Customer reviews: Buy Button channel

<h3>What Merchants Think</h3> <p>The "Buy Button channel" app receives mixed reviews from merchants. Some appreciate its ability to extend product reach beyond the traditional Shopify platform and find it beneficial for external marketing. However, others have highlighted significant functional limitations, particularly concerning integration and usability, which hamper its reliability and seamless operation.</p> <h3>Key Strengths</h3> <ul> <li>Facilitates marketing across various platforms independently of the primary Shopify store.</li> <li>Allows the generation of multiple buy codes for different collections, offering flexibility in usage.</li> <li>Valuable for single product sales and expanding product reach.</li> <li>Maintains a cart on external websites with a streamlined checkout process.</li> <li>Offers essential functionalities for mobile platforms.</li> </ul> <h3>Common Concerns</h3> <ul> <li>Issues with cart synchronization, especially on WordPress sites, leading to dual cart issues.</li> <li>Lacks compatibility with subscription-based products and certain Shopify features.</li> <li>Problems with usability for non-developers, requiring HTML code installation and customization.</li> <li>No search or filter options for users with extensive product ranges.</li> <li>Inconsistent performance leading to server loading issues and altered code over time.</li> </ul> <h3>Final Thoughts</h3> <p>The "Buy Button channel" app is regarded as a useful tool for merchants aiming to broaden their product reach across various platforms. While it offers significant advantages for certain use cases, such as single product sales and mobile optimization, its limitations in integration and usability prove challenging for some users. Overall, while beneficial, it may require further refinement to fully meet diverse merchant needs.</p>

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What Merchants Think

The "Buy Button channel" app receives mixed reviews from merchants. Some appreciate its ability to extend product reach beyond the traditional Shopify platform and find it beneficial for external marketing. However, others have highlighted significant functional limitations, particularly concerning integration and usability, which hamper its reliability and seamless operation.

Key Strengths

Facilitates marketing across various platforms independently of the primary Shopify store.
Allows the generation of multiple buy codes for different collections, offering flexibility in usage.
Valuable for single product sales and expanding product reach.
Maintains a cart on external websites with a streamlined checkout process.
Offers essential functionalities for mobile platforms.

Common Concerns

Issues with cart synchronization, especially on WordPress sites, leading to dual cart issues.
Lacks compatibility with subscription-based products and certain Shopify features.
Problems with usability for non-developers, requiring HTML code installation and customization.
No search or filter options for users with extensive product ranges.
Inconsistent performance leading to server loading issues and altered code over time.

Final Thoughts

The "Buy Button channel" app is regarded as a useful tool for merchants aiming to broaden their product reach across various platforms. While it offers significant advantages for certain use cases, such as single product sales and mobile optimization, its limitations in integration and usability prove challenging for some users. Overall, while beneficial, it may require further refinement to fully meet diverse merchant needs.

Velaction Store

Jun 08, 2024 on Shopify

The buy button has two main shortcomings. The first is that there is no way to add the cart on the side of the page to a whole website. It only shows up on pages where there is another buy button. So if you had a Wordpress site, the cart button will not follow the user as they navigate. The second issue is a bigger one. If your customer is in the cart and clicks the logo to go back to the full shopify page, the cart contents don't follow. So a person might put a few items in the cart on a Wordpress site, click the link to the storefront, then have nothing in the cart. They might shop more, not realizing it, and purchase just the additional items. It does work really well, though for products. The cart link on the side of the page is nice, it is well designed, and it is connects with other products on the same site really well.

Adidogs

May 29, 2024 on Shopify

The app does it works, but after installing the app after few sessions i find it to be blank, the app doesn't connect with shopify admin for some reason. it shows "admin.shopify.com refused to connect." can you kindly fix this?

Techno Tim Shop

Mar 25, 2024 on Shopify

I'd love the option to just deeplink to my shop's PDP. I don't want to checkout off platform, I just want to send them to my shop with this nice little widget. Also, there isn't an option to customize the background colors. I know it matches my shop's theme but that doesn't match some of the site I want to render this.

Natural Elements

Feb 29, 2024 on Shopify

It's a fantastic idea and works well on mobile, but on desktop with Chrome browser, there is a glitch on first-page load. The product collections window is truncated. Any resizing of the browser makes the collection window fully appear. All subsequent views are fine, but press f5 to reload the page and the problem reoccurs. Looking on the Shopify forum shows that this or a very similar issue has been occurring for a few years and I wonder if they just can't fix it.