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Shopify how-to guides
The hands-on track: small, specific jobs done properly. These guides cover customer events and web pixels, metafields and metaobjects, Liquid tweaks, and the kind of store customizations you can ship yourself without reaching for another app.
- July 4th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
The Shopify Sidekick Masterclass: Getting Real Work Out of Your Admin Assistant
A complete guide to Shopify Sidekick: what it does, the prompts that earn their keep, where it stops, and how apps make it far more powerful, safely.
- July 3rd, 2026AIAgentic commerce
Are You Actually in the Shopify Catalog? The Eligibility Checklist
Shopify Catalog inclusion is automatic, invisible, and easy to fail. The documented eligibility rules as a checklist, plus how to verify you are in.
- July 1st, 2026AIAgentic commerce
Does Shopify Sidekick Use Real-Time Store Data?
Sidekick reads your live admin data, so answers reflect recent changes. The assistants that recommend you to shoppers update on their own clock. Why it matters.
- July 1st, 2026FunctionsGuides
Shopify Scripts Are Gone for Good: How to Replace Your Discount Scripts
Shopify Scripts retired June 30, 2026. If your automatic discounts quietly stopped applying, this is why, and exactly how to replace your discount Scripts with Functions.
- June 30th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
How to Get Your Products Found in the Shop App
The Shop app has its own search, feed, and AI assistant. How products get in, what its ranking rewards, and the product data work that moves you up.
- June 30th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
What Shopify Sidekick Can and Cannot Do for Your Catalog
Sidekick can edit products, draft descriptions, and stage bulk changes, all with your approval. What it can't do is publish your catalog to AI search. The line.
- June 29th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
Making Your Store Answerable by Shopify Sidekick
When Sidekick gives vague answers about your store, the problem is usually your data, not the assistant. How to make your catalog legible enough to query.
- June 29th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
How to Track Where Your Store Ranks in AI Shopping Recommendations
A repeatable system for tracking your AI shopping rank: the query list, the log, which surfaces to probe, and when a rank tracker earns its keep.
- June 28th, 2026AIContent
Can Shopify Sidekick See Your Blog Posts and Content?
Shopify Sidekick can reference your blog content because it lives in your admin. But the audience that decides whether content works sits outside its view.
- June 27th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
What Data Can Shopify Sidekick See in Your Store?
Shopify Sidekick reads your store data to answer questions, but not all of it, and nothing outside your admin. Here's exactly what it can see and what it can't.
- June 26th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
How to Ask Shopify Sidekick Whether You Show Up in AI Search
With the AgentReady Sidekick extension, you can ask Shopify's admin assistant where you rank in AI search and what's holding a product back. The questions to ask.
- June 25th, 2026AILlms txt
How to Generate an llms.txt File for Your Shopify Store
What llms.txt is, what belongs in it, and how to generate one for Shopify, where the file now mirrors agents.md and customizing that updates everything.
- June 23rd, 2026Agentic commercePlatform
Building for Shopify Sidekick: App Extensions and the New App Store Rules
A builder's guide to Sidekick app extensions: data vs action tools, the content rules reviewers now enforce, auth, limits, and how to ship one.
- June 23rd, 2026AIAgentic commerce
How to Make Your Shopify Store Agent Ready
What agent ready actually means, the four layers behind it (crawlable, structured, quotable, transactable), and an honest checklist for getting a store there.
- June 23rd, 2026AIGuides
Editing Product Photos with Shopify Magic: What the AI Media Editor Does
Shopify's media editor ships AI background removal and scene generation free on every plan. How to use it, and when a generated scene backfires.
- June 20th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
How to Check If AI Shopping Assistants Can See Your Shopify Store
A ten-minute diagnostic any merchant can run: robots.txt, agents.md, structured data, and catalog checks that show whether AI assistants can find your store.
- June 18th, 2026AIGuides
What Is Shopify Magic? Every AI Feature, and Where It Helps Your Store
Shopify Magic is the free AI woven through your admin. Here's every place it shows up, what it does well, and where its output needs a human edit to rank.
- June 17th, 2026AISEO
Are Shopify Magic Product Descriptions Good for SEO and AI Shopping?
