But lots of you have questions about when and how to use CommentSold:

❔ Should you be using Shopify instead?

❔ Can you use both?

❔ Can you switch?

❔ What’s better?

Today I’m here to answer your comment selling questions!!!

• Saves time if you're selling in FB groups, so you can gather sales in one place rather than pushing to a separate platform
• Boost engagement and sales (and reach!) in your group
• Works with posts or live videos
• Great mobile app with helpful push notifications
• Good customer experience with lots of care reps
• You don't need a website (technically - although we do recommend having one!)

• The functionality is limited - particularly the webstore which is like a landing page. Other than the mobile app, within your CommentSold webstore there are no apps, no themes, very few integrations, no plug-ins, and there's no coding access on the main page.
• No CMS / email marketing integration or retargeting.
• Limited ability to scale your business.... Of course you can scale your business with CommentSold (that's what it was designed for after all!), but it's not quite the same as scaling with your own website. CommentSold is only scalable as your ability to push out more and more content and increase your visibility of that content is (versus driving traffic to your website).
• The FB Pixel not very sophisticated - you won't be able to track your data in a way that will be useful to optimize your ads.

• If your business is mainly in FB groups, you might not need to complicate things with Shopify - just yet! (Again, we always recommend a website!)
• Switching from CommentSold to Shopify would require you to retrain your customers on a whole new platform
• Shopify integrates with CommentSold - but you need to have Shopify first, it doesn’t work the other way round
• Some coding knowledge is required for fancier features on Shopify! And that’s not for everyone...

It really comes down to your business goals.

If you’re running ads or want to scale or want a nice website - Shopify
If you’re selling well from your FB group and that is your priority - CommentSold

We recommend having Shopify as your main site, with a landing page and you can run ads and organic traffic to it.

If you have a FB group, then definitely have CommentSold for this so you can look after your customers really well in there. This means no manual invoicing and managing orders and inventory - let Shopify and its integration with CommentSold do that for you!

Then you’re all set to scale, baby!

If you're ready to get started with CommentSold, make sure you take advantage of their 30 day trial. Claim yours here!

But if you driving traffic from your group to your site is more your jam, definitely check out my done-for-you Strategy Pack Bundle for all your website marketing needs!

Here at Hot Mess, we have a lot of love for both these platforms, but we know it can get confusing out there.

Hopefully, this guide has helped you get clear about what each platform does best, which one might be best for you, and how they can actually work together!

Let us know in the comments what you think of this content (did it help you?), or let us know if you’ve got a burning question!