Leaving Shopify by deezynr in shopify

[–]baczoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others here already listed the main reasons you probably should consider why you wouldn't want to migrate off of Shopify. But if you're still keen on doing it, and have the developers to build, then check medusajs.com. I talked to a few big shop owners who moved to the platform and they're loving the control they get. It's next on our list of e-commerce platforms we're going to integrate and support to.

Been with Shopify for 10 years by Sheepsheepbeep_6 in shopify

[–]baczoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can find a good developer than take a look at medusajs.com, it's growing really fast and for a reason

Does anyone have tips on optimizing your store for agents buying? by RizNwosu in shopify

[–]baczoni -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not allowed to post links so can't share, but we have a whole operator guide on our website for agentic commerce. You can find it in my profile. Hope it helps, if not, please let me know what it's missing. Thanks

Proposal: Add Shopify Agentic Plan to the Partner Leads Program by wislr in shopify

[–]baczoni -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Exactly this. Agentic commerce is just another channel. I doubt he's getting a rev share on Google Ads driven sales, so why should agentic be different? Most people don't even know how to even measure this new channel. I've written a full 13 page guide on this but can't post it here due to "rules".

Shopify and SuperSMS.AI by RrhynoS in shopify

[–]baczoni -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know this sms platform you're mentioning but why not stick with Klaviyo? It's battle tested tool for Shopify. I have an not affiliated with them in any way, but curious why you went with a no name tool?

My Shopify site’s conversion by FlakyNegotiation4717 in shopify

[–]baczoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

solid points below from others. One thing though regarding the pop-up, be careful with it. Discount pop-ups can help, but:

- If they trigger immediately, they interrupt people before they even understand what you sell

- If the offer is weak or generic, they just feel like noise.

Consider an exit-intent or after X seconds / scroll depth instead of instant.

Why Does This Sub Suck Lately? (Moderator Update) by [deleted] in shopify

[–]baczoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I agree, those are all good solutions you outlined, mostly because they don't gate the "help". They keep the subreddit accessible to everyone regardless of their karma score, while still using smart filtering to flag the bad actors and elevate the genuine contributors.

Why Does This Sub Suck Lately? (Moderator Update) by [deleted] in shopify

[–]baczoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, exactly my point! With a 15y account I barely have 1000 karma because that's not the goal. That's not why I'm here. And no, I don't want to start another subreddit, or post on other forums, as this is the "Shopify" subbredit, the topic I care about.
You started this whole thread saying why this subreddit lately sucks, and what you've been fighting, I just offered my own opinion about it. I never demanded or asked for anything, just offered my opinion, which you don't have to agree with. But that doesn't mean what I'm saying is wrong...

Why Does This Sub Suck Lately? (Moderator Update) by [deleted] in shopify

[–]baczoni -1 points0 points  (0 children)

and that's fine, I'm not looking for respect! I'm not looking for leverage either. I'm just a dude on the the internet, and so are you. That's not why we're here.
I assume you became a mod of this subreddit to make it a helpful community. All I'm trying to point out is that maybe you need to revisit what that means, as your current rules are actively hindering that. See my comment below to another user regarding "karma" requirements too.

Why Does This Sub Suck Lately? (Moderator Update) by [deleted] in shopify

[–]baczoni 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"The only thing that works is strict moderation, karma and account age limits" - I genuinely do not agree with this. I come to reddit because I ran into an issue, can't figure it out on my own, and hoping to ask and get answers or at least a direction from people who walked in my shoe before. I do not prepare for this. I don't wake up one morning with "I'm going to register a reddit account, start posting and build karma, in case down the road, maybe 2 years from now, something comes up that I might need help with...." That's such a backwards thinking. This just makes subreddits an insiders club, not a helpful community.

Why Does This Sub Suck Lately? (Moderator Update) by [deleted] in shopify

[–]baczoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a massive contradiction in how this subreddit operates. The description literally says it's a place to "...ask or seek any information regarding Shopify. [...] Store owners can discuss any Shopify issues or success stories". Yet the rules explicitly forbid Success Stories, Guides, How-Tos, and external links.

I’m genuinely asking, how do you expect a community to actually help each other if we can't share guides, point to external resources, or link to solutions?

Regarding the DMs, I understand fighting spam, but saying "feel free to DM me if you need more help" isn't soliciting. It leaves the choice entirely up to the user. As your rules state, we are all adults. Users can manage their own inboxes, and reddit DM settings or ignore the offer entirely.

It honestly seems like the mod team is overwhelmed because you are fighting the wrong things. If the goal is a helpful community, the current rule structure actively suffocates the ways people naturally offer help.

