Shopify Collective

The way our world is right now we need to help each other with our small businesses. This Collective app is such a great way to be able to do just that! While I'm trying to build my inventory I am able to load other people items that fit well in my store & get a % of each sale. If you are like me & love to help others, try out the Collective app! I love that I'm able to get many different types of inventory that I know will not take weeks for my customers to get & I don't even have to worry about shipping! Win Win, Luna

The Collective has been life changing for our shop. We design and produce our own home decor products, but with the Collective we've been able to expand our offerings and provide context for our collections. Highly recommend.

We have used Collective to share independent brands that we love and it has been seamless and wonderful. Previously we had used a lot of plug-ins and other tech to support this kind of connection with other brands and it was always buggy, expensive and horrible. Collective is awesome!

Shopify Collective is a great tool overall and makes it easier to connect with suppliers. However, there are some limitations that make it a bit frustrating. For cross-border stores, automatic payments aren’t supported, which really limits the ability to sell in the U.S. Some suppliers either don’t accept alternative payment methods or don’t understand how to work around this issue, which slows things down.

Also, when searching for suppliers, the platform mostly shows local options. It would be much more useful if there was a simple way to filter or select suppliers by country or region, especially when you’re looking to expand internationally.

Everything was fine for 2 years, then I got an email saying I am no longer eligible. Support cannot help me; seems they do not know how to even work Shopify Collective. It says I am no longer eligible because I need an active Shopify plan, yet my store has been active for 7 almost 8 years! This program needs improvement as well as the support staff that don't know how to help you so they just forward you around.

We were among the first users of Collective and it's been such a lifesaver for our business. Gone are the days when we would send orders via email, copy and paste tracking numbers, pay vendors manually, update inventory manually or via scripts, and manually import products. Because of the native integration with Shopify, there is really no other app that has been able to match all of Collective's features.

We've been using Collective since 2023 and it was great then and even better now! Amazing how much feedback has been received + implemented by the team at Shopify over the timeframe. Each day we're finding more great brands and products to add to our store and Collective's Discover feature is a huge part of that. Between us and the many supplier brands we've partnered with it's been a "no-brainer" not only for the ease of launching, but also for the new sales channel growth.

This is a fantastic feature Shopify nailed it with. Making life so much easier to partner with suppliers. Only thing that might be helpful is including respective policies directly on product pages.

Overall it's been great but some of my requests to vendors have gone unanswered for months making me wonder if Shopify is doing enough to actually get vendors to accept new storefronts. Nothing I can do on my end either short of reaching out to the vendor directly which negates a lot of the convenience of the platform.

The layout seems to change regularly, and not for the better. Originally, relevant suppliers were displayed by default with instant downloads front & centre. Now those seem to be almost impossible to find, with the focus moved to individual products, which, for me, is less than useless, especially when none of those products appear to be available on Collective anyway. It seems that Shopify now want retailers to do their marketing for them by seemingly expecting retailers to chase potential suppliers to get involved with Collective. Tail wagging dog springs to mind. It all feels a bit half-baked, as though somebody had a good idea but failed to develop it before launch.