Offering a broad range of payment options, particularly to cater for international markets is of growing importance for online merchants. This blog post has a specific focus on China with a more in-depth analysis and guidelines for offering Asian payment methods on a Shopify store.

So, creating a solution for pre-orders (or back-orders) for a small, single Shopify store is generally quite straightforward, you take the orders and then simply wait until the items are available until you then despatch, setting expectations to the user and reporting back as needed. The issue I’m trying to address here is how you can create a solution that scales as you add complexity; namely additional stores, stock locations, volume etc.

Magento Commerce (now Adobe Commerce) and Shopify Plus are almost unquestionably the two most mainstream mid-market eCommerce platforms in the world – with both offering very different feature-sets and propositions to brands and retailers. This guide provides a detailed comparison across all aspects of the two platforms, including native feature-sets, true cost of ownership, extensibility, infrastructure, SEO, agency & technology eco-system, international, B2B and lots of other areas. This piece was last updated in November 2021 (having been originally publish in ~2017).

Over the last few years, the number of online marketplaces has increased considerably, due to various market changes and a number of high profile success stories. We’ve worked with a number of marketplaces over the years and, although it’s a great business model when done well, it’s a very complex area of eCommerce.

Over the last 12 months, a number of our clients have asked us about operating a Shopify Plus store (or via an existing global or ROW store) in the Chinese region of Macao, following a significant uplift in premium brands opening physical stores in the region.

Shopify Unite was hosted a few weeks ago now, and we’ve had time to digest the announcements and understand what sort of effects they’re going to have on our agency and the brands we work with. This year was certainly more development focused than previous conferences, but we still got some insight into Shopify’s roadmap and future functionality.