- Products can only be "in stock" or "out of stock". Out of stock products cannot be ordered. There's no option to place an order with a longer expected lead time.
- The web UI for managing inventory has weird eventual consistency bugs that cause it to lose data. I'll upload 50 pictures of different variants of products and the change will be rejected because of a concurrency issue.
- The actual website layout is extremely limited. I know Shopify has a templating language which can be used to completely rewrite the front-end. Square recently announced "scrolling text is here" as if that was a thing I wanted.
- Individual product pages don't seem to be indexed by Google. I can do a site:mysite.com search and they don't appear.
- No support for Google Shopping in Canada.
Does anyone have experience with something like BigCommerce or something besides Shopify + Square? How featureful are they and easy to host?
Next step was moving all the fulfillment, purchasing and BOM parts over to a proper ERP system, like Odoo. Apart from one developer time, it costs us under $100 to run (the CDN costs the most).
Now we're pulling everything together under one UX. Sure, it's not for everyone, but it was fun to build and it's been a game-changer for us.
I'm the owner.
This may not be due to Square. Try searching on Bing or Duck Duck Go. Google is going through a weird transition right now and a lot of sites aren't being indexed. My own site, insurgent.ca, has been live for months and nothing I do in the search console seems to be able to get it indexed. Meanwhile, every other search engine seems to have no problem indexing my site at all.
I used it a couple of years ago for an acquaintance with a fairly big inventory (in the thousands as well) and I was pleasantly surprised by how feature-full, flexible and easy to use (for the store manager) it was.