We've recently added support for XML data feeds to EZ Inventory. It's a functionality that some of our customers have requested in the past as their suppliers only offer product/inventory feeds in XML format.

With this update, it's now possible to update your Shopify inventory from XML files. You can do a manual file upload or pull the files automatically from an FTP, SFTP, or web server. If your supplier provides a live inventory feed via a website URL, …

We've recently added a new Calculated Fields function in EZ Exporter for automatically stripping out non-numeric characters: strip_non_numeric_chars()

We've added this as one of our customers needed a way to export phone numbers to CSV containing only the numbers as they needed to import the data into another system that only accepts numbers. Shopify allows certain characters such as parentheses and dashes for phone numbers and this function will clean all these up automatically.

The usage is fairly simple. For …

In our continued efforts to improve EZ Importer, our Shopify app that allows you to import your orders from a CSV file, we've made a small change to the way we display the fields you need to map before import.

In the data mapping section of EZ Importer we display all Shopify fields and group them by what we call a "resource". The resource is the name of the group to which the field belongs. For example, if you're …

I'm still guilty of it and I'm sure many others still are too. You may even be guilty of it. The "it" I'm referring to is cart abandonment.There are countless ways to avoid this happening, some of which I have covered in the past. It still happens, but hopefully it's happening less than it did previously.

I may have mentioned before that nearly 70% of all consumers abandon their carts at one point or another during the checkout process. …

We're excited to announce that you can now import your customers phone numbers when importing orders with EZ Importer.

To import a phone number with your order, simply map the phone field on the Customer tab and/or on the Order Details tab. Importing a phone number on the Order Details tab will associate the phone number with the order itself, not with the customer. This means the phone number will show up on the Contact Information section of …