Re:Shopify raises $7 Million Series A
by 3dFlatLander on Friday December 17, 2010 @04:28PM
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I've set up a number of shopping carts on shopify. It's been one of the best things that's happened to my freelancing life in a long time. Their documentation is a pleasure to read, and you can do some really nifty stuff without having to worry nearly as much about security (looking at you OSCommerce).
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I'm working on some Shopify projects and have found the documentation lacking (i.e. written in broken English, out-of-date regarding newest code developments, and some links point to missing documents).
I have tons of respect for the company and the team, but the documentation isn't given first-class status in my experience.
Totally agreed. We will get much better at this in the future. Unfortunately 2/3 of the funding team (me included) are english-second-language.
Maybe it's our own experience, but the "nifty stuff" is quite limiting. We've been trying to get combo pack support (ala Amazon's buy this + that together and get $5 off), and it's been a total NIGHTMARE.
For a basic general cart, it's great. But especially for an e-commerce system that you rely on your store for 100% of your income, the second you want to try anything nifty, such as combo packs, flat rate box shipping (mostly calculations involving if a cart can fit in the flat rate box), coupon codes for only specific products, and random general issues (such as 100 variants per product max, which is annoying when trying to hand-create combo packs with 200-300 variants), I'd suggest something else.
Re:Shopify raises $7 Million Series A
by josefresco on Friday December 17, 2010 @06:21PM
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I've had great results from FoxyCart, even with custom code.