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 …

Dropshipping might seem like a complicated business model to set up, but it doesn’t have to be. Getting started with this undertaking is more than just finding the right supplier. It requires careful consideration about the processes that work best for your business operations, your budget, timeline, location, and so much more. 

While there are plenty of things to consider when it comes to getting started with dropshipping, a key idea to keep in mind is that you don’t have …

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 …

Some time ago, we've had a few EZ Exporter customers tell us that their suppliers need the CSV data sent to them without any special characters.

It seems that they may be using pretty old systems that only support ASCII encoding instead of the now more standard UTF-8 encoding.

With e-commerce, especially, you pretty much can't really avoid these special characters as you'll have customers buying from you all over the world. Their names might contain Greek characters or accented …