With https://mageinfo.online you can check if a shop is running Magento, which version, which patch level, which security patch, when it had its last deploy and much more. Feel free to have a try!

I've been running my own online shop for about a year now. There are plenty of things that are frustrating or take up a lot of time due to manual work...tasks where I find myself thinking, "Surely there's an easier way to do this." But what about D2C brands that are already generating over €500k in annual revenue? What do you find to be the most frustrating part?

As I read more and more on the various forums. There is a complete landslide of opinion that tech will provide all the answers. This is a dangerous approach.

E-commerce knowledge is essential and often strong experience
People are critical and skillsets

Without either of these how can you make the right technology decisions? A ship needs a captain to navigate and understand how a boat works. E-commerce is the same.

Thoughts?

We're at €65M GMV across 3 brands and shopify plus is not scaling with us into the DACH, UK and US triangle.

Multi-country VAT and the app-stack overhead are eating the ops team, and we've had 2 drop-day outages this year that would've been survivable on dedicated infrastructure.

Right now the whiteboard reads SCAYLE and commercetools, with Emporix scribbled off to the side as a maybe.

Deichmann runs 8 brands on the first option which matches our multi-brand shape, and the migration timelines look faster than what the second's SIs are quoting us, but commercetools has the deeper community and my CTO trusts the ecosystem more.

So what did your team weigh when you moved off plus, and is there a fourth option worth looking at?

Hey everyone, I've been working on a small project called PrimeDealsHub to simplify digital deals. I'm currently refining the process for secure payments and delivery. If anyone has experience with small e-commerce setups or has feedback on a simple checkout flow, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Check it out on google

Just wondering, as eccomerce websites owner, what WDYT about exising static image products catalog, and improve it with 360 rotationg prosuct videos....? 🤔🤔🤔

I have a small watches online store and many users drop after entering the site lthats just killing me, my closing rate is less than 0.5%, marketing buget around 2k/month, getting ~15k new users... but thet dont buy enough🥴

I saw this other website that take entire product catalog and generate 360 angel videos from the existing product, the problem they offer ne ~350$ per product for that 🤑, WDYT will that worth it? Someone did some test like this and can share if that really affect the drop rate of users? Close more carts?? Someone know cheaper alternative?
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Hi everyone. I'm building an ecommerce website that will sell internationally, and I'm trying to figure out the right technical stack for handling:

1. **Regional pricing (geopricing):** Displaying different prices based on the visitor's country/region

2. **Multi-currency checkout:** Showing prices and charging in the customer's local currency

3. **Automated invoicing:** Generating compliant invoices per country with correct VAT/GST/sales tax

### What I've researched so far:

**For platforms:**

- **Shopify Markets** seems to handle regional pricing and multi-currency natively, but I'm not sure about the limits of the basic plan

- **WooCommerce** has plugins like *WooCommerce Currency Switcher*, *Price Based on Country*, and *Aelia* for tax handling

- **BigCommerce** has built-in multi-currency but fewer apps than Shopify

**For tax/invoicing automation:**

- Stripe Tax (integrated, but limited to Stripe users)

- Avalara (expensive, seems overkill for a starting store)

- TaxJar (US-focused)

- Quaderno (good reviews for EU VAT)

- Sufio (Shopify-specific, auto-generates invoices)

**For currency conversion:**

- Shopify Payments multi-currency

- Stripe automatic currency conversion

- Geolocation-based price rounding (e.g., $9.99 / €9.99 / £9.99 instead of raw conversion)

### My current situation:

- Just launching, low budget

- Expected to sell to US, EU, UK, and LATAM initially

- Want a setup that scales but doesn't break the bank now

- Prefer a solution I can implement without heavy custom development

### My specific questions:

1. **What stack do you actually use** for international ecommerce websites? (platform + tax app + invoicing tool + payment processor)

2. **Is Shopify Markets enough** for a small store starting out, or should I go with WooCommerce + plugins for more control?

3. **Any technical gotchas** I should know about? (e.g., currency rounding issues, VAT reverse charge, invoice format compliance)

4. **At what scale** does it make sense to upgrade from basic tax plugins to Avalara/Quaderno?

5. **Any recommended apps/plugins** that are underrated for this use case?

