Shopify Collective

It's a nice way to add other products to your store that complement your inventory. Increases AOV for our store.

Everything was fine for 2 years, then I got an email saying I am no longer eligible. Support cannot help me; seems they do not know how to even work Shopify Collective. It says I am no longer eligible because I need an active Shopify plan, yet my store has been active for 7 almost 8 years! This program needs improvement as well as the support staff that don't know how to help you so they just forward you around.

Great seamless way to connect with brands/retailers that are an organic fit for your audience without changing anything for either party. We've already seen sales from most of our collective partners.

As a retailer, we'd love to be able to change prices!

Could also use more support from Shopify, as sometimes we have questions that are hard to get answers to.

Otherwise, it's an amazing collaborative platform and we love it!

We have used Collective to share independent brands that we love and it has been seamless and wonderful. Previously we had used a lot of plug-ins and other tech to support this kind of connection with other brands and it was always buggy, expensive and horrible. Collective is awesome!

The way our world is right now we need to help each other with our small businesses. This Collective app is such a great way to be able to do just that! While I'm trying to build my inventory I am able to load other people items that fit well in my store & get a % of each sale. If you are like me & love to help others, try out the Collective app! I love that I'm able to get many different types of inventory that I know will not take weeks for my customers to get & I don't even have to worry about shipping! Win Win, Luna

The Collective has been life changing for our shop. We design and produce our own home decor products, but with the Collective we've been able to expand our offerings and provide context for our collections. Highly recommend.

Shopify Collective is a great tool overall and makes it easier to connect with suppliers. However, there are some limitations that make it a bit frustrating. For cross-border stores, automatic payments aren’t supported, which really limits the ability to sell in the U.S. Some suppliers either don’t accept alternative payment methods or don’t understand how to work around this issue, which slows things down.

Also, when searching for suppliers, the platform mostly shows local options. It would be much more useful if there was a simple way to filter or select suppliers by country or region, especially when you’re looking to expand internationally.

Shipping Charges will kill you. Need more transparency upfront when importing goods.
Don't waste your time on anything with less than a 40% margin, its a waste of time.
Importing products is not as straightfoward as it seems. Tons of issues with getting variant selectors to work on a storefront.

Bottom line, proceed with caution but there are good partners out there

Interesting so far and I look forward to seeing results.

I would like to see a few improvements (if anyone from Shopify is reading...):
- The "excl. tax" is confusing as looking on the supplier website the same price is advertised to the public, including taxes.
- It would be very useful to be able to sort products by Inventory during import (that's particularly important with large inventories).
- Sorting by Retail price or Profit would be great too.
- For suppliers with multiple margins, would be very useful to filter out products with margins below X amount.
- The Recommendations on the Discovery page should exclude my existing Suppliers - also, would be good to be able to filter these by ratings