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I make my living as the developer for a few large e-comm businesses that all use Shopify and it works really really well. I never get why people (devs especiall
by disantlor 4y ago
I make my living as the developer for a few large e-comm businesses that all use Shopify and it works really really well. I never get why people (devs especially) call out whatever feature they think Shopify should have without realizing that pretty much anything you could want to do is enabled by their API.
- dismalpedigree 4y agoCustom pricing for certain customers is a nightmare on shopify. I have built several sites and even made custom apps. I have figured out work arounds, but they are less than ideal. Do you have some ideas that I missed?
- disantlor 4y agoIt's definitely easier to discount pricing than it is to increase dynamically. The wholesale store functionality has customer based price lists. I've also added products to cart with a discount amount as line item property, which is then picked up and discounted by line item script. Some concern there with people manipulating it but I think it's pretty theoretical and there are ways to combat that. Both those require Plus though. They announced the new backend pricing API/web assembly script thing a couple weeks ago that seems like it will solve this issue for real. Similarly to how the subscription stuff was pretty janky with apps until the selling plan stuff. That said, it got the job done even if it wasnt ideal, and now they have a good solution. I prefer that model to just rolling out a bunch of half baked features. Responding more to the parent than you now, but in most cases if a business claims to critically need some specific feature, I wonder if they are not just married to the specific solution they have in mind and not the underlying problem. But if they really do need a specific thing, then certainly looking for the platform that offers it makes sense.