Shopify - Where every feature cost monthly extra!

• A full eCommerce functionality will cost at minimum $300.00 a month!!

• Whilst you can create 100 variants of a product, these can only involve up to 3 product options.

• Some key functionality which you might expect to be provided out of the box requires installation of an app (notable examples include facilitating digital downloads and reviews and ratings).

• Adding custom fields such as text boxes or file upload options, whilst doable, is unnecessarily complicated (or involves purchasing an app).

• Professional reporting functionality is only provided on more expensive plans.

• Shopify Payments only allows you to sell from certain countries. f you want to sell from another country you will need to use a third-party payment gateway.

• You can’t avoid transaction fees if you use a third-party payment gateway.

• There is no way to automatically ensure that product images are displayed using the same aspect ratio. This can lead to messy presentation of your products unless you have cropped all your images in advance of uploading them to Shopify.

• It would be nice if the abandoned cart saver allowed you to send more than one automated follow-up email.

• Getting your site to be GDPR compliant where cookies are concerned will involve use of a third party cookie banner app.

• Not so SEO "friendly" - Harder to optimize for high ranking on search engines.