There are many factors that will lead to your decision on which platform is the right fit for your business.

In Hong Kong majority of companies require multilingual websites that are as effective in Traditional and Simplified Chinese as they are in English.

Most hosted solutions are developed by US centric businesses, targeting smaller merchants who sell in a single language.

Whilst they can be developed to work with more than one language, this is not something that is officially supported. Our recommendation if you are looking to launch an e-store with more than one language is to consider using a self hosted platform rather than using a hosted solution, at least for the time being until a suitable product has been developed.

Selling into Mainland China may also affect your decision making. Whether you need to be hosted within the great firewall zone, or need to integrate with a Chinese payment gateway, you may find that a hosted solution is either blocked or at risk of being blocked outside of your control, or doesn’t offer an integration with local payment providers.