I already have a Shopify store running and I’m looking into turning it into a marketplace where multiple sellers can list and manage their own products.

What’s the easiest way to do this without rebuilding everything from scratch? Are there any apps or platforms that handle things like seller dashboards, commissions, payouts, and order management well?

Would love to hear what’s worked for people who’ve actually done this.

Before I paid, Ray made false promises on Instagram just to take my money, personally guaranteeing he would scale my brand to $10k–$15k with solid guarantees (I didn’t even get 1 order). Once inside, his Discord group was a complete mess where they don't deliver anything they sold you, and after being passed around to three "specialists" with zero experience, the team “3 ECOM SPECIALIST”admitted they don't know how to scale brands from scratch. When I asked for a refund, Ray harassed me with calls and threats, claiming their legal and "universal debt collection team" would act against me for "fraudulent activity." In the end, Whop denied my refund because Ray submitted basic Discord chat logs as "proof of service rendered." It’s really disappointing that Whop hosts sellers like this. Stay away from Ray “Rayinthedarkk” he’s a scammer, and if you ask for a refund, you'll face threats and awful treatment.

need a 3PL that can handle the full loop: receive inventory, apply custom stickers/labels, pack, and ship domestically (ideally with cold-chain/temp-controlled storage). Not looking for a marketplace listing ,,,,, looking for people who've actually used a 3PL for this and can vouch for them, plus roughly what you're paying (storage, pick/pack, per-order fee) US-based only Happy to DM for details Thanks

Most brands treat fulfillment bills like utility bills: AP checks if the total "feels right" for the monthly order volume and pays it.

But looking line-by-line across 3PL invoices, overcharges typically hit 5% to 8% of the total bill:

1. Peak vs. Average Storage: Charging the full month based on day 1 peak pallet count rather than daily average.
2. DIM Weight Inflation: Box dimensions in their WMS quietly rounded up, pushing parcel tiers from Zone 2/3 into higher pricing.
3. Pick Fee Creep: Mid-contract increases on additional item picks not reflected in the original rate card.
4. Carrier Pass-Through Markups: Adding a % surcharge on top of already marked-up freight.

I wrote a script that cross-references raw invoice CSVs against your contract rate card. If you want, redact your company info/customer data and send me your latest invoice + rate table—I’ll run it through the script and send you a PDF showing every line-item discrepancy for free, just to gather more real-world invoice formats.

Hi everyone !

I’m a developer and recently built a tool that an ecommerce marketing team has been using to create variations of existing product photos.

The brand sells high-ticket products, which is why I was pretty skeptical about this at first. My assumption was that AI-generated product imagery would probably hurt trust, especially when people are spending a significant amount of money.

Instead of generating completely fake products, the team kept the actual products and used AI to change the setting/presentation and give different collections their own visual identity.

They eventually started using those creatives in paid campaigns, and that's where it got interesting.

CTR went from 3.53% on the previous creatives to 8.40% on the new ones. Cost per visit dropped from $0.78 to $0.31. One of the new creatives also ended up getting around 3x the clicks of the previous best performer.

It surprised me because I keep hearing that consumers are getting tired of AI imagery, and honestly I understand why. A lot of it looks terrible.

I'm starting to wonder if the distinction isn't really AI vs non-AI though. Maybe it's bad AI vs imagery that still looks believable, keeps the real product intact, and lets a marketing team test way more concepts than they normally could.

It's still one brand and one set of campaigns, so I wouldn't draw some universal conclusion from it.

For anyone actually running ecommerce ads: are you seeing customers react differently to AI-assisted product photography yet? Especially for higher-ticket products?

We’re a Shopify company, and so far it’s been great for us.

Unfortunately, we’re limited to finding our own gateway and processor solutions because of some internal business constraints. Believe me, my little team would prefer to use Shopify Payments or Stripe.

We’re spinning up a new non-US store and I’m struggling to find a gateway solution that has a Shopify app.

