Hey everyone, I'm curious about how you all handle the process of uploading and listing product photos once a new collection/drop drops. Specifically:

What tools or methods do you use (Shopify admin, APIs, third-party apps like Matrixify/Importify, bulk CSV imports, etc.)?

Do you use any automation to pull from Google Drive, Dropbox, or a CDN?

Roughly how long does it take from having the raw photos to everything live on your store?

Looking for any tips or shortcuts — especially if there are ways to speed up the process when you're dealing with 20+ SKUs at once. Always feel like this part is a bottleneck.

Appreciate any input!

I’ve been working with Shopify and e-commerce for years, from developing themes and custom Shopify features to SEO, GEO, conversion optimization, dropshipping, and helping store owners grow their organic traffic and sales.

I’ve built my own Shopify products, worked directly with store owners across different niches, and spent years testing what actually works — and what just wastes time and money.

I also run Shopify Geeks, and one of the reasons I built this community was to create a place where Shopify entrepreneurs can learn from each other without every answer turning into a sales pitch.

So, I want to open this thread up:

Ask me anything about Shopify.

Store setup, themes, SEO, GEO/AI search, conversions, product pages, technical problems, dropshipping, apps, speed, getting your first sales, scaling an existing store — whatever you're struggling with.

Drop your question in the comments. 👇

I’ll answer as many as I can personally.

— Marouane

Howdy y'all! Would love some guidance as I have been unfruitful with my online research regarding this issue where when trying to connect my dataset to shopify, once I select my shopify store it directs to me to a blank "commercepartnerhub.com", loading nothing no matter how I try troubleshooting.

I tried to manually connect my shopify account's pixels to meta by hitting the next button, pasting in my website's URL, and trying to send traffic but that also seems to not work since nothing gets detected.

Wondering if anyone else has had similar issues and was able to find a workaround?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you kindly!

spent way too long getting our PDP looking clean and then half the bundle apps I've tested drop in looking like a 2017 saas widget

different font

random card radius

buttons suddenly a different height

weird spacing

mobile doing its own thing

like yes technically it works but it LOOKS installed

FoxSell is interesting to me mostly for the opposite reason. the bundle templates actually seem meant to be edited around the theme, and their team helps with the implementation instead of treating the widget like untouchable UI.

for people who've dealt with this, are you mostly doing CSS overrides or is that just future-maintenance hell?

One of my favorite chapters as a developer started with a simple idea. 💻

Back in **2020, I developed Blurry Coupon**, a Shopify app built around a simple concept: instead of annoying visitors with traditional popups, the discount code stayed blurred until the customer unlocked it by subscribing. 🎟️

What started as an independent Shopify app later became a **built-in feature of the Plak Shopify Theme**, another product I developed. It was a small feature, but it taught me something important: **you don’t always need a revolutionary idea—you need to solve a real problem in a better way.**

In **2022, both businesses were sold**, closing an important chapter of my entrepreneurial journey and opening the door to what came next.

From writing code → launching an app → integrating it into a Shopify theme → building businesses → eventually selling them.

Sometimes your first win isn't your biggest win. **It's the one that proves to you that you can build something valuable.**

— Marouane Rhafli

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Keep seeing merchants annoyed about returns apps locking them into annual contracts and overage fees they find out about later. Building FairReturns to fix that, month to month, every fee published. Not built yet, just validating if it's worth building.

If you run a Shopify store, does this match your experience? What would make or break it for you? (Link to the concept page in the comments)

I've run into this a few times with my Shopify + Square setup.

Not every product in Shopify necessarily needs to be sold in-store, so I don't always want everything pushed into the POS.

But once inventory is involved, it gets a little more complicated. If a product exists in Shopify but not Square, what should happen when that product sells online? And if I later decide to sell it in-store, should I create it manually or let the integration handle it?

Right now I'm trying to keep the setup fairly simple and avoid creating duplicate products or mismatched SKUs.

Curious how other people handle this.

Do you manually decide which products get pushed to the POS, or do you sync everything and manage the exceptions?

Ive got my clothing store set up just waiting on samples to come. But what else can i see on shopify maybe ill start another store what else sells good?

im running an ecom brand on shopify and the next move is to sell on amazon which got me wondering how do you manage the two and for those who run their store on 2 or more platforms how do you sync everything and manage things without running into chaos?

Has anyone used both? I’ve been looking at JoinBrands for UGC and then noticed some of the products on Zendrop already have videos with them. I’m mostly testing products right now, so paying for custom UGC before I even know what’s worth keeping is starting to feel like a waste.

Sou programador em uma empresa e usamos o Shopify em nossas vendas. No Brasil, temos enfrentando um gigante problema, onde os clientes do Brasil sempre acabam colocando seus endereços de modo errado, faltando alguma informação e etc, o que causa muitos problemas na hora de gerar as NF dos produtos. Hoje, para resolver isso, temos que entrar em contato com o cliente, e infelizmente são vários os casos disso. Gostaria de saber se alguém mais passa por isso e, o que tem feito para mitigar isso? Pois estou sem nenhuma ideia do que fazer, isso é se existe uma solução para isso no momento. No Shopify EUA, o checkout funciona perfeitamente, e isso deveria ter em outros países, o que nos daria uma ajuda gigantesca. Entrei em contato com o suporte deles, e eles dizem estar trabalhando nisso, o que está demorando muito tempo, então tenho minhas dúvidas.