E‑commerce

COVID-19 coronavirus is officially a global pandemic. As it’s spreading around the world at a fast pace, it is predicted to take its toll on both people and businesses, including the e-commerce industry.

Shopify is a great eCommerce platform but it has its limitations. To overcome them, you may enter the world of Shopify storefront, which is a way of building the front end layer that would be connected with the eCommerce giant’s back end. Let’s get more in detail!

Naturaily's task was to design and create integrations, ensure that all solutions are 100% scalable, safe, and secure, make sure the e-store works without mishap and is ready to handle the growing number of orders.

Integrating Shopify with third-party technological solutions is a natural way of improving your store’s functioning. Thanks to that, you can have your data imported easily into ERP or automatically distribute information through many channels at once. And while it’s not that frequent, there may be some issues with Shopify that can lower your experience. Let’s face them.

Creating an order using Shopify API with status set to ‘paid’ might be somewhat a tough and tricky task. Surprisingly, this is not a practical or a trivial issue. In fact, an ability to catch a payment outside of Shopify, using a custom payment gateway, can be really convenient.

A couple months ago, after signing a contract to build an unusual e-commerce site, we were forced to make a choice. We’d build the site either from scratch or on top of existing solutions. After a few days of getting our heads around the topic, we decided to take on the latter option. Since we cherish Ruby, we chose the most popular Ruby based e-commerce engine: Spree.