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Shopify is the dominant e-commerce platform, and you’ve doubtless come across a Shopify-powered online store, whether you were aware of it or not. Over 1.7 million websites run on the Shopify platform, and they have a market share of more than 6% in content management systems, second only to WordPress.
Shopify has removed much of the barrier to entry into selling online, allowing even the most technologically illiterate to build basic shops and begin transaction in no time at all. Over the last decade, Shopify has built, integrated, and acquired many other features and services to improve the experience for buyers and sellers.
Shopify is a great choice for many current and prospective sellers, whether they’re a small one-person operation or the popular merchandise store of a hit magazine. While it’s easy to get started, you’ll want to work with a Shopify developer if you’re going to need custom functionality, unique designs, and other more advanced items.
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of Spotify alternatives out there, many of them relatively simple to use, feature-rich, and otherwise great in their own right. Some popular ones include BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Wix, Magento, and Prestashop. If ease and functionality are your only concern, Shopify makes a great choice. However, they can take what amounts to a significant cut to use their service, from their monthly/annual fees to the in-house credit card and shipping rates. But, just with any of the Shopify competitors, if you want to lower those fees, you’ll have to shop around and find better rates from a third party.
The length of a project depends on many factors, including the scope of your project and the technical complexity of it. When you post a freelance Shopify project request on Codementor, you’ll have the option to indicate when you’d expect the project to be completed. We suggest chatting with the interested developers to ensure both sides are on the same page. For more information on how to post a freelance Shopify request on Codementor, check out our article.
We don’t charge anything when you post a freelance hiring request for Shopify developers! You’ll have the chance to determine what the budget for your project is when you post the request. You’ll only need to pay the developer if you’re 100% satisfied with their work. Please know that Codementor charges a small service fee when a developer completes the job.
A great freelance Shopify developer should be able to understand your e-commerce needs and implement them into a production environment. While you want them to be knowledgeable and, perhaps, willing to help you upload and manage inventory and other more administrative tasks, their talents and value are best used for integrating new services (e.g., payment gateways), optimizing the UX and UI of the site, front-end development, a bit of web design, and building new functionality, among other things.
For this role, you might prefer a more well-rounded individual, someone who is at once a solid front-end developer, graphic designer, and general e-commerce jack-of-all-trades. They’ll need to understand how to best integrate third-party APIs, set up and report on key store metrics, troubleshoot both administrative and user-facing issues, and work within your set brand guidelines. Depending on how advanced technically your requirements are, they’ll need to be experienced in many front-end programming languages, frameworks, and libraries, as well as the tools your team uses internally (e.g., Slack, GitHub, Asana).
We do a comprehensive technical and communications screen of all Shopify developers at Codementor. Our network includes book authors, popular open source contributors, top Stack Overflow users and engineers at top tech companies. In addition, to continually ensure the quality of our freelancers, we regularly check in on existing Shopify developers’ user satisfaction rates.
First and foremost, you’ll want to test whether your potential developers have the technical skills needed to be the freelance Shopify dev you’re looking for. Ask them about their knowledge of basics, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. Inquire about how much experience they have with Shopify websites and e-commerce platforms in general. Do they keep up to date with Shopify’s engineering updates and best practices? Do they have a portfolio of work to share with you that includes high-quality examples of past projects in the e-commerce industry?
You’ll also want to ask prospective freelance Shopify developers about their soft skills and test whether they’d make a good fit as a remote contractor. Attention to detail is important, as are their ability to think critically and make decisions. Use your interview and the employment process to assess their communication skills, and be sure to touch upon how well they might work autonomously.
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