How to Tell Real Social Proof From Fake
Plenty of Shopify social proof apps generate their numbers. Here is the one question that separates them from the ones that measure, and three ways a number can be real and still mislead.
How to Show an Add-to-Cart Count on Shopify
Shopify never exposes add-to-cart counts to your theme. Here is what it takes to put a real '8 added to cart' label on a product page or a collection grid, and how to tell a measured count from a generated one.
How to Show a Sales Counter Without a Popup
Social proof does not have to arrive as a corner toast. Here are the three places a sales counter can live on a Shopify page, and how to build each one.
How to Show Units Sold on a Shopify Product Page
Shopify has no built-in way to display units sold on a product page. Here are the three ways to do it, what each one costs, and when each one breaks.
How to Add a Live Visitor Counter to Shopify
Shopify shows live visitors in your admin but never on the storefront. Here is what it takes to put a real one on a product page, and why most of the ones you see are fake.
The Best Shopify App for Social Proof (2026)
There is no single best one. For the longest track record, Fomo. For the highest rating, ProveSource. For the lowest price, Sold Count. For proof on the product image instead of in a corner popup, mine. Disclosure, because it changes how you should read this: I build Sold So Many,
Installing Rubik Variant Images on a Store With Too Many Variants
A dog bed store with three colours, four sizes and forty photos per product is exactly the mess Rubik Variant Images was built for. I installed it on Birdsong Pet and paid close attention to the onboarding — because I've spent the last six months rebuilding my own.
The Best Shopify App for Social Proof (2026)
Social proof is one of the most important motivators of customers' buying decisions. There are a number of ways to use social proof on an e-commerce store: the most obvious being customer reviews. There are, however, new ways you can display social proof on your store: use live customer
6 Months In: Why I’m Not Giving Up on My Shopify App
Six months ago, I launched Sold So Many: Sold Counter, a Shopify app, with the goal of helping store owners showcase their sales data in a way that builds trust and increases conversions. The app provides merchants an online store theme app extension, which helps merchants display the number of
Fixing the Onboarding Flow of "Sold So Many": Lessons from My First Shopify App
Over the past month since launching my first Shopify app, Sold So Many, I've embarked on a steep learning curve in programming: UX, and UI design. While I anticipated challenges, the initial user engagement metrics signalled that I needed to make significant improvements. The Problem In the last
My Journey Launching a Shopify App: Lessons, Challenges, and What’s Next
After months of hard work, I’ve officially launched my first Shopify app! It’s a simple theme app extension that displays how many units of a product have sold in the last 30 days. The process was both exciting and challenging, and as this was my first Shopify app,
Efficiently Counting App Impressions in Shopify Apps Using navigator.sendBeacon
When developing a Shopify app, tracking how often your app’s theme extension is displayed on merchants’ stores is essential. However, continuously logging each impression can become resource-intensive, especially when aiming to minimize the impact on the user experience and server resources. In this blog post, we’ll explore a