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I will never - ever use Shopify again. To extract 20% from a vendor of physical goods is criminal. BTW, I buy zero Apple products either - I will not take part in highway robbery...
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The author misunderstands some of the complaints against Apple. In this case: (1) Apple is effectively a monopoly, much more so than shopify. (2) the author can still sell to customers your SAAS service, just not through the shopify store. (3) I could be wrong but I believe the shopify store brings lots of customers. For most developers on the app store, apple does not bring customers (this is why many people argue t…
We don't know this specific scenario, but it's highly likely that the application in question directly reads or writes non-public data on their clients' storefront operations and accounting. In that case, there's very much a sense of lock-in. Shopify does not have an open API where anyone can access data given an OAuth token; it will not let this app use their API unless it complies with their terms. See: https://sho…
We do offer a full GraphQL and REST API that can be accessed through private app keys (apps installed outside of the app store) or through the app store oauth tokens.
https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/rest/reference https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/graphql/reference https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/getting-started#authentic...
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He's not a merchant he's an app developer with a saas that shopify merchants can use.
> currently listed on the Shopify App store. so their company developed a plugin for shopifys walled garden app store - which has T&Cs
We (stannp.com) created an app for the shopify marketplace some time ago which helped shops send letters and postcards to their customers. The app would sync recipients with our platform or trigger mail to be posted. The shopify rep said we had to implement their billing API on across our whole platform so they get a 30% (i'm sure it was 30% back then) cut on all transactions. It drove me crazy because I saw mailchip…
Why is it ok in software to pay a 20% - 30% commission? Imagine if your car dealer would ask an extra 30% Ok, ok I get it, it's not a physical product but still people get paid to work on it and develop it, and there are income taxes and all that, but really 20-30%?!?! If you sell a product chances are your profit margin is 20-30% and that it's good, but here in software we have to do a cut for 20-30%, well again 10%…
If your profit margin on a software product is only 30% you have absolutely no business being in business.
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This puts that insane Qannon theory and the kids who went missing under Trump's kids in cages program in an entirely new context...
You mean Obama Biden's cages, they built them and continue to operate them after all. Exemplifying the point made above about hypocrisy
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Yes but if you bill them separately using Stripe, that's clearly against their Terms of Service. > The Shopify integration is just used for discovery (via their app store), login, installation, email integration, and of course billing. So Shopify is responsible for generating 100% of your revenue, correct? If you are opposed to a 20% cut of that on principle, how else do you expect them to make money?
Using their subscriptions?
Also it seems like a fair way to make money -- sell hosting services for cheap (so people who want to start a business can get going fast) and as they move into larger revenues they provide a portion back to the services that helped them get there.
I will never - ever use Shopify again. To extract 20% from a vendor of physical goods is criminal. BTW, I buy zero Apple products either - I will not take part in highway robbery...
As others have mentioned, this post is about Shopify apps, not Shopify stores. I'd recommend doing a bit more research before deciding to boycott a company. They're absolutely not taking a 20% cut from sales of physical goods, this isn't Uber Eats.