A user is concerned about Shopify's capability to handle over 100,000 SKUs efficiently and is seeking insights on managing large inventories without performance issues.
Hi there, so I'm a dev and a client of mine wants to migrate from their extremely old ecomm store to something more modern. My first thought was Shopify but I'm finding limited info when looking for similar stores that have north of 100,000 products. I do know that there *are* storefronts on Shopify like FashionNova and GymShark that are billion dollar companies but while this client has a lot of product offerings they aren't necessarily moving heavy volume and don't really have the budget for a ShopifyPlus-level subscription. I reached out to the theme developer for the Empire theme and they actually got back to me pretty quickly and said that most of their merchants are within 1000 - 5000 products and after 5000 filtering said products can get iffy. I will say that I have another store using the Empire theme with about 5000 products and it operates fine, but... 100,000 seems like a different story. All that said, I'm also exploring other potential options like BigCommerce. Does anyone have any insight on super large catalogs using Shopify or otherwise?