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Why merchants choose PlatformDTC
PlatformDTC is the AI Growth Operating System: a 24/7 AI team that runs the busywork while you lead, so brands of any size launch, scale, and win.
46msmedian checkout TTFB
Measured with Playwright against the hosted checkout; live availability per service is on the status page.
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See how every platform stacks up
Other platforms hand you tools; PlatformDTC adds a self-driving AI layer that executes across your whole business. Compare platforms and see the difference yourself.
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Migrate in days
AI-assisted migration moves your catalog and data faster than other platforms.
Why PlatformDTC
PlatformDTC runs it all, so you can lead it all
Whether you’re starting from scratch or switching platforms, PlatformDTC’s AI Growth Operating System builds, grows, and runs your business alongside you.
An AI engine built to sell
Get the checkout that runs on your own domain
PlatformDTC's checkout comes built into every store, runs on your own domain, and keeps optimizing itself. Add features customers love—express checkout, discounts, gift cards, local delivery, and in-store pickup.
Start for free. Your first month is $1.
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Grow your audience on autopilot
Marketing that runs itself
AI finds your brand’s ideal shoppers, then builds the campaigns, emails, and analytics to reach them—all in one place. Reward loyalty automatically, and turn followers into buyers with social selling tools.
Performance on autopilot
Streamline your SEO
Product pages ship with schema.org markup, a machine-readable catalog and the discovery documents an AI shopping agent reads. Check what an agent can see on your current store.
See how your speed stacks up
Site speed moves everything—from revenue to operations. Benchmark your existing site’s performance and see exactly what faster load times could mean for your sales.
Stay in command of what matters
Build your store, your way
Create a store as unique as your brand. Start from a proven, conversion-tuned theme or let AI generate something custom. You stay in control.
Your self-driving back office
One AI-orchestrated back office keeps online and in-store data connected, so every order and operation syncs itself.
Competitive Pricing
One self-driving plan, priced per store
Put an AI growth team behind your business. One plan: $1,999/month per store. Start for free. Your first month is $1.
Online-first plan
Sell everywhere with AI doing the heavy lifting, backed by checkout on your own domain.
Enterprise solutions
All the help you need
Ask the community
Tap the know-how of PlatformDTC merchants and partners.
Hire a PlatformDTC partner
Bring in PlatformDTC Partners when a challenge calls for expert hands.
Everything you need to sell, on autopilot
Get a 24/7 AI team that helps you start, run, and grow your business. For enterprise merchants, contact our sales team.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does this comparison not rank the platforms?
- Because no honest ranking is available yet. The category is too new for neutral analyst coverage, so every published ranked list is written by a participant — and each one places itself first, usually inside a category invented to make that true. We are a participant too, so a ranking from us would deserve exactly the same discount. Four criteria you can test yourself are worth more than a grade you have to trust.
- What should actually be compared?
- Not the feature list, which is a tie at the top of this market — every serious vendor ships prepaid plans, swaps, skips, portals and bundles. Compare structure: where the payment credential lives and whether it is portable, how deeply dunning branches on issuer decline codes, whether subscription state shares a database with orders and inventory or syncs across an API, and what the exit actually looks like.
- How do I verify a vendor claim rather than take it on trust?
- Ask for an address rather than a description. A shipped protocol has an endpoint or feed URL you can fetch. A shipped scope model lets you create a read-only agent key in the dashboard while you watch. A shipped approval gate has a screen where a pending action waits. Anything answered as a capability rather than demonstrated as an artifact is a roadmap.