Guides, comparisons and field notes for the operator who owns a Shopify store after launch: the ERP, 3PL, accounting and product-data systems behind it, the automation between them, and the pricing and catalog rules that keep it right.
A Shopify-specific SEO checklist: 13 checks from collection canonicals and variant URLs to app scripts, structured data and AI Overview readiness, each with how to check it, what good looks like and who owns it.
Shopify & Ecommerce
Wix caps a product at 1,000 variants and six options; Shopify allows 2,048 variants and three options. Wix suits service businesses and small catalogues. Shopify suits stores where inventory, wholesale or an ERP runs the business.
Shopify & Ecommerce
Shopify Plus lists at $2,300 a month on a three year term, but the licence is the only line Shopify prices for you. Here is the total cost by stage, Advanced and Plus side by side, and the cases where Advanced is the better answer.
Shopify & Ecommerce
Ten Shopify Plus stores, each confirmed as Plus on Shopify's own customer pages, read as teardown notes. For each one: what to study, why it matters, and whether you need Plus to copy it.
AI & Search
GEO and AEO in plain words for a Shopify brand: what an AI answer needs from your product and collection pages, what we change, how you measure it, and what nobody can promise.
AI & Search
Compare vector and graph databases for RAG and AI applications. Choose based on retrieval questions, relationship checks, data ownership and evaluation.
Integrations & Custom Systems
Design medallion architecture for AI training, RAG and analytics. Learn how data layers, quality gates, access rules and ownership support production systems.
AI & Search
Build a RAG pipeline for grounded AI answers. Plan ingestion, access filtering, citations, source updates and evaluation before moving beyond a prototype.
AI & Search
Compare star and snowflake schemas for AI analytics. Understand grain, joins, historical accuracy and semantic-layer controls before redesigning your warehouse.
Integrations & Custom Systems
Design an AI data pipeline from source ingestion to evaluation and monitoring. Compare training, RAG and agent requirements before funding the implementation.
Shopify & Ecommerce
Shopify ships an official Claude connector. Here are the three ways to connect Claude to your store, what the connector documents it can and cannot change, ten read-first prompts, and the permission rule to set before any write.
Shopify & Ecommerce
Most Shopify stores under about $2 million a year do not need an ERP. Past that, structure decides the pick: entities, warehouses, wholesale price lists. Ten systems compared on connector scope, sync failures and published price.
Run the free diagnostic to identify conversion, performance, and measurement leaks before you scope an engineering engagement.