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I was so jealous (as I was creating hundreds of duplicative templates) of Shopify and their Liquid templating language.
I now hate BigCommerce for being so hard to work with.
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One of the worst and most indicative things about the Shopify developer ecosystem is that there is no first-class support for source control - of any type - in Shopify's online theme editing system. It is expected that if you wish to integrate any nontrivial application, you'll give access to your full admin panel to low-paid, marginally-English-speaking integration techs at the app developers, and they will edit you…
just use shopify slate and github
It looks like BigCommerce offers single sign on for customer accounts[0], which Shopify charges an outrageous $2K/month to turn on with their Plus plan. Does anyone know what tier of BC supports SSO? [0] https://www.bigcommerce.com/login-api/
That particular feature (or, API endpoint) isn't something that's restricted by plan or tier on BigCommerce. It does work slightly differently in terms of functionality to what Shopify call Multipass, which is probably worth calling out. Ultimately you can accomplish the same functionality (on the fly account creation, address management, and SSO based login) with a few calls to the customer API endpoint. We talk mor…
I don't understand how companies like Big Commerce and WP Engine, which have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and have 10's of thousands of business customers are "growth stage startups." I don't understand how they are startups at all. They are businesses. Is the fact that they are unprofitable the thing that makes them startups?
For what it's worth WP Engine didn't raise "hundreds of millions of dollars." Their most recent round was a PE deal that resulted in the investor taking a controlling interest in the company. Most of the $250 million figure went to buying out option holders. I worked there for 2.5 years (a great experience) and it mostly felt like a mature business rather than a growth stage startup.
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for example not being able to specify that this product weighs 80 pounds and is shipped in two separate pieces. Shipping 1 large box costs less than shipping 2 boxes half the size and this was making us lose money on automatically calculated UPS shipping fees
I agree it's frustrating. I have founded a company that develops only B2B ecommerce solutions and it's much more complicated than B2C. There are soooo many different combinations of how you can do certain thing, and in most cases you need to adapt the software to existing process instead of improving it. There was a comment that most of these solutions are slow, know you know why. We do a lot of integrations with ERP…
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Shopify lied to me while I was evaluating it and said if I signed up for a subscription then they'd allow me to fix the colour of the checkout button. They host the checkout process on their own site and automatically swapped the text colour to the opposite of the rest of my site. After I signed up they basically said tough sh!t, they don't actually have a way to change the button text colour.
Shopify plus allow you to adjust the checkout styling and template.
I did mention that when they said some rubbish about it being for security etc. If it's insecure then why allow it if I pay more?
But yeah, you're right. I guess they lied to me twice.
To be clear, they did say they'd change it for me if I signed up to any plan.
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BigCommerce ships with a lot more features for B2B and enterprise out of the box, than Shopify. To get a Shopify store configured to the B2B & enterprise features of BigCommerce you need a fair amount of 3rd party apps, bubblegum and duct tape
Actually if you want a serious B2B tool set Shopify wants you to get ShopifyPlus thats 2000 per month, 12 months upfront and no free trial.
There are so many issues with Shopify Plus for B2B use cases that it's hard to recommend unless the store is very simplistic.
Shopify looks decent, I let my inspiration come from it.