r/ShopifyeCommerce

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What should i do?

I added Smileio to my store a few months back because everyone recommends it for retention and it was super easy to get running. No complaints about setup, it integrated fast and looked clean enough on the site.

Problem is customers barely interact with it. Most people don’t even seem to notice the points system unless I mention it somewhere myself, and the rewards feel too small to make people care. I kept expecting repeat orders to slowly improve over time but it really hasn’t done much for me.

Atp it just feels like another app subscription sitting in the background without adding much value.

Ever since I added a cookie banner to my Shopify store, my tracking has felt way less reliable. Shopify orders still come through, but Meta Ads and GA4 are reporting fewer conversions and some sessions seem completely missing.

I know consent rules are stricter now, especially for EU traffic, but I didn’t expect such a huge difference in attribution and retargeting. Trying to figure out whether this is just normal signal loss or if my setup is wrong.

So I created my first store and thought of dropshipping suit accessories, but I don’t think that’s a good idea. Would you guys recommend selling digital products or drop shipping more. I’m really lost in this. Because I thought that I need something that I can advertise easily because I want to use AI to make like tiktok clips or smth like that.

Please tell me your opinion because I really need help and I’m stuck.

Hi. I'm looking for alternatives to the upsell app Upcart by Rokt. It's a great app, but it's getting a bit expensive for a clothing store. Looking for something affordable, has cart upsells and bundles, and comes with a free plan if possible.

The standard dropship support stack at some point becomes a helpdesk for tickets, a FAQ builder that nobody updates, a chat widget that routes to neither, and a separate order tracking tool, and none of them talk to each other properly so the shopper falls through the gap every time the question is even slightly nuanced. The conversion hit from that fragmentation isn't just about support quality, it's about pre purchase conversations that die because the chat widget can't pull the product catalog and the FAQ doesn't cover the specific supplier variant question. For dropship where the catalog changes constantly and supplier data is always partially stale, does consolidating to one conversational layer move the needle.

Anyone else notice customers sometimes search multiple times for the same thing before leaving?

Saw this happen on a store recently and it surprised me a bit. People kept slightly changing search terms, revisiting collections, then bouncing.

Made me wonder how many conversion problems are actually product discovery problems rather than traffic problems.

Shopify is too complicated and has too many plugins. Is there a simpler way for sellers of digital products to quickly set up their own online store?

I’ve seen a lot of people talking about connecting AI agents to their stores with Zendrop. I recently switched to it as well and now I want to start testing this out myself. How do you connect ChatGPT to your store and how does the whole setup work? What can it actually help automate or improve day to day?

Hi, I feel tired from having to manually enter each product into a PO created in Shopify. I usually have a spreadsheet of items I ordered from suppliers, and in order for Shopify to track the inventory import, I need to enter the products into each PO manually. Took me about half an hr to create a PO, but it’s laborious and boring work. Contacted Shopify support and they said currently there’s no way to automate or import an excel file into a PO, but they’ll consider this feature in the future if there’s enough ask.

Can you let me know how you currently manage inventory in Shopify, especially the PO part?

So I opened up a store on Shopify about a month or two ago. I've been making designs for shirts and eventually hoodies and hats but I started with shirts first. At first my store wasn't looking good, it was all over the place and missing important sections. After reading up on how to make the site look better I redid a lot of it but even with the ads I paid to promote over 900 people showed and not 1 bought anything. I figured with how the store looked no one trusted to get any product so like I said I redid it. But I'm now wondering if I'm forgetting anything or are my designs just not what people want? I don't have the money to pay for pros and I keep reaching out for advice but no one wants to help me it seems like. I make the designs myself and press them and everything. I have social media showing as much content as I can post plus I setup customer gallery with pictures of some people I know wanted some shirts made and I had them upload them wearing the shirts. I just feel like I'm doing something wrong or something is correctly done... I'd really appreciate if anyone would be willing to kinda help me and direct me on how to go about this better .. my store is linensnkrshirts.com

Thanks.

I'm based in Japan and I keep seeing overseas brands

struggle to reach Japanese audiences on TikTok and Instagram.

From what I can tell, both platforms lock content

distribution to the region where the account was created.

So even if you're targeting Japan, your content ends up

reaching your home audience instead.

VPN doesn't seem to work either — the platforms

detect it and shadowban the account.

Have you experienced this trying to reach Japan?

How did you handle it?

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?

Hey merchants, what apps are you using to create custom product options to your store in 2026?

I have used one previously, but not finding its UI particularly great. Anything new caught your attention recently? i know there are already a great lineup in this category with lots of reviews.

but for now I want something simple, intuitive and budget friendly to add the extra options to the product pages.

File upload is most important for the store i am working on, specially video file upload. Any specific product option app you would recommend for that?

Been looking into help desk options for my Shopify store and honestly it's overwhelming. Most of the well known ones feel like they're built for bigger teams and the pricing reflects that.

What I actually need is pretty simple. Something easy to set up without developer help, reasonable pricing for a store that's not doing huge volume, and ideally some AI to help with replies so I'm not writing everything from scratch.

Gorgias keeps coming up but the ticket based pricing makes me nervous for busier periods. Anyone found something that hits that middle ground?

I’m setting up a Shopify store that sells car filters and have about 7000 SKUs. The challenge is that users search by make/model names in all kinds of different ways, so getting accurate search results is tough.

I want to add a multi-layer dropdown filter to the page so users can select:
Vehicle Type → Brand → Model → Engine Size
…and when you choose the vehicle type, only the relevant brands show; when you choose a brand, only that brand’s models show; etc.

Does anyone know a Shopify theme or app that supports this kind of hierarchical dropdown search/filter?

Thanks in advance!

I'm hoping to find myself a mentor who has gone through the journey, raised capital,scaled users and hit profitability.