Shopify Review

Customizable for my unique business, good customer suppt, integrates w our google ads, low price

Less functionality and resources than a larget provider

Most excellent!

The gold standard for online retail that’s not eBay or Amazon. Integrations for inventory sites is getting better. I think in a year from now, these integrations will have doubled in number.

Integrations are sometimes tricky to implement. Ease if use is definitely there but can make personalization hard. You can find free templates online.

If you’re in the retail space, this is almost a must unless you’re selling from your own site exclusively. There is a free trial.

I currently use Shopify for my clothing line. Majority of my customers are in different parts of Africa. So, it is cool being able to sell to them. My first websites were built on other platforms. So, the base level plan on Shopify was an upgrade for me. It streamlined some of my ordering process. Also, Shopify has an easy setup for the layman. And it offers a lot of different apps which is (by far) the coolest part.

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Yes, I think so.

I 100% absolutely recommend Shopify. Great tool all the way around. The Granddaddy of Ecommerce platforms. Any store that you have and you're ready to get sophisticated with the website this is the tool for you. The price is phenomenal. Not to mention they're integrated with Google ads. Customer service is 24/7. So whenever you have a situation and you need help professionally immediately with Shopify customer service your in the right hands. From the most professional business owner in need of a professional website to a business owner starting out in the Ecommerce world you won't be disappointed.

Good

Nice

Shopify speed and load times are great even for quite huge amount of traffics. Security with shopify is also very good to handling sensitive data and processing payments. Shopify has variety of designs to be chooses as well. Also we can customize the design by ourselves. We can also code to add more features to the web app. But there are also tons of add ons both paid and free version that we can use. Lastly, with few steps, we can readily launch our ecommerce website

Shopify's plans are a bit expensive

pretty good

The "Wordpress" of ecommerce - Shopify offers plug & play features for building your online store with templates and plugins.

Easy to get overwhelmed by the many options available without some guidance. Although Shopify offers some basic tutorials and there's a lot on YouTube, etc, it's best to work with an experienced developer.

There are more expensive, more sophisticated options. But Shopify is ideal for anyone to go from idea to MVP in zero to no time.

Shopify is the easiest platform to manage your Ecommerce business. Managing inventory, generating reports, running analytics, and everything else you need from a business management and sales side is very useful, easy to use and clean.

The issue with Shopify is their ability to add additional pages to your website. It's very difficult to add and customize pages yourself unless you know at least some coding. Whereas many wordpress themes are very easy to create, update and manipulate without knowing any coding.

Using Shopify for ecommerce is fantastic. It's absoultey worth the base cost around $30/month. But it's really hard to build out pages other than product pages unless you can pay someone to code them for you. Personally, I would use this as my shopping cart and wordpress for the rest of my websites content.

Good customer service, very helpful. Great product to use if you have an Instagram presence and product(s). Many companies use shopify on IG do you know it's a good tool to use. They are helpful at showing you how to use tool and best practices. Offer webinars from time to time.

Can not use on all products (restrictions apply).

Good value!

Hands down the easiest e-commerce platform out there. Set up + ease of use.

I cannot stand how they handle chargebacks. I always required my customers to enter in billing address, zip code, 3 digit code, and phone numbers.. all that good stuff. However, I was still getting hit with chargebacks and I didn't have a defense against it so I ended up shutting that venture down. Shopify offered no help in this regard, but their customer support otherwise was very good.

Excellent value for the money.

Shopify is so successful because they created the easiest, most accessible platform for building and launching an ecommerce store.Very easy to use and set up for your e commerce site or online store. Extremely intuitive and generally strong customer service. Users with few technical skills can still easily set up Shopify so the learning curve is not steep. Very easy to edit the templates and extremely customizable.very nice .Must try it.........

Not too many cons that I can see- the only one that I would note is that pricing can get really expensive if your business is medium to large sized in scale. The lite version is not very useful because it covers fewer features and is really only functional for a Facebook store.

If you’re in the retail space, this is almost a must unless you’re selling from your own site exclusively. There is a free trial.priceless....

Very easy to use. Great discounts on shipping.

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Great value.

Really like how easy it is to use. Definitely not the techy (or design) type, but I was able to create a good looking website in less than 48 hours... Then on top of that, it was very easy to control the "backend". In other words, the layout of Shopify is very user friendly when it comes to looking at orders, fulfilling orders, etc. Last but not least, really like the "apps" you can use as well. There are some you have to pay for, but they're always worth it, and best of all... Easy to install, which allows you to do advanced items (i.e. cart abandonment follow-ups, social proof with recent purchases, etc.) with ease. Also, if you don't have a payment processor setup yet, they have a great setup in place that allows you to create this as well (for Stripe and Paypal).

