对比
Art.industries vs Shopify
Shopify is built for commerce—cart checkout, shipping labels, and a polished storefront. Art.industries runs commerce and coordinated private deals on one art-specific catalogue, so edition 12/50 and the six-figure painting in a viewing room do not live in separate systems.
概览
| 能力 | Art.industries | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | 有Per-workspace, no per-seat tax | 有Per-store subscription (Basic from ~$39/mo) |
| Free plan (no card) | 有Core, no card required | 无Trial only; no permanent free tier |
| Artwork cataloguing | 有 | 部分Product catalogue; not artwork provenance/editions model |
| Editions & print runs | 有Edition runs; commit on sale | 部分Variants and qty; not numbered edition copies (e.g. 4/50) |
| CRM with activity history | 有Timeline, custom fields | 部分Customer profiles and order history |
| Private viewing rooms | 有Per-recipient grants, analytics; redacted when confidential | 无Not in Shopify feature set |
| Real-time viewing room alerts | 有Live alerts on opens and artwork views | 无Not in Shopify feature set |
| Stripe-direct payments | 有Your Stripe account; credit notes | 部分Shopify Payments or third-party gateways |
| Multi-currency invoicing | 有Deposits, instalments, refunds | 部分Multi-currency storefront; not deposit/instalment art invoices |
| Consignment splits + statements | 有Multi-party splits, sub-consignment, three-way; statements; confidential; portal | 无Not in Shopify feature set |
| Consignor portal | 有Share-link portal | 无Not in Shopify feature set |
| Sales pipeline / offer tracking | 有Board, holds, offer emails | 无Orders and abandoned carts; no deal pipeline |
| Public website on own domain | 有Website Studio on custom domain | 有Hosted storefront on custom domain |
| Web storefront | 有Cart, checkout; print-on-demand on Advanced | 有Core product |
| Built-in events & ticketing | 有Free RSVP, waitlist, paid tickets via Stripe on your site | 无App marketplace; not native gallery events/RSVP |
| Multilingual app & publishing | 有7-language app; multilingual sites, rooms, and PDF exports | 部分Storefront languages; not gallery workspace app |
| Email campaigns + segments | 有Broadcasts, contact filter segments | 部分Shopify Email; not tied to viewing-room history |
| AI workspace agent | 有Playbooks, tool-calling actions | 部分Sidekick for merchants; not art-inventory aware |
| Collector client portal | 有Owned works, installments | 无Customer accounts only |
| Native iPhone + iPad app | 无Coming soon | 有Shopify mobile app for store management |
来源： www.shopify.com/pricing (核实于 2026-06-17).
Where Shopify fits
Shopify is the right tool when you only need self-serve e-commerce: edition prints, books, merchandise, and fixed-price multiples where the collector decides on the page and pays without a negotiation thread. Checkout, tax, shipping apps, and a custom-domain storefront are mature. For a gallery that already runs Shopify only for print drops and accepts the operational split, it can work.
Where galleries pick Art.industries over Shopify alone
Galleries on Shopify plus a spreadsheet for deals maintain two catalogues—and Shopify does not run gallery print-on-demand from the same inventory record. Art.industries keeps commerce and deals on shared records—storefront checkout for self-serve sales (including print-on-demand on Advanced: configure once, automate purchase → print → ship), viewing rooms and Stripe invoicing for coordinated sales—with consignment splits and CRM on the same graph. Advanced is $30/month per workspace, not a per-store subscription plus apps.
Deals and commerce: what each platform actually covers
Galleries sell in two modes that most software conflates. Deals are coordinated private sales—viewing rooms, holds, negotiated offers, consignor splits, deposits, and invoices. Commerce is self-serve public checkout for editions, books, and multiples at fixed prices.
Art.industries runs both modes on shared inventory records: mark a work room-only, storefront-eligible, or both; either path updates availability when a sale closes. Many competitors skew toward one mode—gallery CRMs handle deals but force a second catalogue for the website; Shopify-style tools handle commerce but miss holds, consignments, and confidential rooms.
Use the matrix below to see which side each product actually covers, not which checkout widget they advertise.
When Shopify is enough—and when it is not
Shopify alone is enough if every sale is commerce: fixed price, cart, ship, done. It is not enough when the gallery also runs private viewing rooms, holds with release dates, consignor settlements, fair-week deposits, or six-figure offers that should never appear on a public product page.
Most commercial galleries do both. They might sell forty edition copies through commerce in a month while closing two paintings through deals. Shopify handles the first mode well; it has no native concept of the second.
Moving off Shopify for gallery commerce
Export products from Shopify to CSV, import works into Art.industries with the validation preview, and mark storefront-eligible SKUs. Rebuild the public site in Website Studio reading the same catalogue—no nightly sync job. Keep Shopify live until one edition drop proves checkout, inventory, and consignment statements agree. Most teams cut over storefront first while deals were already on Core.
常见问题
- Can we keep Shopify for commerce and use Art.industries for deals?
- You can, but you will maintain two catalogues. Most galleries consolidate when an edition sells on Shopify but internal inventory still shows available—or when a viewing-room sale does not update the storefront. Art.industries runs both modes on one record; see deals vs commerce.
- Does Art.industries replace Shopify for print and edition sales?
- Yes, for galleries that want commerce on the same catalogue as deals. Storefront checkout on Advanced handles cart orders, Stripe settlement, and live edition counts—without a separate product list.
- Can we import our Shopify product CSV?
- Yes. Export products from Shopify, map columns in Art.industries import with the validation preview, and mark which works are storefront-eligible. Images and edition structure may need manual cleanup—especially numbered copies.
- Which is cheaper for a small gallery?
- Shopify Basic plus apps adds up quickly; Art.industries Core is free for deals (inventory, CRM, rooms, invoicing) and Advanced is $30/month per workspace for commerce. Compare your real SKU count and team size on the pricing matrix.
- Does Art.industries take a percentage of sales?
- No. You connect your own Stripe account; funds settle directly to you. Stripe takes its standard processing fee.
- Does Art.industries work in languages other than English?
- Yes. The app runs in seven languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese), and the same records publish multilingual public sites, viewing rooms, and PDF exports. If your collectors or your team work across languages, check this against any platform on your shortlist.
- How do we know the comparison is honest?
- Every competitor cell links to a public source on their own site, with the date we last verified the claim. Anything we cannot verify is marked N/A, never asserted.
See if Art.industries fits your practice
Start on free Core for deals—viewing rooms, pipeline, Stripe invoicing. Add commerce on Advanced when you are ready to replace Shopify with one catalogue—not two product lists.