Our Story with Shopify

  • Challenges:
    • My biggest challenge when creating this store was making the site look good
    • Creating and adding products 
  • What worked well:
    • Adding staff was very easy
    • Creating pages
    • Changing look and feel 
    • App is a nice touch! Love the notifications when a sale was made, and the power I get on my phone, to manage my store. 
  • What could be improved:
    • The Payments settings were not easy to find. Felt disconnected from the rest of the experience.
    • In the theme, I wish I could modify the way the images are stacked for a better look and feel
  • Empathy for Merchants:
    • Going through this process made me realize first hand how much work goes into creating a store, especially when it comes to populating inventory, with the right metadata, variants, SKU's etc. It's a lot of work!
    • There's so much content and design work that goes into making a store feel slick, and to make it a cohesive experience
  • Takeaways:
    • Shopify is a powerful tool that really makes things so much easier - the Dawn theme naturally looks great without me having to do much
    • There's a lot of grunt work involved in setting up a store
    • To really make a store look and feel like the way you want it to, a lot of attention to detail is required (for example designing your own custom logo)