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joeswann
3/22/2014 - 2:27 AM
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Issues I have with shopify
Issues I have with shopify
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Shopify fees + cut + paypal cut + plugin fees can add up
Preset image sizes without good cropping options
No advanced functionality easily possible, eg facebook login, update news feeds, etc
No advanced data for anything (eg extra product info), best alternative is to host data on a separate server
Extremely basic blog functionality
Limiting results only works some of the time, eg can't do for product in collection limit = 5
Website settings in admin is only HTML, meaning nothing advanced can be done here
No good way to add extra listings, like events, stockists, job listings etc
No nice way to do post type linking, eg linking products to articles or products to stockists
No nice way to do advanced ajax (eg filtered infinite scroll on blog posts)
No featured images on blog posts
No gallery images on blog posts
No advanced filtering (eg get products with tag = xxx + limit by 5, get products with size 'M' and category X)
No advanced ordering or sort for blog posts
No advanced templating for different blog types
No ability to export blog posts
No ability to migrate entire shop (eg move a development shops changes to live)
No ability to disable variants (eg adding product colours/sizes/etc) in admin
Flat file structure for assets, causes file naming issues and various plugins won't work
Flat hierarchy for collections (product categories)
Navigation only goes 1 level deep (can be worked around)
Multiple blogs getting removed (apparently)
Very basic user account, no ability to have advanced customer options
No special urls eg /store/collection/product or /blog/category/post
Only account owner can edit users (I think)
The media manager is quite limited (no gallery uploading, etc)
No advanced checkout functionality without writing/using a plugin, eg lightbox checkout
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