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Shopify and Shopify Plus decisions an operator has to live with: migrations, B2B and wholesale, and the rules that keep the catalog right.

Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify SEO checklist: 13 checks and who owns each

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.

Rizwan Qaiser · Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify vs Wix: which one fits the store you run?

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.

Rizwan QaiserOct 6, 2026
9 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify Plus pricing: what $2,300 a month really costs

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.

Rizwan QaiserOct 6, 2026
8 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify Plus examples: 10 stores and what to copy

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.

Rizwan QaiserOct 6, 2026
7 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

How to connect Claude to Shopify: three paths, one rule

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.

Rizwan QaiserOct 5, 2026
8 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Best ERP for Shopify: ten systems by order volume

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.

Rizwan QaiserOct 5, 2026
9 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Magento to Shopify migration: what moves, what breaks

Configurable products, attribute sets, category paths and .html URLs do not map one to one onto Shopify. Here is what transfers cleanly, what needs a business decision, and the realistic timeline band for a mid-market move.

Rizwan QaiserOct 5, 2026
11 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify Sidekick vs Claude vs ChatGPT: which AI to use for each Shopify task

Shopify Sidekick comes free with every plan, and since May 2026, Shopify has also offered connector apps for ChatGPT and Claude. But these three aren't fighting over the same job. Here's what each one is best at, plus the rules to set before you give any of them write access to your store.

Rizwan QaiserSep 23, 2026
10 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify Flow Examples: 20 AI Prompts That Build Real Workflows

Twenty Shopify Flow examples, each written as the sentence you type into the Flow AI assistant. It only works if that sentence names a real trigger, a real condition and a real action. Here is what each prompt builds, and what to check before you switch it on.

Rizwan QaiserSep 23, 2026
8 min read
Three stacked cost bars: a thin recurring platform fee, a wider one-time build, and an open-ended ongoing support bar, each with a price tag.

Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify cost and pricing: plans, fees and build prices

Shopify plans run $25 to $399 a month, and Shopify Plus, the plan for larger stores, starts at $2,300. Builds run from $3,000 to $250,000 or more, priced separately. Here are the ranges, stage by stage, with sources.

Rizwan QaiserSep 21, 2026
10 min read
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Shopify & Ecommerce

Shopify MCP explained for store owners, not developers

Every guide to Shopify MCP is written for engineers. Here is what it is, the three kinds Shopify ships, which one matters to you, what an agent may safely change in your store, and why most owners do not need MCP yet.

Rizwan QaiserSep 21, 2026
8 min read

Shopify revenue should not disappear into the stack.

Run the free diagnostic to identify conversion, performance, and measurement leaks before you scope an engineering engagement.

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