Very hard to setup a "funnel". In other words, to my knowledge, it's impossible to create a separate landing page in Shopify... And that made things difficult, as that's the easiest way to get sales. That's really the one "upside" Clickfunnels has, but other than that, Shopify definitely wins.

Definitely worth the $29/month, with all the features it provides, it's actually worth a lot more than that.

Very easy to use and set up for your e commerce site or online store. Extremely intuitive and generally strong customer service. Users with few technical skills can still easily set up Shopify so the learning curve is not steep. Very easy to edit the templates and extremely customizable.

Not too many cons that I can see- the only one that I would note is that pricing can get really expensive if your business is medium to large sized in scale. The lite version is not very useful because it covers fewer features and is really only functional for a Facebook store.

Relatively high value for the money- can get pricey if you are a larger business but you get a lot of bang for the buck for a medium store.

If you want a simple beautiful website ready to sell your products online that I really like Shopify. The back office that they provide walks you through the steps to set up the website. The nice thing is if you are ready to make your first sale that day you can activate the account and your ready to go.

You have to be ready to pay a monthly fee for website services and a percentage of each sale with credit card purchases.

Shopify provides a great value for your money. I would recommend this platform if you want a quick store to sell your products.

A very easy to use e-commerce solution. Shopify makes it surprisingly effortless to get your product online and start selling. If you don't have a product, there are many resources available in the marketplace to help you source products to sell. They offer a nice selection of free templates to help you design an appealing store.

The trial could be longer, if you are trying to set a store with a fair amount of products, like more than 10 - 15, you may need more time to setup. Some options may require you to seek out professional assistance.

I think that Shopify is a good value, but some options you may need are extra.

We have been wanting to start a business. However, with full time jobs and not a lot of resources to open a shop we found Shopify. There are a lot of resources and videos online to help getting you started. The apps are a necessity for creating a great experience for your customers. I was able to get things running in a couple of days and that was with items in the store, with an email capture, and my accounts in order. It might sound like a lot but really just make sure to watch the videos on YouTube that Shopify offers. The only things that took sometime was going through all the items there are so many! (:

Nothing integral yet only sometimes certain apps are taken down if they are not beneficial to Shopify. However, that doesn’t mean those are obstacles for your business. There are so many apps.

The price is actually really good once I saw the amount of apps and automate tools you get.

An online platform with traffic. Good customer service

Not as user friendly as Amazon?!

It’s okay

Shopify is the easiest, most beautiful way to create a store online. Because Shopify is a hosted solution, you don’t need to worry about buying web hosting or installing software anywhere; the idea is that pretty much everything you need to build and run your store happens ‘out of the box.’ I love the Shopify themes, which make it super easy to make your store look extremely professional. There are "free" themes when you sign up for a paid Shopify account. Shopify excels at integrations: using the Shopify app exchange, you can send data to Mailchimp, Zapier, Google Analytics, Salesforce and a million other places. I also love the Shopify inventory management capabilities and reporting -- if you're in need of analytics that scale with a more complicated business, Shopify is great solution.

Shopify doesn't excel in the search engine optimization department. If you run a store that you hope will rank organically for your products via long tail keywords, Shopify may not be the best solution. In that case, you'd probably be better off using WooCommerce, which is built into WordPress (meaning the SEO juice is much better).

4/5

Ease of use. I would say this is arguably the top e-commerce tool for business. There are apps for just about anything you would want to do. Easy to use. You don’t have to be super technical to create a great looking website.

I can’t think of many. I wish there were more free apps for loyalty programs.

Great value for the money.

Shopify is a fast way to get to selling online quickly and in style. Great for one product stores to vast wholesale stores with 1000 plus products. Shopify is intuitive to use and even with outsourced virtual assistants one can easily use shopify. Coding is generally easy with liquid templates and customizations with their apps market make for adding essential conversion tools relatively easy. Traffic is handled well with their app servers and cloudfare for fast loading.

If you don't sell something they like or sell to much to fast the hold money or cancel your merchant account, this can kill a business. Also they add on 2% to other merchant accounts so if you're at 2.9% that makes for 4.9% processing! That's a lot to take money!

pretty good value hosting and setup and website all handled for you at 29 bucks a month.

