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Notes on Shopify development, integrations, and building things that hold up at scale.
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Shopify's Built-In Returns vs a Returns App: Which Do You Need?
What Shopify's own self-serve returns handle well, where UK stores tend to outgrow them, and the questions to ask before installing a returns app. -
Exchanges vs Refunds: How Shopify Stores Can Keep the Sale
Why offering exchanges and store credit at the moment of return keeps revenue a refund would lose, and how to set it up without making customers feel trapped. -
UK Returns Law for Online Shops: What Shopify Merchants Need to Know
The 14-day right to cancel, refund deadlines, who pays return postage and which items are exempt, explained for UK Shopify stores. -
How to Set Up Royal Mail Returns on Shopify
Three ways to handle Royal Mail return labels on Shopify, from doing it by hand in Click & Drop to sending one automatically the moment you approve. -
Shopify Headless Commerce: What Hydrogen Actually Buys You
A Shopify developer's take on headless commerce: what Hydrogen and the Storefront API change, and what building a live multi-brand storefront taught me. -
Shopify's 2026 Collections Update: Automation and Curation, Finally Together
A Shopify developer's take on the 2026 Collections update: multi-source collections, variant-level targeting, and what it means for merchandising. -
Shopify's Block and Partial Tags: A Developer Preview Worth Paying Attention To
A Shopify developer's take on the new {% block %} and {% partial %} Liquid tags in developer preview, and why they're a real theme-building improvement. -
Shopify's Spring '26 Edition: What Developers Should Actually Be Happy About
A working Shopify developer's take on the Spring '26 Edition: the API, Functions and CLI changes that make a real difference day-to-day.