r/ShopifyPros

Hello everyone,

I am a first time drop shipper and have been setting up my site on Shopify. Someone from Shopify Marketplace reached out to me and would like to promote my site to be paid 5% for each actual sale rendered.

Does anyone have experience with this and is it a scam. The person gave me the high-level of what they want to do include optimizing my site and I have security concerns. Can anyone weigh in here if they have utilized someone like this, was it legitimate, any success and verification methods other than material they have sent you.

Thanks,

Christopher

I want to show shipment Arrival dates on my checkout page and I'm on the basic Shopify plan

I spoke to support and they told me my only options are:

– hire a developer (starts at $55)

– upgrade to Shopify Plus

– do it myself

atm I none of the options work for me really. I also tried a bunch of apps : estimated delivery, ETA apps etc. they all work on the product page fine but NONE of them show up on the actual checkout page. which is literally the only place it matters.
anyone dealt with this before and has a workaround that worked for your store.

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For the moderate to advanced technically competent, enterprising individual launching or growing a DTC brand today, is using Shopify even worth it?

Why not just create your own with Claude Code, building on top of Stripe?

If Shopify brought you customers - like Amazon or other marketplaces - then I would understand but they are basically a SaaS vendor that extracts a processing fee on every sale...

With a custom solution you avoid Shopify lock-in, can build custom solutions tailored specific to your needs, and lower costs.

May be too high risk for existing stores but what about new brands or those looking to migrate from a legacy platform?

Has anyone who has achieved some sense of scale done this yet?

For people running Shopify/e-commerce stores:

What’s usually the first operational sign that something is going wrong in your business before it becomes a serious problem?

Not necessarily revenue dropping, but earlier patterns like:

- refunds increasing

- margins shrinking

- certain products slowing down

- weird order trends

- cashflow feeling tighter

- sales becoming inconsistent

Interested in the warning signs experienced store owners actually pay attention to.

Hi, i've got a brand in The Netherlands and 70% of the people on my website are bots from Iowa United States. They sent so many bots to my website for whatever reason. Does anyone know how i can get rid of them?

With kind regards

A store I am working on, has this functionality:
You buy:
1 x 100ml
or
2 x 50ml

You get:
1 free 20ml

The 20ml is chosen from a page which allows you to add as much as you are elligible to add.

Now of course, things should be synchronized if the user removes a 100ml, a 20ml should get removed too, all in all, I have to make sure a user does not checkout with free 20mls. I am doing several front end checks and all works good, unless you are a dev yourself. Issue one is the products already have to be priced to 0, which I have had bad experience in the past, where on several stores people kept adding an ungodly amount of free products until someone realised and to this day we never understood how things were happening.

For that case, I want to add some checkout and cart validations, add discounts automatically instead of keeping products to 0 and here comes shopify functions.

Some time ago I fell upon an app that allowed to write functions through it but I can't seem to find it.

Could someone suggest any approach? Thank you!

We ship from our own warehouse and two 3PLs. Orders come into Shopify and my ops person decides where to fulfill based on stock and location. They get it wrong often and we split shipments or backorder unnecessarily.

I need rules that check real-time inventory across all locations, consider shipping zones, and auto-route the order. If a bundle has components in different warehouses, decide whether to split or hold. If stock is low, hold for approval. We’re a team of two and can’t watch this all day.

Curious what the community is gravitating towards for workflow automation on Shopify projects right now.

Seeing a lot of Make.com and n8n come up for post purchase flows and support deflection, are these becoming the standard or is there still a strong case for Zapier?

Also interested in how people are handling Gorgias and Klaviyo integrations, building custom or using native flows?

Would love to hear what actually working in production environments!

I am developing a print on demand storefront for my client ! I have added the products in the store but will be completing them like photos and the description and all in a day or two.

I need help in the customization of the store. Rn the store is running on DAWN theme.

The client wants to get the store running rn without having the premium paid plugins.
The client wants the store front to look more like a GEN Z store.

Do you want to see the store front ?

After 7 years of running paid ads for dropshipping stores, managing over $1M in ad spend and generating $2M+ in revenue, I built a formula I actually use before committing to any product. Before clients set up a store. Before the client makes creatives. Before I spend a dollar on ads.

Here it is.

