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An excellent app. I was pointed towards this app by Shopify, who admitted that their native contact form was spam-prone. I am glad they did, because I have found that Easy Contact Form not only works well but that I could easily customize it to do what I wanted and to match my store's theme. Also, I had a minor issue with Easy Contact Form and their support fixed it for me very quickly and efficiently. Always a good thing - you don't want to get an app and then find nobody's home when you have a problem. Thoroughly recommended.

If you want an app that automatically and instantly invoices your customers with all local sales taxes/VAT etc. calculated and shown, Sufio Automatic Invoices does what it says on the tin. It has all the bells and whistles and customization facilities I need. My store sells digital products and Sufio links perfectly with it and with the digital products app I use, and picks up on any discounts issued as well. First class app, very well thought through.

I couldn't do business without Digital Downloads. All my products are digital and this app handles them all, integrating faultlessly into my store and allowing downloads immediately after payment from Shopify's checkout and from the email sent to the customer. A bulk upload feature would be handy for getting all the files into the store quickly. But hey! Doing them one by one is a good activity for the end of the day when you're brain-dead and shouldn't be tackling anything requiring intelligent thought.

First class app. Currency Converter Plus will find any prices I put anywhere in my store, not just on my products pages, and translate them into foreign currencies. Has options for rounding, showing country flags against prices, drop-down currency lists and menus and other things. It's easy to check how my prices appear in other countries, using Geopeeker. I have also found Code Black Belt's free weekly assessment of my SEO performance very valuable. It checks more factors influencing search engine performance than I ever dreamed were relevant, with tips about how to improve things. Great service.

You have a great store. You have invested thousands of hours in it, and a lot of money. It provides you with income you used to dream about. And then you install an attractive-looking but defective app which wrecks the lot. Or you hire some goon of a coder who does the same thing. Or anything. What do you do? I thought about that nightmare scenario. But not for long. I thoroughly researched what was out there and found and installed Rewind. Now I sleep more soundly. Have I tested it? Of course. Only a fool wouldn't. I have deleted bits of my store and then restored them with Rewind. And it works, easily and quickly. Have I deliberately wiped my whole store and tested whether Rewind would rebuild the entire thing? I'm not that brave. But I'm confident it would. You have got to be a back-up freak these days. Back up your desktops in the cloud, or on external disks you keep in the garage. But for me, for my Shopify store, it's Rewind.