Shopify is a hosted commerce platform for creating and operating online and in-person sales channels. It provides the commerce admin, products, inventory, checkout, orders, payments options, analytics, hosting, security updates, themes, APIs, and an app ecosystem. A business configures its storefront and operations on this managed foundation instead of assembling and maintaining every infrastructure layer itself.
How Inficial approaches it
A managed commerce foundation with extensibility
Shopify handles much of the core platform operation while merchants own their products, content, configuration, customer experience, apps, integrations, and commercial decisions. Native features can be extended with themes, apps, Functions, APIs, and custom services where the business case supports them.
What Shopify commonly provides
- Hosted storefront and commerce administration
- Products, inventory, checkout, orders, and customer records
- Payment, shipping, tax, market, and sales-channel options
- Themes, apps, APIs, and developer extension points
- Analytics, automation, and operational tools