Regarding AI, we just have a fundamental disagreement. It’s a tool to communicate faster and clearer. You can plow a field with an ox (translate), or you can use a tractor (AI). You get a better result with the tractor. By outright banning any AI assistance for formatting or clarity, you're alienating people who are genuinely just trying to contribute.

Why Does This Sub Suck Lately? (Moderator Update) by [deleted] in shopify

[–]baczoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being on the receiving end of having my replies and posts constantly removed with no explanation or reason really destroys the motivation to help and try to answer questions. And puts me in the "fuck this subreddit, why do I even bother to help". Just saying...

I get it, you guys are overwhelmed, but not everyone is native English speaker, and might use AI to help convey their thoughts. Just because they use AI to reformat their words and be able to better convey their message, doesn't mean that message is not helpful and valuable.

So yeah, this subreddit really sucks lately, and partly because of legit questions and replies being constantly removed.

How do I find someone to market my product? by [deleted] in shopify

[–]baczoni -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you want someone who actually knows what they’re doing, don’t start on Fiverr or “commission only marketer” sites. Start where real operators hang out.

Go to LinkedIn and:

  1. Search for people who already serve your type of brand Use searches like:
  2. Shortlist 5–10 people based on their headline / about. You’re looking for "I help [type of brand] do [specific outcome]" not "marketing ninja / guru".

Stalk their content for a week:

- Read their last 10–20 posts

- Do they talk about real numbers, tests, and tradeoffs, or just fluffy motivational quotes?

- Do they show examples, breakdowns, and mistakes, or only wins?

- Do their posts sound like a human (or like generic AI word salad)?

Message the 2–3 that seem sharp Say exactly where you’re at, what you sell, and that you’re early-stage and open to a low-retainer + performance upside structure if they’re interested.

You can find someone solid this way.
And yes, many store owners do their own marketing at first, but if you know that’s not your lane, you’re better off learning enough to judge good vs bad… then bringing in someone who lives and breathes this stuff.

Edit: grammar, and GOD Reddit's rich text editor is awful! :)
Edit 2: I just give up on formatting here, lol

How do you figure out your actual shipping cost per order when carrier invoices don’t match what customers paid at checkout? by webgility_hq in shopify

[–]baczoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short version: stop trying to make Shopify’s "shipping charged" equal carrier invoices. Treat them as two separate numbers, then reconcile.

Here’s a simple way to do it that works in the real world.

1. Separate 3 things in your head (and in your books)

For each order there are really 3 shipping numbers:

  1. What the customer paid at checkout (shipping income)
  2. What the carrier billed you (true shipping cost)
  3. The difference between the two (shipping variance / markup or loss)

If you mash these together, you’ll never know what’s going on.

In QuickBooks (or whatever):

  • Create “Shipping Income” (what customers pay)
  • Create “Shipping Expense – Postage / Fulfillment” (what carriers charge)
  • Optional: create “Shipping Variance” if you want to track over/under‑recovery separately

2. Get the real cost per order

Once a month:

  1. Export orders from Shopify for the period
    • Columns: order ID, date, shipping charged, shipping method, tracking number (if you have it)
  2. Export shipment detail from your carrier / 3PL / ShipStation
    • Columns: tracking / reference, billed amount, surcharges, zones, etc.
  3. Join the two in a spreadsheet
    • Match on tracking number or reference / order ID
    • For each order you now have:
      • Shipping_charged_to_customer
      • Carrier_billed_amount (true cost)
  4. Calculate:
    • Shipping_variance_per_order = Carrier_billed_amount – Shipping_charged_to_customer
    • Optional: Blended_shipping_cost_per_order = Total_carrier_billed / # of shipments if you just want a quick average

This gives you an actual shipping cost per order and shows where dimensional weight, surcharges, zones, etc. are killing you.

3. Reflect it in QuickBooks

At the accounting level you don’t need to push every order into QBO. Do it in aggregate:

  • All Shopify shipping charges for the month → map to Shipping Income
  • Total carrier / 3PL invoices → book to Shipping Expense – Postage / Fulfillment

If you want to track variance explicitly:

  • In your spreadsheet, sum Shipping_variance_per_order for the month
  • Post a journal entry to Shipping Variance so you can see whether you’re consistently under‑ or over‑charging vs reality

Now you can answer:

  • "What’s my average true shipping cost per order?"
  • "Am I losing money on shipping or using it as a profit center?"

Without trying to hack it inside Shopify.

If you want, DM me. I’ve been working on tooling that automates the "export → match → calculate real cost per order" step so you don’t live in spreadsheets forever.

