Ecwid vs Spike

Ecwid vs Spike is a widget versus a door. Ecwid sat in the drawer of shops you paste onto a site: a catalogue, a cart, often physical goods, sometimes a file. Useful when the leftover job was "I need a store on this page." Spike will not embed a mini-cart on your Squarespace. It will hold the pack, treat the unpaid view, and take payment on that link.

If the leftover job is still a shop, pick a shop. If the leftover job is "they already said yes, stop making them browse," pick a folder. How to sell a folder online is that unit.

What Ecwid is for

• A compact catalogue on a site you already have.
• Physical goods and digital SKUs in one widget.
• Sellers who wanted a store without becoming Shopify.
• A public page for a product with a cover and a price.

When the catalogue is the wrong room

A client brand kit is not a catalogue item. A private drop is not a cover image. Sell exclusive digital content is that latch. Shoprocket vs Spike if you only wanted a buy button, not a full widget store.

A small store is still a store. A folder is still a folder. Pick the furniture that matches the job.

Spike takes 5% on Free, 1% on Pro, 0% on Business, plus Stripe. Free-plan files follow 30-day retention. A store you intend to keep should not be replaced by a Free share that dies on Thursday. Pro and Business are the standing doors. Keep Ecwid for objects and the public kit on your site. Move the wedding set, the commission, and the DM pack.

You can drop Ecwid on a brochure, sell stickers in the widget, and still send client work on Spike. Two rooms. One checkout doing both is how a client pack becomes a listing. Staff should not need the store login to send a door. The widget can keep selling objects. The folder can keep selling files.

A named client already said yes in the inbox. Putting that pack in a mini-store next to stickers makes a named job look like a store SKU. Keep Ecwid when the public catalogue on your site is the job, including objects. Use Spike when this week's pack is one folder. Treat the unpaid view. Price the share. Skip the widget. Send the URL. Let them look, pay if they still owe you, and download on that same page. Two rooms. The mistake is one embed doing both until a wedding set is a listing.