The most popular E-commerce platform available today, Shopify is a Canadian E-commerce firm based in Ottawa and founded by like many other businesses individuals who were looking for something, but didn’t understand it, and then decided to create it available to the general public.
Shopify has seen rapid growth over the years. Their acquisition of resources, or even better still, other small-business brands to help grow the business is remarkable. It’s even more impressive is their simple and easy to remember motto: “Whether you sell, on social media, in store or out of the trunk of your car, Shopify has you covered”. Another version of this could be: “Shopify, the best place to sell online, in person, and anywhere in-between”.
Why DO I SHOPIFY ?
There are many characteristics that make Shopify an attractive platform, especially that it is modified to meet the requirements of users. These are listed below:
* A user-friendly interface.
* Plans that cater to your requirements.
* Superior customer service.
* Simple modification.
* A blog for your store.
access to Shopify experts to assist with your store for an affordable price.
App Store with applications to assist you with managing your store and much other.
PLANS PLANS
Shopify offers plans with features that meet every requirement you could want to meet create an app from your Shopify store. There are usually five Shopify plans that have specific features to the plans. The plans and their features are listed below.
If you own your own Facebook page for specific services or activities and you own products you are able to sell on your page, this plan is for you. It’s limited to making sales through Facebook which costs you $9.
THE BASIC SHOPIFY PLAN
There aren’t any transaction fees when the use of Shopify for payments. You can use Shopify as your primary payment gateway however, using a third party payment gateway will incur a transaction cost of 2.0 percent.
The plan includes the following benefits employees accounts. the ability to add an unlimited amount of items and unlimited storage for files as well as a retail package worth $49 with an “good” Shopify shipping discount shipping labels printed, 24 hours of support, fraud analysis the capability to build orders by hand discount codes websites, a blog, and lastly, the cost-free SSL certificate. The features you don’t get with this plan include Gift cards and professional report advance cart recovery features, advanced report builders and third-party calculated rate.
This plan comes with these benefits including Five (5) employees accounts the option to add unlimited products, unlimited amounts of storage for files and a retail package of $49 with the ability to avail a “better” Shopify shipping discount (than the standard plan) shipping labels printed, 24/7 support, fraud analysis the capability to create orders by hand, discount codes websites and a blog as well as a no-cost SSL certificate and gift cards, as well as professional reports, and the ability to recover your cart with advanced technology. The features you don’t get in this plan include: advanced report builders and calculated rates calculated by third parties.
With this plan, each feature is available to you. Particularly fifteen (15) employees accounts and the possibility of adding unlimited products, unlimited amounts of storage space for your files as well as a retail package worth $49 and one of the “best” Shopify shipping discount and printed shipping labels, 24 hour support, fraud analysis the capability to create orders by hand, discount codes along with a website and blog, a free SSL certificate as well as Gift cards and professional report advance cart recovery features, advanced reports builders and calculated rates from third-party sources.
The SHOPIFY PLUS PLAN
Shopify Plus plan offers the Shopify’s “custom” plan. There’s not much information about this plan, other than that you will get the services you have agreed upon with Shopify. If a company is interested in the program the company will make contact with an affiliate or one of the other affiliates of Shopify and they’ll submit or refer your request to Shopify. Following that, Shopify will contact you and build a store on your behalf in accordance with your criteria.
Personal Experience with the SHOPIFY
My personal experience through Shopify has been fascinating. Within the first week of having my first two shops, I’ve seen many carts that were abandoned. Why do I have so many carts abandoned? You might ask! Since I’m in a country that is a third world one, Nigeria, I couldn’t find an online payment processor. Every option I could find required the business be registered (Until the last few days, but it was only required for brand new customers). It’s sad. When you make a mistake in your attempt, you can always blame the country, rather than the platform. This is like blaming Google for not having results for the name or word you were looking for.
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Therefore, I’ve left the best for the last. Shopify provides a 14-day trial period for free. After that, you’ll be required to purchase a plan to continue using the platform, unless you create a development store to serve the purpose of. There’s still no loophole since when a store becomes 14 days old, you’ll have to buy the plan, regardless of whether it was designed to be an experimental store. Another option is for you to become an employee. When the store is able to fulfill 50 orders, you’ll have to purchase a plan before the store is handed over to you. You can also choose to engage Shopify Experts to help you with your store based upon what you’ve agreed on.
Author:
The writer is a journalist on freelance with a experience of with writing articles on Internet Marketing Services. He is currently writing pieces about the best Shopify integration services, How to Add Quadpay to Shopify and How to hire the services of a Shopify Developer and Magento web developer.
