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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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,
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
If you need to run cron jobs or scheduled tasks in your Shopify app but don't have a dedicated backend server, Trigger.dev offers a convenient solution with its Trigger.dev Cloud. This service allows you to run scheduled tasks on a shared server, eliminating the need to
When I first started integrating Crisp's live chat into my Shopify app built with Remix, I quickly realized that while Crisp’s documentation is solid, it mostly focuses on HTML integration or specific partner platforms. There wasn’t much guidance for those working in the Remix or React