5 Tips to Handle the Drawbacks of Shopify!

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5 Tips to Handle the Drawbacks of Shopify!
The business owners of today love to have an
online store. But the real dilemma begins when
they need to choose from amongst many
available platforms for their e-store. There is
a confusion as to whether to go for Magento,
WordPress, Shopify, or some other platform.
Also, while choosing one of these
platforms, e-store owners often forget to address
two major aspects. One, simplicity. And two,
flexibility. Now comes the sad part simple
platforms are not flexible enough and the
flexible ones are not simple enough. In fact, in
both the cases you might have to hire
professionals to build your e-store from the
scratch. The name Shopify is often a favorite
amongst the upcoming business
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• owners. And why not? It lets them build an online
  store in a matter of few clicks with ample amount
  of options in dashboards and themes.
• But as discussed above, although it is an easy to
  integrate and use, it is not flexible enough to
  cope with certain requirements. So, even if
  you go for professional Shopify Ecommerce
  Development, the professional developers might
  suggest you to install plugins and give other
  solutions. Through this blog, we will provide you
  with
• Here are 5 tips to handle the Drawbacks of
  Shopify Platform
• CMS Compatibility Issues
• When it comes to displaying products
  in different ways and writing their
  descriptions, Shopify is perfect for sure.
  But what if you want to manage an
  impeccable blog on your Shopify Store?
  Does it offer functionalities like
  WordPress? The answer, unfortunately, is No.
• During such times you need to decide the
  importance of content on your website. If it is
  of utmost importance on your website, you
  can consider using Shopifys JavaScript Buy SDK
  and integrate Shopify ecommerce with your
  website. The best part about this lightweight
  library is that you can get Shopifys ecommerce
  system and shopping cart along with the CMS you
  like.
• By using the Shopping platform, you can get
  bespoke theme customization along with different
  blocks and sections. You often might have seen
  press pages, look books and recipe catalogs. Now
  you know where they come from.
• The International Retail Dilemma
• Have you ever shopped from a Shopify store
  belonging to different countries? If yes, you
  might have observed something. Supposing, if
  you have a US based account and a
  customer is buying from the U.K. they might be
  able to see the product prices displayed in
  pounds. But when they checkout, the total will
  revert

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into US dollars. Several e-store owners
complain about this retail issue with
Shopify. To get over this dilemma, you can
hire a Shopify developer, who would advise you to
make multiple localized e-stores. You can link
these e-stores to a business banking account
belonging to that country. Thereafter, a
problem like this one might not occur. Also,
Shopify lets you have maximum 10 stores per
account. But if you are handling many e-stores at
once, you would need extensions that help you to
sync inventory data, product data and more across
your stores. When you follow the above given
method, you can choose different ways of
selling and have different price tables for
different customers. 3. The Language Blues Using
Shopify, you can have an e-store in the language
of your choice and manage all the content in the
same language true. But, it supports multiple
languages false. So, what if you have an
e-store that needs to communicate with customers
in different language? Well, things might
get difficult for you. And during such times
you can prefer to use a plugin that makes
multi-language setup easier for you. There is
also one more solution available to address the
language issue. You can set up different Shopify
instances for your target place. Thereafter, you
will have the option to choose the suitable
language and currency for that area. As Shopify
Plus enables you to have up to 10 accounts you
can synchronize your content and inventory by
using a solution available on the app store. As
easy as it may sound, it might involve
some cumbersome ways and ask for developer
level skills. So, it is advisable to
go for customized Shopify development.
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4. Detailed Product Search Problem This too, is
one of the major drawbacks of Shopify. Although
it has a good search option, it gives a difficult
time when one wants to conduct a detailed search.
For example, let us say your customer is looking
for photo frames. And therein, you offer photo
frames for different occasions. So, when the
visitor writes wedding photo frames in the
search option, they might not be able to
do it with efficiency. Also, there is one more
limitation. If your user mistypes the name of the
product, it will not show them with the
right suggestions. What follows is, customer
complaints and cart abandonments. To avoid a
scenario like this one, you can find Shopify
apps that offer suggestive search to your
customers and help you with simplified selling.
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5. Difficult to Manage POS As someone
belonging to the ecommerce domain, you
might be aware that Shopify POS system
accepts different forms of payments right
from debit and credit cards to Apple Pay. It is
also possible for Shopify owners to manage store
credit and refunds. Well, although, it works well
for small retailers, it does tend to get
complicated when one wants to manage the
Logistics of huge stores with different
inventory locations. Shopifys POS system is such
that it can draw only from one stock location.
So, if you have established a new physical store,
Shopify POS will be a bliss for you. But, if you
need to manage multi-location inventory and
have different stocks at multiple warehouses,
things might get a bit awry for you.
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Still, if you want to keep working around the
same POS, you can create an account for every POS
system and a customized sync application that
helps you to manage your offline and online sales
activities. You might or might not be happy with
this arrangement. We hope the above-mentioned
drawbacks of Shopify and their solutions will
work for your business. Have you come across any
other problems while managing your Shopify store?
If yes, write to us and we will try our best to
offer you with Shopify development services that
suit your requirements.