5 Ways to Avoid Cart Abandonment

I'm guilty. I'm not going to lie about it. I have been one of those shoppers who abandon their carts during the checkout process. I’ve done it multiple times and it’s possible that I will never stop. But guess what? I’m not alone.

Nearly 70% of consumers abandon their carts during the checkout process. That’s a steep number! If you were to calculate the amount of the consumers who visit your site and subsequently abandon their carts, I’m sure that …

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5 Inspirational Quotes for Ecommerce Entrepreneurs

Let's face it. Being an entrepreneur in the ecommerce business is tough. There's so much work involved that you feel like you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Well, I'm here to tell you not to give up. It seems like a lot of work now, but it will all be worth it soon. In all honesty, I'm sure that "giving up" is not the only negative feeling that you might experience as an ecommerce entrepreneur. …

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Export Your Shopify Data Directly to an Amazon S3 Bucket (AWS) With EZ Exporter

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has been around since 2006 and the first service Amazon launched in production for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform.

We use Amazon S3 here at Highview Apps ourselves for securely storing all kinds of files for our apps (we use encryption both in transit and at rest). It's a very reliable service and widely used around the world. Companies of all sizes use it, from tiny one-person startups to big corporations with thousands …

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Slacky Is Now EZ Notify

We're excited to announce that after 2 years we've update the Slacky identity. This includes a new name and logo. You'll see our new name and logo everywhere you used to see the Slacky name. Slacky will now be called, EZ Notify.

We've made this change for a few reasons. We recently had our app approved by Slack, which means it's now officially in the Slack app store. In order to ensure our app is approved, we need to …

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Export Shopify Draft Orders With EZ Exporter

We've received a few requests a couple months ago from our customers to be able to automatically export Shopify Draft Orders with our EZ Exporter app.

The use cases were interesting and something we've never thought of. For example, one of our customers use Draft Orders when creating wholesale orders and they needed our app to be able to automatically export these in CSV format and sent to their supplier.

Shopify's documentation actually has a nice list of potential use …

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