Shopify Integration
Utilizing Shopify's developer features, I connect your Product and Category data with the eCommerce website, and Shopify provides all their own checkout and payment features, so the entire process is seamless and secure.
Whenever you update one of your products or categories, the website host detects the changes and turns on the data funnel between the webiste and your Shopify account. Once the updates are received, the website restarts the site is published!
As such, these websites are perfect for businesses with small to medium catalogs, where updates and edits usually occur no more than once-a-day.
Why not use a Shopify Website?
Search Engines are king when it comes to visibility, and as a small business you need every edge to get eyes on your shop. One way Google determines which results show up on top is by their PageSpeed Insights score. This tool was developed by Google to score up to 100 points on 4 website attributes: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.
- Here's how the top 3 Shopify Business Websites Score on Mobile vs My Fully-Connected Demo Site:
- Allbirds: Perfomance: 30 — Accessibility: 96 — Best Practices: 52 — SEO: 93
- Stitch Fix: Perfomance: 45 — Accessibility: 94 — Best Practices: 78 — SEO: 85
- Asphalte: Perfomance: 38 — Accessibility: 95 — Best Practices: 56 — SEO: 89
- Q Street: Perfomance: 100 — Accessibility: 100 — Best Practices: 100 — SEO: 100
Between the three, they barely average a score of 70/100. If they were a regular small business without a massive marketing budget, they would absolutely sink in search result rankings!
Now you might be thinking, well yours is only a Demo Site. This is technically true; however, it's actually 100% Shopify-Integrated. The entire product catalog and categories are real data-points that Shopify provides to developers to test "real world" environments.
The payment system is also fully connected to test the security and payment flow. You can enter in "1" as the credit card number, "111" as the security code, and any future date for the expiration to try it out for yourself, and recieve a fake invoice/receipt!