Announcements
How to run a sale on Shopify: Tips & video tutorials for bulk discounts
There’s a reason online shopping feels like a thrill. Online shopping– particularly when discounted– gives customers a feeling of instant happiness and anticipation. Promotional sales create urgency, …
Ablestar’s journey to Built for Shopify and an embedded Shopify app
Wondering about that blue diamond next to our app in the Shopify App Store? We’re Ablestar, a Shopify app developer with a vision to make managing a Shopify store faster and easier for store owners. …
Introducing Shopify Broken Link Checker: The free link checker for Shopify stores
A broken link may cost you a sale and can also impact your brand and revenue in the long term. Link issues erode customer trust and could lower your search engine rankings, affecting online …
Harness the power of a Shopify API with Ablestar CLI
Shopify developers and technical users no longer need a third-party app to download customized data directly from Shopify. Our new open-source tool, Ablestar CLI, gives you a free, flexible, and …
Monitor Shopify app rankings and uncover insights with Ablestar AppNavigator
8,621. That’s the number of apps live on the Shopify app store today, with hundreds of new apps and tens of thousands of reviews arriving each month. It’s harder than ever to monitor your app’s …
Ecommerce reporting: How to analyze your store’s performance and make data-based decisions
Drowning in individual order emails? Sometimes, it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. Running an online store feels like you’re always busy, but not necessarily always profitable. If you don’t …
The top validation problems in Google Shopping and how to fix them
Google: love it or hate it, store owners need to learn how to live with it. It’s the front door to a Shopify owner’s business– 49% of people say they start their search for a new product on Google. …
How to raise prices without losing customers
Ask an ecommerce store owner what’s keeping them up at night, and you’re likely to hear a recurring theme. 83% of Shopify owners say they’re very concerned about the risk inflation poses to growth, …
Ablestar now has a changelog
We’re continuously adding features to our apps and making them more reliable but we need to improve how we communicate that to you. If we add a feature someone requested we’ll notify them, …
Automatic Product Rules for Shopify
You have your products in Shopify You’ve started making some sales But you’re still having trouble keeping your product data organized You’ve already tried bulk editing, and while it …
Automatically Tag Fulfillable Orders
We recently launched an update for Ablestar Automatic Order Tags that allows you to tag orders when they become fulfillable. Each time an order is place on your site, or when the inventory quantity of …
Upcoming changes to editing Prices in Shopify
Update on January 28, 2020 Good news! Yesterday Shopify reversed its new policy on the Compare Price fields. The compare price no longer needs to be greater than the price. This means that you can use …
Bulk Product Editor Passes 5,000 Active Installs
If you’re enjoying our Bulk Product Edit & Sync app, we’re happy to report you’re in excellent company! This month, we passed the 5K mark of active installs. We’d like to say a huge thank …
3 Time Saving Tips To Get Your Shopify Store Ready For Sales Season
You better watch out, I’m telling you why… The sun may still be shining but eCommerce sales season has a habit of creeping up on Shopify store owners! With gift-buying just around the corner, it won’t …
Free Email Reports for your Shopify Store
We’re very excited to announce the launch of our latest app just in time for the holiday season: Email Reports for Shopify! When you first start an e-commerce store it’s fun to receive a …
Adding Cross-Selling and Up-Selling to Your E-Commerce Store
If you’re going to sell widgets on your e-commerce store, you might as well pull out all the stops to convince your customers to buy the finest widgets on the market. And while you’re at it, get those …
Gearing Up Your E-Commerce Store for the Holiday Season
Summer has ended and the school year is well underway, which means that it’s time for retailers to start gearing up for the holiday season. Most brick and mortar retailers have likely begun their …
Avoid broken links when switching from WooCommerce to Shopify
When you move your online store from WooCommerce to Shopify the format of your product and category links will change. If you don’t take action to fix this you could have a lot of visitors …
Bulk Edit Shopify Products with a CSV File
We’ve added a new feature to our Bulk Editor app for Shopify that allows you edit multiple Shopify products by simply uploading a CSV file: This makes it easy for you to update prices, titles or …
Save Time with Bulk Editor for Shopify - Now In Beta!
After several months of hard work we’re very happy to announce the beta launch of Bulk Editor by Ablestar! This app saves Shopify store owners hours of work by allowing them to edit multiple …
Woo Importer is out of beta!
We’re happy to announce that Woo Importer, our app to migrate WooCommerce products to Shopify, is now out of beta! With 100s of installs and over 100,000 products migrated the app has been a …
Woo Importer Updates
Since we launched Woo Importer a little over a month ago we’ve helped people import over 50,000 products into Shopify. Along the way we’ve discovered the intricacies of both Shopify and …
