Shopify Store Checklist

As great as Shopify is, ultimately there will be parts of your theme that won’t cover everything your brands needs. This is where integrating certain apps can plug in those gaps and ultimately increase everything from customer engagement, sales to streamlining housekeeping.

However looking at the app store for the first time, can be overwhelming! Fear not as you’re in the right place, as a brand we only work with certain apps that we have tested fully, and to help you along the way are our top must have apps.

Manage your Shopify store data by bulk importing and exporting human readable Excel and CSV files.

1. Matrixify

By far one of the best apps we’ve used, with multiple uses and is even Shopify recommend. The Matrixify app helps you to manage store data - bulk import, export, update and migrate data in your Shopify Store.

Back in Stock offers the most comprehensive set of features for any Shopify Back in Stock notification app.

2. Back In Stock: Customer Alerts

This Shopify app integrates with many themes to apply functionality to collect back in stock requests from customers and notifies automatically when the products come back into stock. It includes customizable emails, SMS, and push notifications, integrates with popular marketing tools, and offers a free plan among others.

Customizable invoice, packing slip, receipt, quote, return form & refund templates.

3. Order Printer Pro

This app allows you to easily create, design, and print invoices, packing slips, draft orders, and returns forms for your Shopify orders. You can then print out these documents yourself, or even configure the app to send these documents (for example, invoices) as a PDF to your customers automatically.

Order Printer Pro provides you with fully customizable PDF templates, giving you the power to showcase your brand and leave your customers with an invoice that's not an eyesore! The app is also compatible with templates made for Shopify's default Order Printer, giving you the flexibility to choose out of thousands of templates available online.

Customizable invoice, packing slip, receipt, quote, return form & refund templates.

4. Product Colors

This simple app, enables you to link products together by colour – without having to merge into one product, meaning your products can be found easily separately or through the product page swatch added in, increasing customer conversion rates.

Shiptheory integrates with many popular carriers and channels.

5. ShipTheory

Easily integrated with Shopify, ShipTheory is a cloud-based shipping management platform that connects retailers with international carriers to automate shipping labels, manifests and tracking operations. It allows business owners to create and configure shipping rules based on order value, weight and destination. We consistently use this app to streamline warehouse label printing, when setting new clients up!

The app helps to set labels and badges for your products easily.

6. Sami Product Labels & Badges

One of our favourites, this app allows us to add any kind of product label, based on rules and filters to showcase everything from bestsellers to low stock products. Not only is this must have app super flexible, but the best part is it’s currently free of charge!

Exchange It allows you to easily refund, restock inventory and create orders from your store admin

7. Exchange It: Returns Manager

Often installed for clients is Exchange It, with this app you can easily integrate return requests into your regular workflow, manage returns, refunds and restock inventory straight from your Shopify Admin. This takes the headache right out of adding stock back manually, and creating new orders etc.. streamlining your Warehouse processes.

Want to showcase your Instagram feed in the best possible way on your website? The Cevoid UGC platform lets you effortlessly collect user-generated content (like photos and videos) and add to multiple galleries on your website, product pages, social media, emails, or other marketing channels in a matter of clicks. The flexibility in creating different galleries for each product page, and being able to tag those matching Instagram posts, is one of the reason’s we scream and shout about this app!

Collect, store and manage content from your community, all in the same platform

8. Cevoid

Summary

These are just some of our favourite apps we have found, however we do create our own apps when those often-bespoke situations arise. Either way your business flows, we can always find a solution, to fix, improve or streamline your website!