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Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
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#22Hello! I'm Tucker, Product Manager on Frenzy. Frenzy came to be from one of Shopify's quarterly hackdays projects, with the goal of changing flash sales for both merchants and consumers forever. Frenzy is the best way to buy from brands you love. Whether you’re looking to buy rare products, discover new ones, or learn about new brands, Frenzy is the place to do it. Rather than waiting in line at a retail store, missi…
Out of curiosity could anyone build an app like this with Shopify's apis?
Or does it rely on internal private Shopify functionality?
I've wanted to integrate with Shopify but seem to get confused by the limitations.
For one, it would be cool if the sellers had the options to let their products be on an open market place where anyone could write an application and sell their products for commission.
Re: Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
#23Hello! I'm Tucker, Product Manager on Frenzy. Frenzy came to be from one of Shopify's quarterly hackdays projects, with the goal of changing flash sales for both merchants and consumers forever. Frenzy is the best way to buy from brands you love. Whether you’re looking to buy rare products, discover new ones, or learn about new brands, Frenzy is the place to do it. Rather than waiting in line at a retail store, missi…
Out of curiosity could anyone build an app like this with Shopify's apis? Or does it rely on internal private Shopify functionality? I've wanted to integrate with Shopify but seem to get confused by the limitations. For one, it would be cool if the sellers had the options to let their products be on an open market place where anyone could write an application and sell their products for commission.
Anyone could build an app like this with Shopify's apis. We used https://developers.shopify.com/sales-channel-sdk.
Re: Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
#24This seems oddly worded:
"With Frenzy, there’s no limit to your sales volume, the number of products you can sell, or the bandwidth you need." [emphasis added]
Re: Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity could anyone build an app like this with Shopify's apis? Or does it rely on internal private Shopify functionality? I've wanted to integrate with Shopify but seem to get confused by the limitations. For one, it would be cool if the sellers had the options to let their products be on an open market place where anyone could write an application and sell their products for commission.
Anyone could build an app like this with Shopify's apis. We used https://developers.shopify.com/sales-channel-sdk .
You can also build a shopping app for a single store using: https://help.shopify.com/api/sdks/mobile-buy-sdk
Re: Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
#26This seems oddly worded: "With Frenzy, there’s no limit to your sales volume, the number of products you can sell, or the bandwidth you need. " [emphasis added]
I guess they're playing on the idea that some people like to see big traffic spikes during sales.
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#27This looks cool. Shopify seems to be one of / the most competent players in the eComm space. Wonder if it will pan out successfully.
They have some incredibly frustrating brick wall limitations that you find once you start really working with the platform, but it's still the best I've used by an order of magnitude. And the "there's an app for that" mantra totally holds true, which is often convenient for rapidly growing or testing features.
Re: Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
#28This looks cool. Shopify seems to be one of / the most competent players in the eComm space. Wonder if it will pan out successfully.
Shopify is the best, but it's not a high bar. I've been on the platform for almost 7 years. I have two major issues:
1. They're still lacking some major features imho (ability to sell in multiple currencies, can't put tracking JS on checkout pages, access to payout reports for bookkeeper, got lots more)
2. They do terrible product marketing - no email about newly launched features. In an extreme case, they launched a feature that sent emails to customers when their order was out for delivery, delivered, etc. Problem is that I was already using an app for that, so when they launched the feature and enabled it by default without letting me know, customers got two emails telling them their order was out for delivery, delivered, etc. It was a terrible customer experience (for us and for our customers) and I can't imagine how that decision was made. ("Hey, want to enable this feature that sends more emails to our customers' customers without announcing it? Yeah? Great!")
Re: Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
#29This looks cool. Shopify seems to be one of / the most competent players in the eComm space. Wonder if it will pan out successfully.
Shopify is the best, but it's not a high bar. I've been on the platform for almost 7 years. I have two major issues: 1. They're still lacking some major features imho (ability to sell in multiple currencies, can't put tracking JS on checkout pages, access to payout reports for bookkeeper, got lots more) 2. They do terrible product marketing - no email about newly launched features. In an extreme case, they launched a…
If you shell out for Plus, you can add the tracking and your account manager sends out #2 on a weekly basis.
The example you give was extremely frustrating though (wasn't on Plus at the time).
Re: Shopify’s Frenzy – Sell to the most loyal customers in a new way
#30Hello! I'm Tucker, Product Manager on Frenzy. Frenzy came to be from one of Shopify's quarterly hackdays projects, with the goal of changing flash sales for both merchants and consumers forever. Frenzy is the best way to buy from brands you love. Whether you’re looking to buy rare products, discover new ones, or learn about new brands, Frenzy is the place to do it. Rather than waiting in line at a retail store, missi…
> Rather than waiting in line at a retail store, missing out online, or simply forgetting about a sale – Frenzy puts the hype of the best product releases in your pocket.
So I was attempting to decipher this sentence, which while apparently written in English, appears to be incomprehensible. I've identified the subject as "Frenzy" and the verb as "puts" and the object as "hype" but then I got a little lost and wandered off.
In all seriousness, learning how to present product in way that's free from content free superlatives and meaningless phrases will help greatly in communicating with customers.