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Re: Shopify POS

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Post by martin-adams »

bhouston wrote: post #3

Two years ago (October 2011) I submitted this idea to the first Shopify Fund ( http://www.shopify.com/fund ): "The second idea is to create a POS system that integrates fully into Shopify. Thus one can use Shopify to manage sales for all the store's inventory both those that one sells through the web and also those that one sells from the physical store. The POS front end for Shopify will allow for Shopify to expand…

When you get feedback from customers I doubt the line to join the dots of an online presence moving into a physical presence isn't that long.

I bet their customers have been asking for a way to synchronise their shop floor stock with their online stock, and Shopify would naturally want to be the provider of the whole experience.

There's probably many reasons why your idea never got picked up originally. They may have been already working on or thinking about it; it may be similar to another idea submitted; they may not have expected it to be a viable option at the time.

The fact they didn't even respond sucks as that's not a good community spirit. Just be pleased that you've managed to predict what the future was. The trick is how to do something useful with those predictions.

Re: Shopify POS

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Post by axx »

Ma8ee wrote: 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?

same here!

Re: Shopify POS

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Post by samspenc »

svmegatron wrote: post #10

I've sung the praises of Shopify on multiple occasions, here and in real life and to various clients. Their products and services just continue to get better and better, across the board. Excellent work, Shopify!

Ditto. Shopify is great and easy to use. I recommend it to any of my non-technical friends who needs an e-commerce site.

Re: Shopify POS

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Post by SeanOC »

daredevildave wrote: post #40

Being a US company, I'm guessing there is no chip and PIN support?

They're actually a Canadian company but looking at the reader, it does look like it only supports swiping the mag strip of a card.

Re: Shopify POS

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Post by tommccabe »

Suggestion for the Shopify folk-

The site doesn't say that the POS supports a barcode scanner, but the video says that it does (and shows it in use). As a retailer, not having a barcode scanner would be a prompt deal breaker[0]. It should be featured somewhere on the microsite.

[0] lack of a barcode scanner isn't bad if you have 16 products. Once you're managing any serious level of inventory, especially with unique size/color combinations, there's so much risk for error if each item isn't being scanned. Then there's speed of service to the customer; it's just quicker.

Re: Shopify POS

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Post by snookca »

smickie wrote: post #26
solaris152000 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Specific to your abandoned carts comment, the view is filterable. Type in "Canada", for example, and it'll show all abandoned carts in Canada. We'd love to learn more about what you're looking to accomplish that is difficult to do right now.
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