Comments on: Shopify: Great for simple e-commerce

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:08:41 +0000

@Adrian We are upfront with our clients about Shopify, we do not try to “hide” it in any way. You can’t hide it anyway since they see Shopify’s logo every time they login! We have our clients setup an account on Shopify (using our referral link, of course) and then we get admin access and go from there. Trying to inflate the monthly cost is not possible as they will quickly find out they can get the same thing for less. Just passing the cost on to the client, through you, is a waste of everyone’s time since the client can simply pay Shopify automatically each month.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:38:33 +0000

I am a web designer and have been considering using shopify as an e-commerce solution to offer my clients. Most of my clients who have approached me regarding e-commerce are small businesses or individuals and from looking at shopify it looks like it would be a great solution to fit many of their needs.

I’m just trying to work out how I’d go about offering this to my clients. I’m thinking, if I was to design and set up the website and then show them how to log on to add products etc passing any monthly fees on to the clients?

Just trying to get it clear in my head the stages involved in setting up a shopify website as a web designer for a client.

Any advice on this anyone?

By: Web Design Company Sheffield

Web Design Company Sheffield — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:30:49 +0000

I love using Shopify, So far I have found no limitations apart from the lack of independant 3rd party mods, So far any mods are only available through the app store and are charged monthly. thats my only gripe, i love Vision, and the template engine and template tags are easy to learn and pick up.
Nice review.

By: debra

debra — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:22:17 +0000

SEO? I never hear people talk of SEO issues. Does shopify put your unique products into google?
I sell antiques and each product is unique…does anyone know?

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:44:28 +0000

@Nathan I would actually say that Shopify’s Liquid template system is one of it’s biggest strong points – it is so easy to use and integrate an existing design into their template system. Compared to other shopping carts, if you wanted to integrate an existing design, Shopify is hands down the easiest to do so. We don’t ever run into any difficulties with default Shopify templates because we always do custom Shopify sites anyway.

By: Nathan stewart

Nathan stewart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:35:06 +0000

In your Shopify weaknesses section you seem to have overlooked the difficulty in implementing shopify into an existing website, the fact that you have to recreate each page of your site using Shopify’s ‘Liquid’ coding and the lack of support available if you don’t use one of the shopify templates, kind of a pretty big weakness to overlook!

By: Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:09:12 +0000

Thanks for the info… really helpful.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:30:42 +0000

@Michael

I’ve had the same problem with WP-Ecommerce and I’ve had it fail on PCI scan for cross-scripting vulnerabilities. They simply don’t comment back on their forums. Its quite frustrating. I’ve had a problem where the tax was not being send to Google Checkout. Without support resolve issues like that. Its pretty much useless to my clients.

By: Web-Site-Now

Web-Site-Now — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:14:51 +0000

We used the Wordpress ecommerce package, including the gold cart upgrade (to get the grid view). I have been fairly pleased with the product but it has almost no support. As of this writing, I have four or five unanswered posts in their forum that are over a month old. If you run into something new, you are pretty much on your own.

I like the neat look of Shopify and the included security certificate. If it can call an API for other sites and will support affiliate linking at the conversion point, I might consider using it.

Michael

By: Baby Hair Clips Tinybowtique

Baby Hair Clips Tinybowtique — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:31:07 +0000

I built my wife’s baby hair clip business using Shopify… the system is flawless and the guys behind it are dedicated to making it better.