: Fiuu, Billplz, Curlec, ADAPTIS, HitPay, 2C2P	Official plugins from Billplz, toyyibPay, CHIP, Razorpay Curlec	Built in	52 gateways accepting MYR
Couriers	Apps: EasyParcel, Delyva, ParcelDaily. No Shopify Shipping here	Plugins. EasyParcel has an official one	Built in, plus warehouse and ERP tooling	Built in across channels
Shopee and Lazada sync	Connector app only. No first party channel	Plugin or middleware	Core of the product	Built in, counted against your plan’s channel limit
SEO control	Good, inside URL path prefixes you cannot remove	Complete. Any URL structure	Not documented publicly	Not documented publicly. Features page names no SEO tooling
Suits	Brand led stores wanting no server to think about	Content heavy sites, unusual logic, a developer on call	Operations heavy multichannel sellers	Malaysian brands selling across marketplaces, social and chat

Two things before anything else. Neither Shopify Payments nor WooPayments covers Malaysia, so every store here connects a separate gateway. And only two of the four will tell you their price without a sales call.

Shopify

Shopify’s Malaysian pricing page quotes in US dollars, not ringgit: US$19 a month for Basic on annual billing, US$49 for Grow, US$299 for Advanced, and Plus from US$2,300 on a three year term or US$2,500 on one year, checked 28 September 2026. Malaysian service tax is added at the prevailing rate for foreign supplied digital services, and Shopify’s help centre states you cannot submit an SST number for exemption.

Then comes the fee that decides most Malaysian comparisons. Malaysia is absent from Shopify’s published list of Shopify Payments countries. Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan are on it; Malaysia is not. So you always run a third party gateway, and Shopify charges its provider fee on top: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced, 0.2% on Plus.

Stack that against a real gateway rate. A Basic plan store taking a domestic card payment through Fiuu pays Fiuu’s 2.40% card rate, plus Shopify’s 2% fee, plus the 0.25% Fiuu’s published appendix applies to merchants subscribing to Shopify: about 4.65% on one domestic card sale, before the subscription. On RM300,000 of annual card revenue that is roughly RM13,950, of which Shopify’s share is RM6,000.

Because the fee is a percentage and the plan is flat, Basic to Grow pays for itself around RM12,000 a month in sales and Grow to Advanced at roughly RM255,000, so most Malaysian stores have no business on Advanced.

Two more gaps. Shopify Shipping is not available in Malaysia, so you cannot buy labels in the admin and get no negotiated rates; you install an aggregator instead, and EasyParcel, Delyva and ParcelDaily all have live listings. Live rates at checkout come from carrier calculated shipping, which Shopify restricts to Advanced and Plus with a paid add on for Grow, so a Basic store sets flat rates by zone. For Sabah and Sarawak that means overcharging Peninsular buyers or absorbing the difference.

Shopify also has no first party Shopee or Lazada channel. Its Marketplace Connect covers Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Target Plus, so Malaysian sellers add a connector app: Easy Shopee, Lazada & TikTok from about US$5 a month, Osco from US$9, OneCart or Ginee. Decide which system owns inventory first, because on the most reviewed connector Shopify is the master record and stock edits in Shopee Seller Centre do not push back.

One hard no: Shopify requires Shopify Payments as the primary gateway for its native subscriptions, so a Malaysian subscription box is a poor fit. See Shopify website design and development and best payment gateways in Malaysia.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a free GPL plugin for WordPress. No plan price, no transaction fee to the platform. Everything you pay is infrastructure and labour.

Hosting first. Exabytes listed business hosting from RM9.99 a month on promotion up to RM205.99 for its top shared tier on 30 September 2026, with promotional rates renewing higher. Outgrow shared hosting and you move to cloud: AWS has run an Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region, ap-southeast-5, since 2024, cheaper than Singapore, with a t3.large at about US$69 a month on 28 September 2026 for compute alone, before storage, transfer, a managed database, a cache and a load balancer. Our website domain and hosting page covers the shared end.

