r/shopify_geeks

I have a friend who runs a marketing agency and handles a couple of e commerce brands. He uses a lot of tools, like excel, notion, chatgpt, gemini and teams vs slack with respect to different clients.

The only good thing he mentions is that he solves in performance marketing is making this a process, doing competitive research and trying variants of creatives on those data points and the optimising. CRO after doing post mortem of those campaigns afterwards.

Excited to hear more of the processes that founders and agencies follow for their stores and marketing.

Hi i have a shopify store, customized the theme and published the website.
Last year i did $17k business via website. But this is till march my online sales was growing like 17% up compare to last year sales. One thing last year most of the buyer were direct buyer like they were my repetitive customers. Earlier this year (around March), sales were actually growing by about 17% compared to the previous year. Most of my customers were returning customers, and things were going well.

However, now everything has suddenly stopped. I'm still getting 100+ visitors per day, but I'm getting almost no sales.

I have good knowledge of SEO and Shopify theme customization, so I don't think it's a traffic issue. I haven't made any major changes that should have hurt conversions.

I'm trying to figure out what could be causing this. Some possibilities I was thinking about are:

• Trust issues on the website?
• Product page problems?
• Checkout issues?
• Theme or app conflicts?
• Missing product reviews?

If you have experienced something similar, what would you check first?

Also, if you recommend a good free Shopify product review/rating app, I'd really appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

Curious what everyone is actually using in production.

I'm less interested in "AI-powered" marketing claims and more interested in tools that are genuinely saving time, increasing revenue, or improving customer experience.

A few categories I'm exploring:

• Customer support
• Product descriptions & SEO
• Email/SMS personalization
• CRO & A/B testing
• Search & merchandising
• Inventory forecasting
• Review management
• UGC generation
• AI shopping assistants
• Workflow automation (n8n, Make, Claude, MCP, etc.)

What's in your stack today?

More importantly:

• Which tool has delivered the biggest ROI?
• Which one wasn't worth the hype?
• Any hidden gems that more Shopify merchants should know about?

Looking forward to hearing what's actually working.

I'm a solo dev researching how well Shopify product data works with AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Mode). Shopify's own Spring '26 numbers say AI-referred traffic converts 7-16% vs ~2% organic, but Catalog syndication quality depends entirely on product data (categories, attributes, GTINs, descriptions, alt text).

Before I write more code, honest questions for people running or building for real stores:

1. Do you (or your merchants) see AI-referred sessions/orders in analytics yet?

2. Has anyone done anything specific to show up in AI answers - and did it move the needle?

3. Would a tool that scores catalog "AI readiness" (0-100) and fixes gaps in one click (metafields, taxonomy, schema - fixes stay in your data after uninstall) be worth $19/mo to the merchants you know?

Not selling anything - no listing yet, genuinely validating before building further. Happy to share back what I learn from this thread.

Been going down the performance rabbit hole lately and noticed half the "must do" advice barely moved my numbers, while a couple of boring changes made a real difference.

The one that overdelivered for me: cutting apps. dropped from 0.9% to 1.6% conversion mostly from removing scripts + fixing mobile image sizes — nothing exotic.

the one that underdelivered: obsessing over a perfect 90+ Lighthouse score. real users on real phones didn't care past a point.

Curious what everyone else found — what's the overhyped fix that wasted your time, and what's the underrated one that actually worked?

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Shopify vs. BigCommerce for a small business selling around 100 digital products.

I’m currently using BigCommerce. The only problem I have with BigCommerce is their theme. I can't find a good theme for a small store. I purchased a few, and they are no longer supported and have issues. I need something simple and easy to manage. I don't want to deal with the theme and want to focus on my digital goods.

I’m not sure if I will have to pay for any plugins if I switch to Shopify.

Features I want from BigCommerce in Shopify:
\- sell digital goods
\- product collections
\- assign products to more than one category
\- features products tag
\- custom SEO on each product
\- auto email with download link sent after purchase.
\- exports sales data
\- TurboTax

Shopify Vape Ban Starting July 7 — What Are Other Merchants Doing?

I run an online smoke shop, and I’m trying to get a clear read from other Shopify merchants about the vape / ENDS ban that appears to take effect July 7, 2026.

From what I’m seeing, Shopify is no longer supporting the sale of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, including e-cigarettes, e-liquids, vaporizers, parts, and refills. Some reports say this applies regardless of nicotine content, which is where things get confusing for shops that sell legal adult-use accessories, dry herb vaporizers, concentrate devices, replacement parts, and brands like Puffco.

I understand Shopify is under pressure from state attorneys general over illegal e-cigarette sales, youth access, and compliance issues. I’m not here to argue that illegal disposable vapes should be allowed. That is not my concern.

My concern is how broad this policy will be in practice.

For other Shopify merchants in regulated categories:

Are you removing all vape-related products before July 7?

Has Shopify given you a clear list of affected products?

