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Shopify Technical Platform Notes

What Shopify Does

• Inventory Management
• Credit Card processing
• Order & Shipping tracking
• Creation of basic content types:
  • Collections
  • Products
  • Product Variants
  • Product Tags
  • Product Type
  • Product Vendor
  • Pages
  • Blogs
  • Blog Articles
  • Blog Article tags
  • Order notes
  • Line notes in cart
• Enables some* client manipulation of content blocks
  • *note: each content block can exist multiple times, but all instances of that block share content.
• Gift Cards
• Customer Lists
• Analytics
• Point of Sale integration
• Social Media integration
• Product discount codes
• Nested navigation structures

What Shopify Does with Pro

• Automagic wholesale channel
• Way cheaper credit card processing fees
• Minimal styling of checkout page

What Shopify Does with Plugins*

*That we've used with success before

• Gift Registries

What Shopify Does Not Do

• Custom URLs
• New data types and structures
• Custom fields and values on content items.
• More than 3 axis for product variants

What is the Shopify Content Model?

Collections

• Title
• Description WYSIWYG
• Products to include
  • Programmatic
  • Manual
• Image
• Product Sorting
  • Programmatic
  • Manual

Blogs

• Title

Page

• Title
• Content WYSIWYG
• Template

Article

• Title
• Content WYSIWYG
• Excerpt WYSIWYG
• Featured Image
• Author
• Blog
• Tags (n)

Product

• Title
• Description WYSIWYG
• Type
• Vendor
• Tags (n)
• Featured Image
• Other Images
• Variant Axis One (ex: size)
• Variant Axis Two (ex: color)
• Variant Axis Three (ex: material)

Product Variant

• Image
• Variant Axis One Value (ex: large)
• Variant Axis Two Value (ex: red)
• Variant Axis Three Value (ex: cotton)

Custom Block

• text: Single-line text fields
• textarea: Multi-line text areas
• image_picker: Image uploads
• radio: Radio buttons
• select: Selection drop-downs
• checkbox: Checkboxes
• range Range: sliders
• color: Color picker
• font_picker: Font picker
• collection: Collections drop-down
• product: Products drop-down
• blog: Blogs drop-down
• page: Pages drop-down
• link_list: nav structure
• url: URL
• video_url: Video URL
• richtext: RichText
• html: Custom HTML
• article: Article picker
• blocks: n count objects that have all the same options as a parent content block.