RetailEdge VS Shopify

RetailEdge Reviews

Shopify Reviews

1. Beard    

   9 months ago
   Shopify - the best no code platform.

   Creating my online store for small dog products on Shopify was a remarkably smooth and rewarding experience. Shopify's user-friendly platform guided me through each step of the setup process, making it easy even for someone without prior experience. Their range of customizable templates gave my store a professional and appealing look, and the analytics tools provided have been invaluable for tracking my store's performance and customer trends. Additionally, Shopify's 24/7 customer support was always ready to assist whenever I encountered any roadblocks. Overall, launching my business on Shopify has been a positive experience, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to start their own online store.

   🏁 Competitors: Tilda, WooCommerce
2. Lori Appleman    

   Founder at Redline Minds | over 3 years ago
   Strong Option for New DIY Stores Serving Consumers

   Shopify is a powerful marketing machine that has driven incredible growth. It's an excellent choice for the store owner who needs to do it themselves, on a shoestring budget, who does not sell complex products and who does not plan to run a hybrid - a store that serves multiple customer bases such as retail and wholesale.

   Due to its sheer market share, there is a robust marketplace of apps that can be added to shape the store to fit most needs. There is an equally robust selection of themes and developers who can assist with any size project. They have a terrific knowledge base which I strongly recommend store owners use as it teaches the basics for e-commerce in general and online marketing. This learning should be done prior to developing a plan for your site. That will help root your project for success.

   Unfortunately, it's also oversold based on name recognition even when the platform is a poor choice for a specific business. There are both policy and technical limitations that impact suitability.

   Shopify stores require many apps, which adds monthly costs and can greatly slow your store down. While ALL online stores end up with some app use, because this allows you to choose the features you want and need, much of what is native in other carts like their most direct competitor, BigCommerce, is not. So you'll spend more money each month and it can be harder to get a fast site.

   Among the stores that should probably NOT use Shopify: - Sells items that are generally prohibited on the platform which includes weapons, weapon-related items, sex objects, tobacco (for some odd reason Vape is currently on the platform but for how long is anyone's guess), alcohol.
   - Sells items allowed but that don't qualify for Shopify Payments which expands the above list to include supplements, CBD, vape products and other items. - Just as above, any store that can't qualify for Shopify Payments or who has good reasons to use another payment gateway. Why? Because if you don't use their payment gateway which they profit from, they will take 1/2-2% of your gross revenues soley because you are using another gateway. For small merchants, this isn't much, for big ones it's a significant cost. - Stores with multiple price structures or catalogs - such as those who offer VIP tiers or wholesale clients. Why not? Because you can't create true customer groups which on other platforms let you segment the catalog and content for each customer group. Groups are really important for B2B. To accomplish multiple audiences on Shopify requires either a separate app (at an added cost) or multiple storefronts, or ShopifyPlus (which is still creating multiple sites). This can greatly increase your operational costs and work efforts. - Stores with complex products - these are items with many options, also known as configurable or customizable products. While Shopify does offer the ability to offer up to 3 options per product with a maximum of 100 skus per product, this limit is very easy to exceed. There is also no native path to add modifiers such as those one would use for personalized products (like custom embroidery. While these issues can be overcome with apps, that adds both load time and costs.

   🏁 Competitors: BigCommerce, Magento, Miva, WooCommerce, Workflow

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Low price|Flexible|Large developer base|Great documentation|Reliable|Low maintenance

   👎 Cons:    Limited features|No customer groups for wholesale|Some product types forbidden|Must use their gateway or pay extra fees|Limited api calls|Limited capabilities for products with options

RetailEdge mentions (11)

• Point of Sale (POS) System Recommendations for Retail Social Enterprise

  RetailEdge POS can do donations and will tell you the sales/donation histories of each customer that comes into the store. retailedge.com you can download a demo which is a full copy of the program and you can import your data and see how it will work. DM me or email us at [sales@retailedge.com](mailto:sales@retailedge.com) if you have questions. :). Source: 11 months ago

• For everybody using a POS

  RetailEdge handles service charges, open orders for jobs not yet completed, saved sales to provide sales quotes to customers, invoicing, receiving PO's from your vendors, robust customer tracking like sales histories, notes, addresses, etc. Email receipts. $495 one time with no required ongoing monthly costs. Non-cloud windows-based software, meaning you can be on-site with a customer and not rely on wifi or... Source: 11 months ago

• Promote your business, week of April 23, 2023

  Our small business is RetailEdge - developed over 30 years ago as a TRUE Point of Sale and TRUE Inventory Management software serving thousands of small-medium sized retail businesses in all 50 states and a dozen countries. We're fully U.S. based, offering one-time pricing on POS software while allowing you to control and own your data stored locally on your computer and not for rent in the cloud. You can download... Source: about 1 year ago

• I am fed up with the poor customer support of RepairShopr. Kindly let me know any other POS software that I can migrate to.

  RetailEdge POS. Vermont based company with 100% US based tech support since 1989. They work directly with the programmers of the software and use RetailEdge every day to log their own sales just like you would . So they are highly knowledgeble of the program. Download the demo at retailedge.com. Its the full copy of the program and you can import your own inventory to play around with it. Our youtube channel has... Source: about 1 year ago

• Looking for POS/Processing/Software recommendations

  We are NOT a processor. Our CEO was a regular retailer back in the day who developed his own POS software in 1989 designed for retail businesses. We have thousands of businesses in all 50 states and dozens of countries use our POS. You can download the demo at retailedge.com and import your own data and play around with it. Its the full version of the program. Email... Source: about 1 year ago

Shopify mentions (42)

• shopify.com vs store.link, what do you think is better one?

  Shopify.com vs store.link which one is better? Source: 8 months ago

• Forget Shopify Why MedusaJS Is the Future of Headless Ecommerce

  With a traditional e-commerce platform like Shopify, you're locked into their ecosystem. You have to use their templates, checkout, and backend. Headless platforms like MedusaJS give you the freedom to build the front end however you want, using any framework or library. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Allow Rules not given priority over block?

  For example, if you want to load firewalla.com, just allowing "firewalla.com" will not work, you will have allow shopify.com and few other stuff ... You can see what sites loaded using chrome dev mode. Source: 11 months ago

• Confused on Sales Tax

  If the shipping and sales tax scares you, it may be better to sell through Etsy since it is a marketplace facilitator and is required to collect sales tax from customers when purchasing your items that are sold. People go to Etsy to find something, not sgalv02.com to find your items. I believe Shopify will help you create a site to sell on, but people don't go to shopify.com to purchase various items like they do... Source: 11 months ago

• Seeking suggestions to start a business.

  Create a online website using dukaan.io or shopify.com and then sell something.. Source: 12 months ago