Recurring order functionality is typically delegated to a third party app in Shopify land; the two biggest incumbents in this space have pretty ordinary UX so it’s likely you were looking at one of those.
More recent entrants in the market do a much better job on this front.
There is a great company here in Australia (https://greatwrap.com.au) already doing this at decent scale with potato waste. Their manufacturing costs are on par with traditional plastic wrap.
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I strongly disagree that Shopify is only good for "companies with few SKUs or mom-pop kind of stores". Perhaps that's where they started out, but their Plus offering is very solid these days and provides a good platform for retailers of all sizes.
I run an agency that's highly specialised in Shopify, so obviously I have a dog in the fight, but as someone who's recently helped migrate a business with ~$6b/year in revenue to Shopify I think it's time to retire that particular misconception.
Having used shopify API and the new graphQL API I am sure shopify is for small business and then you need to rebuilt the system from ground up using partners to support any complex case. In Shopify collections and categories are not represented as graphs but as distinct entity relying on application code to make this link. Media management API is so worse than can be done with many opensource system like Saloer or Sylius or Spree. Same is the case when need to support multiple price lists for specific supplier or buyer. When it comes to data based security based on user role, one has to roll out their own system. After doing all that custom application code still do not have access to the API server code.
So for a partner it guarantee regular stream of revenue but at the cost of customers’ interest who is now at the whims and mercy of company which wrote the custom code and also shopify which control the core API server code.
If you want to built a reliable and resilient system for 6 billion business a custom built based on open source is far superior to proprietary and black box of shopify+closed custom code written by partner.
I don't think this is true - I believe it's only their merchandise store that's on Shopify. Car purchases are done through their own, custom platform.
That said, there are definitely plenty of huge merchants running on Shopify turning over hundreds of millions of dollars through the platform - we work with quite a few of them.
I'll dive into the implementation a little more shortly, but just wondering how easy it is to add additional constraints (for example, that pieces need particular orientations)?
Edit: Oh, I see there's a "Part Rotations" parameter. Excellent!
As someone who has built a comfortably profitable business focused purely on Shopify-related products and services, I agree that it's a great market to be in.
I understand and can relate to some of the hardships the sibling throwaway comment is referring to, but I feel you're going to face challenges whatever you do when building a business, and this is simply one that I'm comfortable with choosing.
More recent entrants in the market do a much better job on this front.