The advantages and disadvantages of Shopify

Shopify is a system for building ecommerce stores.

In the past this system wasn't very well known to Israelis, but as commerce opened up to the global market, many Israelis got to know it and started building all kinds of stores on the Shopify platform.

In this article we'll talk about the advantages and disadvantages of Shopify:

Advantages:

• Shopify is a very easy system for running ecommerce, compared with other platforms such as Wix, WordPress and so on, which are better suited to building regular websites rather than ecommerce sites. To set those up as ecommerce platforms, you need to learn the system well and use various plugins, whereas Shopify is easy to use throughout, with good service for every user.
• Designing a site on Shopify is very convenient and user-friendly. Whether or not you have experience in the field, you can take ready-made themes that have already been built for you, just add your products, and you have a ready site.
• -          "The Shopify store": one of Shopify's advantages is that there are lots of plugins and apps that help with designing and building the site - for example, an app that translates the site from English to Hebrew (Sense Rtl), automatic SMS sending, emails and so on.
• Dropshipping - one of Shopify's biggest and most notable advantages is its strong support for dropshipping. There are lots of sourcing apps that let you fully automate your site, so you don't have to place every order manually, which saves a lot of time.

Disadvantages:

• Shopify supports Hebrew content, but many themes still don't fully handle Hebrew out of the box, so parts of the site come in English. It's not only a matter of translation: as you know, English is written left to right, while Hebrew is written right to left.
  Until now, fixing this took a lot of hard work, whether that meant hiring developers to translate the site or paying for various themes. But don't worry, from today that's no longer the case.

From today you can switch your site to Hebrew completely and comprehensively with the click of a button. Meet the Sense RTL app, which will solve all of these problems for you. Watch the demo video:

• Payment solutions - Shopify Payments is not available to stores based in Israel, so to accept card payments you need to work with a third-party payment provider that integrates with Shopify, for example: Icount, Payplus, Hype

Maybe this will change in the future, but for now you need to work with them. Want to see how to connect payment processing to your site? Watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_i11w-0Dds To sum up, Shopify has plenty of advantages and disadvantages, but it lets you focus on what matters most, which is sales, without building a site from scratch, and most importantly, the costs are low relative to the return.