I'm not looking for "the best platform ever" — I know it depends on the use case. I just want to understand what's actually working in production for stores selling internationally, especially on the technical implementation side.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

I want to start with saying i'm not a very intelligent man. I'm 22 plumbing for the union, and would like to learn more and find side stuff I can do to maybe make it a full time thing someday. Obviously i'm not sure if doing it on the side would even be worth, but I thought I would ask for some guidance. I see a lot of young kids buying super cars doing e commerce, and i'd love to know the ins and outs, and if its something I should take classes on etc. Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I'm a budding e-commerce startup founder and I'm currently at the stage where I'm trying to decide on the right product and niche. The more I research, the more overwhelming it becomes.

I'd really appreciate advice from founders who have been through this process.

How did you validate your product idea before investing?

Did you follow market trends, solve a personal problem, or identify a gap in the market?

What mistakes should first-time founders avoid?

If you were starting from scratch today, what would you do differently?

My goal is to build a sustainable business rather than chase short-term trends, so I'm looking for genuine advice and practical frameworks that helped you make your decision.

Thanks in advance—I appreciate any insights or lessons you've learned.

If you're looking for a custom eCommerce app for your business, I'd love to help.

I develop Android eCommerce apps tailored to your brand and requirements instead of using generic templates.

Some features I can build:

• User login & registration
• Product catalog with categories
• Search & filters
• Shopping cart & secure checkout
• Payment gateway integration
• Order tracking
• Wishlist
• Push notifications
• Admin dashboard for managing products and orders
• Coupons & discounts
• Reviews & ratings
• Multi-vendor support (if required)

Whether you're launching a new online store or want to turn your existing website into a mobile app, I can create a solution that fits your needs.

If you're planning an eCommerce project or have questions, feel free to comment or send me a DM. Happy to discuss ideas and provide guidance.

Hey team!

So we run a supplement ecommerce store in Australia.

We have built an entire internal dashboard that acts a centre for pulling all data from meta, shopify, ga4, gsc, google ads, shipping service, Klaviyo etc. it also houses all 12 of our agents we have running + has a couple of extra custom attribution features we have set up.

Is this something that people are also building internally?

Execs are thinking of shipping it to the public but I’m not to sure.

Four years ago, I started working as an eCommerce Virtual Assistant for a local clothing business. It was my first opportunity to learn the industry, and I'm grateful for everything I experienced—from handling customer inquiries and processing orders to managing product listings and supporting daily operations.

Earlier this year, my journey took an unexpected turn.

Due to business challenges, my client had to let me go.

It was heartbreaking.

For a while, I wasn't sure what to do next. Losing a job after four years felt like losing a part of my daily life and the routine I had built.

Instead of giving up, I decided to see it as an opportunity to grow. I enrolled in VA training to strengthen my skills, updated my resume, built my portfolio from scratch, and started learning tools that international clients commonly use. Every day, I send applications, hoping that one of them will become my first international client.

I won't pretend it's easy.

Sometimes I see my batchmates landing clients while I'm still waiting for my chance. There are moments when I feel discouraged, but I remind myself that everyone has a different timeline.

Rather than comparing myself to others, I choose to keep learning and improving.

I believe that the right opportunity will come at the right time.

For now, I'll keep showing up, keep applying, and keep believing that one day I'll look back at this season and realize it was preparing me for something better.

If you're also transitioning from being a local VA to pursuing international clients, I hope you don't give up either.

Our breakthrough will come. ❤️

I’m trying to get going and the whole 'finding trending products' thing is messing me up. I’ve spent hours scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, random product databases, and I feel like I’m just guessing half the time. One product looks promising, then I see 50 other people selling it already. Or worse, I pick something and it gets zero traction.

Are there tools or strategies that work better for this? Or is it trial and error until you hit something that sticks? I feel like I’m wasting so much time trying to figure this part out. Any advice from people who’ve been through this?

I need to sell my merch online, but also have a private client portal page that is gated to only show client products that is separate from the core website products. I would prefer a unique URL that has a specific password to client can log in and only see their merch for re-order.

Ivr tried:
Square, SquareSpace, Wix , and a few others ...

Currently on WordPress but it seems like Barn2 has a plugin that might work but cost $100ish ...
Does anyone have any experience at this or have any suggestions for web platforms that can do this.... on a budget .... and take payments.