Payments are the pleasant surprise. WooPayments does not cover Malaysia, the same gap as Shopify, with Malaysia absent from the 39 country list in WooCommerce’s documentation on 30 September 2026. But Malaysian gateways publish their own plugins and nothing is charged on top. From the WordPress.org plugin directory, 30 September 2026:

Plugin	Author	Active installs	Last updated
Billplz for WooCommerce	Billplz Sdn Bhd	6,000	13 August 2026
toyyibPay for WooCommerce	toyyibPay	5,000	11 April 2026
CHIP for WooCommerce	Chip In Sdn Bhd	4,000	26 August 2026
Razorpay for WooCommerce, the Curlec route	Razorpay	100,000	4 September 2026
senangpay	szulazri, a third party developer	1,000	4 November 2024
EasyParcel Shipping	EasyParcel	700	22 September 2026

Read the last two rows as a warning. The senangPay plugin is maintained by an individual and has not been updated since November 2024, a long time on a payment integration, and Fiuu has no directory listing at all. Check the update date before you commit to a gateway: on WooCommerce the maintenance risk is yours.

Marketplace sync is the weakest part of the case. Directory options are thin: CedCommerce’s Marketplace Integration for Shopee and Lazada had 70 active installs on 30 September 2026, LitCommerce 2,000. Serious sellers use middleware. Zetpy publishes ringgit pricing, checked 30 September 2026: free up to 100 orders a month, Basic RM150 a month billed annually, Pro RM300, covering Lazada, Shopee and TikTok Shop. Roughly what an EasyStore subscription costs.

The hard no: nobody on your side owning updates. An unmaintained WooCommerce store is the most expensive outcome in this comparison. WooCommerce versus Shopify goes deeper, and Magento versus Shopify versus WooCommerce adds the enterprise option.

SiteGiant

SiteGiant is the most searched ecommerce platform brand in Malaysia and the hardest to write about honestly. “Sitegiant” draws 11,000 searches a month here at a keyword difficulty of 0, per Ahrefs on 30 September 2026, and sitegiant.my ranks fifth for “ecommerce platform malaysia” with about 890 monthly organic visits. Their own SERP title reads “SiteGiant: Malaysia Leading Multichannel eCommerce Solution”, a fair description: marketplace sync, stock control across channels, warehouse and ERP tooling, for sellers whose problem is operations rather than storefront design.

Now the part vendor comparison pages leave out. We could not retrieve a single SiteGiant price on 30 September 2026. sitegiant.my and its pricing page returned HTTP 403 to five browser user agents including a mobile one, as did www.sitegiant.sg. sitegiant.co and account.sitegiant.co returned an empty JavaScript shell. The billing portal at billing.sitegiant.my loaded but returned “Could not load any product groups”, where on 23 September 2026 we had recorded annual plans from about RM864. Software directories are no substitute: GetApp’s listing showed a starting price of “$19.61 per year”, plainly a data error.

If you are shortlisting SiteGiant you are shortlisting a quote, so ask three things in writing: the plan price and billing term, whether the “no transaction fee” claim carries a volume condition, and which marketplace channels are included at your tier rather than sold as add ons.

The hard no: a storefront that must look designed, or a buying process needing published costs.

EasyStore

EasyStore publishes its prices in ringgit, which after the previous section feels like a courtesy. From easystore.co/en-my/pricing, 30 September 2026:

Plan	List price a month	Promotional price shown	Staff	Sales channels	Inventory locations
Standard	RM249	RM139	up to 5	up to 5	up to 5
Business	RM499	RM279	up to 10	up to 10	up to 10
Growth	RM899	RM539	up to 10	up to 10	up to 10
Success	RM1,199	RM699, sales contact required	up to 25	unlimited	up to 10

Products and orders are unlimited on every plan, and the promotional column is 50% off the first year, so budget list price from year two. The fee position is plain: “0% transaction fees. Keep 100% of every sale, we never take a cut of your revenue, at any volume.”

Payments are the strongest column on the sheet. EasyStore’s payments page lists 52 local gateways accepting MYR, with Stripe, ADAPTIS, Payex, Billplz and senangPay marked as recommended, and Fiuu, iPay88, toyyibPay, HitPay, GKASH, PayHalal, Revenue Monster and Atome among the rest. Between them they carry FPX, DuitNow QR, Touch ’n Go, GrabPay, Boost, ShopeePay, cards and buy now pay later, and you pay the gateway’s rate with nothing on top.

