Shopify Collective: Supplier

it would be nice to be able to use shopify catalogs to add products, or a specific collection, or even just a tag. Having to manually add products to this, when we're already tagging them and adding them to catalogs is an extra step.

We also have some "free shipping over $xxx" that doesn't integrate with this.

Other than that, it's pretty seamless and easy to use.

needs some more function to actually do all the weird things retailers ask us to have it do

Collective is an absolute super duper app. I love how easy it is to set up. I have connected with so many retailers who are now selling my products on their websites. I am connected to some super prominent patriotic stores who use Collective as well through whom I get many orders. It is also so nice to be able to reach out to the retailers and introduce myself. There is no hassle if you have to disconnect your store or there disconnect from you. Thank you for making this app free for suppliers and retailers. It really helps us suppliers who are solo entrepreneurs.

They need to add different fulfillment locations so that you can toggle where it is coming from. This way, the app could be used for consignment at Boutiques or for shared/showroom style pop ups.

Great communication and support. This company really works hard to promote products on all platforms.

Your shipping options need some serious work. We really need to be able to assign different pricing to Collective customers as compared to our D2C buyers.

I love your products, but too many Sold-outs.

This sales channel is terrible, and so is the Collective app. In the app, the tags and metafields on the products that get shared with you, don't come through. So I have to add some kind of categorization MYSELF, on someone else's items, which is ridiculous when there are hundreds or thousands of items shared over. Also, in the Collective sales channel, when selecting products to share, the search can't be done by sku. It also can't be done by whether the item is active or draft and whether it has inventory or is at zero. The other HUGE issue in the Collective app is that if you elect to have items shared with you in Draft status, even if you put them in Active status, every time the other supplier updates their item, it comes back through as Draft. So then you have to figure that out and reactivate them. Which means I'm now babysitting another supplier's whole catalog, on top of my own. And a Shopify Flow doesn't work, because there are some items we don't want automatically turned back to Active. Please Shopify, make this whole concept easier to use!!

Shipping options need to be fixed! The shipping payments CAN NOT be calculated based on what the retailer website charges or does not charge for shipping to an end consumer because those rules are based on end user pricing rules, whereas all things on Collective are based on WHOLESALE rules! Therefore different shipping rules need to be coded within Collective to allow all of us to set such rules otherwise we have to do 'manual', and that defeats the entire purpose of Collective in taking the 'work' out of suppliers and retailers.

We installed this App several months ago with public price lists so other merchants can list our products.
However no other merchants - apart from 1-2 - have ever applied to list our products, and so what is the point?
This is not the universal marketplace promised by Shopify, and yet it could be a major driver of sales if developed to optimise sales.