Nanukhardcases

Before Shopify came up with clean email templates I had installed Order Printer Templates on my HardCases.ca store. These one-click install made my emails look 200X better than what was available at the time. It also made my business look a lot more professional. EVERY client will open the order confirmation email. Make it nice and clean. It further emphasizes the trust factor. You don't want a brand new client who just ordered from your store to get a crappy 2 line email confirming his order. With these Order Printer Templates, you'll look like million dollar business. Do it!

Instant Search works right out of the box. It's very easy to install and gives excellent results as you type. I like that you can also add some specific keywords to show specific products. What I like less is their interface. It's ugly and I wish they would use Shopify's framework to make a more user friendly layout. It really doesn't want to go in and customize all of your options. Another bummer is that the lower plan only allows you to see the last 30 days of stats. Knowing what keywords were the most searched in the last year or last 6 months would be great... but I'm not going to pay an extra 60$+ per month for that option. Overall, it does what it says and it does it well. My visitors use it more than I though.

I've had Fomo installed for more than a year now. I still can't confirm that it's a must have or not. I feel like a victim of the FOMO if I'm not using FOMO. So I keep it installed. If I look at the stats I get on the Fomo Dashboard: 200 000 views - 3 sales from those views. Not really efficient at converting people into customers. But I know that I can use Fomo in sync with Shoelace and retarget visitors on Facebook. I think it's the only reason I keep it.

I have been looking for the perfect chat application for a while. None of them was perfect and some were quite expensive for their available features. I tried Olark, Tidio, Messenger, Drift and finally stopped on Chatra... Why I switched from Drift to Chatra? Drift does have a great look and great features, but their pricing was way off compared to Chatra... And Chatra also offered a lot more features out of the box for a quarter of the price. Having access to live users, segments, HelpScout Integration, were some of the basics I was looking for. And Chatra delivered. Their onboarding was also very friendly and they gave me all of the answers I was looking for... Like how to customise the chat button with my own face! Another very nice feature is the ability to edit a comment after it's posted (so you don't look like a second grader when writing to your customers). And, one feature I didn'T realise I would like was the "see what the customer is writing" feature... Wow! How nice is this to be able to start searching or writing a reply to your customer even before they post! Overall, this app really made the cut for me. I've been using it on my phone and on desktop for the past 2-3 months and it's been great! UPDATE: After using the app for more than 8 months, I did get into a few frustrating bugs using their mobile app (which is actually a web app). It's sometimes frustrating to try to make a correction on the small writing space. The app will sometimes become unresponsive and it keeps me from responding to a client on time. It's still a great app but I did find another one that is half the size of Chatra and should help shave another 150kb on my page weight.

Holy cow this is great! At first I was like... I don't want to bother my visitors with a pop-up. They will get annoyed. But I was wrong. In less than 5 days I had more than 50 people already in the list! I didn't have to do much. Upload a nice icon, change a few words in the pop-up and Voila! Now, this is running automatically and getting me leads of people that are really interested in getting my products deal. Right in their Browser!! You can't get more targetted and on time than this kind of marketing tool. There are also cool features like abandoned cart notifications, returning customer messages, and the most important : Notification! I'll be using this to promote my deals on Black Friday and then I'll be able to see how much value I get out of this. But at 9$ a month it's pretty cheap! That's like 1/99th of what my online contest cost me per lead! I've also had a long chat with Kunal from customer support. He went out of his way to share with me some great layout tips on my website. Never asked for those but he offered! Very impressed with this kind of customer approach. The app is easy to use so I doubt a lot of problems could arise but knowing their support is so responsive and kind is a big plus! Highly recommended!

If you are serious about email marketing and you own an e-commerce website, do yourself a favour and ditch MailChimp... Go with Klaviyo! Once again, this app is not perfect. Klaviyo has been getting some bad rep with their customer service time of response (but have you ever tried to easily find a contact link in MailChimp?? Nowhere to be found!) This is the kind of application that is worth studying. It's not a "one-click it works" app. Learn it... study it's potential. Email marketing can become one of your main source of recurring income for your e-commerce. Once your flows are running, you get a clear idea of which ones are profitable and which ones need improvement. Their focus on e-commerce is why you need this app. It's not cheap, but it grows with you. So the more it will cost, the more money you will make. Stop comparing the monthly cost with other basic email apps. They don't compare. Once setup this app will pay for itself 20X. The level of segmentation you get with Klaviyo out of the box is where the power is found. They keep coming up with new features too (dynamic coupons!! yeah!). They keep improving the interface. Learn how to use this powerful email app and you'll never look back.

I'm using the Free version of Facebook Product Feed and it works well. It's a few clicks to install and get working. The Premium 30$ per month looks interesting if you want to manipulate or select specific images for the feed... Overall, a great app to keep your Shopify products in sync with Facebook!

