February App of the Month: Customize Products in Shopify

social selling through Shopify

In our previous post about selling personalized products, we covered the Product Customizer app for Shopify. The app recently went through a major update, and is now more intuitive to use, has more features, and has made it even easier to customize products.

In this post, we’ll go over the new layout and some features that make personalization options more easier to manage. For new users, you will have to install the app, and then add a few snippets to your theme files. You can see more instructions in the Quick Start Guide once you install the app. Read More…

Shopify Product Customizer 2.0

Shopify Product Customizer

We have some really exciting news to share today, as we’ve been working on a new version of Product Customizer for quite some time now, and we’re releasing these changes to shops throughout this week!

We’ve spent the past year completely re-architecting the app to make it a lot more flexible for merchants’ needs. After helping thousands of Shopify merchants set up stores that sell personalized or customized products, it was clear to us that we’d need to make some changes to support stores of all different kinds of sizes to help them sell various types of products. Our new and (vastly) improved Product Customizer is what came out of all of those learning experiences.
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How to Sell Personalized Products with Shopify

sell personalized products with shopify

People like owning personalized products as they can make a product something unique to themselves. Think of services that let you personalize products like allowing you to add a custom monogram on a suit, or the engraving on Apple products.

If you sell products on Shopify that can be modified by customer input, our Product Customizer app can help. The app allows you to add product customization options without using variants. Highly personalized products mean you can target niche audiences, and lower competition by providing an additional layer of uniqueness.

In a previous post, we discussed how the app can help you expand your catalog. Today we will do a walkthrough of installing and using the app to sell personalized products. 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…

ShopStorm Case Study: Project Pretty

ShopStorm Case Study

We’re excited to bring you another shop in our ShopStorm Case Study series! In this series of posts, we take a look at stores who use our apps to help run their Shopify businesses and find out some of the tips they have from running successful eCommerce shops.

Today’s case study takes a closer look at Project Pretty.

Project Pretty at a glance:

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4 Tips to Launch or Expand your Shopify Catalog

You’ve got a great business idea, and you want to get it off the ground immediately. You start to look at retail locations that will generate the right kind a traffic based on your ideal customer, and price out rent, utilities, inventory, upkeep, renovation costs, insurance…are your eyes glazing over yet? Mine, too. Launching a retail store can be expensive.

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ShopStorm Case Study: Fawnsberg

ShopStorm Case Study

We’re really excited today to kick off our series of ShopStorm Case Studies! In this series of posts, we’ll take a look at stores who use our apps to help run their Shopify businesses and find out some of the tips they have from running successful eCommerce shops.

We’re pleased to bring you our first shop: Fawnsberg.

Fawnsberg at a glance:

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