Shopify Magic writes product descriptions in seconds. When the output helps your rankings, when it quietly hurts, and how to brief it so AI reads you right.
- June 17th, 2026SearchComparisons
Shopify Search & Discovery vs Searchanise vs Boost: Which Search App in 2026
The free native app, the budget challenger, and the enterprise pick. How the pricing models differ, what each does well, and which fits your catalog size.
- June 15th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
Shopify Sidekick Prompts That Save Time (and How to Save Them as Skills)
A working set of Shopify Sidekick prompts for data, content, and operations, plus how to save the good ones as reusable skills with a slash shortcut.
- June 13th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
How to Use Shopify Sidekick: A Practical Guide for Merchants
What Shopify Sidekick can actually do, the prompts that get useful answers, where it stops, and how to point it at the questions that move your store.
- June 12th, 2026AIAgentic commerce
Shopify Sidekick vs ChatGPT: Which AI for Which Job
Sidekick reads your store; ChatGPT reaches your shoppers. Where each AI fits for a Shopify merchant, what neither one does, and how to cover the gap.
- June 11th, 2026AIGuides
Is Shopify Sidekick Safe? What It Can Touch and Where Your Data Goes
What Shopify Sidekick can read, what it can change, whether your store data trains AI models, and the checks that keep an AI assistant inside its lane.
- June 11th, 2026SEOGuides
How to Prove Your Content Actually Drives Traffic
Most content marketing runs on faith. How to use Google Search Console to prove which posts earned clicks, which keywords moved, and where the lift came from.
- June 11th, 2026SubscriptionsGuides
How DTC Brands Cut Subscription Churn with Stay AI
The four-stage churn playbook (save, prevent, recover, measure) mapped to Stay AI's engines, with the vendor numbers attributed and setup guidance.
- June 9th, 2026GuidesPartners
How to A/B Test Your Shopify Store in 2026, Including Prices
Shopify has no native A/B testing. What's actually testable, why price testing is the highest-leverage experiment, and the honest traffic math first.
- June 7th, 2026ReviewsGuides
How to Add Product Reviews to Shopify (2026)
Shopify has no native reviews since 2022, so an app is the path. How to pick one, set it up right, and get real stars into Google and AI answers.
- June 6th, 2026CheckoutGuides
How to Add Upsells and Cross-Sells to Your Shopify Store (2026)
Every place an upsell can live on Shopify, what's free and native, and when an engine like Rebuy earns its keep. With the honest plan-gating details.
- June 4th, 2026SEOGuides
Build Topical Authority on Shopify With Pillar and Cluster Content
Ranking for one keyword is luck. Owning a topic is a system. How pillar and cluster content builds topical authority on Shopify, and why AI engines reward it.
- May 28th, 2026SEOGuides
Find Striking-Distance Keywords in Google Search Console
Your Shopify store already ranks on page two for searches you never targeted. How to pull those striking-distance keywords out of Search Console and win them.
- May 19th, 2026PixelsCustomer events
Debugging Shopify Customer Events: How the Pixel Sandbox Actually Works
Why your Shopify pixel isn't firing: the sandbox explained, a seven-step debug checklist, and what pixels genuinely can't access.
- May 15th, 2026PixelsCustomer events
Meta, Google, and TikTok Pixels on Shopify After checkout.liquid
checkout.liquid is gone, but your ad pixels don't have to be. What each channel app handles automatically, and when you still need a custom pixel.
- May 13th, 2026PixelsCustomer events
Tracking Add-to-Cart and Checkout Events on Shopify with analytics.subscribe
A working reference for Shopify's analytics.subscribe events: payload shapes for add-to-cart, checkout_started, and checkout_completed, with GA4 code.
- May 8th, 2026PixelsCustomer events
Migrating Shopify Tracking to Customer Events (Web Pixels): a Practical Guide
How to move tracking off ScriptTags and checkout.liquid onto Shopify customer events and web pixels, with working analytics.subscribe code.
- May 5th, 2026PixelsCustomer events
How to Add a Custom Pixel to Shopify Without an App
Add tracking to Shopify in five minutes with a custom pixel in Settings > Customer events. No app, no theme edit, and it works on checkout.
