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Re: Shopify POS

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post #21

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A good number of our stores sell > $1M/month. And, now that Shopify 2 has shipped, any feature gaps that were around are closing very quickly.

Do you guys have an API by any chance? Can I push orders to a Shopify store via an API call of some kind?

The API documentation is here: http://docs.shopify.com/api

There's no API order creation at present, but the API is consistently evolving as the platform does.

Re: Shopify POS

#32
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I totally disagree. Anyone working in the retail sector (the target customer) will understand immediately what POS means since POS is a well-known business acronym.

Re: Shopify POS

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The acronym always makes me snicker but having dealt with some clients talk about their POS systems, it's a very widely used acronym. In fact, it was a big US company for which I was first part of a conference call where the acronym was used. I snickered in a "they're calling it an iPad? Really?"-way. Then I got used to it. Just like iPad.

I kind of cringed when I saw the name too. But I can understand why Shopify chose it. Potential customers are going to google for "POS" along with a handful of other keywords.

Re: Shopify POS

#34
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Working in retail as a teenager, the cash desk/terminal/whatever else you may call it was always called the Point of Sale.

The joke got old really fast when you actually use a POS.

Re: Shopify POS

#36
post #26

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You find the Magento reporting much better? I've never tried reporting in Shopify, but Magento out of the box is very very limited.

Magento does everything if you wade through the data. Like if you wanted stats on... off the top of my head, abandoned shopping carts by region and product, you could. I think in Shopify you can view how many abandoned carts there are in the orders section, and it's not filterable. I mean how difficult would be for Shopify devs to add a reports section on stuff like this. Just tabulated data would do, I don't need an…

I appreciate the difficulty of trying to run a business without this information being available to you.

Once you start juggling the vast amount of data that needs to be stored, fetched, calculated and referenced to provide a report, it becomes a lot more than "why dont you just". And thats before scaling the system to the non-fail-whale standard that we run our infrastructure at.

But it is coming very soon. In fact, it's already available to PoS customers.

As I mentioned, feel free to ping me to talk more about this. I would love to have more input.

Re: Shopify POS

#37
post #25

Am I missing something here? This is a parody that is to subtle for my sleepy mind right now? Am I the only one that immediately reads it as Shopify Piece Of Shit?

Me too, but I'm not their target audience. I'd imagine the people who are likely to be interested in it won't read it that way.

Re: Shopify POS

#38
post #26

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You find the Magento reporting much better? I've never tried reporting in Shopify, but Magento out of the box is very very limited.

Magento does everything if you wade through the data. Like if you wanted stats on... off the top of my head, abandoned shopping carts by region and product, you could. I think in Shopify you can view how many abandoned carts there are in the orders section, and it's not filterable. I mean how difficult would be for Shopify devs to add a reports section on stuff like this. Just tabulated data would do, I don't need an…

What if you wanted sales by category?

Re: Shopify POS

#39
post #12

I have repeatedly had clients on a budget choose Magento over Shopify due to a lack of fine grain control. It's very frustrating that they can release a POS system, however fail at, for example, complex sales reports. I wish they'd get it together because they would blow everyone out the water.

Agreed. The control they give their theme developers is shamefully woeful. You're actively encouraged to use Javascript as a work-around for their very limited templating sytem. If they were to add querying, or even just a few more options for selecting products (e.g. by type, brand, etc.) then Shopify would be a great contender to other e-commerce stores. Currently it feels they're only focused on things that can bring them more revenue.
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