I have had an experience that has exceeded my expectations. By hiring their services, you receive a very intuitive platform that offers everything imaginable so that your business can be at the same level as the existing large brands. I really like that I can work with a team without geographical limitations thanks to the Shopify platform. I have saved a lot of time in the programming, they offer you many options in their templates so you can build your store with the details that you like, it is a great experience. I have worked with other platforms and none compare with Shopify. It has everything you need to succeed in digital entrepreneurship. Another important element in e-commerce is the analysis of statistics, with Shopify you have just one click, you can see the origin of web traffic and know from which electronic device people access your store.

The benefits offered by Shopify are greater than the negative aspects, so I do not identify problems when implementing it. They include constant improvements, so you can be sure that any possible inconvenience will be resolved in record time as we are accustomed to your customers.

Shopify is absolutely an amazing tool!

I helped a client setup their shopping cart using Shopify. I was amazed how super simple it was! SEO advantage. They have so many themes, it is hard to tell that a site is created by Shopify which is the point. You don't want to look copy/paste in a world over 1 billion sites strong.

Professional reports are not available until the $79 pricing point. This is discouraging for small businesses who need to scale quickly. That data would help them. I believe offering this as a separate pricing or lowering the pricing would be fantastic to help small businesses.

Good value for the money

Shopify has made building your own e-commerce website an extremely simple experience. Shopify is an all-in-one solution that offers many templates perfect for attracting customers. Sales tax is also very easy to setup unlike on other platforms like Magento and Wordpress where it can be a real headache. I really love the ability to connect well with other sites like Amazon and eBay for easy inventory management and marketing opportunities.

I think some of the given templates can be a little too generic. I would definitely like to see more variety

Overall, Shopify is definitely worth it potentially even for a slightly bigger business.

Shopify offers a way to save lots of money and time by creating your own website while providing stable service. It’s easy to use and pretty much hassle free in my experience. The Analytics feature is superb and excellent for tweaking your inventory. Shopify continues to add new features to integrate tons of different things from social networking to sales channels. The default payment program (Stripe) is also very easy to set up and get going.

There are perhaps hundreds of apps available which can be overwhelming. On the other hand, there are lots of reviews that you can look at to find what apps would work best for you. Another potential con is the extra cost in money and potentially your site’s speed to add more features.

For what it offers, Shopify is worth the cost. Just don’t go overboard with features unless you find them all to be helpful.

Shopify is a very powerful program with an overall simple design. It can be used by one individual or by a whole team simultaneously asit has great options and features for both. 

Shopify lacks many built-in features. For example, the option for customers to filter products while browsing the site isn’t there. Especially if you have a lot of products, this feature is essential and not having it is a significant loss. You can add in that feature through other apps, but it would be easier if it was a feature in Shopify. 

Despite some of its flaws, I probably wouldn’t use any other program besides Shopify to build a website or to maintain sales. It works great and gets the job done. I recommend Shopify for anyone who is into eCommerce as an effective and relatively simple solution. It makes life a whole lot easier in the long run and ends up being profitable.

Shopify is a well-oiled machine and the platform is evolving with modern trends. I have had a good experience with this platform. With Shopify, you can choose from thousands of online store templates that will give your online store it professional look and feel. Payments are secured and handle very discreetly giving you and your potential buyers peace of mind. Shopify integrates well with the mobile application and is optimized for users on mobile as well as desktop screens. Safe and secure back-up of all your transactional data as well your website data can be initiated with a few easy steps unlike competitive software that relies heavily on plugins Shopify breaks it down so that the website owner needs minimal coding knowledge to get around the important aspects.

In some instances adding advanced features etc. onto a specific template can be daunting if you're looking at a high level of customization that is not necessarily supported by the theme itself you can be confronted with some higher-level CSS and custom HTML coding to make additional features work well. I would love to see a free plan on Shopify especially for users that want to familiarize themselves beyond the free-trial period.

Overall, Shopify is well-made and a good option for the price.

Shopify is ridiculously easy to get started with. Adding new products is really simple and intuitive. Building out the website portion of your store is also quite simple. Setting up sales tax is robust and shipping labels and that whole system is really handy. Shopify also is highly customizable and allows you to integrate many features. Shopify also fits in well with other apps, allowing further cross-integration.

Almost all Shopify stores look exactly the same. As a graphic designer and previous Shopify user, I can always tell when a shop is on Shopify. It would be nice if they added some additional options to allow for more diversity to increase marketability.

Shopify is valuable to get e-commerce up and running. I would definitely recommend it.

