Author: Joe Warnimont

When I first launched my Shopify store selling vape products, I honestly didn’t think much about age verification. I had a checkbox on the site saying “Are you over 18?” and figured that was enough.

It wasn’t.

I found out pretty quickly that basic age gates don’t protect you — not from legal issues, chargebacks, or even payment processor shutdowns. Depending on where your customers are, that missing layer of verification could put your store at risk.

Here’s exactly how I learned to add age verification on Shopify — the right way.

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At some point, every BigCommerce store owner asks if it’s a good idea to migrate from Bigcommerce to Shopify.

BigCommerce is a wonderful platform for some businesses, but other brands may find the simplicity, App Store, and overall design process from Shopify easier to manage.

In this step-by-step tutorial, we explain why you might consider migrating from Bigcommerce to Shopify. Thereafter, we walk through the steps needed to complete that migration. 

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As a WooCommerce user, you may have thought of learning how to migrate from WooCommerce to Shopify. WooCommerce definitely has its advantages (self-hosted, themes, full control over coding), but Shopify can take your ecommerce business to the next level by getting rid of tedious backend management tasks, and even cutting down the overall costs you experience from running an online store. 

Whether you're seeking a more user-friendly interface, enhanced scalability, or a wider range of features, Shopify offers a seamless transition that can elevate your online store's performance. In this article, we will guide you through the process of migrating from WooCommerce to Shopify, step by step.

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Shopify vs Teespring, which solution should you be using for your business?

It might seem like a simple question, but it’s not a like-for-like comparison. Shopify is a comprehensive commerce platform, designed to help businesses create and run various types of companies, from service-based businesses to ecommerce stores.

Teespring, on the other hand, is a simple print-on-demand solution, intended to help members of the creator economy, and would-be retailers design and sell custom products.

Here’s what you need to know to make the right choice between the two options.

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So, you want to migrate from Wix to Shopify? There are many reasons to do so (which we explain below), but it’s important to walk through the appropriate steps to ensure your migration goes as smoothly as possible.

In this step-by-step guide, we cover how to migrate from Wix to Shopify manually and with an app. We also explore why to migrate to Shopify, and the FAQs you might need to use during the process. 

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While trying to improve conversion rates for an online store, you often hear about A/B testing, speeding up the checkout, or displaying customer reviews.

But what about testimonials? They’re like online reviews, except your business has more control over them, and they come from real customers, providing an extraordinary look into what customers can expect from your products and company.

In this article, you’ll learn how to add testimonials to your Shopify store, while also diving into why you should include testimonials, and the best locations to put them on your Shopify website.

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When a potential customer lands on your Shopify website, they’ll use the images to decide if they’d like to make a purchase. Your job as a merchant, therefore, is to ensure the images don’t bog down the site loading speeds (so to push people away) and to format and size the images properly.

This way, the images don’t appear stretched out or cut off. In our ultimate Shopify image size guide, we show you the importance of specific image sizes for Shopify photography, and provide the ideal sizes for things like your logo, banner image, and product images.

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