Shopify Apps
How to Audit Your Shopify Apps for Performance
Apps are one of the leading causes of slow Shopify stores (as the app-speed discussion covers): each app tends to add JavaScript, CSS, requests, and weight to your…
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Shopify Apps
Choosing, building, and managing Shopify apps and integrations without slowing your store.
Shopify Apps
Best Shopify Helpdesk Apps: Gorgias and the Alternatives
Customer support is a bigger lever than many stores realise: good support drives satisfaction, retention, and reviews (as the retention and reviews discussions cover), while poor or slow…
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Shopify Apps
How to Safely Test Apps on a Shopify Staging Store
Installing an app directly on your live store is one of those small, easy actions that occasionally causes big problems. Apps add code to your storefront, integrate with…
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Shopify Apps
Reducing App Sprawl With Custom Code: A Build-vs-Buy Playbook
Most Shopify stores rely heavily on apps, and for good reason — apps are fast to deploy and cost-effective for functionality you couldn’t justify building. But over time,…
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Metafields Apps vs. Native Metafields on Shopify
Metafields (custom fields storing extra data on Shopify objects, as the metafields discussion covers) are increasingly central to flexible Shopify content — and Shopify has significantly improved native…
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Shopify Apps
Integrating Shopify With Your Email and SMS Platform
Email and SMS marketing is one of the highest-leverage channels in ecommerce — an owned channel driving retention and revenue through flows and campaigns (as the Klaviyo and…
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Choosing and Evaluating Shopify Apps: A Practical Framework
Apps are a big part of the Shopify ecosystem, adding functionality your store needs — but with thousands of apps available, and each one carrying costs (fees, performance,…
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Shopify App Maintenance and Version Updates
Apps aren’t set-and-forget: whether public apps you’ve installed or custom apps you’ve built, they need ongoing maintenance and updates to keep working, stay secure, and remain compatible as…
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How to Build a Custom Shopify App: An Overview
Sometimes a Shopify store needs functionality or an integration that no existing app provides well — a bespoke feature, a custom integration with your systems, or specific logic…
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How to Remove a Shopify App Without Breaking Your Theme
Removing apps you no longer need is good practice — it cuts cost, reduces bloat, and shrinks your security surface (as the app-sprawl and app-security discussions cover). But…
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