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Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

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Re: Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

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Not a surprising practice, but: > Pretty ironic too when you've got Shopify's CEO tweeting about the unfair 30% cut Apple wants: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1362411841943711744 That's pretty hypocritical

I mean, Tim Cook wants his cake and the Shopify CEO wants his cake too, so the hippocracy is expected.

At this point I'd be willing to try a hippocracy.

Re: Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

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They don't understand the model where SaaS businesses use Shopify as a billing channel on top of their own subscription model, it's all or nothing - they assume that anything in the app store can only use Shopify billing if the user installs via Shopify, which is fair but their billing API has glaring issues: - App Charges get added to clients bills, you're not getting paid right away (60+ days in some cases) vs gett…

I mean shopify payments have a lot of drawbacks but not having refunds is not one of them [1]

[1] https://shopify.dev/docs/admin-api/rest/reference/orders/ref...

Re: Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

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post #12

Not a surprising practice, but: > Pretty ironic too when you've got Shopify's CEO tweeting about the unfair 30% cut Apple wants: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1362411841943711744 That's pretty hypocritical

I had the feeling he was complaining about the value amount, not the exclusivity requirement.

It's pretty hypocrital but still... Sort of hypocrital

Re: Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

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What is a good alternative to Shopify for a small webstore? I don't want to pay a 20% cut.

IIUC, the 20% cut does not apply to web stores, it's for SaaS vendors who want to offer a plugin to Shopify web store owners, via Shopify's App Store.

Re: Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

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What is a good alternative to Shopify for a small webstore? I don't want to pay a 20% cut.

I think there's some confusion here. This topic is about developers selling apps via the Shopify App Store, not about how much you pay Shopify to run an online ecommerce store.

Shopify charge a monthly fee for their online ecommmerce stores, and they don't take a 20% cut for that.

Re: Shopify says remove Stripe billing or get booted from their app store

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Sorry to be blunt but what do you expect to happen when you breach ana partner agreement you've read and signed? It's the walled path you and other merchants paved, but nothing is stopping you right now from making your own store on a personal site I think? If you need one let me know how I can help you.

He's not a merchant he's an app developer with a saas that shopify merchants can use.
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