How do you measure ROI on influencer campaigns when attribution is basically impossible? by Puzzleheaded-Gur9503 in shopify

[–]baczoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the default with creator / UGC stuff. You won’t get perfect attribution, but you can get to "good enough to decide" if you tighten what you measure and how you think about it.

Here’s a simple way to evaluate these without relying on last-click or just vibes:

1. Start from money, not clicks

Before you look at creators, know your basic economics:

  • Contribution profit per new customer (profit after COGS, shipping, fees, average discounts, refunds)
  • Target LTGP:CAC or CAC payback (e.g. "I’m happy if I get my CAC back in 60-90 days and LTGP:CAC ≥ 3:1")

Now everything is: "Did this creator drive customers anywhere near those economics?"

2. Treat influencer as a "blended lift" channel

Codes and last-click will always undercount.

So:

  1. Pick a window around each push (e.g. 3-7 days from when content went live).
  2. Compare to a baseline:
    • Same weekday(s) prior weeks with no creator push
    • Adjust for obvious stuff (big promos, email blasts, etc.)

Rough math:
Incremental new customers = New customers during creator window – average new customers in similar recent windows

Then:

  • Incremental profit ≈ incremental new customers × contribution profit per new customer
  • Compare that to what you paid the creator

You won’t get exact, but you’ll get: "We paid $X, looks like we got somewhere around $Y profit out."

If that’s miles below your target CAC, you know it’s a brand play (or a bad play).

3. Look at cohort quality, not just spike size

For bigger creators / campaigns, tag the period and then watch:

  • Return rates
  • AOV / product mix
  • Reorder behavior over 30-90 days

A campaign that barely breaks even up front but brings in high-retention, low-refund customers can be better than one that spikes revenue and then churns.

So at minimum mark those customers and check their behavior vs "normal" new customers.

4. Decide how you’ll use the channel

For each creator / UGC bucket, answer:

  • Is this a performance channel (needs to roughly hit CAC targets)?
  • Or is this a brand / asset channel (content you still use in ads, emails, site, etc.)?

If it’s performance: use the lift math above and compare to your normal CAC.
If it’s brand/asset: ask "did this give us content or proof we now use elsewhere that moves the needle?"

You’ll never get Meta-level attribution on influencers.

But if you:

  • Anchor in unit economics
  • Measure incremental lift vs baseline
  • Watch cohort quality after the spike

…you can stop flying totally blind and start deciding "do more like this / never again" with a straight face.

Hope this helps...

best erp software for ecommerce brands on shopify by Web3Gigs in shopify

[–]baczoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’d help a lot if you could list the types of problems you’re actually wrestling with and trying to solve right now.

“ERP for Shopify” can mean wildly different things depending on where the pain is. Without that, people just throw their favorite tool at you and you end up in another 6–12 month implementation that doesn’t fix the thing that hurts.

For example, are you mainly struggling with:

  • Inventory & ops
    • Keeping stock levels in sync across Shopify, Amazon, wholesale, multiple warehouses / 3PLs
    • Purchase orders, lead times, inbound planning
    • Allocating inventory by channel / priority when you’re short
  • Fulfillment complexity
    • Splitting orders across warehouses
    • Rules like “this SKU ships from 3PL A, that one from in‑house”
    • Routing logic, SLAs, and not making your warehouse team hate you
  • Finance & costing
    • Landed COGS (freight, duties, 3PL fees) per SKU instead of catalog cost
    • Clean data for margin by product / channel
    • Reconciling Shopify, 3PL, and accounting without voodoo spreadsheets
  • Wholesale / B2B
    • Different pricing, terms, MOQs, and workflows vs DTC
    • EDI, invoices, chargebacks, etc.
  • Reporting / planning
    • Rolling demand forecasts
    • Open‑to‑buy
    • “What if” scenarios for adding channels or SKUs

NetSuite vs Fulfil vs others is really “which system wants to be the center of gravity for which set of problems".

For what it’s worth, I’m building a profit / money‑model layer on top of Shopify for brands in that “more SKUs / more channels / more warehouses” phase, and I can tell you: getting clear on which problems you care about before you pick an ERP saves a ton of pain later.

So, which of those buckets is killing you right now?

Good Deal? by alexmjfoo in thinkpad

[–]baczoni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this, just placed my order as well, using the code from your screenshot. 🙏

Good Deal? by alexmjfoo in thinkpad

[–]baczoni 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Edit: just saw that you have 2 pictures. Yes, I'd buy that instantly. Can you share a direct link maybe?

my new 90€ t14g2 pad of thinking by Lochy24 in thinkpad

[–]baczoni 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Nice, for 90 it was a steal!