Shopify is a subscription-based commerce platform: merchants either have Shopify host their online shop or build their own shop front on its Storefront API.
Shopify's terms of service describe a complete commerce platform on which merchants can unify their commerce activities, among them the online shop, point of sale, product management, stock, payments and shipping. The same terms define a 'store' as an online shop hosted by Shopify or on a third-party website, and the definition also covers any shop front built on the Storefront API API An API (application programming interface) is a defined set of functions and rules that lets one piece of software use the features or data of another system or service. Read in the glossary → .
Merchants choose one of several subscription plans, which differ in monthly fees, transaction fees and shop features. Apps extend what a shop can do. Shopify's developer documentation says they run inside Shopify's own surfaces and work with its APIs and shop data. Through the Admin API, software can read and write products, customers, orders, stock and the rest of the data behind the merchant's Shopify back office.
The Shopify Help Center lists several ways of migrating from another system, ordered from the least to the most technically complex. One is to export the data to CSV files CSV CSV stands for comma-separated values, a text format for tables with one record per line; on our pharma pages it also stands for computer system validation, which has its own entry. Read in the glossary → and import them into the new shop, although some data cannot be moved this way.
For new shops we recommend Shopify, and it is where we move existing Shopware 5 Shopware Shopware is e-commerce software from shopware AG in Schöppingen, Germany; the vendor says its current product, Shopware 6, is a complete redevelopment of Shopware 5. Read in the glossary → shops once the switch pays off. Our own samen.de shop runs on it, at shop.samen.de.
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Shopware
Shopware is e-commerce software from shopware AG in Schöppingen, Germany; the vendor says its current product, Shopware 6, is a complete redevelopment of Shopware 5.
E-commerce
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SKU
An SKU (stock keeping unit) is a code that a merchant chooses freely and uses internally to keep track of stock, unlike the GTIN, formerly EAN, which is issued by the GS1 organisation.
E-commerce
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API
An API (application programming interface) is a defined set of functions and rules that lets one piece of software use the features or data of another system or service.
Cross-cutting
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CSV
CSV stands for comma-separated values, a text format for tables with one record per line; on our pharma pages it also stands for computer system validation, which has its own entry.
Cross-cutting
Sources
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Overview (Intro to Shopify) (opens in a new tab)
Shopify Help Center accessed
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Build apps (opens in a new tab)
Shopify (shopify.dev) accessed
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Shopify API reference (opens in a new tab)
Shopify (shopify.dev) accessed
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Migrate to Shopify (opens in a new tab)
Shopify Help Center accessed