Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) has been around since 2006 and the first service Amazon launched in production for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform.

We use Amazon S3 here at Highview Apps ourselves for securely storing all kinds of files for our apps (we use encryption both in transit and at rest). It's a very reliable service and widely used around the world. Companies of all sizes use it, from tiny one-person startups to big corporations with thousands …

We've received a few requests a couple months ago from our customers to be able to automatically export Shopify Draft Orders with our EZ Exporter app.

The use cases were interesting and something we've never thought of. For example, one of our customers use Draft Orders when creating wholesale orders and they needed our app to be able to automatically export these in CSV format and sent to their supplier.

Shopify's documentation actually has a nice list of potential use …

For some time now, EZ Exporter has supported "smart" and "custom" collections export via the product export.

However, we realized this wasn't enough as we've gotten requests from our customers to be able to only export the Shopify Collections data without the product data. So that's what we did.

We're happy to announce that EZ Exporter now supports a dedicated Collections export, where our customers can export all the collection fields provided by the Shopify API such as the …

Shopify recently added a new field called "Cost per item" in the Shopify Admin's product variant page. This is something that we definitely know Shopify merchants have been asking for and they previously had to resort to using Metafields to get this information into their Shopify store.

We're happy to announce that this field can also now be exported using EZ Exporter!

The product cost field can be included both in the Product export and Order export:

• Product export: …

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 …