Shopify can be an extremely helpful platform for a company that is running an online store. Shopify generates both an easy-to-use online store for customers and makes it easy for management team to connect everything to it. One perk is the number of apps in Shopify and the customization abilities they bring to the table. It’s not difficult at all for the team to view and fulfill orders or setup and utilize customer service right from our website. Overall, Shopify is great both for the customer and for your team.

Ironically enough, the number of apps makes is a little bit difficult to sort through and find the right ones for your store. It would also be nice if widgets could easily be dropped and dragged in rather than sometimes having to rely on a little bit of HTML coding to edit stuff.

Overall, Shopify is well worth the cost and time to learn to use it as it provides huge amounts of customization and ease of use once you get going with it.

Shopify should be the first and last ecommerce solution you look at. I've used it professionally ($300k revenue/month) and for side projects ($500 revenue/month). It serves both use cases perfectly. They take care of the shopping cart experience (legal, liability, secure payments, etc) so you don't have to and let you focus on serving your customers. The app store is a fantastic resource to take your store to the next level.

My only con is that a professional level you pretty much have to hire a developer to do anything custom with your store or theme. For a marketer like myself, I wish there was more I could do without requiring the assistance of a developer.

The basic plan of Shopify is a great value for the money. We ran our entire DTC business off of it. We tried Shopify Plus for a year but the added cost wasn't worth it - the benefits you got were too hard to take advantage of and didn't make sense for a company our size (10 people).

Whether you are just a simple startup or a larger enterprise solution, Shopify is easily compatible with pretty much any business. Shopify allows businesses to create a simple checkout solution without a lot of hiccups or time wasted by hiring an inexperienced developer or trying to work on it yourself if you lack the necessary skills. Shopify is highly customizable with many template options allowing each store to have a unique, customized feel.

Recently, Shopify has been a bit slow. I’ve heard this is due to the servers potentially getting slightly overwhelmed during the recent busy holiday season. Hopefully, Shopify is able to improve their server speed so there is minimal lag or downtime and no loss of customers, but we’ll see what happens.

Overall, I would say Shopify is worth the cost. We have definitely profited from using it.

wonderful for small businesses that need to customize their inventory and marketing. Allows flexibility and creativity outside of big box solution

Don't get the horsepower of big box

very good

Great connection. In my practice, there was not a single case that the platform failed Video and audio communication with each participant. The organizer has the opportunity to turn the microphone on and off, as well as turn off the video. You can enter the conference as a participant with view-only rights. You can share the screen (screensharing) already with sound. The screen demonstration can be paused. An interactive whiteboard is built into the platform, you can easily and quickly switch from a screen demonstration to a whiteboard

The disadvantage of the platform is that students can only draw, it’s impossible to move anything on a virtual whiteboard (as, for example, in Realtimeboard),

Zoom is perfect for individual and group classes, students can enter both from a computer and from a tablet with a phone. Anyone with a link or conference ID can connect to a video conference. The event can be planned in advance, and you can also make a repeating link.

Shopify is a small business owner’s best friend. It is easy to set up and use on both the consumer and developer end. Shopify can be used separately or integrated with other apps like Wix. Shopify really comes in handy with its main purpose: to have an online storefront. It is reasonably priced, and the value it offers in having a nice looking storefront is phenomenal. It’s not hard at all to create a storefront that looks very attractive and is easily navigated by consumers. Even better, it can be used with other SEO software to bring more attention and increase sales. Shopify’s team is very much on top of things as they keep adding new features and improvements. I have had an excellent experience with them. Their customer support is top-notch.

It can be hard to set up a separate landing page within Shopify. However, it can be easily integrated with other apps, somewhat negating this issue. Other than that, Shopify works quite well.

Shopify is a very useful tool, simplifying the sales process. Shopify is also reasonably priced especially considering the revenue potential it opens up. I would highly recommend it.

- Provides end-to-end functionality for eCommerce stores - Myriad of outside articles, blogs, videos, etc. explaining Shopify (huge network) - Many free widgets to customize things you can do on your site

- Difficult to create custom stores (you'll probably have to hire someone if you have low coding knowledge)

You can take and make Shopify exactly what you want, if you spend time (or money) on it. It's the ultimate solution for selling products online (via POD, dropshipping, regular eCommerce, etc.)

As far as I know, none of our clients who use Shopify have experienced any glitches. Shopify is perfect for both small seller and large sellers alike. Shopify is arguable the most popular platform for creating unique online stores. Shopify is highly secure and has superb up-time especially compared to alternatives. There are a lot of themes (both free and paid) which can be used and easily edited. There are also plenty of apps that can be integrated with Shopify.

