I'm going mad. Is there a simple solution to creating a small e-commerce website? With #WordPress you're paying for multiple premium plugins and it's just bonkers. It's like being caught in a web.
A client of my client (for whom I manage servers) ran a significant e-commerce business on #Magento for many years. They always used Magento OpenSource and saw substantial growth, evolving from a small online store to a giant, making the physical store secondary compared to their online volumes. They were happy, satisfied, and still growing. Then a salesperson showed them #Shopify, and they were persuaded to switch. I tried to explain that they would lose direct control of their e-commerce and data management (as the database would no longer be theirs but Shopify's), and complete control over their business and related costs. If Shopify doubles its prices tomorrow, they can't do anything but pay double. Despite this, the salesperson was convincing: my client will still manage the business, but they will abandon their efficient Magento servers for Shopify. Nothing against Shopify, but I see this as a defeat and a regression.
Unfortunately, people still fail to understand that data should be owned and free, not tied to proprietary platforms of others.
Eileen Uchitelle has been a member of the Rails Core team since 2017. She made her first contribution to Rails during a conference after discovering a bug. During her time at Github, she accomplished a remarkable feat: upgrading Rails 3.2 to 5.2 in a year and a half. She is now pushing Rails forward at Shopify. She is an inspiration to our entire community.
Shopify Files Lawsuit over Illegal DMCA Takedown Abuse - E-commerce platform Shopify is suing a 'John Doe' defendant for sending numerous false copyright complaints. The DMCA takedown notices have targeted a variety of vendors, who had their legitimate products taken offline as a result of the fraudulent actions. In addition, these vendors risked losing their entire accounts due to multiple false claims. #DMCA#Copyright#legal#Shopify#Fraudhttps://torrentfreak.com/shopify-files-lawsuit-over-illegal-dmca-takedown-abuse-231020/
Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. 40 years of declining worker power shattered the American Dream (TM), producing multiple generations whose children fared worse than their parents, cratering faith in institutions and hope for a better future.
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But Clark doesn't work for Amazon anymore. After losing a power-struggle to succeed Jeff Bezos - the job went to "longtime rival" #Andy Jassy - he quit and went to work for #Flexport, a logistics company that promised to provide sellers that used non-Amazon services with shipping. Flexport did a deal with #Shopify, becoming its "sole official logistics partner."
Potential tip: If you don't want to pay for the parcel app subscription on iOS but want to track #amazon packages, perhaps consider installing #Shopify and logging into your amazon account from there. It seems to automatically support some push info. Yesterday an international parcel switched carriers, and since it checks email, it came up with the new parcel tracking in-app almost immediately. Since I imagine Shopify is also on #Android and Parcel app isn't, this might be a useful way of doing some tracking.
Were open office plans always explicitly about cost savings or did the people that embraced it actually believe it would lead to better outcomes than people having their own offices?
@siderea@norootcause You have me thinking of pre-Pandemic #Shopify's set-up after they'd moved into one of the newer office towers lining the west side of Elgin Street here in #Ottawa. The "open office" set-up was covered - with no small encouragement from Shopify - in the Ottawa press at the time. It made them look progressive, especially with all the recreational facilities also thrown into the mix.
ShopPay sending me an SMS “Authentication” before I’ve chosen a payment method — or sometimes before I’ve put anything in my cart! — is really presumptive and annoying, and now I won’t use them at all if I can avoid it.
"WordPress is still the leading CMS and its market share is super stable for the last year. In fact, most of the top 10 is stable. #Shopify shows a small decline, but great financial numbers. #Prestashop, acquired in 2021, is the fastest grower in the top 10, and in my opinion shows real promise."