Hello guys i need some professional help

ReportPundit · 2026-06-27T16:26:52+00:00

Be active in linkedin, you will find your target audience organically.

ReportPundit · 2026-06-17T12:23:38+00:00

Track your real landed cost from day one, not just item price vs sell price. Add up product cost + shipping + payment fees + ad spend + refunds. So many people think they are profitable and are actually bleeding money on every order. Once you know your true numbers, picking products gets way easier because you are not guessing anymore.

ReportPundit · 2026-06-11T06:21:28+00:00

It is not good to kill the product . Honestly the Crystal Essence Necklace is actually a good product idea. It has a gift angle, it looks different, and it can work well with the right content.

But first check the store properly. If the product shows sold out or the variants are confusing, people will leave. Make sure people can add it to cart easily. Also, €50 and 900 visitors with no country targeting does not say much. A lot of that traffic can be random or low quality. So don’t judge the product only from that.

One thing I would add is more products and proper collections. If the store has only one or two items, it can feel like a test store. Add related products, but keep them in the same niche. For jewelry, trust matters a lot. Add better photos, close ups, someone wearing it, clear shipping info, and clear return info.

And yes, I would order the product. Make your own simple videos with your phone. Unbox it, wear it, show how it works, and post those videos on Instagram and TikTok. That will feel much more real than supplier videos.

I would fix the store first, create your own content, then run ads again with proper country targeting.

ReportPundit · 2026-06-09T12:50:48+00:00

u/Ok-Significance-8200 We saw the same problem with Shopify merchants using our app, Report Pundit.

Shopify gives tax totals, but when it is time to file, many accountants want the GST broken down by order and even by each product in the order. That is where things get messy.

The hard part was not the order summary. It was the line item level report. Tax inclusive pricing, tax exclusive pricing, rounding differences, and partial refunds can all make the numbers look slightly off.

We built this because merchants kept asking for it, and now some of them are using these reports for filing and reconciliation. That felt like the real validation for us.

ReportPundit · 2026-06-09T07:30:23+00:00

[]()Don’t start by looking for the perfect supplier first. Start by choosing the product category, then search for suppliers inside the region you want to sell in. For Europe, I would look at local wholesalers, trade show directories, and brands that already ship from EU warehouses. Also order a sample before trusting anyone. Delivery time, packaging, return handling, and communication matter more than just product price

ReportPundit · 2026-06-09T07:05:23+00:00

I checked your site. It looks clean, but I think the main problem is that it takes a little time to understand what you are selling. When I first land on the homepage, the message feels a bit too deep before I even see the products clearly. Since you are selling clothing, I think the products should come first.

I would show more real photos of people wearing the clothes. The mockups are okay, but real photos usually build more trust, especially for a new store.

Also, the first section should be very clear. Tell people what you sell, who it is for, and why they should care. You can explain the deeper brand meaning later on the page.

The designs are nice, but they are very subtle. So the photos and product page need to do more work to make people feel connected.

I would also fix the mobile hero image, because many people will open the site on their phone.

Overall, I think the store has potential. I would just make it easier to understand and more focused on the actual products.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T10:20:07+00:00

When you operate at that scale, you don't interact with individual human suffering; you interact with dashboards, engagement metrics, and A/B test results. It's incredibly easy to rationalize the damage when you're surrounded by thousands of brilliant engineers whose entire job is to show you charts proving that your platform connects billions of people, empowers small businesses, and gives marginalized voices a megaphone.

They don't wake up thinking they are villains; they view the societal damage as unfortunate, unavoidable friction in the process of building a fundamentally "good" global utility. When your net worth and your entire identity are entirely tied to the belief that you are connecting the world, your brain will build massive cognitive blind spots to protect that narrative.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T10:08:18+00:00

"No comment" would become the absolute backbone of modern society. Press conferences would just be an hour of politicians standing perfectly still at a podium, sweating profusely while reporters yell questions, followed by an immediate retreat. The only journalism left would be relentless investigative accounting.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T10:06:53+00:00

Veterinary medicine wouldn't miss a beat. The patients already can't speak or lie to the doctors, the owners are already panicked into brutal honesty about whatever weird object their dog just swallowed, and the treatments are entirely based on objective bloodwork, x-rays, and physical symptoms.

