[thedangler]

Out of curiosity could anyone build an app like this with Shopify's apis? Or does it rely on internal private Shopify functionality?

I've wanted to integrate with Shopify but seem to get confused by the limitations.

For one, it would be cool if the sellers had the options to let their products be on an open market place where anyone could write an application and sell their products for commission.

[tuckerschreiber]

Anyone could build an app like this with Shopify's apis. We used https://developers.shopify.com/sales-channel-sdk.

[skanwar]

You can also build a shopping app for a single store using: https://help.shopify.com/api/sdks/mobile-buy-sdk

[schappim]

well not quite anyone... you need to be approved to be able to use the sales-channel-sdk.

To date I haven't been approved, which is one of the reasons why after 10+ years of using shopify we're moving off the platform. Biggest reason is limited API calls even on the Shopify Enterprise Plan...

Shopify is a great option if you've got a few skus, e.g. want to sell a few T-Shirts, however try to do anything complicated (like merging customer accounts, editing orders etc, even changing a billing address of an order) and it falls over :(

[brianwawok]

But what is better? Magento takes 1 sever per 10 customers due to how bad the perf is.