Shopify articles - Page 142

Should I build a private Shopify app or a public Shopify app?

Shopify's public and private app definitions can be confusing and result in questions like this that I got from a reader: We want to integrate with Shopify to bring in orders. I looked into this a while back and it appeared the best / maybe only way to do this...

Custom fields on products for Shopify

I am working on a custom app. Can anybody help me to explain how we can make custom settings for product page in our own app and used there value in our shopify website? Product metafields The easiest way for an app to add custom settings for a Shopify...

Why Customers Disappear After the First Sale -- and How to Keep Them

Standard marketing strategy leads you to believe that the #1 game in business growth is attracting new customers to discover your store. Find better and flashier ways to grab consumers' attention, and profits will keep rolling in. That's a really expensive way to do business. How expensive? Forbes did a...

Top 5 Mistakes Ecommerce Businesses Make with Customer Product Reviews

The best kind of marketing is free -- one person telling another that your product is a must-have. There's no budget needed, and the trust factor is baked into word-of-mouth publicity. With product reviews, you can encourage this kind of information swap right on your own website. Just as customers...

Shopify Apps holiday performance report

During Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and other winter holidays, many Shopify stores are getting ready to handle the increase in traffic and sales. Shopify themselves are probably tuning up their code and servers to make sure all of their stores perform well. Even with all of that tuning, many Shopify...

Switching to a metrics-based approach to ecommerce marketing

Growing your ecommerce business can be difficult, especially in the beginning when you don't have much to go on. From generating traffic by hand by convincing bloggers to review or mention your product, to blowing thousands of dollars on ads that still aren't converting. Fake it until you... break it?...

Synchronize Shopify Data

Keeping your Shopify app's data synchronized with Shopify's API can be confusing at first. Fortunately there are two different options you can pick from. 1. Scheduled cronjobs to pull data An easy way to synchronize your data with Shopify is to make the API calls you need and save the...

Add in-store payment method to Shopify

I had a question from a Shopify merchant who wanted to let their customers checkout online but pay in-store: No payments are taken online, we only accept payment when a customers comes into a store to pick up their order. Therefore we want to eliminate the form. At first glance...

Digging into RFM segmenting in Shopify

Last time I introduced you to the RFM analysis as a way to combine three simple segments into one powerful segment. Now you're going to learn what happens when you're able to perform an RFM analysis on your customers. You've already seen how to combine the Recency and Frequency segments...

3 classic customer segments you should focus on

As you might have noticed already, there are hundreds of ways to segment your customers. It all depends on what data you have and what you want to do with them. That's also a problem though. With so many ways to segment your customers, it becomes difficult to know which...

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