Snipcart Reviews

My small business has been around for 13+ years, and we used the old version of the "PayPal Button" system for our website's checkout from 2008-2022. When we learned PayPal might be discontinuing the (old version) of "Checkout Buttons" we started exploring alternatives. The front-end of our website was always hand coded, minus the (obviously sensitive) shopping cart side of things. Our site is visually unique, and our interface is memorable and popular with our customers. We needed a checkout that could maintain our unique GUI while allowing for a seamless checkout, and Snipcart allowed us to do just that. For a fair monthly fee plus 0.5% (half of one percent) of revenue, the tool Snipcart brought to the table was incredibly powerful.

Editing product prices and descriptions in our old system was a cumbersome 3-step process. The same thing takes just a few seconds with Snipcart. Item customization is incredibly deep & effective. The ability to integrate with TaxJar has been a godsend and is almost totally "hands off" once it's set up. Integration to whatever payment method you'd like was quick and seamless. Most importantly, our customers LOVE the new checkout system.

What is great about Snipcart is that you can have a simple web store up and running without a database.

There wasn't any one thing that I disliked about it.

Use this if you don't want to manage a database.

A client I was working for wanted to add a store to their site. The problem was that the site was static. There was no database of any kind. The store was for a one-time event, and than after the event, they were not going to need it again. Because of the limited duration of the project, it did not make business sense to invest in a full data base and store CMS and inventory system.

I like how simple and straightforward SnipCart is. It integrated with our website very easily and it is probably the most easy to navigate payment processing app I've used. When I'm looking for information, or for how to do something on the site, it is always easy to find exactly what I'm looking for without a bunch of click-holes and goose chases. I also like that it tracks customers and tells us about abandoned carts, so we can reach out to potentially lost customers.

The only thing I don't like about SnipCart, and it may be that I just haven't figured out how to do it, is that it doesn't notify me of orders. When I get an order, I don't know about it. I don't get an email or anything. I'm pretty sure there's a way to do it, I just haven't figured it out yet. I have to actually launch the site and check every day to see if I have new orders.

I have use both authnet and Snipcart and when it comes to order organization, there's nothing like SnipCart. It is laid out very intelligently and I have never had it not perform. In comparison to other capturing tools, Snipcart is very easy to navigate. It's easy to find what I'm trying to do, whether it's discount codes or website integration, is is easy to find what I'm looking for on the website.

Snipcart solves the problem of order collection and data collection for sales off our website. The main benefit is that it organizes our orders in a very intelligent way, to make fulfillment a breeze. I like that it is easy to download the invoices and track them individually and as a group.