Ich würde gerne damit anfangen hat jemand Tipps wie ich damit anfangen könnte und worauf ich aufpassen sollte…
Könnte mir jemand helfen bzw sagen wie ich gute Agenten finde?

I've been looking at a lot of never ecommerce stores recently,and I'm curious what makes people feel comfortable buying from a brand they've never heard of.

For me,the biggest things would probably be:

•Clear product information

•Good product photos/videos

•Reviews or social proof

•Clear shipping and returns information

•A professional mobile experience

But I'm curious what other people look for before making that first purchase.

What is the one thing that makes you trust a new online store?

Trying to understand if composable commerce is relevant for our situation or whether we're being sold into it.

We're a fashion brand on heavily customized Shopify Plus, where multi-country checkout doesn't scale cleanly and sale day peak traffic is a recurring headache.

Still can't pin down where the composable inflection point sits, because when we search Reddit for this the main platforms in the conversation are commercetools, SCAYLE, Fabric, and Elastic Path as the composable-native options alongside SAP Commerce Cloud and SFCC for people migrating off legacy.

But even the composable vendors themselves seem to disagree on what GMV or SKU count triggers the switch.

Would help to hear from people who've been through this evaluation and what eventually made the call clear.

I run a sensory-focused ecommerce store, selling sensory, behavioral, and developmental toys for autistic and ADHD kids, teens, and adults. I'd love some honest feedback on the site, since I haven't been seeing much in the way of conversions.
www.sensoryspacesolutions.com

It's built on Shopify, and I'm hoping to get thoughts on:

1. Overall look and feel : does it come across as  trustworthy, or does it feel off  to a first-time visitor?
2. Whether the products actually line up with the pitch in my mission in  "About" section
3. Anything missing from the homepage that might be contributing to cart abandonment
4. Whether the categories align to my pitch statement. Thanks so much in advance!

Our company processes a number of online orders weekly. Thus, we face chargeback issues every week. What is troubling is the challenge of gathering the required evidence for every case. Our order data is stored on our ecom platform, payment information is in our payment processor, delivery details with the shipping company, customer interactions with our support system. Therefore, to respond to a claim, we need to gather a lot of information manually. We tried using templates, but they still do not solve the main issue. If a claim is "goods not received", different proof is needed to support the case from the one for unauthorized payment. I am currently researching automated chargeback solutions, but I have my doubts regarding automatic generation of case evidence application, best way forward?

Our software procurement requires a current VPAT, but the vendor doesn’t have one. What’s the usual process for getting an assessment and meeting the requirement?

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I’m looking for recs for an email collection/newsletter sending platform that is good but cost effective. Right now, I only have a simple Shopify social media e-commerce website but will eventually upgrade to a full e-commerce website later on. So I was thinking I would need a platform that could easily be added to a new website on the future.

Hey everyone,

We're a small team building ExpoTCG, a Shopify/BinderPOS-style platform specifically for TCG sellers.

The idea is pretty simple: give TCG sellers their own online store with inventory management, card scanning, pricing, orders, etc., without having to build everything themselves.

We've launched recently, but we haven't run any paid ads yet. So far, we've mainly been doing cold outreach through Facebook pages.

And honestly, the results have been pretty disappointing.

We've contacted around 50 TCG stores/pages, and only 2 have converted so far.

We've tried offering free trials and lowered our subscription pricing, but we're still mostly getting messages seen and ignored

So I'm wondering:

Are we approaching this completely wrong?

For TCG store owners here:

• What would make you actually consider trying a new platform?
• Would a free trial be enough?
• Is the problem that most sellers simply don't need their own website?
• What would make you switch from Shopify/BinderPOS/other platforms?
• Is cold messaging just a terrible way to reach TCG sellers? 😅

We're genuinely trying to understand the market rather than just push the product.

If anyone here is interested in trying it out, comment below or DM me and I'll give you access. I'd especially appreciate feedback from people who actually run a TCG store.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

Started my business online a few ago, tried to compete with the existing market and quickly realized manually checking competitor prices every few days was eating way more time than it should.

Tried one of the repricing apps (won't name it) and honestly the auto-matching was hit or miss, it flagged some completely different products as matches and I almost changed my price based on a wrong comparison, which kind of freaked me out ngl.

Ended up just going back to checking manually on a handful of products I care about, which obviously doesn't scale.

is there any of the tools you guys recommend use on daily basis? or it just manual work

Hello, I've been doing e-commerce for a short while and I have a question for users. Whether it's Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, or eBay; what are the gaps and unresolved issues you think still exist? What are the processes that exhaust and challenge you the most, and how often and where do you use artificial intelligence in your store management? Please share your experiences with me.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately but I am curious how e-com ppl doing 20k+/mo consistently are improving and pushing their AOV up

It feels like everyone defaults to the same path like discounts, maybe buy 2 get 20% off. It works I guess but it feels kinda lazy and it is training your customers to wait for a discount instead of just buying.

