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Themes - EKM vs ShopWired
How your website looks and how easy it is for website visitors to use it, and be convinced to make a purchase from you, is perhaps the most important aspect of your online business.
ShopWired's themes are all built with a 'mobile first' approach, taking into account the rapidly increasing dominance of mobile devices in the ecommerce sector. All of ShopWired's themes are built to work seemlessly on mobile, tablet and laptop/desktop devices.
ShopWired's unique theme customisation system allows you to customise the look and feel of your website to match your branding and desired user experience. Whilst EKM has to offer a 'Design Lite' package, costing £500 + VAT for basic theme customisations, using ShopWired's theme customisation system you can perform all the customisations you need, and more, for no extra price.
EKM & ShopWired Pricing & Features
What features can you expect on each package
Monthly subscription fee
ShopWired's subscription fees start at £34.95 / month. Compared with the massive price hikes seen at EKM over the past 12 months with most users paying in excess of £300 / month, migrating your website to ShopWired will result in a considerable cost saving.
Integrations
ShopWired boasts a large range of integrations with external platforms including eBay, Etsy, TikTok, Veeqo, Instagram/Facebook, Google Shopping, Xero, Quickbooks, Kashflow, Sage - many of which are either broken or don't work, or simply not available on EKM.
Card processing & transaction fees
ShopWired integrates with over 30 UK payment gateways, allowing you to choose your preferred payment partner. ShopWired does not charge transaction fees if you use an external payment gateway.
Feature restrictions
On many of EKM's Packages you can't get access to their API, Trade Discounts, Gift Cards or even simple conversion tools like a delivery countdown timer. On ShopWired all of these features, and more, are available on all our packages.
Businesses at scale
For larger ecommerce retailers, EKM acts as a barrier to growth - with limited functionality, integrations and enterprise level support. Migrating your website to ShopWired will remove all these barriers, allowing you to focus on scaling your business further - with the help and support of a specialised enterprise grade support team.
Reviews
EKM used to score highly on review websites like Trustpilot, but since its acquisition by Clearcourse, customer satisfaction has dropped considerably.
As of 1st September 2025, EKM now scores just 4.2/5.0 on Trustpilot with users citing huge price increases, broken features, poor support times and slow loading times for their websites.
ShopWired, still owned by its original founders, continues to be the best rated ecommerce platform across review websites like Trustpilot (scoring 4.8/5.0 stars) and G2.
Read an independent review of ShopWired vs EKM on Ecommerce Gold
ShopWired will migrate your EKM website
Free of charge
To assist UK ecommerce merchants be the best they can be, we will migrate any EKM website to ShopWired completely free of charge.
Migrate from EKM to ShopWired in 30 days or less
We'll recreate your existing EKM website on ShopWired, migrating all category, product, customer (and other data), recreating text pages and blog posts, and configuring all relevant settings, completely free of charge.
Do you sell to other businesses?
ShopWired has a powerful range of built in features for trade customers and pricing for your online shop to use. Unlike EKM, we don't restrict access to these features to our highest packages, they're available to all ShopWired users (including during your free trial).
Set custom pricing for your trade customers
Offer trade customers a discount on product prices using trade discounts which are hidden to normal customers.
You can set individual pricing for each product for each of your trade customers, create trade pricing groups or setup trade percentage discounts.
(Only available on EKM's £300 per month package)
Set bulk buy discounts
Create pricing rules for your products and offer incentives to your trade customers to buy in bulk with our bulk pricing app.
Tiered pricing rules can also be set to only accessible to trade customers and can be set at category, product or product variation levels.
(Cannot be applied across more than one product on EKM)
Sell trade-only products
Create a whole new set of products and categories that can only be viewed and purchased by your registered trade customers.
Your retail and wholesale websites can be configured to have a completely separate inventory if required.
(Not available on EKM)
Customers selling successfully on ShopWired
Animal Aid
www.animalaidshop.org.uk
Fencing Essentials
www.fencingessentials.co.uk
Futurtek
www.futurtek.co.uk
Glasses 2 You
www.glasses2you.co.uk
Merry Hill Mushrooms
www.merryhill-mushrooms.co.uk
Murlac
www.murlaconline.co.uk
Portable Power Supply
www.portablepowersupply.co.uk
Race Horse Club
www.racehorseclub.com
Radioworld
www.radioworld.co.uk
Seven Meadows
sevenmeadows.co.uk
Skinny Mat
www.skinnymat.co.uk