So, you've started an ecommerce business. That’s great! Starting one is easy, while building a successful one is the hard part. But don’t worry--there are plenty of learning tools available for you. One of the best ways to learn is to read, read, read. Then read some more. While experience is often the best teacher, it’s best to know some critical do’s and don’ts before stepping out into the field. There are at least five books every ecommerce store owner …

Our Shopify inventory management app, EZ Inventory, now supports dynamic date variables in the file paths, URLs, and filters.

This update provides a way to retrieve an inventory feed that uses dates in the file path or URL. The feed data can also now be filtered based on the current date.

Below is a list of the available date variables that you can use:

• {{ YYYY }} - the current year (e.g. 2018)
• {{ MM }} - the current …

Did you know that you can load images directly in Google Sheets from URLs?

Google Sheets provides an IMAGE() function that lets you do just that. The usage is very simple, basically just enter the URL inside the IMAGE() function surrounded by double quotes like this:

=IMAGE("https://highviewapps-main-site.s3.amazonaws.com/media/blog/thumbnails/postcards.jpg.800x400_q85_crop-smart.jpg")

This could come in handy for running your Shopify store. For example, you may need to generate a daily order picking list for your warehouse staff where printing a report with images would …

Recently we've tightened our validation on the billing and shipping addresses in EZ Importer. We've decided to make the validation strict because orders that have invalid shipping or billing addresses "fail silently" in Shopify. This means, Shopify imports the order successfully but they ignore the shipping or billing address you've provided.

For example, if you import an order with an address that doesn't have a country, the order will import successfully and you'll see all of the order data …

We were working with one of our EZ Inventory customers recently and ran into an issue where their inventory feed contains inventory data for all their warehouses.

This wouldn't have been an issue if their store is enabled for multi-location inventory, but Shopify hasn't released this feature yet to merchants. It's currently only available for test/development stores.

In their specific case, they basically wanted to sync the inventory only from one of those warehouses in their feed with their Shopify …