Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon • Hacker News Board

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by HackR » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:26 PM UTC

kevindong wrote: post #69

HackR wrote: post #64

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Why should they be connected to each other? Tesla.com is powered by Shopify. They sell all of their vehicles through their site since they don't deal with dealerships. Likewise Kylie Cosmetics is powered by Shopify. That's a billion dollar brand that's not going to be OK with being placed in a dusty corner of Amazon. They have enough brand value to drive their own audience through their own channels (Instagram, Snap,…

> Tesla.com is powered by Shopify. They sell all of their vehicles through their site since they don't deal with dealerships. While this may have been true in the past, it is no longer the case. Neither the main Tesla store/website [0] nor the merchandise store (for t-shirts, assorted knick-knacks, some chargers; basically everything except the cars) [1] use Shopify. You can validate by going to those websites and Ct…

Fair and thank you for that updated information (I knew they were using it as recent as 2017 but didn't know they had changed it), but it still goes to show the types of companies being built on the Shopify platform versus the drop-shipping flea market bins of Amazon.

If you're building a real brand, you're building a relationship with your customers that you own. You're going to do it on your own terms because you can drive your own audience.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by Axsuul » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 10:00 PM UTC

jaziek wrote: post #77

Axsuul wrote: post #74

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For everyone that's trying to compare Shopify to marketplaces like eBay and Amazon, you really can't. They are apples to oranges. Shopify is an e-commerce platform that gives you your own website where you’re required to do your own marketing, SEO, and develop your own customer base. Selling on eBay and Amazon on the other hand gives you the advantage of putting your products in front of millions of customers who are…

This looks incredibly useful. Real-time inventory sync is a big headache for some of our customers. (We provide a native mobile sales channel for retailers with only a traditional web presence. Think Tapcart ( https://tapcart.co/ ), but not just for Shopify). I'd like to know what your plans are for which platforms to support next, and if you've got ideas for opening up an API at some point as well?

Thanks! The next integrations are looking to be either WooCommerce, QuickBooks Online, or Wix. NetSuite is also a big one but they are super slow in getting back to me. I’d be very interested in learning more about your product and customers, sounds great! The API has been something that’s been requested before but probably not a 2019 initiative. If you guys have an API that I can work with, that'll also work. Either way, let’s get in touch! You can email me at: james@trunkinventory.com

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by Axsuul » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 10:05 PM UTC

polyvisual wrote: post #76

Axsuul wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For everyone that's trying to compare Shopify to marketplaces like eBay and Amazon, you really can't. They are apples to oranges. Shopify is an e-commerce platform that gives you your own website where you’re required to do your own marketing, SEO, and develop your own customer base. Selling on eBay and Amazon on the other hand gives you the advantage of putting your products in front of millions of customers who are…

Trunk looks useful... my side business is handmade leather goods ( https://coastleather.com ) and cross posting between my own website, ebay, etsy and amazon is a pain, so I just don't bother. This has meant that channels other than my website became stale and I shut down the stores. Do you have plans to include syncing for woocommerce stores?

Congrats on the success of your store :)

Yea, we do! WooCommerce is one of our most requested integrations and I’ll be getting to it soon. Trunk doesn’t yet support cross-posting however but this will be a Q4 intiative. Would inventory syncing be enough for you to get value from Trunk at the moment? I’d love to get in touch: james@trunkinventory.com

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by bgrynol » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 3:26 PM UTC

Without a doubt, Shopify is an incredible platform for other's to build upon. It has generated commerce and contributed to Global GDP in so many ways

1) It is an E-comm platform for selling Goods & Services

2) It is an app development platform that allows other businesses to be built on top of it with sites and apps (ie- the apps are integrated to manage distribution, inventory, warehousing, invoicing, marketing, CRM, etc)

As an example, Bold Commerce has become a significant company because of the Shopify platform. They are the largest developer of custom Shopify apps and sites in the world – they recently raised $16.5M (USD) to scale further

Overall, Shopify processes a huge amount of GMV through the platform and, of that, its Net Revenue is still in the Billions each quarter. The article may be misleading to some, given the headline, but Shopify has a significant impact on the economy globally.