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Submission of the Day: Shopify
March 16, 2007 |
Today we received our second submission in the shop category from shopify.com which launched almost a year ago. First we had some problems to see what is really OpenID about shopify.com, but the we saw these miniature links saying “Use OpenID”. Not a very obvious integration. Also not at the login box right hand at the homepage screen. And we did not see to login using OpenID as a customer, only as a shop admin. Anyway the application itself is absolutely amazing!
Built on the trendy Ruby on Rails Framework this is surely one of the best and most complex examples what RoR is capable of. But only the code behind this app is complex. The handling itself is easy as 1-2-3.
After a short registration form (OpenID replaces email verification) you´re ready to setup your own shop. And I mean a professional online shop with everything you can expect from the word “professional”:
Products an collections get embedded in great layouts. You can choose from a whole bunch of prebuilt themes or can download a free and easy software to create your own theme.
The URI your running under has the form MYSHOP.myshopify.com, but you can also set up your DNS as explained in shopifys FAQ and run it under your own domain.
With shopify you get almost all possible payment gateways built in and you can even use a fulfillment service if you don´t want to ship your products yourself.
And when your business starts rolling you stay on top of your orders by RSS.
The best of all: shopify doesn´t ask for setup fees or even monthly fees. Building your own shop is absolutely free. Only if your business is a success shopify charges a 3% commission on successful product sales.
If you´ve got so sell something just go ahead and give it a try! Find our testshop at http://openid.myshopify.com/ (if it looks strange, give it a reload - this theme is heavily Ajax / JavaScript stuffed)
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