The only problem I have either Shopify is you can’t set up complex shipping rules for free. You have to pay a fee or upgrade your plan and then also pay for a third party app to get better shipping.

Shopify is a good solution for most clients.

Shopify is really easy to setup and use. Additionally, Shopify has a lot of very cheap options making it ideal for smaller businesses. Shopify offers a wide variety of features which can be utilized right away. Shopify also allows for a lot of plugins to be used. Overall, it’s very easy to configure and to add plugins. Shopify is pretty simple to use and looks basic, but you can pa for a more professional suite if you want to. Customer support is excellent and has always been able to answer questions quickly and efficiently.

The international function is limiting. It does not support multi currency or allow for easy setting up different stores for each country. You have to set up a new store for each individual country. All of this can hinder SEO purposes and make it difficult to track stuff across the multiple stores. Additionally, you cannot customize the checkout funnel. While this keeps the system relatively stable, it does not allow you to do A/B Testing and improve conversion on checkout.

Shopify is a great tool for startups at a reasonable price. However, for more advanced companies, it may be worth looking into a better tool with more options which requires more technical skill to set up and use.

Ok, so happy to be able to host my own store selling services and products and not have to deal with the big guys! great dashboard, can optimize easily,

onboarding a new system is often laborious, who wants to change, but yes, worth it..

lets just say revenues are up....AND invested in their stock which did a nice rise too! happy happy happy!!!

Shopify has comprehensive features that are super easy to use. It offers everything you need to get your online storefront up and running quickly, and many more advanced features that allow you to integrate with other vendors' tools and platforms. There are a ton of Shopify developers out there if you want help customizing your storefront, or you can choose from a bunch of existing templates. Shopify is a leader in its space because of its flawless existing integrations with other platforms. You may be able to find something a little cheaper, but if you do, you will likely experience much more difficultly as you try to expand your business with less features than Shopify offers.

The built-in analytics are super basic; it would be nice to have something slightly more robust, but then again, you can easily integrate with Google Analytics so you're not at a complete loss. However, add google analytics also complicates things with a second dashboard. Customer support is good for most types of questions, but not as satisfying for a few more challenging questions I've posed. It would be nice to have better responses for some of the more difficult questions since that is the whole reason for having customer support.

Overall, Shopify is still great and offers a lot. However, if a competitor offered the same features with better customer support, I would switch to the competitor.

The Shopify admin panel is well thought out, so even the abundance of settings does not make it difficult to learn. Among other positive aspects I can add quality themes with good design. It has effective tools for increasing sales: discount codes and gift certificates, sending messages to customers who added goods to the basket but did not complete the purchase. A large number of applications for expanding functionality. In addition, SEO is an important point in the platform. Thanks to this approach, continuous optimization of the page content is possible: changing the description, images and much more.

Bad adaptation for other countries, like lack of multi languages or strict social networks.

Shopify is an almost perfect tool of western e-commerces. Quite expensive, some features are missing from the box.

Easy to get started. 14 day trial is very useful. Simple to set up and get your head around. One of the better sites for ecommerce. Lots of great apps that integrate easily with the site.

Limited website functions - not easily modifiable but the basics are fine for beginners. Could be more free apps.

Relatively expensive for a monthly site fee

Shopify makes it easy for a small business to get started. With all the payment, SEO and inventory management built in to the platform. There are also a number of themes to choose from and a massive app store that can help you customize your site as you please.

Shopify is great as long as you are just looking for the cookie cutter basics. Once you start asking or needing more out of it, you find yourself in a land of never ending apps and poor customer support. Although Shopify does have customer support available, and they are easy to get in touch with, they will constantly tell you to hire an outside developer (which, when you add custom code, disables you from being able to update the theme and causes problems down the line). They will also blame the slowness of your website on the number of apps you have - while in the same breathe recommending a new app to speed up your site. In addition, as a designer, I found myself very boxed in by the options to create new pages - unlike companies like Squarespace that give you a bit more design freedom with their themes. For wholesale sites - they recently came out with a new theme that is specifically marketed towards wholesale websites however upon purchasing we immediately realized it didn't have a lot of the standard wholesale features (such as quantity price breaks or inventory tracking).

Like I said - great company and worth the money if you are getting started or aren't asking for anything outside of the cookie cutter basics. Once you start customizing and adding in apps, you eventually will hit a price point/frustration level where a custom website might make more sense.