Shopify Collective

There issues that are not made clear in the setting up of a Collective account. One glaring issue is that you as the seller are responsible for chargeback from the supplier

Why is the burden of onboarding and convincing other merchants to use Collective falling entirely on us? Shopify should be actively promoting this feature and driving merchant adoption. When I reach out to potential partners, I'm frequently met with skepticism. One merchant explicitly asked how they could verify I was a real business and not a scammer. Others have told me they immediately delete Collective invitations from unfamiliar stores out of distrust.

Shopify, you’ve built a tool with massive potential to benefit your merchants, but the lack of platform-level backing and verification makes it incredibly hard to use. You need to step up the education, marketing, and security trust-marks so we don't have to do all the heavy lifting.

This app is bulky. Hard to use. I can't find products from businesses that I would like to sell. There are too many "pages" to go through to find what I am looking for. I just want to be able to find the products I want on my website and be able to negotiate margins with brands, especially if we are already working with them for a specific margin, I would like to let a brand know that.

UPDATED 1-15-2026. I just sold a product via this app, and after shipping, I LOST 25 cents. You need to give us the ability to change vendor pricing to cover calculated shipping fees. This is a business, not a charity.

You should have the ability to adjust the price, but it’s crucial to pay attention to supplier margins. When margins are already low, shipping costs can easily wipe out your profit — sometimes leaving only a few dollars, or even putting you in the negative. More and more suppliers are dropping margins to around 20% (I even saw one as low as 8% tonight), which is really disheartening. It makes it hard to stay motivated with retailers, because this could have been such an amazing opportunity.

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

- must be able to sort product status
- must be able to resend invitations (resets every month)
- must be able to bulk edit into collections
- must be able to communicate with vendors via Shopify
***GET YOUR DEV TEAM WORKING ON THESE***

Really bothers me that I cannot delete some variants that do not fit my store - eg if an item comes in 20 colors I need to stock all 20 even though only 3 are right for me.

The app looks promising, and I am very interested in using it. However, I seem to be ineligible based on Shopify’s criterion. I have spent hours trying to resolve the issue, but it was to no avail. Hopefully, it gets resolved in a timely manner.

Einfaches Einrichten und Importieren.
Leider funktioniert das Ganze nicht, da ich keine Bestände übertragen bekomme. Angeblich sei ShopifyPayments nicht fertig eingerichtet, ist aber alles eingerichtet.

Shopify Collective is a great opportunity for store owners because it lets suppliers’ products be imported directly into Shopify stores, making it much easier to get started with a curated catalog. One improvement that would make Collective even stronger is allowing product reviews to be imported as well. When customers can see real ratings and feedback on the products they’re browsing, it builds trust faster, helps the products appear more credible, and gives store owners a better chance of converting visitors into buyers. For new stores especially, that added social proof could make a real difference in landing those first sales.