First, understand what a winning product actually is:

A winning product is not just something that sells. Anything can sell once if you throw enough money at ads.

A winning product sells profitably and consistently. It has room for ad spend, fulfillment costs, and still leaves real profit. It has creative potential, meaning you can make compelling content about it. And it has staying power, meaning it's not a 2-week viral spike that dies before you even launch.

Keep that definition in mind as you read through this.

1. It solves a specific problem

Not a vague benefit. A specific, real, relatable problem that a large number of people deal with regularly.

The best products have an obvious before and after. The customer can clearly articulate what they were struggling with and how the product fixed it. That's what makes great ad creative, when the problem writes the script for you.

2. It has at least a 3x to 5x markup

You need a minimum 60% gross margin. This is not negotiable.

If the product costs you $10 you need to be able to sell it for $30 to $50. That margin has to cover your ad spend, your payment processing fees, your fulfillment, your returns, and still leave you with actual profit.

3. It is lightweight and easy to ship

Under 2 pounds ideally. Durable enough that it survives shipping without expensive packaging.

4. It is not sitting on the shelf at Walmart or Amazon

If someone can drive five minutes and buy it locally, why would they wait for it to ship to them?

Winning dropshipping products are things people cannot easily find in local retail. Unique items. Innovative designs. Products that solve a problem in a new way. This is what drives online purchase behaviour and reduces the price comparison mentality that kills conversion rates.

5. It has a wow factor

This one is hard to define but easy to feel.

When you see the product for the first time you should have a reaction. Either "I need that" or "oh that's clever" or "I've never seen anything like that." Something that makes people stop scrolling.

6. It sits in the $20 to $80 price range

This is the impulse buy zone.

Below $20 and your margins are almost impossible to maintain with paid ads. Above $80 and the purchase consideration time goes up dramatically,people want to think about it, research it, compare options. That consideration time kills conversion rates.

7. It looks good on camera

This matters more in 2026 than it ever has.

TikTok and Instagram Reels are visual-first platforms. Your product needs to photograph and video well.

8. It is trending upward for at least 6 to 12 months

Not a fad. Not a one week viral moment.

A genuine upward trend on Google Trends, TikTok search volume, and social media engagement over at least 6 months tells you there is sustained and growing demand. That's the window you want to enter

9. It appeals to a broad audience

The bigger the potential audience the more room you have to scale.

10. It has a low return risk

Returns kill dropshipping margins.

Durable products. Simple functionality. Products where the listing description can accurately represent what arrives,these have naturally low return rates.

In next post i will give The 10-step validation checklist so that you can check yourself and find out that you should go with this product or not.

After spending the last few years deep in AI SEO and watching how these recommendation engines actually decide who to surface, one thing surprised me more than anything else.

The stores showing up consistently in ChatGPT recommendations weren't always the ones with the best SEO or the most backlinks. A lot of them just had a serious Trustpilot presence that their competitors had completely ignored.

Something you set up once, forget about, and hope a few customers leave something nice on. That was a reasonable approach two years ago. It isn't anymore.

Trustpilot is now the fifth most cited domain globally on ChatGPT. When someone asks ChatGPT to recommend a product or a store, the AI is actively pulling from Trustpilot reviews as a primary source to determine whether your brand is trustworthy enough to recommend. Citations from AI search tools to Trustpilot grew roughly fifteen times year over year in 2025. That is not a minor shift.

Here is why this matters more than backlinks right now. Google rewards authority. Backlinks, domain age, page rank. That system took years to game and even longer to build legitimately. ChatGPT evaluates something different. It looks for consensus across independent third party sources. A backlink from another website tells Google you are credible. A verified Trustpilot review tells ChatGPT a real person had a real experience with your store and trusted it enough to leave a record of it.

Those are completely different signals and AI weighs the second one heavily.

With 58% of consumers now using AI platforms for product recommendations, the stores that have built a strong presence on third party review platforms are quietly pulling ahead. The AI needs external validation that your store is legitimate. Your own website cannot provide that. Your product descriptions cannot provide that. Trustpilot can.

The stores showing up in AI recommendations consistently have three things in common. Recent reviews, a high volume of them, and responses from the brand that show someone is actually paying attention.

Most store owners are still building backlinks while their customers have already moved on to asking AI what to buy.