Explainer6 min read
Who maintains it: the platform cost nobody prices in
Every platform comparison compares bills. The work is the bigger variable, it appears on no pricing page, and it usually decides the choice.
Posts by Soneth Martins
shopify store manager
Explainer6 min read
Why Shopify's price looks different depending on where you live
The pricing page localises, which is why no two articles about Shopify's cost agree. What varies, what does not, and how to get the figure that applies to you.
How to7 min read
How to tell if a Shopify store is dropshipping
Four checks that take about five minutes, what each signal is really worth, and why dropshipping tells you something useful about a competitor rather than something bad about them.
Explainer5 min read
What you can and cannot learn about a store from outside
A straight list of what a Shopify store publishes about itself, what is guesswork, and what nobody outside the business can see at any price.
How to6 min read
Which platform is this online store built on?
How to tell Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace and a custom build apart from the outside, using checks that take under a minute each.
Explainer6 min read
The order-number trick: estimating a Shopify store's sales, and its limits
Shopify order numbers count up by one. That makes a rough order count possible — and it costs two real purchases and carries limits most people never mention.
How to6 min read
How to find every Shopify competitor in your niche (free methods)
Six free ways to discover the shops competing with you, including the ones you have never heard of, and how to tell a real competitor from a lookalike.
How to6 min read
A competitor research checklist you can run in 30 minutes
A timed, step-by-step checklist for researching one competitor properly in half an hour, with what to record at each stage and what to skip.
How to8 min read
Shopify competitor analysis: a practical guide for store owners
Which competitors to watch, the six things worth recording about each, a schedule you can actually keep, and an honest list of what you cannot learn from outside a shop.
How to6 min read
What theme is that Shopify store using? Two free ways to find out
A one-line check that names the theme a shop runs, how to tell a shop-bought theme from a custom one, and why the name you see is often not the theme's real name.
Explainer7 min read
Why some stores are hard to identify, and what to do about it
Your checks came back blank on a shop that obviously sells things. The five reasons that happens, how to tell them apart, and when to stop trying.
How to6 min read
How to tell whether a store is really running a sale
How to check whether a discount is real, spot a permanent fake markdown, and understand why a shop can be running a big promotion with no visible price change at all.
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