Shopify Collective

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!

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

The layout seems to change regularly, and not for the better. Originally, relevant suppliers were displayed by default with instant downloads front & centre. Now those seem to be almost impossible to find, with the focus moved to individual products, which, for me, is less than useless, especially when none of those products appear to be available on Collective anyway. It seems that Shopify now want retailers to do their marketing for them by seemingly expecting retailers to chase potential suppliers to get involved with Collective. Tail wagging dog springs to mind. It all feels a bit half-baked, as though somebody had a good idea but failed to develop it before launch.

The margins for pricing can't be changed and only benefit the vendor! I recently had a 300 sale and made $50 while the vendor made the rest. On top of that, the retailer pays shipping fees! I get they fulfill the order and it makes less work because you import the product however, you still have to spend a ton of time merchandising it into your shop, promoting it to customers and communicating to clients. Not sure I'll keep using it after being so discouraged my first sale.

Signed up and was so excited to expand my range, but in UK and there is no way to actually find suppliers to connect with. Puzzled

Wondering why we were sent the email BUT when we go to set it up then we find out that the Discovery feature in Shopify Collective is only available to businesses based in the United States.

Since we are outside the US, and in Canada, we won't have access to Discovery to find new suppliers or products automatically.

This app has the potential to be a game changer for streamlining product connections across brands. However, it's become a major liability for our business. When retailers are connected, collective images from all partners are counted against each individual account’s file storage—yet users have no ability to modify or manage these images. Compounding the issue, Shopify provides no tools to track how far over the storage limit an account may be, and even deleting products does not remove the associated images. Without visibility or control, this creates an unsustainable and opaque system for retailers.