One of the biggest benefits of automating your fulfillment process with tools like EZ Fulfill is you can email your customers as soon as the order is fulfilled.  This is one of the easiest ways to help build trust and confidences with your customers while at the same time lowering your support costs as customers no longer need to reach out and ask if their order has shipped.

Automating Fulfillment Emails With Shopify's Email System

As a Shopify merchant one …

Managing data between two different systems is always a challenge.  The hardest part is managing the minor discrepancies between the two different systems.  We see this a lot when working with Shopify merchants who are looking to updating their tracking numbers from external systems.  Many 3PL systems don't use the same values as Shopify would expect and many times the data is incomplete which can cause even more of a headache.  

Shopify can automatically create tracking links for your orders to …

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, …

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 …