Hey Woong!
As far as I know, you need to deploy your app to a server in order for it to work with Shopify. This allows your shop to conserve its available storage space, as well as prevent any catastrophes from happening in the event of buggy apps or any other thing that can possibly go wrong ;)
We suggest using Heroku.com to store your apps. We use it quite a bit as well.
Have a good one!
Matthew Buttler
Guru
Shopify Inc.
Hi Woong,
Depending on what your app does, you could simply run it on your local machine. This may or may not make sense, depending on what your app does.
Adam
Hi
I am trying to fetch orders from the following private API. The below link works fine from browser but when I try to make a request from HttpWebRequest Object, it gives me an error 401 Unauthorize.
I have seen this issue with many others, but couldn't find the solution. Is anyone can help me in the above will be appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Touqeer Muhammad
Hi Jason - thanks for that feedback. We thought long and hard about the pricing, settling for as good value as possible whilst still hoping to cover hosting/support costs. We think it could be a really useful app, too - currently working on ways to make it easier for non-techies to integrate into the store (as it needs a degree of understanding of HTML).
Regarding the cache/limit, I'll get my colleague to chime in as he's the programmer - I'm the frontender.
Good shout on the app docs - we need to flesh those out.
Thanks again :)
We are only caching for two minutes at the moment, we've got our eye on the cache hit and miss rates as the traffic through our servers rises, we are totally expecting to have to increase the cache TTL and have built it so that we can change it on the fly when needed. But why not have it snappy for the time being ey?
If API limits are hit or twitter's servers get wobbly (like recently) we snapshot the last API response and continue to serve that as a fallback.
Dear Shopify App Developers:
Thank you for adding so many apps to the app store. There are so many to choose from for products, inventory, shipping, promotions, SEO, etc.
I'm writing because of the Shopify blog that posts about once or twice a week about having an ecommerce business. Have you looked at it?
Have you noticed you can share their posts and they have a counter for where and how many times their posts have been shared? There's also a pop-down window asking you to subscribe to their posts.
In case you don't know, these simple features are not available to Shopify's customers like me.
How many apps in the app store are specifically for blogs? Zero.
Hope you can get to work on this.
Derek
Hey Derek! No need for apps here...
Have you noticed you can share their posts and they have a counter for where and how many times their posts have been shared?
http://sharethis.com/#sthash.01KJLsux.dpbs
There's also a pop-down window asking you to subscribe to their posts.
That's just a feedburner subscribe form:
http://blog.winerising.com/2012/09/how-to-add-feedburner-subscribe-to-blog.html
Okay, Chief Funness Officer Jamie. What about having general topics listed on the side rather than having to scroll through the 90 pages of posts I have on my blog?
/Puts on super amazing funness hat
Hey Derek! Looks like you just need to harness all of your blog tags and make them into a clickable list of links with counts for each one.
Something like this you may be able to edit and drop into a sidebar:
<ul class="blog_list">
{% for tag in blog.all_tags %}
{% assign count = 0 %}
{% for article in blogs[blog.handle].articles %}
{% if article.tags contains tag %}
{% capture count %}{{ count | plus: 1 }}{% endcapture %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %} <li><a href="{{ shop.url}}/blogs/{{ blog.handle }}/tagged/{{ tag | handleize }}" title="{{ blog.title }} tagged {{ tag | escape }}">{{ tag }} <span class="label count">({{ count }})</span></a></li>
{% endfor %}</ul>
I'm using Python. When I type this:
orders = shopify.Order.find()
for i in orders:
print i.line_items
I get this:
[line_item(302938025)]
[line_item(302937373)]
[line_item(302712175)]
Any ideas why it isn't returning a dictionary?
What he said^ :)
Hmm. Looks like I got some programming work to do.
Just to confirm what @Matthew said above: Yes, you do need your own server. It could be your own computer (and probably will be during development and testing), but probably shouldn't be in the long-run.
To illustrate - your app has an API key+secret which is used by you (ie. your server) to do things to your customers' shops (who have installed your app), and is how you prove to Shopify that you are the app that the shop owner has installed.
We use MerchantOS (now lightspeed cloud) as our inventory management and retail point of sale software and sync it to our shopify page.
Everything has worked fine; except now, when we update retail price in MerchantOS, it's not updating the price on shopify.
Previously it auto-synced; we've even pushed the "upload of MerchantOS data to shopify"; however, it's still not updating the price.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you!
We are looking to offer our customers who are interested in ordering as a group and taking advantage of the 20% discount the ability to pay individually and are looking for any suggestions on how we can get this done!
Thanks for your help in advance.
Cheers,
Samuel
I recently installed Yotpo - I wanted a review app, and it seemed to have great reviews and great functionality.
I was a little surprised to find out that it sends emails to all customers, regardless of wether or not they have agreed to accept marketing...
Bottom line: it sent emails to customers who had specifically asked not to be contacted...
It was an assumption on my part that it would recognize this info in my customer database, but I guess not...
How is this ok?
Best thing you can do here (it's a third party app) is let the developers know about your issue:
Yes the biggest weakness of YOTPO is it will mail customers BEFORE you ship as it counts days from the order rather than fulfilment. Super Reviews works from first fulfilment which is better (no free though), but the right solution is to have such mails go after EACH LINE ITEM IS FULFILLED. I dont see how companies can get the basic processes of a sale wrong.
Anyway, if you stick with YOTPO then you can actually delete the reminders and therefore no mail after purchase at all. This is what we did, but then without Mail After Purchase you dont get many reviews. I dont like wasting space with empty reviews so we put the YOTPO review functionality behind a tab.
SO now I am waiting for someone to fix their app, and then we will be happy. In the mean time, we took the decision to include YOTPO reviews as we guess that Google Penguin ranking algorithm would see that the site offers such interaction and give us a boost.
BUT the best product we found was Rating Widget which allows you to give a one-click rating (no comments) and have it show with yellow stars in the Google search results (modest fee). Really helps the items to show up in search results even when we are top of the page. We use both, but Rating Widget gets pride of place on the page
Hope that helps
I was a bit disappointed in the Customer Pricing App due to it constantly hanging in order to go through my entire catalog. They said it was because I had so many variants and it took only hours at first then the last time it took almost 2 days to propagate any changes. I also tested Wholesaler BUT it still charges tax to your Wholesale clients) :(
Very sad that Shopify is making it very difficult for people to sell wholesale by not offering better options.
Hi Andrea,
I'm sorry to hear that. How many variants do you currently have?
At Stitch Labs, we know that variants can very quickly get very large, which is why we've made it easy to create all of the variations you have and make changes in bulk. Are you looking to have your customers place wholesale orders on your Shopify site or to have them keyed in manually?
With Stitch, you can track both your wholesale orders and Shopify sales in one place, and create customized pricing tiers for each.
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