From Sidekick to Superstore: Insights for Shopify Heroes
Explore practical guides, experiments, and playbooks to grow your Shopify store with a smart sidekick at your side.
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Stop Manual Tagging: Build a Bulk Manager in 120 Seconds
PREREQUISITES: The Tagging Trap. Standard Shopify bulk editing is a nightmare for precision work. You can’t see collection memberships and tags in one view, and tagging individual variants (like specific materials or seasonal colors) usually requires a monthly app subscription or hours of manual clicking. When your catalog hits “scale,” manual organization becomes a full-time…
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Kill the Pricing Headache: Build a Bulk Variant Price Updater in 60 Seconds
PREREQUISITES: The “Click-and-Wait” Fatigue Shopify’s native bulk editor is powerful, but it’s a chore when you need to change prices for a single product with 50+ variants. Whether you’re prepping for a flash sale or adjusting for inflation, you shouldn’t have to hunt through columns or wait for massive tables to load just to change…
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Untangle Your Shipping: Build a Product Shipping Options Reviewer in Sidekick
PREREQUISITES: The Shipping Profile Maze If you’ve ever spent hours wondering why a customer can’t see the “Expedited Shipping” option for a specific product, you know the headache. Shopify’s default interface makes it difficult to see which Delivery Profiles are assigned to which products at a glance. As you add special handling profiles (hazmat, oversized,…
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Stop Guessing Shipping Costs: Build Your Own Product Weight Manager in 60 Seconds
PREREQUISITES: The “Zero Weight” Silent Killer. One of the quickest ways to lose money on Shopify isn’t high ad spend—it’s inaccurate shipping weights. Clicking into every single product variant in the Shopify Admin to check a weight field is soul-crushing work. This leads to inaccurate “Free Shipping” triggers and major discrepancies at the post office..…
Every Shopify Hero Needs a Sidekick. 