Are cannabis-adjacent products like dab devices, e-rigs, dry herb vaporizers, Puffco products, atomizers, chambers, or accessories being flagged?

Has anyone successfully appealed?

Are you moving to another platform, or just removing certain products?

Are payment processors treating this the same way Shopify is?

I’m especially interested in hearing from merchants who received an actual Shopify notice, not just rumors or recycled blog posts.

This feels like one of those platform-risk moments where a business can be legally compliant and still get wiped out by a broad platform policy. Trying to compare notes before July 7 so I don’t miss something obvious.

Appreciate any real-world info from store owners, developers, compliance people, or anyone who has already dealt with Shopify on this.

Hey all, I’m 27 and running my shopify store used to be exciting, I enjoyed and now it feels like endless support tickets, chargebacks, app fees, tracking issues, and random problems every day.

Am I the only one who opens shopify and immediately wonders what went wrong this time, how do you avoid burnout?

Every time I try to publish ads on Meta, they never actually get clicks. I understand some of it — I mean, I have a 4-5% CTR, but that's because I target, and I don't target very heavily since it's a Pilates-based product, so I just target "Pilates." But I never get like 100 sessions in a day. Last time I got 80 sessions and I spent $150/$200 the day before I turned it off. And yes, I did get a sale, but I'm never gonna be profitable if I have to spend $200 in order to get a $100 sale, ykwim. So I just wanna know, what do y'all do? Or how much do y'all spend in order to get 100 clicks? Because I need help getting people to my store, since I don't think I need to test angles at $200 a day for 5 angles.

For Shopify store owners, what change gave you the biggest improvement in conversions?
Product descriptions
Product images
Reviews/social proof
Store design
SEO
I’d love to hear real examples and results from your stores.

been auditing a few stores lately and the pattern that keeps surprising me is how often *removing* an app beats adding one. killed two that were loading on every page last month and the site got noticeably faster — conversion ticked up without touching anything else.

curious what everyone else has cut. could be a speed thing, a UX thing, or just something you paid for and never used. what did you remove, and what happened after?

I came across a Reddit thread where a merchant asked a simple question:

“Is anyone else seeing sales slow down?”

What followed was 50+ replies from ecommerce founders sharing what they’re seeing in real time.

The answers were surprisingly divided.

Some businesses are having their best year ever. Others are wondering how they’ll make payroll.

A few examples:

A luxury limo company serving wealthy clients said revenue is up over 60% compared to last year.

A finance business targeting high-net-worth customers reported its best year in eight years.

Meanwhile, apparel sellers described sales as “tanking.”
Health and wellness brands said demand has softened across multiple channels.

One merchant nearly doubled their product catalog but is generating only half the sales they had a year ago.

The most interesting pattern wasn’t that sales are down.
It was who is still spending.

Many merchants pointed out that customers haven’t completely disappeared.

They’re just taking much longer to buy.

At the same time, businesses with referral-driven growth, loyal repeat customers, or affluent audiences seem to be holding up much better than brands relying heavily on paid acquisition.

It almost feels like there are two completely different ecommerce economies operating at the same time.

Another point that came up repeatedly was traffic.

Several merchants argued that brands with strong SEO are weathering the slowdown better because they aren’t as dependent on increasingly expensive paid ads.

Others pushed back and said this happens every summer, and that Reddit naturally attracts merchants looking for answers when business is slow.

That’s probably true too.

But the number of similar conversations popping up lately makes me wonder whether something larger is happening.

So I’m curious… Are your ecommerce sales up or down compared to this time last year?

I'm running a store last 3 months I got views and comments on social media but there no sale cuz. I don't get big viewership, so how I can get my first sale any suggestion appreciated 🙌

Hey guys,

E-commerce guy here. Already doing serious revenue.

I built a few apps for my own team that we use day to day. All vibe-coded; but quite in-depth stuff.

Long story short I want to turn one off them into a saas. This app is 80% production ready and has allowed me to cut by three the numbers of employees needed for certain tasks. I want to market this app for e-commercant; with a shopify app that serves as the integration with the shops.

So why am I here? I'm looking for a technical cofounder. Someone that will continue developping the app, hardening security, develop the shopify app integration, etc. The ideal cofounder must have relevant experience buildings shopify apps (with success); be knowledgeable about marketing SaaS's to dropshippers; and ready to work a fuck ton to make this work. I'm no lazy mf myself.

I think this could scale to 50-100k mrr with big margins quite quickly driven by very high subscription costs.

Shoot me a dm.

Admins lmk if any issue w my post plz

A friend of mine runs a small shopify store and just hit something i hadnt seen before. A customer commented on one of his Ads Saying an AI assistant had told them that his site is a scam.

Thing to note that he is running his store since 2021 , and his customer's seem happy enough .

Has anyone else run into this? Curious whether reporting it to Google will actually work long term or it will come back?