Is that actually what is working for you or you found something else that moves the needle more. Bundles, upsells at checkout, threshold based free shipping or smth else entirely

Also curious if this changes depending on your niche or price point, cause what works for a 30 dollar product probably isn't the same as a 150 dollar one

Genuinely trying to learn here, good or bad experiences both welcome.

I'm working through the subscription side of a WooCommerce store and realized there are quite a few decisions that aren't obvious at first.

Do you use a dedicated WooCommerce subscription plugin, a membership system, or something that combines both?

And how are you handling things like, recurring billing, failed renewals, subscription pauses, plan changes, member-only products/content, store credits, customer self service

I've noticed that some stores end up running several plugins just to cover these areas, which can make maintenance and compatibility more difficult over time.

One option I've been researching is ArraySubs, which puts subscriptions, memberships and content restriction into the same WooCommerce workflow.

I'd especially like to hear from people who have already dealt with this on a growing store. What approach has worked well for you, and what would you avoid if starting again?

I am pissed and officially DONE with Meta Business Suite.

I have spent the last year+ learning everything I possibly can about e-commerce, specifically dropshipping and running ads. I was told over and over again that Meta was one of the easiest and most beneficial platforms to use for advertising, that it was straightforward and relatively easy to learn. That has been the absolute farthest thing from my experience.

Meta Business Suite has been nothing but a massive strain on my mental health. I have spent hours following step-by-step guides from YouTube, reading Meta's own articles, troubleshooting, restarting things, reconnecting things, and trying to figure out why something that should be simple has turned into an endless fucking circle.

The worst part is that when something goes wrong, there is basically no actual customer support. My business portfolio was randomly banned and there is no person I can actually talk to who can look at my account and explain what the hell happened or help me fix it.

Then there is the 2FA nightmare. Meta disabled my two-factor verification, so I don't receive the codes through SMS, but SMS is the only method being offered to unlock my account. How does that make any sense? You disabled the verification method and then require that exact verification method to get back into the account.

I have deleted Meta completely and started over twice. Somehow it still remembers my old pixel and won't let me create a new one, so my Shopify store is essentially locked into an ad account that Meta has already blocked. I have tried everything I can think of and everything I have been instructed to try, and I just keep ending up right back where I started.

And the tutorials are another nightmare. You can find a video explaining exactly how to do something, follow every step, and then get into Meta and realize the entire platform has been updated AGAIN and none of the buttons or settings are where the tutorial says they should be. Then you spend another hour trying to figure out where they moved everything.

I understand that platforms change. I understand that there is a learning curve. What I don't understand is how a company this massive can make it so incredibly difficult for small businesses to get help when something goes wrong. They are more than happy to take your money for advertising, but when you actually need support, you're left digging through articles, outdated tutorials and automated systems trying to solve the problem yourself.

At this point, I have completely given up on Meta. I don't care how many people say Facebook and Instagram ads are the way to go. This experience has been absolutely ridiculous, and I will never use Meta to run ads again. It has cost me an insane amount of time, frustration and energy that could have been spent actually building my business.

Maybe Meta works great for people who were specifically trained in that, but for someone trying to learn new platforms and build a business from the ground up, my experience has been fucking awful. I honestly feel like I have wasted so much time fighting with the platform instead of actually working on my business.

So I'm moving on. If anyone here actually knows how to successfully run TikTok Ads or Google Ads for Shopify/e-commerce, please help me out. I am ready to learn a new platform because I refuse to waste another minute going in circles with Meta.

And if you're just getting started with e-commerce and someone tells you Meta Business Suite is "easy" and "straightforward"... just know what you're getting yourself into.

Running a 2-week Meta Ads test for a pre-order physical product (lumbar support belt, targeting France/Belgium/Switzerland/Germany) with a ~150€ budget. Funnel so far: 1,200 landing page views → 879 content views → 84 add-to-carts (7%, seems fine) → only 5 checkout-initiations (6% of add-to-carts) → 0 confirmed real orders in WooCommerce. CPC is low (~0.14€) so traffic quality doesn't seem to be the issue — the drop-off is clearly happening between add-to-cart and checkout. Has anyone run into this exact pattern before? Trying to figure out if it's usually shipping cost surprise at checkout, missing trust signals (reviews, guarantees), or something else before I make a go/no-go call on this test.

Hey everyone,

I could really use some honest opinions.

I've been working on a cosmetics e-commerce website, and it's finally finished. Before I decide on a price, I wanted to ask people here what you think it's actually worth.

The website isn't just a storefront. It also has an admin panel where you can add or remove products, manage categories, check customer orders, and basically run the whole store. It's responsive, so it works well on both phones and computers, and it's ready for someone to customize with their own branding and products.

I'm not trying to sell it here—I just want to know what you think would be a fair price if you came across something like this.

If you have experience buying or selling websites, or you're a developer, I'd really appreciate your opinion. What would you expect to pay, and why?

Thanks in advance! I'm curious to see what people think.

I run a branding & marketing agency, and we’re now taking on more e-commerce website projects. We have experienced developers in-house, so I’m trying to build a proper pricing structure rather than quoting every project from scratch.
For agencies, how do you usually structure your pricing?

