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March App of the Month: Show Instagram Feed on Shopify March 14, 2017 19:00
Social media tends to be a big driver of brand awareness, and in cases like Trendy Treehouse, one of the biggest factors contributing to sales. Shopify store owners can use social media to highlight their customers and how they’re using products, including adding an Instagram feed on Shopify.
In this post, we’ll take a look at an app that allows you to import your Instagram feed and display it on your store.
Highlight Free or Flat-Rate Shipping with the New Shipping Bar App to Boost Sales February 22, 2017 20:00
Free shipping is the top incentive for 9 out of 10 consumers to shop more on an online store, according to this Marketing Land article. In addition, almost half of online shoppers will add to their carts to qualify for free shipping. Free shipping tends to be one of the strongest drivers that affects customer behaviour.
With that in mind, we’re excited to announce our new Shipping Bar app for Shopify stores that can help you highlight free or flat-rate shipping so that you can boost your sales and grow your average order values.
November App of the Month: Shopify Products on Facebook Messenger November 2, 2016 19:00
Facebook Messenger is one of the most popular chat applications in the world. According to a report by Statista, the app had roughly 1 billion monthly active users as of July 2016. This makes Messenger an ideal platform for social selling through Shopify.
In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can use the Messenger app by Shopify to sell products directly through Facebook Messenger, and enable store chats and notifications within the messaging app.
October 2016 App of the Month: Reduce Checkout Fraud October 11, 2016 19:00
Many challenges arise as your online business grows. One of them is dealing with fraudulent transactions. This is when a fraudulent credit card is used at checkout. This can cause a lot of havoc by disrupting your inventory numbers, automated shipping, causing chargebacks, etc. However, Shopify store owners have a free way to start reducing fraudulent transactions on their store.
In this post, we take a look at online fraud statistics and do a quick walkthrough of the Fraud Filter app by Shopify.
September 2016 App of the Month: Get Product Reviews Through Emails September 27, 2016 19:00
In the past, we’ve written about how to encourage customers to give reviews for your products. Shopify makes it easy to showcase and manage product reviews through their free Product Reviews app.
In this month’s featured app, we take a look at how you can build upon the Product Reviews app to actively and automatically seek reviews from existing customers.
September 2016 Edition: Top Free Shopify Apps September 20, 2016 19:00
Time for another edition of our quarterly list of top free Shopify apps. In this post, we take a look at an app that lets you display different currencies, a URL shortener that helps you track sales, and deliver documents as PDFs to customers within emails.
These apps are free to use, or have a premium versions available with more features.
August 2016 App of the Month: Custom T-Shirts and More with Printful August 15, 2016 19:00
If you’ve wanted to sell custom clothing or other products but aren’t sure how or where to source manufacturing, keep inventory, set up fulfillment, etc., things might have just become a lot easier with the Printful service. The service allows you to select from their list of products, customize and add them to your Shopify store, and sell them at a markup. Printful manages the production and fulfillment of all orders placed through your store.
In this post, we will go over the service, and follow steps to set up a product on your Shopify store using Printful.
July 2016 App of the Month: Shopify Email Themes from OrderlyEmails July 6, 2016 19:00
In this month’s featured app, we take a look at how you can customize standard Shopify email templates using different email themes. You can use the app to enhance your transactional emails, which are an important part of lifecycle emails.
In this post, we take a look at why you should customize transactional emails, how to install and set up the app, and how to automatically apply your store design to your emails.
June 2016 App of the Month: Shippo for Shopify June 8, 2016 19:00
As your Shopify store and inventory grow, managing shipments can become more and more complex. Many times, merchants may use different shipping providers, and use each provider’s online portal to manage shipping for that provider. This can become cumbersome as your shipping information is spread out in different places. This is where the Shippo for Shopify app can help.
In this post, we will look at how you can use Shippo to manage all aspects of shipping in one place, and the different options provided by the app.
June 2016 Edition: Top Free Shopify Apps May 31, 2016 19:00
In this quarterly list of top free Shopify apps, we outline two apps that you can use to improve search engine optimization (SEO) for your products, and two apps that can help boost sales for your store.
All apps are either completely free, or have a free starting plan.
May 2016 App of the Month: Product Reviews App May 24, 2016 19:00
We recently wrote about how to encourage product reviews from customers and featured the Product Reviews app by Shopify. The app allows you to add a reviews area to your product pages, and manage these reviews, including bulk actions.
In this post, we take a deeper dive into the free Product Reviews app and look at the various options in the app.
April 2016 App of the Month: Related Blog Posts April 26, 2016 19:00
Blogs are becoming an essential part of eCommerce stores. Shopify store owners can use blogs to provide industry or product information, give product tips, showcase user-generated content, provide customer service, and more. Blogs are versatile in how they can be used. But, as your post library gets bigger and bigger, it can become hard for Read More…
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March App of the Month: Accept Apple Pay on Shopify March 9, 2016 20:00
Apple Pay provides an easy way to make secure payments for iPhone and Apple Watch users. Users can enable the feature and then use their Touch ID fingerprint to enable payments online from a mobile device or at near field communication (NFC) terminals. Now you can use Apple Pay on Shopify stores using the Taply Read More…
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February App of the Month: Customize Products in Shopify February 23, 2016 20:00
In our previous post about selling personalized products, we covered the Product Customizer app for Shopify. The app recently went through a major update, and is now more intuitive to use, has more features, and has made it even easier to customize products. In this post, we’ll go over the new layout and some features Read More…
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Supercharging your Shopify Receipts: Receiptful December 21, 2014 20:00
As you’re all winding down with the 2014 holiday season, we hope you’re all looking forward to some much deserved downtime! However, we know a lot of you are considering ways to ensure that your Q1 revenues for 2015 don’t take the typical after-holiday dive. There are lots of strategies to use to boost your January sales (here are 7 tips from KISSmetrics), and we wanted to fill you in on a new app that can help drive conversions for your store to avoid the after-Christmas sales dip.
You can even use it for free.