The short answer: because your orders, customers and products are too important to live in the database of a small software vendor. The long answer is below.
Shopify is the world's most widely used commerce platform — over 4 million merchants run their sales on it, from one-person businesses to global brands. It takes care of products, inventory, orders, invoices and payments. You rent it monthly, like a subscription. Kingsel is an app that plugs into it — just like an app on your phone.
The biggest risk of any second piece of software is duplicated data: the customer exists one way here and another way there, and at some point neither is right. With us, products, customers and orders live in Shopify — the app syncs automatically in both directions, every few minutes. There is nothing that can drift apart.
On peak days, Shopify processes millions of orders per hour, worldwide. Your invoicing, payment processing and accounting integrations run on that infrastructure — not on the server of a startup that might not exist next year.
Already have a Shopify store? Then the app installs in minutes, and your products and customers are in it right away — the app fetches them itself. Don't have one yet? Then with Shopify you get the most solid foundation money can rent today anyway.
The most honest stress test for software is cancelling it. With us: uninstall the app, done. Your customers, products and complete order history are in Shopify — where they were all along. No data-export drama, no switching costs, no lock-in.
New product in the store? It appears automatically in the app. Order from the field? It appears automatically in Shopify — with customer, line items and reference. Both without you lifting a finger, every few minutes, around the clock.
| You need | Cost / effort |
|---|---|
| A Shopify store (Basic is enough) | from approx. $ 39/month, paid directly to Shopify |
| Kingsel | see Pricing — 14 days free |
| Phones or tablets for the field sales team | any reasonably recent device, no app store required |
| Setup | one afternoon — products/customers arrive automatically, special prices are entered once |
In 20 minutes we'll explain how the app and Shopify work together — using your own case, not slides.