Shopify - Ecommerce Business 4+

It’s really great in theory and it does so so so much. I am pretty intelligent and can figure out quite a bit so it’s easy enough to build a site. People who really know computers would be able to do even more. It’s as expensive as anywhere, not super expensive or really inexpensive.. I believe it to be financially manageable for a start up small business.

The only thing that would be helpful is a support live person. I know you can buy a helper and a Facebook/instagram “kit” is free but he is not able to find out why certain things happen. Most I can figure out so written support is abundant but a live voice to check in would be really nice .

Use this service at your own risk. I’ve been running a website through Shopify for over a year now, and out of nowhere they froze my money and are refusing to give it back. It’s been a month to the day, they owe me over $3,000, and there’s no sign of the money being moved despite the fact that they said they removed any and all holds from my account days ago.

Additionally, new users should be very aware of what they’re selling through Shopify. It’s incredibly easy to accidentally stock an item that doesn’t seem like it could possibly be legally copyrighted, and then have Shopify break your door down for it. They do not like to tell you their rules outright, they like to let you drown a bit before telling you that if you mess up again they’ll shove your head back underwater.

Additionally, it would appear that the majority of the recent reviews left on here were left by their admins in an attempt to make themselves look better. A bunch of the reviews are almost identical, apart from the fact that they all have crazy names.

I find that using Shopify makes it easier to manage multiple parts of your business compacted within one app, however I do feel that there are some areas that need to be a bit more accessible for example; online store management: creating and editing webpage content within your store— the options are very general and limited. To my knowledge —I’ve searched everywhere I possibly could— but you aren’t able to create form fields (for the customers to interact/input information into) and the mobile page content editing section is glitchy.

Overall, everything else is very generous with business setup. I would recommend it to my peers and/or anyone else.