Buy now, pay later or BNPL apps like Klarna, Afterpay & Affirm are gaining popularity as a way for consumers to make purchases and pay over time without interest.

In this article we’ll compare these three leading apps and determine the best option for you based on their features and benefits.

Our top pick is Klarna, which offers the best options for order value under $1000 USD where most Shopify stores average order value sits.

Buying on credit is hardly a new concept in retail or ecommerce. Nor is the “layaway” concept.

But until apps like Afterpay, Klarna and Affirm came along, using credit had plenty of drawbacks for the merchant and the shopper.

Regular readers will know all about the Shopify platform and how we believe it is the best platform on the planet for owners of ecommerce stores large and small.

Many merchants seem to agree with us as Shopify goes from strength to strength. A total of 1.75 million merchants now sell on the Shopify platform worldwide compared with 42,000 merchants in 2012 and 377,000 merchants in 2016.

But how does Shopify compare to other ecommerce platforms out there?

We start this little mini-series of posts by looking at Shopify vs Kartrocket.

Like Shopify, Kartrocket also specializes in end-to-end ecommerce software but is far less established on a global scale. It is a few years younger than Shopify and was established in 2012 in New Delhi, India (Shopify is an Ottawa-based company).

Kartrocket has recently changed its name to Shiprocket 360 but everyone still knows it as Kartrocket, so that’s how we’ll refer to it here for the time being.

How do the key features, performance, and pricing of Kartrocket compare to Shopify?