Shopify Collective

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.

It's great, but it needs some work on product categories and on making communication links between the collective and the collective supplier easier.

This app is great overall and has helped us increase sales with new products that we otherwise would never have been able to sell.

But there is a massive bug in this app that FORCES products to enable "sell when out of stock". Even though suppliers are sending 0 in stock for items, this app allows customers to still purchase!! It's incredibly frustrating to not give us the option to turn this off for Collective products!