Shopify
July 28, 2009 by: admin
Shopify is considered one of the easiest to use hosted shopping carts on the web. It was made with the most novice user in mind, but also has features for more experienced users.
Price: $24/month + 2% per transaction
Payment Options: Paypal, Checkout and many credit card processors
The following sites use Shopify for their e-commerce sites:
Amnesty International
The Brewery Shop
Baby Melons
Website: Click here to visit Shopify
Contact Shopify:
1-866-704-0252
Jaded Pixel / Shopify
Suite 200 – 190 Maclaren Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
email: scott (at) jadedpixel (dot) com
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Shopify: Great for simple e-commerce
Shopify allowed me to build a complete, custom e-commerce site quickly and easily. It’s made e-commerce simple and affordable.
I had looked at some other options, such as the so called “cheaper” osCommerce and Magento solutions. I also looked at the more UK centric Actinic but I had resigned to doing it myself. Then I found Shopify which really opened my eyes and seemed to stand out from the crowd.
One of our main requirements was for total control over the layout of our store. Many other solutions either do not provide this level of customisation or make it so difficult that it feels more like voodoo magic. To customise Shopify you do not need to be a ninja at PHP and non-programmers can pick it up easily. I’ve introduced Shopify to a number of my designer friends and they all love it.
The liquid templating system used by Shopify is very easy to learn and whilst it does not allow you to do everything, I think it is plenty powerful enough for most people. The Shopify wiki and forums are great resources for learning how to create your own theme or modify an existing one.
For a brand new business, we were also attracted by the pricing options available. We were a brand new start-up and did not want to spend 1000s on a system and then have the business fail shortly afterwards. Paying monthly and with no contract was an excellent alternative. Paying a fee per transaction also means that if you don’t sell anything then you don’t end up paying a lot of money for the privilege!
i was with shopify for a few months and I switched over to corecommerce.com a few weeks ago.
We do about $15-20k / month in sales and shopify is limited on their features for serious ecommerce merchants. My customers were complaining about the slow servers at shopify–they must have 500 customers on a server or something (50-100 is more ideal). The sales rep at corecommerce told me they use rackspace–which is a VERY SOLID, premium hosting company–so far I am very pleased
As a developer I’ve configured some store on shopify for some friends of mine. Shopify is a really great piece of software, and is very user friendly. It’s really easy to maintain a shop even if you are not used to computers and internet things.
Shopify is my favourite. They’re always refining the system and adding new features. They’ve also focused on making the admin easy to use.