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Handshake by Shopify (discontinued)

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What is Handshake by Shopify (discontinued)?

The Handshake B2B Commerce platform from Shopify (acquired May 2019), was an ecommerce tool designed to make buying and selling simple, intuitive and mobile. The product has been discontinued, and is no longer sold or supported.

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Shopify is wonderful in growing your e-Commerce business in a more productive and easy way.

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Glenn BrowningView profile
Applications System Analyst I in Information Technology at Region 10 ESC (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We set up over 100 products on our Online Store and process Credit Card payments for physical products and hidden membership/sponsorship products to email URLS to customers. We are setting up products for all our budget items to allow variable credit card payment processing.

Pros

  • Selling Educational Materials to Schools
  • Receiving Vendor Sponsorships for Educational Events
  • Processing Payments for Educational Training Offerings
  • Allowing Schools to pay for services by Credit Card instead of by Purchase Orders

Cons

  • Refund processing would be very useful
  • More User Accounts allowed at a nominal cost
  • More choices of types of Credit Cards Allowed to choose, not just MC or V
  • Need easy ability to use Purchase Orders for payment processing

Most Important Features

  • Easy to use for our Customers to make orders and payments
  • Easy to train on and administer the system and set up reps to farm out payment processing
  • Very thorough record keeping system and notification by email to all parties involved with a product and order
  • Easy to support and resolve questions and issues.

Return on Investment

  • I found our reps are finding the system easy to learn and use
  • I have heard our reps are saving a lot of time using this system versus the prior paper based system
  • Our technical developer team can make changes easily
  • It was easy to test changes in a test system before moving to production

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Jira Software, monday.com

Usability

Very effective and productive method to boost sales on E-commerce platforms

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Qaisar ShakoorView profile
Research Assistant Intern in Research & Development at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

An effective and productive way to increase sales on E-commerce platforms. Simple order entry and increased revenue. There are various ways to search for an item. Handshake B2B Commerce, from Shopify, allowed high-resolution images and was geared toward visual presentation.it is so easy to add products to the online store. It's easy to change prices and make status active or inactive. clean and basic layout, Good for new users.

Pros

  • An effective and productive way to increase sales on E-commerce platforms. Simple order entry and increased revenue. There are various ways to search for an item.
  • Handshake B2B Commerce, from Shopify, allowed high-resolution images and was geared toward visual presentation.
  • it is so easy to add products to the online store.
  • It's easy to change prices and make status active or inactive. clean and basic layout, Good for new users.

Cons

  • It would be convenient to have older order records in the system since it does not save orders permanently.
  • Product addition is very laborious. Single product addition should be simpler than bulk upload.

Most Important Features

  • Easy to enter an order
  • It allows direct interaction between customer and seller
  • There are no fees

Return on Investment

  • It makes my sales to next level
  • Its features are very innovative
  • Sometimes glitches doesn’t allow me to confirm the order status is negative thing

Alternatives Considered

Shopify

Handshake Yay / Nay ??

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Verified User
Professional (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Querying SQL database on-premises in SharePoint online is the biggest benefit of using Handshake.
  • Displaying file site document repository folder structure on SharePoint online using Handshake.

Cons

  • Improve the performance on load page for all Handshake skins.
  • Need an easier way to understand creating and debugging Handshake skins.
  • They should improve on customer support.
  • Their Jump Start for Intranet portal should be more user friendly and easier to implement in reality, not just in theory.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to quickly put out a portal using Handshake on SharePoint online when our firm was merging with another firm.

Other Software Used

Nintex Platform, MS SharePoint, Power BI For Office 365