What it means to hold your own payment gateway keys — money settling straight to your bank, rates you negotiate yourself, and the chargebacks and compliance of being the merchant of record.
An honest account of migrating a store off Shopify — which data moves automatically, what you rebuild by hand, who shouldn't move yet, and what staying actually costs in the UAE and India.
The phrase is on every commerce platform's marketing page, including ours. Four questions that tell you whether it means anything — with our own answers, including the unflattering ones.
Niblr is an open-source Shopify alternative that charges a flat hosting fee and takes 0% of your sales. Own your domain, payment keys, and customer data.