Welcome, Hannes!

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We’re pleased to welcome another team member to the ShopStorm family today. We’re very excited to announce that Hannes Benson will be joining our team as a senior app developer!

Hannes joins our team from South Africa, bringing our total country count to 6 (!). He’s joining us after working with Mad Mimi and GoDaddy, so he’s got great experience in backend development and scaling email infrastructure, which will definitely help as we continue to improve our Jilt app. Read More…

Happy Checkout App Updated

Happy Checkout app

Shopify has recently made some changes to the way the “Thank You” page is displayed for shops once an order is completed to provide some new information to your customers on order tracking. This is a great improvement for your customers, and it also allowed us to do some cool new things with our Happy Checkout app for customizing the thank you page.

We’ve updated most of the app’s widgets to add some new features, along with the way modules are added to the thank you page to be consistent with the new Shopify changes. This also allowed us to update and improve our live preview, so here’s a summary of the new stuff you can start using immediately! Read More…

Jilt Re-launched!

The unfortunate reality of running an eCommerce store is that 68% of all shopping carts are abandoned. This means that over half of visitors that start checkout — not the ones that just visit, but ones that take action to purchase — will stop purchasing from you. Saving this revenue can make a significant impact on your bottom line, and we’re please to announce that we’ve got an app that will help you do so: Jilt.

Jilt is an abandoned cart solution we Read More…

New Feature: Shopify Storefront Editor

Shopify Announcements

Shopify has announced a new feature we’re pretty big fans of recently, and we’re giving you the scoop on it today. The Shopify Storefront Editor went live last week, and you can try it out over the next couple of weeks to see how you like it for managing your theme options.

This is an awesome step forward to let you see how changes affect your site in real time. Previously, you’d have to adjust a setting, then view a live preview of the changes to see how your site was affected. The Shopify Storefront Editor takes the guesswork out of these changes for you by Read More…

ShopStorm in 2014

ShopStorm year review

Happy New Year all! With every new year, we reflect on our business and set our goals for the next year. 2014 was an exciting year for our team, and we’d like to share some of the highlights with you, as well as our plans for this year.

2014 in Review

At the beginning of this year, we didn’t have one, united brand that supported our apps. We’ve owned Product Customizer and BlogFeeder since September 2013 when Read More…