Who uses Section Store & Cart Drawer?

The typical Section Store & Cart Drawer store is a mid-sized brand. Its median catalog is 55 products and it runs a median of 12 apps. That is close to EComposer stores (54 products) and between PageFly (41) and Shogun (60.5). GemPages stores are much smaller on catalog, at a median of 15 products, which fits its focus on landing pages for single-product brands.

About 11.2% of Section Store stores run Shopify Plus, roughly 2.5x the Shopify-wide rate of about 4.4%. That is above PageFly (about 9.4%), EComposer (about 8.6%) and GemPages (about 5.8%), and level with Zipify Landing Page Builder (about 12.4%). Only Shogun, at about 26.7%, is clearly more enterprise.

The difference in approach explains part of that. A full page builder replaces the theme editor for selected pages. Section Store adds individual sections inside the theme a store already has, so it suits brands that are happy with their theme and want specific blocks without rebuilding pages from scratch.

Section Store is one of the most international apps in the page builder group: 77% of its stores are outside the United States, against 62% to 71% for PageFly, GemPages and EComposer. The US accounts for 22.9% of stores, followed by Australia (12.1%), the United Kingdom (10.3%), the Netherlands (7.9%), Germany (6.7%) and Canada (5.7%). The Netherlands in fourth place is unusual for the category and points to a strong following among Dutch brands.

By category, fashion (17%) and business and industrial (16.7%) lead almost level, followed by food and drink (11.1%) and technology and computing (10.8%). Fashion ranking first sets it apart from the other page builders, where business and industrial leads.

The apps that show up next to Section Store describe a direct to consumer brand that buys traffic. Its stores run Upcart, a cart drawer and upsell app, 11.8x more often than the average Shopify store, and wetracked.io, a conversion tracking tool, 7.4x more often. Rise Gift Cards & Store Credit is 4.5x more common, Triple Whale ad attribution 4x, Snapchat Ads 3.9x and Simprosys Google Shopping Feed 3.8x.

Put together, that is a brand advertising on paid social and Google, measuring results closely and tuning its theme and cart for conversion. If you sell to Shopify brands, Section Store is a marker of a store that invests in its storefront design without moving to a heavier page builder.

Section Store & Cart Drawer vs PageFly

PageFly is the most reviewed page builder, rated 4.9 stars across 5,903 reviews. It is a full drag and drop builder for landing pages, product pages and home pages, with a free plan and paid plans of $24, $99 and $299 a month. Its stores carry smaller catalogs (median 41 products) and are slightly less often on Plus (about 9.4%). Choose PageFly to design whole pages, Section Store to drop ready-made sections into your current theme.

Section Store & Cart Drawer vs EComposer

EComposer is rated 4.9 stars across 3,480 reviews and has the closest store profile, at a median of 54 products and about 8.6% on Plus. It is a page builder with paid plans from $25 to $129 a month. Section Store is lighter, built around adding sections and a cart drawer rather than whole pages.

Other options

GemPages, with 4,269 reviews, suits single-product landing pages. Shogun has the highest Plus share in the group, at about 26.7%, with paid plans from $39 a month. Zipify Landing Page Builder is used mostly by US brands, and Atlas AI Store Builder serves new stores built around a handful of products.

Section Store & Cart Drawer is free to install, with paid options listed from $15 a month. That is a lower starting point than the full page builders: Zipify Landing Page Builder starts at $19 a month, PageFly at $24, EComposer at $25, GemPages at $29, and Shogun and Atlas at $39.

Merchants who leave Section Store five stars tend to mention a responsive support team, a wide variety of pre-built sections that save time, and gains in conversion rate and order value. The critical reviews focus on reliability. Bugs and glitches are the most common theme, at 37% of recent 1 to 3 star reviews. Slow or unhelpful support comes up in 28%, and conflicts with the theme or other apps in 15%. Bugs and support also lead the critical reviews for PageFly and GemPages, so this is a category-wide concern rather than one specific to Section Store.