Issues I have with shopify

problems-with-shopify.md

• Shopify fees + cut + paypal cut + plugin fees can add up
• Preset image sizes without good cropping options
• No advanced functionality easily possible, eg facebook login, update news feeds, etc
• No advanced data for anything (eg extra product info), best alternative is to host data on a separate server
• Extremely basic blog functionality
• Limiting results only works some of the time, eg can't do for product in collection limit = 5
• Website settings in admin is only HTML, meaning nothing advanced can be done here
• No good way to add extra listings, like events, stockists, job listings etc
• No nice way to do post type linking, eg linking products to articles or products to stockists
• No nice way to do advanced ajax (eg filtered infinite scroll on blog posts)
• No featured images on blog posts
• No gallery images on blog posts
• No advanced filtering (eg get products with tag = xxx + limit by 5, get products with size 'M' and category X)
• No advanced ordering or sort for blog posts
• No advanced templating for different blog types
• No ability to export blog posts
• No ability to migrate entire shop (eg move a development shops changes to live)
• No ability to disable variants (eg adding product colours/sizes/etc) in admin
• Flat file structure for assets, causes file naming issues and various plugins won't work
• Flat hierarchy for collections (product categories)
• Navigation only goes 1 level deep (can be worked around)
• Multiple blogs getting removed (apparently)
• Very basic user account, no ability to have advanced customer options
• No special urls eg /store/collection/product or /blog/category/post
• Only account owner can edit users (I think)
• The media manager is quite limited (no gallery uploading, etc)
• No advanced checkout functionality without writing/using a plugin, eg lightbox checkout