lemonstand? Shopify? Magento?
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- freakpelican
Looking at different solutions for a wine importer/distributor. Was pointed towards Magento as the possible ninja for this project. After reading up on the feedback here i have been looking into lemonstand and shopify.
There will be 300+ sku's to begin and potentially thousands. Anyone here have good experiences with lemonstand or shopify with very large inventories?
Shopify seems like a great option but dont know if i want to pay 99-179 a month for the service unless its damn near flawless and stupid easy to use on the client side.
Lemonstand looks great just havent really read to much user feedback.
- randommail0
Definitely not Shopify or Lemonstand if you're looking at a possible thousands of SKUs in the future.
- so would you say magento?
freakpelican - Magento blows. I would use Lemonstand for cost and simplicity and look at Kona Kart for larger volume stores.spot13
- so would you say magento?
- vaxorcist0
thousands of SKU's... are there any size/color variations, like clothes/shoes?
you sell shirts.... each style of shirt comes in 5 sizes and 6 colors, does that mean there are 30 SKU's or one? Is inventory tracked by SKU or by SKU/Size, and if so, how do you account for it?
Does the client have a pre-existing inventory system?
I haven't done E-commerce like this for years, but the last time we did, we ran into some HUGE situations where 5% of the products caused 90% of the complexity, and managing client expectations is a HUGE issue....
- rocketrichard0
I've built a client site on LemonStand that had1200 SKUs with many of those products having several variations each (size, color, etc.). It handles it just fine. They hosted it on Site5. LemonStand has a page somewhere that links to plans specifically tailored to their software.
The more SKUs you try to load per page, back-end or front-end, the more RAM you might need. But you can implement caching on the front-end that will speed things up drastically. Their docs explain it pretty well, but you can always submit a support ticket if you need help implementing. I love that about LemonStand.... you can actually get support from the developers!
- you work for Lemonstand?Milan
- caching vs inventory management? maybe good for a low-hit- volume site?vaxorcist
- LS has inventory features. Why do you assume it doesn't?rocketrichard
- detritus0
Are you new to forums, rocketrichard?
- rocketrichard0
Not new, but not very active. Are you new?
- vaxorcist0
wine importer/distributer? could be a fairly simple inventory system.. unless you have to use code to decide when to break up box shipments. ie. 12 bottles for $x, 1 bottle for $y....
- from what i have seen so far in the CSV im expected to import its far from simple.freakpelican
- inteliboy0
+1 for Lemonstand