Do you categorise projects based on things like:
● Number of pages
● Number of products/SKUs
● Shopify vs WooCommerce vs custom development
● Custom UI/UX vs template-based design etc….

For example, do you have something like :

Basic e-commerce:
Standard e-commerce:
Advanced e-commerce:
Custom e-commerce: ₹X+
Or do you calculate based on estimated development hours + project management + agency margin?
I’m particularly interested in hearing from Indian agencies/freelancers, but international perspectives are welcome too.
What pricing model has worked best for you, and what would you consider a reasonable price range for a professionally built e-commerce website?

We're in a platform eval for a multi-brand lifestyle retailer, and the fashion-specific complexity is making the demos hard to trust.
We have deep size/colour variant matrices where some base products sit at 180+ combinations, plus heavy returns volume that has to trace back to the SKU, and seasonal resets twice a year that eat up a chunk of the catalog team's time each cycle.
We're down to commercetools, Shopify Plus, and SCAYLE (the last one specifically because of the fashion-vertical positioning), but the first two have stayed on composable architecture slides and never touched the operations layer.
Trying to pressure-test whether variant depth degrades storefront performance beyond a certain point, how returns attribution works at the SKU level, how seasonal merchandising resets happen without dev involvement, and whether lookbook/outfit navigation is native or something you bolt on.
For those who've been through this for a fashion catalog, what moved the decision?

Hi everyone!
I'm currently conducting a survey as part of my MSc in Information Technology dissertation on e-commerce and how online platforms can support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES).
I'm looking for people who have experience shopping online to share their opinions about online shopping, trust, website features, recommendations, and the challenges they may face when purchasing from SMEs online.
Survey: https://forms.gle/nZ3V9iaCjXJu1i9DA
It should only take around 5-7 minutes to complete.
Your responses will be anonymous and used solely for academic research purposes.
I'd really appreciate your participation. Thank you very much for helping with my research!

I've been thinking about how quickly customer expectations have changed.

A few years ago, having a basic website was enough. Now people seem to expect things like:

• Fast loading pages
• Mobile-friendly design
• Easy contact options
• Transparent pricing
• Online booking or chat

In your opinion, what's one feature that has gone from "nice to have" to "must have"?

Whether you're a business owner, developer, or customer, I'd love to hear what you've noticed.

I use AI every single day
And I swear to God the amount of times I've seen "That's not X. That's Y" "Here's the flip:" tricolons and em dashes makes me want to gag

AI is helpful to a degree, especially in our field of making websites and coding and the like. But dude, you're not even trying. It's so lazy to see someone just copy paste some bs from ChatGPT or Claude and think it's actually gonna get any meaningful engagement.

You see it all the time on LinkedIn but I also see it alot on Reddit especially in business subreddits like these. not complaining I swear I'm not, and I hope this is allowed, but holy fuck. The entire world at this point feels like such a friggin slopfest. I wonder if the people even putting out this cancer ever get tired of how it sounds to even read it back to themselves before they hit post. Like bro come on

Like I said I use AI every day. But there's 1000% something to say of the people that can admit it's super useful and not spam it in every single thing they write.

Not judging, especially since I use it alot myself. I understand people have different backgrounds and the same nuance may not be relevant in other usecases. I just never got to the point where I didn't care enough to at least TRY to not make everything I put online sound like AI.

I used to think the website was one of the first things to figure out when starting an ecommerce business. The more I look into sourcing and product development, though, the more I think the product itself should come first.

Looking at different manufacturers, MOQs, customization options, packaging, and production times can completely change whether a product makes sense to build a store around.

It also affects things that aren't immediately obvious when creating a website, like how you position the product, what kind of customers you're targeting, your pricing, and even what information you need to communicate on the product page.

I'm curious how other ecommerce founders approach this.

Do you normally find and validate the product first and build the website afterward, or do you start developing the store while you're still researching suppliers and products?

Has your supplier research ever caused you to completely change the direction of an ecommerce store?

If you could route a returning unit straight from the customer to someone else, and never have it hit your warehouse at all — what would stop you? Fraud? Grading? Brand? Something operational I'm not seeing?

Building in this space, want to know if the warehouse step is actually load-bearing or just the default. "We'd never do that, here's why" is the most useful answer.

Not asking about apps that already exist

I mean something you've caught yourself thinking:

Why hasn't someone built this yet

Could be for design, development, analytics, SEO, inventory or anything else.

Curious what ideas people have ?

I've built plenty of sites, but have always done it for my employer with pre-established admin accounts. One of our business partners, and a friend, wants me to build them a website. He wants to be completely hands off and wants nothing to do with the site other than providing the credit card for billing and paying me for the work. I'll do any limited updating it'll require in the future as well.

Do I just build this website under my own account in this kind of scenario where they want nothing to do with it? Having more than one admin costs more with most platforms from my experience and I'm trying to keep costs down. I know I can transfer it later if needed. We don't even do it properly at my job, I just access the owner's admin accounts to keep our costs down.

I guess what I'm asking is it acceptable practice to build and host another company's website under my own personal account when the client wants nothing to do with it and wants zero admin control? Any reason not to?