POD 60 - The Forgotten Webflow E-Commerce - with Rahul Miah

I definitely started building a reputation of breaking things.

That would result in a few mini bans on Webflow and all sorts of shenanigans.

The

most exciting stuff I'm building with Webflow is honestly not websites, just internal tools.

We're building invoice generators, presentation builders.

I think I've only done one e-commerce website in Webflow.

Every single one that I've done, I've all been in Shopify, actually.

It's just a default.

Okay, Rahul, so is Webflow e-commerce totally useless in your opinion?

Not totally useless, but it's very hard to sell.

I think it's very hard to sell.

It's expensive and there's a few limitations to it.

So yeah, I think that's the main issue.

Which are the main, main limitations?

I know, I mean, for most of our clients, it's integrating it into other services, integrating into their social media, their Instagram, their Facebooks.

Other platforms just like do that straight out of the box.

So yeah, it definitely has its use cases, of course.

You can create some beautiful websites on there, but yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's my experience too.

Like there's the power of Webflow, but then there's like limited capabilities on the e-commerce side.

Like back here, we usually use a third party payment provider and that's not possible with Webflow or Stripe and PayPal in that scenario.

So that's a total turnoff here in Finland.

I would imagine that's Probably the issue with