07 Feb 02-12

All Shopify Plans Now Include 10X More Storage

Craig Miller Google+

19

We're always working hard at improving Shopify to make it the best ecommerce solution possible. We work on feature releases, server upgrades and other technical details so that you can focus on running your online store.

Shopify already includes unlimited bandwidth on all plans. Today we're happy to announce that we've also increased file storage amounts by a factor of 10X.  Both new and existing customers on the Basic plan now get 1GB (vs 100MB), Professional 5GB (vs 500MB), and Business 10 GB (vs 1GB) of file storage.  The storage limit increase means you can store more product pictures, documents, videos, and other files you use in your online store.   Enjoy the free upgrade!


24 Jan 01-12

Improving Shopify SEO: Several New Features!

Alex Commons Google+

25

 

Search engine optimization is the science - some say art - of convincing Google to show your web page or online store at the top of its results.  If you can master SEO, your store will get lots of traffic and you’ll be flooded with sales.  Best of all, SEO costs you nothing and is automatically built into Shopify.

Today we’re proud to announce several features that will make it easier to improve the SEO of your shop without modifying your store’s template files. With a few clicks, you can now change page title tags, the homepage’s meta description and your image alt tags.

▸ Read the full article here

12 Jan 01-12

Product Update: The Shopify Widget

Edward Ocampo-Gooding Google+

23

Wouldn’t it be nice to put a Buy Now button for your products anywhere on the web?

It’d be even more awesome if you could embed product previews or entire collections in forums, your Tumblr and Wordpress blogs, or wherever else you’d like it to appear. Now you can.

Introducing Shopify Widgets: embed your products anywhere. Like these great looking Shopify shirts :)

 

Find out how to use these for your shop after the jump.

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15 Nov 11-11

Product Update: Easy Upload for Multiple Product Images

Daniel Beauchamp

20

Tired of selecting files individually when uploading them for a product? Worry no more— now you can upload multiple files at the same time! 

Holding down command (Mac) or CTRL (Windows) in the file browser will allow you to do this:


Protip: Holding down SHIFT while making a selection lets you select a range of files.

This feature only works for HTML5 compatible browsers like the latest versions of Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Internet Explorer is currently not supported.

Expect to see this functionality in all other image uploads on Shopify. Enjoy!

14 Nov 11-11

Product Update: Tax Calculations by Zip Code

Steven Soroka

7
Today we're excited to announce a new feature that's been in the works for some time now. Introducing automatic tax calculations by zip code! This new feature for shops in the United States will automatically apply the correct tax rates based on the purchaser's zip code.


The US has 50 states all with different tax rates. Kind of annoying. Within each of those states, there are counties with different tax rates, and cities with their own tax rates. The tax rates often vary between counties, cities, and sometimes even between neighbouring zip codes. Yikes! 

So in order to simplify the whole process, we've gone ahead and outfitted the Shopify system with a tax database from the professionals at Tax Data Systems, who do this sort of thing for a living. As a Shopify store owner, you now have the ability to enable automatic tax-rate lookups for any state.

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08 Nov 11-11

New Feature: Free Shipping Discount Codes

Mark Dunkley

39

In the last 6 months we've released the ability to create discount codes for specific Customer Groups and individual Products and Collections, and now we're announcing a new type of discount code: Free Shipping.

Free shipping discount codes will allow your customers to get certain shipping rates for free. You also put a cap on the price of the shipping rate so that you know exactly how much offering your customers free shipping will cost your business.

To create a Free Shipping discount code, go to your promotions tab and create a new discount code. 


▸ Read the full article here

24 Oct 10-11

Megatronic: A New Free Theme!

Ben Watts

0

We've got a brand new, official, free theme in the Shopify Theme Store called Megatronic. This little piece of awesome took inspiration from the smaller purveyors of fine electronic goods. It's easy to customize and loaded with features, including the recently launched Customer Accounts and Forms, among others: 

  • Contact & Signup Forms (wiki)
  • Customer Accounts (wiki)
  • Homepage carousel
  • Space for promotional imagery
  • Drop-down menus 
  • Optional sharing buttons on product pages
  • Shipping estimator 
  • Abundant theme options for easy customization


So if you're looking for a free theme for your ecommerce store, or considering changing the look and feel of your store, give Megatronic a try!

Theme Store | Theme Demo

12 Oct 10-11

Social: A Free Theme with Built In Social Media

Warren Dunlop

6
The pie chart that breaks down social media population has quickly become a sea of blue. Facebook and Twitter are both far beyond being a household name, and people are sharing, liking, tweeting, and commenting on millions upon millions of things each day. If you don't make it easy for your shoppers to share your products or blog posts, you're missing out on a key portion of online marketing.

Everyone here at Shopify wants your store to be talked about, and the easiest way to do that is to enable your stores theme to share content on these major networks. So we've done just that, and I'm proud to introduce Social, a free theme by Shopify:



Up until now, we've written tutorial after tutorial on how you can make your template more socially connected. But without HTML knowledge, things can get a little hairy, so we've gone ahead and taken the hard stuff out of the equation. No more tutorials, no more HTML; just install the free theme, insert your Facebook ID, and away you go.

Social can show your shoppers the like and comment counts for all products and blog posts, it supports a wide selection of Google Web Fonts, and gives you full control over the design of your shop (logo, background, colours, and more). The home page has the ability to feature your Twitter stream, and all products and blog posts have the option of showing Tweet buttons and Google +1 buttons as well. All comments are Facebook driven, which means nearly all activity on your shop can be shown on your shoppers activity feed. I'm also very excited to say that Social is the first official Shopify theme to be entirely translatable. All of the above is controlled via the Theme Settings, so you don't have to touch one bit of code to get a great social media experience up in minutes. Here is a screenshot of all of Social's theme settings.

We've worked closely & collaborated with Facebook to offer you the widest array of plugins that they offer. Jonathan Erich, former head of marketing at Facebook (and now co-founder of Copious.com) gave us some great feedback along the way and wanted to share this:

"The traditional shopping experience has always been a very social event, yet eCommerce has typically been a solo activity. I'm impressed with Shopify's Social theme, built on top of Facebook, which brings full social commerce functionality to your shop and to your customer's shopping experience."

Social comes packed with two template presets, a light (Social) and a dark (Trig):



Social promotes sharing, which promotes business. We hope you like it. :)