As your Shopify store grows, one of the things that really becomes a challenge is managing your inventory. Without proper inventory management, you could easily lose out on sales when your Shopify store shows "out of stock" for an item you actually have on hand. The opposite could also happen where you oversell an item you no longer have in stock, which could then lead to angry customers and support headaches.

Manually updating your inventory level in the Shopify Admin …

We've just added RSA private key authentication to EZ Exporter for SFTP/SSH connections. This authentication method provides extra security compared to regular passwords as SSH keys are much longer, making brute-force attacks pretty much impossible.

One of our customers requested it as one of their partners who they send their data to requires it to authenticate to their SFTP servers. I'm actually quite happy to see more users using SFTP vs regular FTP which is insecure by default.

To use …

We've pushed an update to EZ Importer which allows you to provide tax lines with your imports. To configure your imports to use tax lines you need to map the columns in your CSV file with tax line data using the data mapper.

If you need to import multiple tax lines per order you can click the Add Tax Line Row button on the bottom right hand side of the Tax Lines tab. This will add another set of tax …

Did you know that you can view the raw data of an order, product, or customer by simply appending ".json" to the URL while logged in to the Shopify admin?

This is a pretty neat trick as it allows you to view data that's not even visible in the Shopify Admin pages. The data shown here is in JSON format, which is basically the same data that you'll see when using the Shopify API.

All you have to do is: …

We've recently added 2 new functions which can be used in the formulas of our app, EZ Exporter. These functions could come in handy for fields such as tags where you may need to filter them based on specific values.

to_list(data, separator=",")

Convert text data into a list/array.

For example, a tags field data may look something like this: "men, xxl, sale"

Applying this function like this:

to_list({{ tags }})

Will return this result: ['men', 'xxl', 'sale']

This is …