Shopify Plus vs. Yii Framework

Any business that needs to keep track of orders and payments would benefit from Shopify Plus. Customers information, orders, and payments are all saved and available for reference. You are able to refer to past orders to review trends and offer future purchase suggestions. Shopify Plus is also easy to use so it does not take long to train employees how to use this system.

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Yii is very well suited if you love to program with Object Oriented PHP. This framework uses OOP very well and if you know this pattern you'll love it. The same applies for its MVC architecture and if you come from formal software development education. Also if you are in a bussiness enviroment and need a stable framework. This is the tool for you. It uses very formal scheme but I would like more open and hackable framework, and for this Yii2 is not a good option. Also, if you like to have bleeding edge technologies I don't recommend this framework.

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• Scales incredibly well. Forget about hardware concerns, load balancing, downtime, etc. and focus on eCommerce. We've seen merchants go from a few thousand dollars per month to having million dollar days, all on Shopify without having to worry about performance or scaling systems.
• Great new features consistently being added, ahead of the curve on almost everything
• Solid API to build on and work with, a few annoying quirks here and there for super complex use cases but overall very well documented and works well
• Most Merchant Success Managers are good and genuinely want to be helpful
• A fantastic user interface, very logical and easy to use
• Tons and tons and tons of out of the box integrations. Easily the best integration marketplace of the e-commerce platforms. There's an app for that.

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• Generating forms and integrates bootstrap
• Provides great CRUD functionality with active record
• Provides lots of useful HTML helper widgets for UI enhancement
• Provides good access control (RBAC)

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• The Account Managers/Reps have become more scripted and seem like they are busier and handling more clients than before. It doesn't seem as personal and special anymore like when we first upgraded to Plus.
• Shopify still has missing features in their software that might not have an app in their app marketplace available that fills this void.
• The 24/7 support doesn't seem as dedicated as they once were.

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• Maybe support to update their main components like jQuery or Boostrap. It's too attached with the included versions.
• Their view template engine is simple, doesn't offer support for better options like competition.
• Wiki can include more tutorials for common examples or problems.

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We are in the process of migrating our old application to Yii Framework.

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I think is really easy to use, it's not perfect but many developers with great experience will know how to exploit this framework to create great apps!

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Always are quick to answer our questions and help us find a solution

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It's has a really good support based on online documentation and official forums. But sometimes I wish there were a paid service where to report some urgent issues.

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You have to check their documentation, they explain everything so don't skip it.

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Shopify had the quickest go-to-market and most robust API among the products we compared. CommerceCloud required a VERY LONG integration phase that we just didn't have time for. BigCommerce fell short on the number of features and API coverage that we needed. Overall Shopify gave us the most bang for the buck.

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We have used Zend Framework. In comparison Yii Framework is much more lightweight and has smaller learning curve.

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• Shopify Plus has been a very cost effective solution for us.
• As our business grows, it's easy to train new hires on how to use Shopify Plus.
• What we've lost in the missing features of Shopify we've made up for in the other areas.

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• Overall Yii has speed up our development and help to cut down on development cost.
• On the other hand, the bloated vendor library does cause space issues when we have high volume of applications on our servers.

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