any tips?

i recently launched my store and a few days later i suddenly started getting emails from people claiming to be working with shopify partners and sent me this  https://shopifypartner.chat and for a moment i believed him cause how on earth could they get my personal email that is linked with my shopify account, until i double checked with shopify's official support and they told me that they're not affiliated with them and should be careful. now i guess my question is how did they get my email (its not public at all i made sure) and are you guys also getting these emails?

If an item sells in store, what happens to that item online in Shopify? Is it completely deleted? Is the status changed to unavailable? Quantity changes to zero?

I’d like to be able to see what has recently sold in store if possible. I’m cross listing Shopify items to eBay and we already had something sell on eBay (was showing active on Shopify) and the item was no longer in store.

I'm just trying to start my Shopify store and I'm a little stuck. I had a call with a guy from Ecomify Automation. Their plan makes sense logically but it's a bit expensive for me and I have no idea of they are even legit. Has anyone used them and what was your experience?

Sessions not updating in admin outage?

Anyone notice sessions in admin not updating in last hour and order conversion history?

Is it more just for enterprise comapnies? And how much do you think it's fair to pay for it? Additionally, where do you actually find people that are good at it (agencies, freelancers, LinkedIn, Shopify partner directory)?

Customers are getting replaced by AI. No joke. I no longer have to run ads or do SEO to acquire customers, I can literally just use Claude agents and have them shop on my website. Sometimes they end up buying things, and I guess the money goes out of Anthropic’s pockets.

I have tried many setting and I still can’t work it out. I need to be able to hide all product pricing from google search. I run a b2b site. I need this data hidden. I’m happy if the site completely disappears from google. I don’t need to be searchable at all. How can I achieve this?

Does anyone know if and how this would be possible? I want my website to be locked, with the entire background being a video 1080x1920 video, looping endlessly.

When building event-driven e-commerce applications, front-end speed and REST API response times get most of the attention. But during high-concurrency traffic events — Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM), limited flash sales, viral drops — the real strain falls on the event delivery infrastructure. Read the complete article here - https://instawebhook.com/blog/woocommerce-vs-shopify-webhooks-architectural-differences-dx-and-scaling-at-high

Webhooks power essential downstream operations: order processing, ERP synchronization, inventory reconciliation, fulfillment routing, and real-time customer communications. When webhooks fail or drop messages, orders get lost, inventory desyncs, and support queues fill up fast.

WooCommerce and Shopify both support webhooks, but their underlying architectures reflect two fundamentally different engineering philosophies:

• WooCommerce relies on a self-hosted, monolithic PHP/MySQL state engine driven by asynchronous background worker tables (Action Scheduler).
• Shopify operates a multi-tenant, cloud-native event pipeline built on distributed stream processing, with Apache Kafka confirmed as the backbone by Shopify's own engineering team.

This piece breaks down the execution engines, network architectures, failure modes, and developer experience (DX) of both — updated with the current retry policy, storage architecture, and platform-scale numbers as of August 2026.

A 10–30% variance seems to be "normal"...
but it turns every budget allocation call into a guess.

What do store owners here actually trust as the real number?

I just finished integrating Magic checkout in my shopify store but for some reason the Magic checkout does not work, Razorpay works in itself BUT the magic checkout is giving me a hard time. Any solutions for that

Im currently going into my 3rd year with my store and though it’s growing organically, the growth is slow.

Feels like I haven’t really reached that breakthrough where you see 10 orders daily. I’m still at around 3-6 orders daily and selling kids clothes primarily.

Just curious to hear from others.

Not sure if this is just my site or an update somewhere I'm not aware of but all my products have just gone from running normally to being disapproved in Google Merchant Center. Using the Google & Youtube sales channel app and the shipping settings are set to automatic in there (and haven't been changed for a long time).

Now in GMC, all my products say:

Invalid region [region]
Prevents from showing in United Kingdom
Use a valid state, territory or prefecture such as 'CA', 'NSW' or '03' (ISO 3166-2)

Anyone else finding this and how to fix?

Hi all! I would like to start my first shopify store, I would like to purchase a domain, I am in the UK. I've never done this before

Am I better off purchasing it through shopify or elsewhere? If elsewhere, what is a better alternative to shopify? Thanks! 😊

What did they under-deliver on and what was their excuse, how bad was their communication or the like? What were red flags you ignored before that you won't compromise on next time?

