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So Shopify is mad that Mailchimp isn’t sharing data with them? I’m no fan of mailchimp (for e-commerce customers I recommend Klaviyo) but Shopify+ is hell to w
by navs 8y ago
So Shopify is mad that Mailchimp isn’t sharing data with them?
I’m no fan of mailchimp (for e-commerce customers I recommend Klaviyo) but Shopify+ is hell to work with. I haven’t had as much grief with a platform as I’ve had building e-commerce stores on Shopify (and I come from Magento). For the price of plus, you get practically nothing. Clients ask me incredulously why they don’t have something as basic as Wishlist support or access to custom fields inside their product pages. Shopify’s own sync tool for dealing with multiple stores doesn’t sync much and their answer to the admin hell of managing multiple stores is to give us a single login and a store selector. For everything else well there’s an app for that.
Yes there’s an API. Yes you can build apps. But that’s an investment and at that point you might as well build something on Woocommerce or Magento. Yes you have to maintain a server and updates on the other platforms but you’ll need that for Shopify anyway. If you want to roll your own Wishlist app (you’ll want to when you see what’s on offer from the shopify store) you’ll need a server, a database - the architecture that Shopify says you don’t need to begin with.
- steve-benjamins 8y agoShopify does include Wishlist and Custom Field features. They're available as apps— not in the core. The whole point of the app store is to avoid the mistakes of Magento: building a confusing, monolithic mess because they tried to shoehorn too many features into the core.
- navs 8y agoThey’re available by third parties. You can argue that customfields are supported by Shopify but wishlists aren’t. If you need a Wishlist you need a database externally storing customer and product data. So no, Shopify doesn’t have a Wishlist feature. Shopify lists other Saas’ that offer to fill in the many gaps. That may work for some retailers. As with Magento, some will like that approach and some won’t. But if you’re telling a retailer that Shopify offers a Wishlist feature you need to be sure to mention that it will cost them $x/month/store and that the app isn’t built nor supported by Shopify.
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- Axsuul 8y agoShameless plug: I build Trunk @ https://www.trunkinventory.com https://www.trunkinventory.com which can sync inventory between multiple Shopify stores (and other channels)