Choosing between WooCommerce and Shopify is one of the first big decisions any small business owner makes when building an online store — and it’s a decision that shapes your costs, your workload, and your growth options for years afterward. Both platforms are genuinely excellent, and both power millions of live stores today, so there … Read more
Search for Shopify SEO, and you’ll find no shortage of blog posts, Reddit threads, and agency articles arguing about whether Shopify is bad for SEO. Some swear Shopify caps how well a store can rank. Others point to Shopify stores dominating page one of Google for competitive ecommerce keywords. The truth sits closer to the … Read more
If you run a Shopify store in a competitive niche, you already know the frustrating part of SEO. You’re not fighting for rankings against one competitor. You’re fighting against 15 of them, plus two or three big legacy brands with a 10-year head start and a content team three times the size of yours. Most … Read more
Choosing between Shopify and WordPress is one of the first and most consequential decisions you’ll make when starting an online business. Both platforms can power a professional, high-converting store, but they’re built on fundamentally different philosophies: Shopify is a hosted, all-in-one ecommerce platform, while WordPress is an open-source content management system that becomes an ecommerce … Read more
Written by Navdeep Soni — Shopify Developer & Founder, Growthpolis, 5+ years of building Shopify apps and running SEO for D2C stores in India. I come with 15+ years of SEO experience. With 6 years of running Growthpolis, we have audited more than 100 stores; more than 3500+ stores are powered by our public apps: … Read more
Cash on Delivery (COD) rejections alone account for roughly 26% of RTOs in India, compared to under 2% for prepaid orders — and that gap is exactly why so many Shopify merchants go looking for a way to hide, reorder, or rename payment methods at checkout. Whether you’re trying to cut COD losses on high-value … Read more
Author’s note: I run Growthpolis, and one of the apps mentioned below — Vista Checkout Rule & Discount — is ours. Everywhere it’s discussed, I’ve tried to be upfront about what it does well and where it’s genuinely behind more established competitors, rather than pretending it’s the answer to everything. The technical limits, review findings, … Read more
Choosing between Shopify and Odoo is one of the most common decisions online sellers face, and it’s rarely a simple one. Shopify is a hosted, ecommerce-first platform built to get a store online fast, while Odoo is an open-source business suite that includes an ecommerce module. Both can power an online store, but they’re built … Read more
When you are building Shopify apps, especially embedded apps, we often need access to the email address or identity of the logged-in Shopify user. This is different from what you see in your partner dashboard, as it shows only the store’s registered email ID. The logged-in user can be different from the store’s registered email. … Read more
Shoppers love a great deal. And discounts that apply automatically during checkout in Shopify are one of the simplest ways to increase conversions and average order value. But Shopify’s built-in discount features are limited, especially when you want rules that suit real shopping behavior. That’s why many Shopify stores choose Vista Checkout Rules & Discounts. … Read more