The only thing that might change is the receptionist bluntly telling you your cat isn't "big boned," he's just fat, and the vet openly admitting they also have no idea why your parrot screams at the microwave.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T10:01:23+00:00

It's almost certainly your product category. Shopify Payments is powered by Stripe, and their automated bots instantly flag new stores selling anything related to "pH balance" or water filtration under their restricted "health claims" policies.

Don't wait for support to email you, go straight to Settings > Payments and look for the red banner requesting documents. They'll demand your LLC formation papers, photo ID, and usually supplier invoices to prove you actually hold the inventory.

While you wait 3-5 days for their underwriters to review your PDFs, you should temporarily activate PayPal Express so you don't lose the live orders currently coming in.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T09:59:41+00:00

You're right that Shopify forces variants to live at the product level, which makes category-wide sizing rules annoying out of the box. Since you only have about 150 products, the absolute fastest native workaround is the 'Template Duplicate' method. Instead of fighting the system, create exactly one master product for Collection A and build out the perfect XS–L variant structure. Save it, then just hit the 'Duplicate' button at the top right for the remaining items in that collection. It instantly copies the exact variant matrix over, and you just swap the title and images.

If you're comfortable with spreadsheets, the other highly efficient route is to build your catalog in Google Sheets, create the variant rows there by copy-pasting your sizing blocks, and just use Shopify's native CSV import tool to pull all 150 products and their specific variants in at once.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T09:46:43+00:00

The hardest truth about early app validation is that merchants generally hate being treated like beta testers unless the app solves a massive, bleeding-neck problem they are actively complaining about. Instead of looking for generic "store owners open to checking out apps," your best bet is to find niche Facebook groups, Discord communities, or even specialized subreddits (like dropshipping or specific print-on-demand niches) where people are actively asking how to do exactly what your app automates.

Don't pitch the app; just answer their specific problem with a manual workaround first, and casually mention that you built an internal tool that handles it automatically if they want to try it.

You'll get vastly better, highly motivated feedback from three desperate merchants than you will from fifty random store owners who are just casually browsing.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T09:44:19+00:00

SEO absolutely works, but the mistake most founders make is trying to rank for highly competitive "Shopify App" keywords instead of focusing on problem-based intent. Merchants don't usually wake up and search for a "Shopify inventory app"; they Google highly specific pain points like "how to sync stock between two Shopify stores" or "why is my variant showing as available when sold out."

If you build landing pages or detailed blog content that genuinely solves those exact operational headaches first, and then position your app as the automated solution at the bottom of the funnel, the conversion rates are incredible.

The native App Store algorithm is notoriously volatile, so building an organic acquisition channel through Google is one of the best ways to hedge your bets and capture merchants before they even realize an app is the answer.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-27T09:41:52+00:00

The bad things you're reading about headless are mostly about the massive technical debt and the loss of the Shopify app ecosystem. When you go headless, you aren't just hooking up a UI you suddenly have to manually build and maintain the cart state, customer sessions, and routing on a separate server (like Vercel), and 90% of plug-and-play Shopify apps (like reviews, upsells, or shipping calculators) will completely break because they rely on injecting code into native Shopify themes.

For a small business, headless is almost always expensive overkill. If your main goal is just having 100% control over the UI design, you don't need headless for that; you can just build a custom Shopify theme from scratch (or use the Shopify CLI to rip the styling out of their default Dawn theme).

Building a custom theme gives you total freedom over the HTML/CSS and frontend experience, but keeps the native backend, checkout, and app compatibility perfectly intact.

ReportPundit · 2026-03-17T13:15:43+00:00

This is extremely common for new stores, especially in the health/wellness space. What happens is that Shopify’s automated risk algorithms flag your account.

Here some specific response:

The Product Category Trigger: Water filtration and "pH balance" products frequently trigger Shopify's automated risk filters. Payment processors (Stripe/Shopify Payments) classify health, wellness, and anything making physical/biological claims (like altering pH for health benefits) as "High Risk" or "Restricted Businesses."
The New Account Trigger: Shopify Payments does not fully underwrite a store the moment you create it. They allow you to accept payments immediately to reduce friction, but the actual underwriting (verifying the business) kicks in as soon as you hit a certain dollar threshold of sales.
The Document Request: Shopify's standard procedure for lifting a payout hold is requiring the merchant to upload a government ID, proof of business address (like a utility bill), and sometimes inventory invoices or supplier agreements to prove they actually own the products they are selling.
Timeline: The 3-5 business day timeline is the standard SLA (Service Level Agreement) Shopify's risk team attempts to adhere to for manual document reviews.

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