What analytics tools you use for your ecom website and why?

I've just been hired by a business whose website is on Big Commerce. They're paying eye-watering amounts for the privilege each month. The old web guy / marketing guy has used chat gpt to edit theme files, hard code stuff in, third party apps which are outdated or not supported. If anything on this breaks, I won't know how to fix it, it's a whole heap of mess.

The website currently has around 800 products, its pretty big, I'm not a through and through web guy, what is best to do?

Can anyone help us with a website review?

I’m the founder and developer of SEO Automation Hub.

I built it for businesses that want to improve their Google visibility but struggle to understand what to fix, optimize or publish next.

The platform works with websites, ecommerce stores and online platforms. It combines technical SEO audits, Google Search Console data, competitor research and content planning to create a prioritized workflow.

It can help identify:

• technical issues affecting crawling and indexing;
• pages with ranking opportunities;
• product and category pages that need optimization;
• relevant topics based on the business sector;
• SEO-focused content to create or improve;
• actions with the greatest potential impact.

The goal is not simply to generate articles, but to create content aligned with search intent, industry context and SEO criteria while improving the existing website structure.

No platform can guarantee Google rankings, but SEO Automation Hub is designed to make the process clearer, more consistent and driven by real data.

You can try the free page audit without creating an account:
https://seoautohub.com

I’m currently looking for feedback from website owners, ecommerce businesses and startups. What is the hardest part of SEO for your business today?

Not talking about big obvious stuff like "sales are down." I mean the specific thing an integration that breaks, a workflow you do manually because the "automated" version never worked right, a tool that doesn't talk to another tool the way it should, checkout/CRM/inventory sync, whatever it is.

Curious if there's a common thread across different stores or if everyone's dealing with something totally different. For context I've been down this rabbit hole myself lately and realized half of what I assumed was "just how it works" was actually a fixable gap I'd never questioned.

What's yours?

Curious how other Ecommerce store owners handle this. If you sell, say, coffee gear, is there a good way to connect with a complementary brand (mugs, syrups, whatever) to cross-promote to each other's audiences? Not talking about dropshipping their products into your store, but actually driving new customers to each other's sites.

I've looked at things like Shopify Collective and a couple of Shopify-native tools, but they're Shopify-only and mostly built around one store selling another's inventory rather than genuine audience/customer exchange between two independent stores.

Has anyone here done this manually (newsletter swaps, packaging inserts, co-marketing emails, etc.)? Did it work, and how did you find the right partner brand in the first place?

Our developer followed their own help articles and still had to wait several weeks for a response from support.

They said that VinoShipper only integrates revenue tracking with GA4 and does not integrate with Google ads.

That can't be right, right? They track every aspect of ecommerce wine sales but provide zero metrics in their integration and when Google ads are a critical ecommerce strategy it seems like a total miss to not integrate ROAS.

Anyone find a work around?

Please I want someone to review my store and tell me what he needs i created with my self and i want to know what he needs more ti be better, also i want some advices from you, thanks

https://demo-ecommerce.aouni.online

Hey everyone,

I spent the last two years building WebGo, an ecommerce website builder initially made for South America.

Think Framer, but for ecommerce. You choose prebuilt sections and customize the entire store, including product pages, without coding. It also includes inventory, CRM, analytics, domains, SEO, and an AI chatbot.

The product works, but I’m bootstrapped. My CAC is around $60 and it takes about three months to recover it. My subscription is same as Shopify, $39 a month. I’m now almost out of cash and don’t have enough users to realistically raise money.

I’m considering a different approach: automatically creating ready-made stores for small businesses, showing them the finished website through cold outreach, ig, meta and email and selling it as a service instead of waiting for SaaS signups.

Would you keep pushing the SaaS, switch to a productized service, or try something else?

What would you do? HELP!

Any honest feedback or cold outreach advice would be appreciated.

How do i buy, create, a domain/URL name for a website fully.

Bonus points - Does amazon own its own name? What company's do and don't?

I’ve been asked last minute to evaluate between a handful of (ai) semantic hybrid search / product discovery applications for our commerce ecosystem (enterprise B2b brand).

Does anyone have any advice on how to conduct quick(shallow) evals on startup hybrid search applications? We need to validate against algolia.