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lacelocked

2009-11-17T14:00:00Z

Shopify App Showcase: Campaign Monitor

2009-11-13T17:20:00Z

This is the Shopify App Showcase, where we profile a new app from the Shopify App Store every week, describing its features and how a storeowner can benefit from using it. Feel free to leave some feedback about things you’d like to see in the next profile.

Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor is a leading provider of e-mail marketing software, and this app by Lucid Design of New Zealand integrates Campaign Monitor and Shopify to make it easy for you to send out e-mails and newsletters to your subscribers.

Any visitors to your store that opt in to e-mail marketing are automatically added to a subscriber list in your Campaign Monitor account. Then you can design and send your promotional material to all your customers. Powerful templates are available and Campaign Monitor’s interface gives you great reporting features. Simple and straightforward, just the way we like it.

E-mail marketing is one of the best promotional tools out there. It’s a big business feature that’s now very affordable for small businesses, letting you keep your customers in the loop about news and promotions.

This app is free of charge while it’s in Beta, so give it a shot and let us know what you think. The install is short and you can start using it right away.

Via Snella

2009-11-12T14:00:00Z

LIVE! On Sunset

2009-11-09T14:00:00Z

Application Link Icons

2009-11-06T13:00:00Z

Thanks to a suggestion from one of our fine developers, application links can now have icons.

To set an application link’s icon, click the “Choose an icon” link in the app’s edit screen:

A screen then appears, showing the entire Silk icon set from famfamfam. Select one of these by clicking on it.

After selecting an icon, it’ll appear right away:

Save the changes made to the app, and the icon will appear next to the link in your users’ admins:

Buyer Contact Email Now Templated

2009-11-05T13:00:00Z

To let you work faster when notifying buyers, Shopify now uses a template to prepare the email you send when clicking on “Email Buyer” from an order screen. That means you can set up a form-letter that has the usual stuff and personalize it before it’s sent.

To use the new buyer contact form template, first click on it in your shop Admin section’s Email & Notifications section:

Then edit the template to include the usual text you use in emails to buyers:

Now when you send a buyer an email,

... the templated parts appear already filled in:

Promote Your Products with Google Product Search Integration

2009-11-05T12:30:00Z

We are proud to announce that Shopify now integrates with Google Product Search (formerly Google Base). Using this free service is a great way to increase product promotion and discovery. We recommend every eligible Shopify store to opt in to this service for optimal exposure.

Google Product Search

Google Product Search is part of Google Base, an online database provided by Google into which any user can add almost any type of content, such as products. Google Product Search functions as a comparison shopping engine allowing people to search for products and find results from many different online retailers, comparing descriptions, price, etc.

Listing your products on Google Product Search is a great way to get more exposure for your products and drive traffic to your shop.

Note: Google currently only allows integration with merchants operating in the US and operating in USD, or in the UK and operating in GBP, or in Germany and operating in Euros.

Check out the marketing tab in your shop admin to opt in to this integration.

CrossFit

2009-11-02T14:00:00Z

The Golden Dwarf

2009-10-29T13:00:00Z

Tupelo Honey Cafe

2009-10-26T13:00:00Z

Shopify App Showcase: OrderCup

2009-10-23T19:57:00Z

OrderCup

OrderCup is a new app that prints shipping labels for a variety of shippers, including UPS, FedEx and USPS. Instead of copy-and-pasting, with OrderCup everything is done automatically – all forms are auto-generated and your customers even get the tracking number sent to them. The reviews in the App Store show how useful OrderCup is, and as a Shopify customer, you get a month of free phone support and priority e-mail support.

Check out this video showing how to install OrderCup in Shopify and ship an order.

OrderCup is built for medium-sized enterprises, but priced for the small business. Not only does it integrate fully with Shopify, it also integrates directly with hardware used in shipping – thermal printers, electronic scales and bar code scanners. It silently prints to the correct printer (without on-screen prompts popping up), automatically captures weight from electronic scales (also without prompt), and is even able to work with scanners in a point-click-ship environment for larger users.

For a complete list of OrderCup features, click here, and take a look at what others say about OrderCup on their testimonials page.

Foo King

2009-10-23T13:00:00Z

Shopify Cheat Sheet

2009-10-22T00:25:00Z

A handy cheat sheet for all the awesome Shopify web designers/devs was posted on the forums

Raz*War

2009-10-20T13:00:00Z

nectar

2009-10-16T13:00:00Z