Beeketing statement on Shopify Partnership

As you might have known, in January 2019, all Beeketing apps were unavailable from Shopify Appstore for 6 months.

During that time, our team still tried our best to maintain, ensure product quality and support for more than 800,000 customers. However, at that point, we had recognized the high level of risk by depending on Shopify. We believe that individuals and partners in the eCommerce community deserve to operate in a more open environment.

So, there are two huge changes we'd like to announce today.

Since Beeketing apps got delisted from the Shopify Appstore, we have had a clear shift by building an open commerce ecosystem with a bigger mission: "Creating the ecosystem of products to empower commerce in general, and cross-border commerce in particular”, starting with ShopBase - a platform for Dropshipping and Print On Demand businesses to launch and scale.

We officially made a revolution and changed our company name from Beeketing to OpenCommerce Group to reflect our new mission.

It may be because of this confrontation with Shopify that they have made an extremely tough decision for a long-time partner who had been actively contributing to the community since the early days of Shopify AppStore like Beeketing.

However, this further shows us the correctness of the vision that we are pursuing:

"OpenCommerce Group believes in an open market, an open e-commerce ecosystem - where entrepreneurs and businesses can focus on trading, being free to choose their service providers instead of leaving all the power to one side.”

We are forced to stop providing Beeketing apps to Shopify users, but for non-Shopify customers, it is possible for them to continue using the products normally.

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