From January 1st to May 21st, I’ve done around $78k in profit from a single store
That’s way more money than I ever imagined making when I started 5 years ago.
Profit is calculated after taxes, COGS, transaction fees, ad spend, and everything else.
Profit is all that matters =)
I’m trying to improve how I manage my store daily. Curious what experienced store owners look at first every morning on Shopify, conversion rate, sessions, abandoned carts, revenue, ROAS, etc. What metric matters most to you?
I'm looking for advice! I just started working at this old b2b company and they have a new Shopify store that they set up before I joined.
They're on a really old accounting software that is on prem (not in the cloud, doesn't really exist anymore), no scanners, no warehouse software, no automated fulfillment software, etc. We're really starting from scratch here.
They're planning to revamp everything to support an infrastructure and operations where everything is fully integrated together from Shopify, Accounting System, Warehouse Software operations for inventory management, etc. They manage their own warehouse and fulfill to Amazon and Shopify from this warehouse.
They do Amazon sales and Shopify and offline calls for their sales team.
I'm trying to figure out what the best tech stack to use for when they start over that would be best to scale. They are willing to invest in good software as they hope to not do this again.
They do several $M a year in revenue, so pretty much still a small business.
I'm looking for advice. What tech/software stack are you guys using to manage and grow your business? I'm open to recommendations. I'm just trying to help them set it up once and be done with it.
Thank you so much in advance!
Okay for context, we sell items in bundles and pallets, for structure and ease of use, we use tables in our site to show bundle and pallet quantity and prices. So our variants are just bundle and pallet. However, ShipHero is treating the bundle and pallet variants of the same product as different products - so essentially we are having to manage inventory twice.
Has anyone experienced this and how did you fix it?
Been working on my store for months. Even though I feel like I could start running ads already, I still think there are things I need to improve first. Any tips would be appreciated.
I’ve been building a lightweight Shopify app called Intent Flow, and I’m trying to validate whether this is actually useful for merchants or just 'another analytics tool'
The idea came from something I noticed repeatedly:
Most Shopify analytics apps tell you:
But as a store owner, what I REALLY wanted to know was:
"Which visitor is actually likely to buy right now?"
So Intent Flow focuses only on that.
Current features:
Example:
If someone:
The app increases their intent score automatically.
The goal is:
NOT more dashboards.
The goal is:
- helping merchants identify serious buyers before they leave.
What I’m intentionally trying to avoid:
I want this to feel:
As a merchant, would something like this actually help you increase revenue?
For example:
Also curious:
what would feel like fair pricing for this?
Would love brutally honest feedback:
thinking of selling a tiktok page in the beauty/skincare niche that’s currently sitting around 128k followers. content on it is mostly simple slideshow-style posts around skincare, body care, haircare, and similar products, so it doesn’t need heavy editing or constant filming to keep active. even with inconsistent uploads lately, posts still tend to land in the 4–5 digit view range. figured it might be more useful to someone in the shopify / tiktok shop / product testing space since the audience is already built around beauty-related content. main reason i’m considering letting it go is honestly just time. i took on a marketing lead role recently and haven’t really been able to give the page proper attention anymore. i still post on it here and there, but not enough to actually scale it the way i used to. not trying to make it sound bigger than it is, but it’s an established page with decent engagement history and still active. if anyone wants more info, feel free to dm and i can send stats/analytics
Like the title says, Shopify Payments isn’t supported in the country I live in, so right now I can only use PayPal for my store. I’ve looked into Stripe, but I really don’t want to spend more than $200 on an LLC and all the setup for something that might not even convert yet. Any advice would be appreciated.
Hey guys,
Since yesterday I’m seeing something really strange on my Shopify store and I’m trying to understand if something on Meta’s side is wrong and how its effecting tha ads or the store..
Here’s what’s happening:
So basically:
Traffic exploded, but performance didn’t scale with it. no ATC and the conversion rate collapsed.
It doesn’t feel like real users. The sessions vs visitors ratio is super off, and the graph looks very unnatural.
Things I’m wondering:
Would really appreciate if anyone has seen something similar in the last few days.
Trying to figure out if I should ignore this data or act on it.
Thanks
I’m a product curator at Thieve and came across the Noka Home store - 10 months old, $63K yearly revenue, clean TikTok content, strong branding, cohesive products.
It doesn't feel like a dropshipping store. It feels like someone had a really clear aesthetic, noticed there was an audience for it, and built everything around that. The products, the content, the website. It all works for their audience.
I see a lot of stores in my job. Most are chasing products. This one built a brand. There's a difference and I think it shows in the numbers for a store that's not even a year old.
I’ve been noticing something while ordering custom phone cases online.
Most stores let you upload an image, but you still don’t really know how the final product will look until it arrives.
Especially around:
- camera cutouts
- image alignment
- edge cropping
- print placement
So I started building a small tool that generates a real-time preview directly on the actual phone model before checkout.
The interesting part is that it also generates the final print-ready output automatically for the seller.
I’m curious:
As a buyer, would seeing the exact final case before ordering make you more likely to buy?
Or do most people not care that much?