So far so good! With other similar options at 5$ or more it's hard to say a free app is not worth it. Well maybe unless it's not working but Easy Redirect is working! I got close to 100 bulk redirect links as my first test and it took about 10 minutes to go through the system. I'm glad I found this free app because it saved me at least 2 hours of my time!

So... After removing McAfee Secure badge I've seen exactly no difference in my conversions. My sales even increased since... A lot. One less pop up in the page. Less noise. What's more... I've removed the app from my Shopify store and they still continued to charge my credit card for all those months that I had removed the app. So now, I'm trying to figure out how to get my money back. I hate applications/companies that do this!! If they are not tech savvy enough to get an automatic removal once I click remove from within Shopify, how do you expect them to be efficient enough to securing your customers and your site?

This app is part of the reason why our list has grown from 1000 to more than 5000 members in less than one month! Our Facebook and Instagram followers also increased dramatically and we are now changing the way we do our marketing because of all these new followers and leads. Thanks to ViralSweep! Doing sweepstakes is the easiest way to gain followers, like and leads and we've decided to do yearly contest using ViralSweep because it's so easy to implement. The app give you a lot of options (some we wish we had access to but need a higher lever plan) to customize your sweepstake. It's also very straight forward for us and the user who signs up. We've used other contest app in the past and none were as clean for the visitors. Even if you have a great prize, the form and layout needs to be appealing and easy to use. Having the ability to give extra entries to leads is a big plus and it's also really easy to link your different social accounts. Sync your list dynamically with a good mailing app and start targeting these new leads right away... I personally think it's the most powerful sweepstakes app out there and we're using it to run multiple contest at a time to multiple niches. The customer service is also top notch! Highly recommended!

So far so good! Took me 5 minutes to get one gallery done for my product page. This is really a nice App! The UI is well done and beautifully integrated directly in Shopify (you don't feel like you are being taken away from Shopify). I'm a designer and I'm really picky about this. It even gets addictive. You'll start searching for tags that represent your products all over Instagram and then easily mark them as shoppable. Takes literally a few seconds per image. The features list is great for the price. Some other good Instagram apps out there will charge up to 300$/month for the same features. To me, the custom gallery for each product is a must! Why show a different product in use that the one in the current product page? this would only confuse your visitors. I love that Showcase has that for only 29$ a month! I've tried a few Instagram integration and this one beats them all so far! PS: The customer support is also top notch! Quick and friendly!

I think I have spent a whole day in the past trying to edit and style my HardCases.ca invoice and PDF receipts. Order Printer Template took me 15 minutes to edit and it was done! Plus, I was actually paying monthly for another app to add the PDF receipt to my email orders. Now I can simply use the link code and Voilà! Saved myself 30$ a month and hours of my life.

Overall this is a great app for pop-ups and email capture. The interface is clean and professional and service is excellent. One thing that bugs me is the monthly price. If you want to get more detailed information from your subscribers, the dynamic hidden fields are only available on the Growth account which is 199$ per month. I'm presently looking for another option since I can't really afford to invest 2400$ per year on this option yet...

Zapier is a great app. You'll need to make a bit of manual setup at first but once it get going, it can replace an low level employee that would be doing a lot of manual entry. So this is worth the money. There are limitations but over all it's worth it if you find yourself wasting time or paying someone else for this kind of work. On my end, I use it to add all my orders and details in a clean Google Sheet which automatically updates itself (something I would do manually before). Now that I'm getting a lot more orders this saves me so much time and money. There are tons of other things it can do that you'll have to figure out or even create your own. I think this app is a must if you start having a few orders per day and need to automate basic data entry.

I had been thinking of hiring a VA to deal with all of the orders coming in every day. It wasn't that many orders but I still had to receive the order, forward it to my vendor and not forget to add the cost of each of my products. My vendor had to then check each order that came in throughout the day and send me confirmations after each order received. I then had to check each PO details to make sure the vendor didn't make any mistake. Even on slow days with 2-3 orders, it took at least 20 minutes of my time. Add this over a week, a month and a year it adds a lot of valuable wasted time for an entrepreneur like me. Duoplane to the rescue! Now, all orders that come in before a defined each day are automatically gathered together as on email and sent to my vendor. My vendor only received one email with all POs, prepares those POs and send me back one email with all confirmations. I do check those for mistakes manually but then entire process that used to take me 20-30 minutes now takes me literally 2 minutes! I would believe a company with a lot more orders would save so much time. My vendor also loves how this is all processed at once and easy to scan. So, now, instead of managing a Virtual Assistant that I would probably have to payaround 100$ a week, I use Duoplane to save me tons of time, errors and a lot of money! Oh! And the support is also top notch! I've been asking a couple of questions while learning to use the system and I've always been answered quickly and with great details.