Channels are why Malaysian sellers pick it. Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop sit alongside Facebook and Instagram including their live formats, WhatsApp, LINE, Telegram and WeChat, Google Shopping and a POS, plus PGMall and Zalora on the pricing page. Marketplace orders land in the same orders list as everything else. Count your channels before choosing a tier, because that limit, not the product count, pushes you up a plan.

The honest comparison against Shopify: a store turning over RM300,000 a year on Grow pays about US$588 in subscription plus 1% of sales, roughly RM3,000, plus its gateway rate and SST. The same store on EasyStore Standard pays RM2,988 at list price and its gateway rate, full stop. For a Malaysian seller under roughly RM500,000 a year whose own store is one channel among several, EasyStore is usually cheaper and simpler, and we would say so even though we do not build on it.

What you give up is the storefront and the ecosystem. EasyStore’s features page, checked 30 September 2026, organises everything under selling, operations and customer engagement, and names no SEO tooling at all. Neither does SiteGiant’s public material. That absence is why we still point brands whose growth plan is organic search towards Shopify or WooCommerce, and it is the question to put to both in a demo: show me the page title, meta description and URL handle fields, and the redirect tool.

Frequently asked questions

Which ecommerce platform is cheapest for a small Malaysian seller?

Usually EasyStore, once you count the fee per order rather than the subscription: RM249 a month at list price with a stated 0% transaction fee, against Shopify Basic at US$19 plus 2% of every order. WooCommerce is cheaper still if you already have hosting and a maintainer, dearer than both if you do not.

Is Shopify Payments available in Malaysia in 2026?

No. Malaysia is absent from Shopify’s published list of supported countries, checked 28 September 2026, so you connect a Malaysian gateway and Shopify adds its third party provider fee: 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, 0.6% on Advanced, 0.2% on Plus.

What does a Shopify order really cost me in Malaysia?

Add three numbers. A Basic store taking a domestic card payment through Fiuu pays Fiuu’s 2.40% card rate, Shopify’s 2% third party fee and the 0.25% Fiuu applies to Shopify merchants: about 4.65%, plus SST on the subscription.

How much does SiteGiant cost?

They do not publish it in any form we could retrieve on 30 September 2026. Ask in writing for the plan price, the billing term, any volume condition on the no transaction fee claim, and which channels are included at your tier.

Can I sync Shopee and Lazada from all four platforms?

Yes, but not equally. EasyStore and SiteGiant include marketplace channels. Shopify needs a connector app. WooCommerce needs a plugin or middleware such as Zetpy, RM150 a month on Basic billed annually. For TikTok Shop, see how to sell on TikTok in Malaysia.

Which platform is best for SEO?

WooCommerce, because you control the URL structure completely. Shopify is a close second and fine for most stores, with the caveat that its /products/, /collections/, /pages/ and /blogs/ prefixes are fixed. EasyStore and SiteGiant publish nothing about SEO control, so check the fields in a trial first.

Is it hard to move from Shopify to WooCommerce, or the other way?

The data is the easy part. The theme, every app, all automations, tax and shipping rules and the gateway connections get rebuilt, and the URL structure changes, so you need a redirect map for the whole catalogue. Plan four to eight weeks for a mid sized store.

Do I need SSM registration before opening a store on any of these?

None of the four platforms requires it, but your payment gateway will. Treat business registration as part of launch.

The bottom line

Choose on the shape of the cost, not the headline price. Shopify charges a percentage of every order here because Shopify Payments is not available, and for a high volume, thin margin seller that percentage is the whole comparison. WooCommerce charges nothing and asks for a maintainer instead. EasyStore charges a ringgit subscription with no cut of your sales and gives you marketplace and chat channels in the box, which for a small Malaysian seller is often right. SiteGiant may suit an operations heavy multichannel business, but you cannot evaluate it without a quote, so make that quote specific and get it in writing.

To run the comparison on your own numbers, talk to MediaPlus Digital about ecommerce development or request a quote. We will also run a free health check on whatever you are on now, including a platform we do not sell, and say plainly if moving is not worth it.