Shopify released an update just a few days ago to allow merchants to enter the per item cost of a product variant in the Shopify admin. This is definitely something we know many Shopify merchants had been asking for so they can calculate COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) and profit margins.

Before this update, the only way to store this data in Shopify was to use Metafields. However, since Shopify doesn't have their own metafields editor, the merchant will …

“I’m Snapchat famous” a girl once told me with all seriousness. I laughed it off thinking, “There’s no such thing as ‘Snapchat famous’ and even if there were, it’s a stupid concept.” I believed it was a made-up term that the girl used to validate herself, one almost as absurd as “Instagram famous.” I wasn’t judging her, I just couldn’t fathom a world where people were as famous as celebrities just for having the right following on a social media …

By default, EZ Exporter uses "minimal quoting" when exporting Shopify data to CSV. This means that quotes will only be added to the fields if the data contains characters that could break the CSV parsing, such as line breaks/newline characters or a character that conflicts with the data separator/delimiter.

For example, if you're using semicolons as the delimiter and a field data also contains a semicolon, then this field will be automatically enclosed with quotes when the CSV file is …

Let’s talk logistics.

You’re an ecommerce store, right? So fulfilling orders is at the crux of everything you do. The success of your business hinges upon it. This is something that can make or break you. Having inventory and fulfilling orders is probably just as important as being visible on google, if not more so. I’m willing to argue. It’s utterly paramount to be visible on Google, as I have said many times over, but being able to fulfill your …

As of October 28, 2018 Shopify will no longer allow you to import orders that have a line item quantity less than 1. They are making the change to ensure consistency throughout their platform as they do not allow orders with a line item quantity of less than 0 to be fulfilled.

In order to comply with the changes we have recently released a new validation rule that throws an error if your order has a line item quantity less …