E‑commerce

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.