Shopify Marketplace

Last year, I reviewed Shopify, which allows non-techie users create a professional online shop in minutes. The company, Jaded Pixel, launched Shopify Marketplace to provides a global search of products from any participating Shopify shop.

Image: Shopify Marketplace search

Shopify Marketplace is a Web 2.0 style product search. It returns products from Shopify shops according to your keyword. It support common search engine queries, such as “quotes” and -“exclude terms”. Related tags, product type, and vendors are listed in sidebar. There is a slide bar allowing you to set the price range. I like it!

For Mac users, there is a Shopify Marketplace widget for your dashboard.

Promote in Shopify Marketplace

To get your products included in the Shopify Marketplace, you only need to login your shop administration site, goto Marketing tab and activate the “Access Shopify Marketplace” under Online Promotion. It is a free service.

No more free lunch?

Shopify improved a lot and added many features (read their blog), however, now it charge for monthly fee. The Basic account is $24 USD per month.

Anyway, it is worth to try out Shopify if you want to sell stuff online but know nothing about online shopping technology. Plus, now your shop gets more exposure with the launch of Shopify Marketplace.

Anyone use Shopify? Please share your experience.