- April 22nd, 2026MerchandisingLiquid
How to Filter by Size In Stock on Shopify Collection Pages (2026 Update)
Let shoppers filter a Shopify collection to sizes that are in stock, using native Online Store 2.0 variant filters. No tags, no jQuery.
- April 15th, 2026Custom dataGuides
Build a Product Spec Table on Shopify With Metaobjects
Two honest ways to build a spec table: plain metafields for per-product values, metaobjects when product families share specs. With the Liquid to render it.
- April 8th, 2026Custom dataGuides
Show Metafields on a Shopify Product Page Without an App
Define a metafield, fill it per product, and render it on the product page with dynamic sources or three lines of Liquid. No app, ten minutes.
- April 2nd, 2026Custom dataGuides
Metafields vs Metaobjects on Shopify: When to Use Which
Metafields attach extra data to things you already have. Metaobjects create things that don't exist yet. Real examples to pick the right one first time.
- March 24th, 2026CheckoutGuides
Post-Purchase Upsells on Shopify: How They Work and When They Don't
The post-purchase page can add one-tap offers after payment, but it's in beta and skips wallets, gift cards, and more. The honest rundown for merchants.
- March 18th, 2026Checkout blocksFunctions
Gift With Purchase on Shopify: Checkout Blocks, Functions, or No App at All?
Three honest ways to run a gift with purchase on Shopify: the built-in Buy X Get Y discount, Checkout Blocks on Plus, and a custom discount function.
- March 13th, 2026CheckoutCheckout blocks
Hide or Reorder Payment and Delivery Options on Shopify Without Code
How to hide, rename, and reorder payment and delivery methods with Checkout Blocks on Plus, and the honest path for every other Shopify plan.
- March 10th, 2026Checkout blocksGuides
Customize Shopify's Thank You and Order Status Pages With Checkout Blocks
The one part of Checkout Blocks every plan gets: content blocks on the Thank you and Order status pages. What they can hold and how to set them up.
- March 4th, 2026CheckoutCheckout blocks
Checkout Blocks 101: Customize Shopify Checkout Without Code
What Shopify's free Checkout Blocks app can do on each plan: content blocks, custom fields, and hiding payment or delivery options, no app build required.
- February 25th, 2026FunctionsGuides
Free Gift With Purchase on Shopify Using Functions (Not Scripts)
How to build a free gift with purchase on Shopify with a discount function, the modern replacement for gift-with-purchase Scripts.
- February 20th, 2026FunctionsCheckout
Replacing Shopify payment Scripts with payment customization Functions
Payment Scripts that hide, rename, or reorder payment methods stop June 30, 2026. How to move that logic to a payment customization function.
- February 17th, 2026FunctionsGuides
Replacing Shopify shipping Scripts with delivery Functions
Shipping Scripts that hide, rename, or reorder rates stop working on June 30, 2026. Here is how to move that logic to a Shopify delivery customization function.
- February 11th, 2026FunctionsGuides
Replacing Shopify discount Scripts with discount Functions
Automatic discount Scripts stop working June 30, 2026. How the same logic, from cart tiers to free gifts, moves to a Shopify discount function.
- February 6th, 2026CheckoutGuides
Rebuilding Checkout Customizations With Checkout UI Extensions
How checkout UI extensions actually work: targets, the checkout editor, and rebuilding banners, custom fields, and trust content the upgrade-safe way.
- February 3rd, 2026CheckoutGuides
Checkout.liquid Is Gone: A Field Guide to Shopify Checkout Extensibility
Every checkout.liquid sunset date has passed except the Scripts deadline. Where each old customization goes now: extensions, pixels, and Functions.
- January 27th, 2026FunctionsGuides
What Shopify Functions Can Actually Do (and When You Need a Developer)
A plain-English map of every Shopify Functions API, what each one really does, and the honest answer to whether you need a custom app built.
- January 20th, 2026FunctionsCheckout
Migrating from Shopify Scripts to Checkout Functions: a practical guide
Shopify Scripts retires June 30, 2026. How to move discount, shipping, and payment logic to Functions, with a map from each Script type to its replacement.
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