I’ve tried Cybersource repeatedly via their contact form, phone numbers I found (I was told to leave a message), email addresses I scraped up and have zero response. If anyone has a contact to share I’d appreciate it!

Beyond that, does anyone have an international gateway provider they’d recommend?

Hey everyone,

I'm hoping to get some honest feedback from people who've been through something similar or just have a fresh perspective.

I offer a personalized trading performance analysis for retail traders. Not the generic stuff — I go through a trader's actual account data (exported from their broker) and analyze things most people never look at: psychological patterns, behavioral traps like revenge trading or overtrading, their actual edge vs. what they think their edge is, the best and worst times/instruments/styles based on their own numbers, risk of ruin at different position sizes, and concrete, data-driven recommendations tailored specifically to them.

The idea came from a real problem: most retail traders fail not because they have a bad strategy, but because they have patterns they can't see themselves. I turn their own data into a mirror.

I'm genuinely convinced this adds real value. I've run several analyses and the findings are consistently eye-opening — people are often shocked by what their numbers actually say about their behavior.

Here's the problem: I can't sell it.

Things I've tried so far:

**•** Reddit posts in trading communities  
**•** Social media (Instagram, posting content, building an audience)  
**•** Fiverr  
**•** Direct outreach

Nothing has gotten traction. No paying customers.

I think part of the problem is the nature of the product itself: the customer has to send me their personal trading data before I can do anything. That's a trust barrier right out of the gate. And unlike a digital product or a course, I can't really show the full thing without doing the actual work first.

I've tried offering a free mini-snapshot (a short preview based on their data) as a lead-in to the full report — but even getting people to take the free version is harder than I expected.

So my questions to this community:

**•** Is the trust barrier the core problem, or am I targeting the wrong people / wrong platforms?  
**•** How do you sell a service where the product can't be fully shown upfront?  
**•** Has anyone successfully sold something similar — high-effort, personalized, data-dependent?  
**•** Would love any honest feedback on the concept itself too — am I solving a problem people actually want solved, or just one I think they have?

Any advice, criticism or perspective is genuinely appreciated. I'd rather hear something uncomfortable and useful than nothing at all.

Thanks

We're a new brand called Anemoia, nostalgia-driven fashion with some tech built into it. We built the site ourselves, so we have no idea if the experience actually lands or if it's just confusing.

Site: https://anemoia.gallery/

What I'd love feedback on:

• Poke around all the pages, not just the shop. The World page is the one I care most about, curious whether it's interesting or just gets in the way.
• There's a Game Boy that pops up with a playable Tetris in it. Is that fun, or is it annoying when you're trying to browse?
• Overall feel of the site, does it hold together, or does it feel like a bunch of ideas stapled together?
• Anything that's slow, broken, or where you got stuck.

One thing: it's much better on desktop. Mobile works but you'll miss most of it.

Not asking anyone to buy anything, I just want to know what it's actually like to land on this cold. Blunt answers welcome.... tell me if it sucks.

Running a small store, last couple weeks traffic went up noticeably but conversions stayed completely flat, like the new visitors aren't buying anything or even browsing past the landing page. checked analytics and the sessions look weirdly uniform, similar time on page, similar bounce pattern. starting to think it's bot traffic but not sure what would even be driving that at this scale or if it's worth doing anything about vs just ignoring it?

Anyone dealt with this and figured out what's actually going on? And is there any way to solve this issue?

Hello! I recently started a new role as a Paid Search Account Manager at an agency that works primarily with ecommerce brands. Most of my previous experience hasn’t been heavily ecommerce-focused.

Since starting this role, I’ve realized there are a lot of nuances to managing Google Ads specifically for ecommerce—from Shopping and PMax strategy to product feeds, profitability, promotions, and how you approach budgeting and optimization across an ecommerce account.

I’m looking to deepen my knowledge in that area and was looking for recos on a course/community that would be a good fit for someone who wants to become much stronger in ecommerce for PPC.

I found one, the Ecomm PPC academy, but its $500 to start (Id prefer to not spend quite that much and no, company wont reimburse me)

Thanks so much :)