Shopify changed the whole shopping cart game! The way I explained it to my team, we wouldn’t be hosting product data on our servers anymore, and instead we add

Shopify changed the whole shopping cart game! The way I explained it to my team, we wouldn’t be hosting product data on our servers anymore, and instead we add products similar to Amazon Seller Central. I was a hardcore Magento developer for over 10 years and wasn’t a huge fan of Shopify because I just didn’t get it. I couldn’t come up with any better solution in my head for hosting a webstore on our own distributed cloud stack. We were running Magento 2 for our website, and Lightspeed for our instore POS when COVID hit and we needed to start offering curbside pickup and local delivery. We tried to build our own bridge between the two services, and it was the worst experience. I started researching other shopping carts that had easy POS and curbside pickup integration and everything kept pointing to Shopify. I realized they host our product data similar to Amazon seller central, and give us a lighting fast storefront with a near 100 lightspeed SEO score, for cheaper than our current hosting bill. I was intrigued but still skeptical at that point. I then started looking at all the top trending websites like Colour Pop, Kylie Cosmetics, TB12, Tesla, Bomba Socks, Fashion Nova, and Death Wish Coffee.. What did they all have in common? I then hit BuiltWith to see what the current marketshare for shopping carts was for the top 1000 e-commerce sites online. I was stunned to see Shopify had majority marketshare compared to Magento 2 in the last few years. At that point I was sold and I convinced my team we were done with the days of hosting a Magento store. We migrated in less than 6 weeks and instantly saw a lift in sales and SEO.