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For a lot of stores, Shopify is just an API for your store. There's a big trend in ecommerce of going "headless" and using Shopify's API to push your products o
by jameslk 6y ago
For a lot of stores, Shopify is just an API for your store. There's a big trend in ecommerce of going "headless" and using Shopify's API to push your products out to many channels. In that sense, Shopify is merely a special database (similar to Salesforce) to track your customers, orders, products, inventory, discounts, etc which is then pushed out to channels like Facebook Shop or Amazon.
- machbio 6y agoYes, its interesting shopify have a product called Lite (https://www.shopify.com/lite https://www.shopify.com/lite) which does not have any UI
- codecamper 6y agoNothing lite about the payment terms. You pay them over a 100 a year plus part of every transaction. For keeping a database of photos and descriptions & integrating with APIs? Doesn't that seem overpriced?
- fossuser 6y agoInteresting - sounds like gumroad? https://gumroad.com/ https://gumroad.com/
- codecamper 6y agoShopify seems to overcharge for that sort of functionality. Merchants are paying Shopify per transaction while customers shop on another site & pay using Google Pay, Paypal, FB Pay, or Apple Pay.