Infinite Options - You can use this app for as many product options as you like. This immediately is useful as Shopify has a 3-option limit, so using this app you can explore the use of more! This allows shoppers to select the product option of the items they purchase, whilst the app also allows them to create personalised products. Whilst having those features, it also comes with a bundle feature, making it easy for you to add to your site. Not only do people like deals, but it will also increase your traffic as well as your sales; why wouldn’t you try it?
Order Printer Templates - Want to create custom templates without using any code? This app is the one for you. Printed templates for invoices, packing slips, and receipts are even better when they are on-brand and professional. This app is fast and easy to use and comes with no subscription fees. You simply choose your template, customise it, and then buy them individually. Every time you create one once it is bought, you can use it all the time to print.
Analytics
KISSmetrics - This app tracks your customer’s lifetime value and behaviour on your site. After collecting this data, it tells you when it is the best time to push follow-up emails. This is dependent on when KISS-metrics calculates timings for repeat orders and targets your customers. It saves a lot of your own time and money and works well using analytics tools. Doing this prevents wasting money by sending emails at the wrong time or following up on customers too early, or late.
Vantage - This is a great app that analyses your data for you and presents it easily and clearly. Due to this, you can quickly make decisions without spending that time creating your reports and dashboards. Vantage offers A/B testing, automatic ad optimisation as well as reaching new audiences. It can target and send the right types of customers to your store as well as work on recovering abandoned carts with re-engagement.
Customer Service
Returns Manager - With this app, merchants are allowed to create and manage returns easily and professionally. It is easy and helpful for customers and saves you time handling returns in a more complex way such as making a ton of emails. Customer service is important if you want to maintain happy consumers and encourage sales. You have full control! In the back end, you and your team can set deadlines/rules, see analytics and take on requests you want to. It is much easier to personalise and manage with this app’s approach with its return ‘portal’.
Accounting
Zapstitch - As we know, the money side of a business can be complicated, taking up a lot of time. This app integrates Shopify with the accounting tools- Xero and QuickBooks online to produce your financial reports. It is a very high-rated app and is used widely as a big-time saver as well as an accuracy tester with your numbers. Its payment works monthly to use the app and the cost rises due to the orders you process.
Marketing
Loyalty Lion - The clue is in the name, loyalty. There is nothing more rewarding to a customer than deals or loyalty schemes, so this app can help you create and control them for your Shopify store. Its ultimate goal is to increase your revenue and traffic as it will drive repeat customers back to your site. They also offer a free plan as well as advanced types of loyalty cards you can choose from such as VIP. These schemes don’t just need to be discounted, they can be chances to win products, get free items or even win a higher scheme.
Abandon Aid - We are all guilty of abandoning carts, let’s face it. However, being a business owner and seeing someone abandon your cart is frustrating. As much as this can be caused by a loss in interest, it can also come from little time or money in which a customer is still interested but has forgotten. This is where this app can help solve this problem as much as possible and revive those customers. It is only $10 a month and works on recovering abandoned carts as fast as possible.
Optimisation
Notso - With a 65% increase in conversion rate after using Notso, you must already be intrigued. This personalisation app allows you to access features to continue buying more. You will be familiar with ‘you might want to try’ and how it can attract more customers into spending more money, Notso does this for you. It is free to purchase and only charges once you start to gain results, you can create your whole customer journey and it uses artificial intelligence to analyse all interactions.
Cross Sell - This third-party app allows you to pick related items and display them on any part of your page to attract customers into buying more. Whether they are placed on product pages, pop-ups or in the cart section for last-minute add-on purchases, Cross-sell allows this all to happen.
