We've just pushed an update to EZ Exporter giving our users the option to automatically compress exported CSV files using ZIP compression.

Text files tend to compress very well, so this could significantly reduce the size of the CSV files. This is especially useful when emailing them as attachments as many email providers limit file attachments to 20MB-30MB. The compression ratio will vary depending on the content of the file, but you can expect to reduce the file size 5-10x …

For a long time our app EZ Notify has provided a very easy and simple way to integrate your Shopify store with your Slack workspace. Getting set-up takes seconds: click a button to authorize our app in Slack and decide which Order Events to send to your chosen Slack channel.

The same is still true today but we've recently pushed a paid "Professional" version of the app to allow for more customization and flexibility based on feedback from our users. …

Merchants who use EZ Importer to import orders into Shopify on a daily or weekly basis may want their customers to be emailed when their order is imported. Previously this was not possible. You would have to wait until you added tracking information or mark the order fulfilled and have Shopify send the notification for you.

The good news is, as of today, you now have the option to email your customers when importing your orders. If you want to …

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 …