Magento vs Shoptet vs Shopsys, what fits the Czech market?
The Czech e-commerce stack splits along revenue lines:
- Shoptet, dominant SaaS in CZ (Prague-founded, 2008). Cheap, hosted, GoPay + Heureka.cz feed wired in by default. Great for < CZK 5M / year. Hits a wall on custom B2B, complex catalogues, ERP integrations, multi-store CZ + SK.
- Shopsys Framework (Brno-based), open-source PHP, used by big Czech retailers (CZC, Mironet, AlzaPower). Powerful but smaller dev community than Magento.
- Shoptop / Upgates, smaller SaaS players, similar Shoptet niche.
- Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce, the right fit when you cross ~CZK 50M / year, need multi-store CZ + SK + DACH, deep B2B with IČO / DIČ + Net-30, custom workflows, or marketplace feed control (Heureka + Aukro + Zboží + Alza).
Real signal you’ve outgrown Shoptet: you’re paying for Shoptet extensions every month, your developer can’t deploy custom code, and your ERP integration is held together with manual CSV exports. Magento pays back inside 12 months for stores doing CZK 50M+.