Introducing Shopify Mobile

http://www.shopify.com/mobile

by ninthfrank07 • 13 years ago

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atmosx• 13 years ago

Yeah awesome, but if they don't introduce Shopify multilingual - with no additional cost or a very small additional cost - can be used only by English websites effectively.

pedrocr3• 13 years ago

What do you mean? Looking at their feature page they have multiple language support. Or do you mean different languages for the mobile/POS apps?

byroot• 13 years ago

He mean a single shop supporting multiple languages. We unfortunately do not support that (yet).

carsonm• 13 years ago

Looks like the primary new thing here is the ability to create orders on the phone, including the option to accept a credit card swipe. (Which is awesome.) Most everything else was part of previous versions of the mobile app.

crunchex• 13 years ago

Very cool, indeed. Great for sellers that would like to take orders on a tradeshow floor, etc. without having the product stock on hand.

pvnick• 13 years ago

I just bought a Shopify subscription for my stepfather for Christmas. He's been wanting to start an online store to sell the fly-fishing flies he makes and asked me how he could go about building that website. Thankfully the Shopify starter pack does everything he wants and he's happy as can be. He was actually asking about integration with his ipad and I didn't quite know what to tell him (until now). It's really nice to see the new innovations like this coming out of that company. That - along with the stellar reviews at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6894121 - is the reason I went with them over something like Bigcommerce.

Kiro2• 13 years ago

Swipe? Why are these companies (Square included) so backwards in this area? Take a look at iZettle to see how it should be done.

oneplusone• 13 years ago

Shopify is not American.

rescripting• 13 years ago

Nitpick here, but Shopify is a Canadian company.

I do agree they should support chip payments as most payment processors in Canada use them.

brianalkerton2• 13 years ago

It's something we intend to do, but no firm ETA as of yet.

ollymorgs• 13 years ago

Because the EMV regulations surrounding taking chip-and-pin payments are a real headache. Taking swipe payments is much more straight forward.

tomphoolery• 13 years ago

You actually don't need to swipe with Square. It can scan your card too IIRC.

mandeepj2• 13 years ago

iZettle? Really? Square is much better than that as it is more versatile. You can accept card payment with square at road side, with in cab by just plugging in the reader into your mobile device. And, iZettle expects you to be fully settled inside your shop :-)

Kiro2• 13 years ago

No, iZettle is completely mobile and my point was that Square is swipe based while iZettle is chip based.

Here's a picture of the device I've tried: http://blog.bookingbug.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/izettl...

tomasien• 13 years ago

Shopify is an awesome company and it's great to see them connecting online and offline commerce. However, I hope they'll explore alternatives to the "race to the bottom" of relying on putting fees on top of already outrageous Credit Card fees, find a way to help customers make payments on ACH, and take smaller and more reasonable fees on top of that.

spankalee• 13 years ago

This post made me realize that Shopify had a POS system as well, which is great for online+IRL stores, but it's also iOS only. That's completely frustrating, because not only do I not want to buy an iPad for a single application, but the store I need a POS for already has a perfectly good PC at the counter, and if we upgrade we'd strongly prefer a ChromeBook.

I'm still surprised and saddened that even companies who completely rely on the web, like Shopify, reach for native mobile apps (and often leaving out Android) so quickly. I suppose there's still a ton of work to do to make HTML a better option.

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