One of the main use cases for our EZ Exporter app is workflow automation.

We have many users that rely on our app to automatically export data in a custom CSV or Excel format to an external location (such as an FTP/SFTP server, Amazon S3, or Google Sheets).  The exported files are then processed by other systems, such as an ERP system.

Those users that use our app for this purpose rarely log in to the app after doing the …

EZ Inventory requires a header row as the very first row when processing CSV or Excel data feeds.

The header row is needed for mapping fields, filtering the data, and also for creating quantity formulas.

We've seen a few cases from merchants, however, where their supplier's feed doesn't have a header row and it's not possible for them to add it (possibly due to legacy systems or just other complexities in their process). 

This new option to create a "virtual" header row …

Below is a list of updates we pushed to our EZ Exporter app last month.

Inventory Levels fields in Order and Draft Order export

The following fields can now be included in an Order or Draft Order export.  They used to be available only in the Product export.

Shopify supports very granular permissions that can be given to individual staff accounts.  This is a really good way to improve security as you can limit each staff's access to only those parts of the Shopify Admin that are necessary to do their job.

As app developers, we sometimes get questions when a member of a merchant's team can't install or approve app charges, preventing them from using our app.

Most of our apps use recurring subscriptions via the Shopify Billing …

NOTE: We're launching these changes on October 5, 2022, at 10:00 am EDT.  We will notify existing customers via email once the changes are live.

Over the past year, Shopify has migrated its fulfillment process to a more modern workflow.  They will deprecate the old fulfillment process at the end of this year, and we've been working hard to update EZ Fulfill to use this new modern workflow. 

We'll walk you through what to expect with this change, as …