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How to Choose a Shopify Blog App
Shopify blog apps have different strengths depending on their type. This article explains the four types of blog apps, seven checkpoints that prevent costly mistakes, and how to choose an app you can keep using successfully.
Shopify's Abandoned Checkout Email Never Reaches Anyone Who Only Filled a Cart
Shopify only counts a checkout as abandoned once a shopper enters contact info and stalls for ten minutes. That excludes every cart-only exit, every POS and Shop app checkout, and anything older than three months. Plus the conditions that silently block delivery, the opt-in you cannot undo, and how three recovery apps bill on three different units. Researched August 31, 2026.
How Much Do Shopify AI Blog Writer Apps Actually Automate?
Shopify Magic drafts posts for free. So what are AI blog apps charging for? We compared five real apps on the App Store listings — pricing units, scheduling, internal links, and what none of them do.
Shopify Analytics Is No Longer Gated by Plan — So Why Buy a Reporting App?
"Custom reports require Advanced" is no longer what Shopify's documentation says. Custom data explorations save regardless of subscription, and the only plan-gated piece is multi-store organization analytics on Plus. Here's the native 1,000-row ceiling, the data that vanishes when you delete an order, and why Report Pundit, Mipler, and TrueProfit bill on three incompatible units. Researched August 31, 2026.
Why Your Shopify App Bill Never Matches the Price on the Listing
A $19/month app almost never shows up as $19 on your invoice. Here is the billing machinery behind that — two separate 30-day cycles, usage spending limits, proration math, and the pending charges an uninstall doesn't cancel. Researched August 31, 2026.
How Much of Your Store Can a Shopify App Actually See? A Guide to Checking Data Access Permissions
We checked Shopify's official documentation to find out how far an installed app can read your customers' names and email addresses. Covers where that information lives (it isn't on the App Store listing), how to read the Activity and permissions and Unused access sections in your admin, the approval system for protected customer data, and how many days it takes for data to be erased after uninstalling. Researched on August 31, 2026.
Do Shopify Apps Actually Slow Your Store Down? How to Find the One That Does
"Too many apps" is the standard diagnosis and almost never a useful one. Here is how Shopify itself measures an app's speed impact, what the Built for Shopify threshold actually allows, and how to narrow the problem down to a specific app from your admin.
Auditing Your Shopify Apps: What Uninstalling Doesn't Remove
Uninstalling a Shopify app doesn't automatically remove theme code, pending charges, or external subscriptions. Based on Shopify's own documentation, here's what disappears, what stays, and how to audit your apps from the admin alone.