Linnworks vs. Solid Commerce

Would have recommended it 5 years ago, but now absolutely not a chance. Pricing is obscene and the service is appalling. Save yourself time and money by looking elsewhere. Linnworks has one advantage over other providers and that is their integrations with smaller eCommerce channels, this is not worth the money... You could employ someone for 5 minutes per day to pull smaller marketplaces onto a different service via CSV.

Solid Commerce may be helpful for small businesses that want to reach from one marketplace to become multi-channel based. However, I would recommend short contracts, long trial periods, request a teammate with 2+ years experience at the company and don't be afraid to communicate your needs. I do feel there is a place for the company in the marketplace, it is less expensive than most, it has a lot of benefits in segmentation and pricing needs, but it can lack in reliability and is not as reactive to customers for an e-commerce market.

Incentivized

• Ease of use for both me and my colleagues
• Manages all inventory on multiple channels and marketplaces
• Simple method of printing invoices and shipping labels saves so much time and requires no manual input

Incentivized

• It did allow for multi-channel promotion of the same set of SKUs. It diminished qty on all marketplaces when there was a sale on one.
• It allowed for multiple skus to change price.
• It allowed for SKU segmentation and multiple attribute tagging.
• When their company was smaller and more customer service driven, there was a lot of creative thinking to create sales growth.

Incentivized

• Pricing
• Support
• Features

• As their company grew and our e-commerce department grew, Solid Commerce lacked in customer service.
• At one point we could see a high turnover rate of Solid Commerce employees, leading to a disconnect for customers.
• We had a hard time functioning with other external tools like ShipWorks, ShipStation, our DMS, even uploading using excel files became unreliable.
• We ended our relationship with Solid Commerce less then a year ago because we could not rely on their automation and communication. They knew this for months before we decided to terminate the relationship.

Incentivized

As I have used Linnworks from day one, I constantly get contacted by Linnworks competitors asking me to try their system, however I cannot see any reason to move from a software package that we are all comfortable with, to a different system. It would seem pointless to move to a system that does not have the full functionality of Linnworks.

Incentivized

ChannelAdvisor is a step up in building our e-commerce business. They have met our communication and customer service needs. They work with our other tools like e-Desk and ShipStation reliably. However, that step up comes with additional costs. ChannelAdvisor is an investment that is higher then Solid Commerce. However, we are about 10 months in and not once have we lost connection with ShipStation or not been able to print pick tickets

Incentivized

• None
• None
• None

• They helped us grow significantly from a small e-comm business to almost triple our size in four years.
• They led us to know where our breaking points are in a same day service oriented environment.
• They have great segmentation of SKUs and different pricing options of SKUs.
• They did have some creative thinkers to help their customers but I wouldn't know if they are still there.

Incentivized