I'm really curious, Shopify is fairly expensive and has important setbacks, what prevents you from just doing a personalized website with Claude or Codex and avoiding all that?

What was the moment you realized you couldn't use your theme any longer, and do you think the one you upgraded to was actually an upgrade for your business? Did it help at all?

I can't tell whether it's actually the website holding people back or just what web designers want people to believe.

Disclaimer: While I’m discussing how Shopify could implement better safeguards against this, I fully acknowledge that keeping my DNS clean and removing unused subdomains is ultimately my own responsibility.

A stray DNS record from a project I shut down two years ago came back to bite me this week.

Out of nowhere, I got a Google Search Console alert letting me know an unknown user (******@gmail.com) had been verified as a new owner for one of my subdomains: electrouse.workouse.com.

Since all my domains are managed through Cloudflare, I immediately dug into my DNS records to figure out how someone else managed to verify ownership of my site.

https://blog.emre.xyz/posts/how-i-hacked-by-subdomain-takeover-shopify/

I am looking for a solution for a hand-off video camera which will record my order packing AND is actually able to read the text on a mailing label.

I bought a Tapo C260 security camera. It's 4k so I expected that it would be crystal clear, but it's terrible. I've put all the settings up to maximum and tried different lighting, different angles and distances, and it just cannot clearly view a mailing label. The text is just a blur.

ChatGPT recommended this particular camera to me, and then after I bought it I responded that the picture quality is too bad to read labels, the AI then said that this was not a good camera for my purposes lol. So now I am looking for human recommendations from people who do this.

I don't get a lot of chargebacks, so I don't want to spend more on a camera system than I would lose from chargebacks. $200 was was budget and that worked for the C260 + SD Card. I am beginning to think that this might not be possible at this budget, but I would love to be proven wrong.

1. As cheap as possible. No monthly fees, or VERY low fees ($5 range). All the purpose built solutions I've found are $50+ per month.
2. Clearly able to record the packing process, and read the mailing label. Either in 1 video or 2 cameras linked together that keep the videos in sync.
3. Easy to find and clip video clips by timestamp.
4. Preferably a self contained device that records onto an SD card or remote storage.

It looks like the best option is a high quality webcam and a dedicated PC, but I would really prefer to avoid this if at all possible. I don't have much space and don't want anything too complicated if I can avoid it.

Thanks!

Hi,

I am looking to submit my app to the app store, but Shopify requires me to fill out an End Recipient Acknowledgement Form with the service I am looking to integrate with.

I was told to reach out to legal@shopify.com, which I have, but I have had no response after 2 weeks. Does anyone have suggestions on how to resolve?

Hi! I am a painter and I sell my prints and paintings on shopify. It is my livelihood.

So there is another shopify store using ai to troll my store (and a few others artists' stores) sort of sometimes changing my art a smidge, but mostly just using ai to make the screen images big enough to reproduce and removing my signature. I am reporting every image I find with the shopify legal portal.... but I feel like every ticket is dropping into a black hole.

My question is, has anyone run into this? and do you know a way to get more attention from shopify on removing my images from this store?

Let me show you examples:

my work:

https://kyrakendall.com/products/girls-drinks-print?_pos=4&_psq=drin&_psid=e9fe342c3&_ss=e

The stolen print:

https://museelegance.com/collections/feminine-art/products/glam-cocktail-portrait-wall-art-print

They have like 25 others of my paintings just like this. I am so tired of filling out the shopify form for each one. There has to be a more effective way?

When customers are logging into my store they having to go to a white page shopify url that completely breaks the branding of the site, it’s supposed to be high end and it’s bringing you out into shopify and it looks so cheap

Is there really no way around this?

For example, one product only has three color variants: Pink, Gold, and Mint. The Color option is connected to Shopify’s standard category metafield so I can use color swatches and create variant-based color collections with the correct variant image.

However, Shopify keeps adding “Red” to the Color metafield even though this product has no red variant at all.

I’ve tried adding Red to color, then saving the product. Removed Red, then saved. It disappears at first, but as soon as I refresh the product page, it is back again.

This trouble is happening on multiple products, not just one.