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Shopify – Round Up:
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About Shopify
For new businesses wanting an easy e-commerce website there are only two big players – Shopify provides drag and drop simplicity, proven templates and an easy to use back-end which makes running a digital store a breeze. The other is WordPress running WooCommerce – and while it’s getting better it’s more suited to people with a degree of coding experience.
It’s this ease of use and an ability to add extra modules for some truly enhanced function that has seen Shopify create a growing army of kitchen-table millionaires, running automated e-commerce sites coupled up with overseas dropshippers (suppliers who will send an item to your customer for you). So whether you have a small fashion brand, are a keen crafter – or want to sell high markup Chinese goods without ever having to handle a single product, Shopify has an out-the-box solution at between $29 and $299/mo.
From the Shopify website:
Build your business: You’ve got the will. We’ve got the way.
We focus on making commerce better for everyone, so businesses can focus on what they do best: building and selling their products. Today, merchants use our platform to manage every aspect of their business — from products to orders to customers, selling online, in retail stores, and on the go.
Emilia D –
I used shopify for my online store for 2 years and was becoming frustrated with errors in the billing. I moved to another service and although they are not perfect I’m seeing a big improvement and it’s a lower cost. Shopify are great if you’re not doing anything complex but it gets expensive fast if you want all the functionality you see on the big sites.
Missie –
Good service, works well for many but for me it was just too expensive by the time I added all the extra modules AND took a 3% hit through every sale. If I’d kept at it and kept expanding Id soon feel tied to Shopify which made me nervous tying my success to a single service vendor. I’ve since transferred my store to wordpress and woocommerce which is less easy to use at the start for sure but in the end I have full control.