20 Best Apps For Your Site
One of the best things about Shopify is the sheer amount of apps that are available. According to Shopify statistics, the average merchant uses six apps on their store. With over 8,000 apps to choose from it can be a bit challenging for merchants to know which ones are the best for their store. Luckily we have provided a list below, in no particular order of what we think are the 20 best apps you can use to add some new functionality to your store.
PRODUCT REVIEWS
Product Reviews is a free app that allows you to have reviews from customers displayed on your product pages. The reason this is beneficial is because firstly whenever a review is left by a customer, engagement in your store is increased and secondly positive reviews left by customers will more likely lead to increased sales. Another bonus of this app is that it is SEO friendly, which means you can add your review scores to your Google search results. You can publish, hide, filter and manager your reviews in bulk to save time and the reviews are designed to automatically match your stores look and feel.
JUDGE.ME PRODUCT REVIEWS
Judge.me Product Reviews is a fully customisable review app in 37 different languages. You can share reviews on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google Shopping to help improve your conversion rate. Set up of Judge.me is easy and tailored to suit your store, you can customise widget texts, colours, and themes. Judge.me gives you the ability to synchronise and group product reviews across different products and stores. Unlike Product Reviews, Judge.me has two plans available a free one and paid.
BOOST PRODUCT FILTER AND SEARCH
Boost Product Filter and Search is an app that helps you to create custom filter trees to match your theme and filter options for different collections and categories. There is an unlimited filter option so you can choose to search by tag, metafield, variant, vendor and much more and the app has a smart search bar so it gives instant auto-search results, spell check and custom search filter. This app allows for insightful analytics with a detailed collection filter and search behaviour report available. This app will enable your customers to search through collections and categories with ease making the whole process more streamlined and effortless which in turn will lead to more consistent sales on your site.
RECHARGE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Recharge Subscriptions is the leading subscription management app. The main aim of this app is to turn your one time visitors in to loyal customers. The app seamlessly integrates with both Shopify and Shopify plus stores allowing you as a merchant to add an extra revenue layer to your site and help build brand loyalty through recurring charges. Recharge simplifies subscription management, streamlines the checkout process and allows you to manage multiple channel commerce options all in one place.
MATRIXIFY
Matrixify is the perfect app for managing store data. You can import, export, update and migrate your data in bulk and the app can handle file sizes of up to 7GB. Migrate data from Magento, Wordpress, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and others. With Matrixify you're able to import or export data for things such as: Collections, Products, Customers, Companies, Discounts, Orders, Draft Orders, Payouts, Pages, Blogs, Redirects, Activity, Files and Metafields using Excel, Google Sheets or CSV files. It also allows you to backup and restore your data so you have peace of mind in case any mistakes are made along the way.
KLAVIYO: EMAIL MARKETING & SMS
Klaviyo is an official Shopify strategic partner. From the same platform, you can Klaviyo's proven email and SMS templates to automate things such as price drop alerts, cart reminders, and in the nick of time recommendations.
ORDER PRINTER
Order Printer is a free and easy to set up app that gives you the ability to create and print custom packing slips, invoices, shipping labels, and receipts for your orders. You will be able to promote your brand and improve customer experience through with customisable template. With Order Printer you can preview and print all documents for your orders either in bulk or one at a time and can print invoices, packing slips and Shopify shipping labels all at once.
TIDIO
Tidio ‑ Live Chat is a customer experience platform that allows merchant's stores to provide first class customer service and turn casual visitors in to loyal customers. It has sales and support chatbots ready to go to answer customers frequently asked questions. You can talk to your site visitors on live chat to enable you to quickly solve any problems that may arise. You're also able to use pre-made chatbot strategies to solve problems and increase sales saving site visitors and customers valuable time. It has 4 plans available ranging from free up to TIDIO+.
BACK IN STOCK: RESTOCK ALERTS
Having a successful online store doesn’t just depend on bringing in new traffic and potential customers but also looking after the existing ones you have. With Back in Stock: Restock Alerts, customers can sign up for restock alerts when the item they are interested in is back in stock. They can be notified via SMS, emails and push notifications to ensure that they are notified quickly. Instead of viewing an item that is out of stock and forgetting about it, the app encourages customers to come back to your store, purchase it and possibly browse the store and its other items.
ABANDON AID
Unfortunately once in a while, customers will abandon their carts or the checkout process for whatever reason. In the past, there was nothing to encourage this customer to complete the checkout process, but this is where Abandon Aid comes in. It targets such customers and saves their items in the cart. It then sends a notification that their purchase has not been complete and invites them back on to the site to complete their order.
SHOPIFY WISHLIST
Shopify Wishlist allows customers to bookmark items an item or items they are interested in and come back to them later. It is a very popular feature that shouldn’t be missing on any well established e-commerce site. Wishlist is integrated to the store in a way that it is very easy to use by the customers, and it effortlessly increases sales and conversions.
SEO MANAGER
Good SEO practices are the key for your store to exist online. With SEO Manager it makes it easy for merchants of any size to optimise their stores SEO. You receive realtime performance reports that give a clear and straightforward report and any feedback to help improve performance. The app also provides a comprehensive document explaining everything you need to know about SEO.
REBOLT BUNDLE & UPSELL
Rebolt Bundle & Upsell is an all-in-one app with various bundles such as Product Bundle, Quantity/Volume Discounts, Combo Product, FBT and Mix & Match Build Box. It keeps your stock accurate and up to date with the help of Automated Inventory Sync and it can be displayed in any language which will be helpful to attract customers. Rebolt Bundle & Upsell allows you to add different bundle discounts to any products and it can also help merchants increase their sales and ROI.
REBUY PERSONALISATION ENGINE
Rebuy Personaliation Engine gives you full personalisation by combining proprietary AI/ML technology with modern software (either no-code, low-code, or custom code), first-class integrations, and fully customisable merchandising rules. This allows brands and merchants to provide data driven shopping experiences throughout the entire user journey. From homepage to checkout and post purchase and more.
INVENTORY PLANNER FORECASTING
Inventory Planner is the #1 inventory planning app for e-commerce businesses. It offers extremely accurate product forecasting and analysis as well as inventory reporting so retailers can make better and smarter decisions regarding replenishment. Once installed and connected to your sales channels, Inventory Planner will sync up to your sales history. It will provide additional information such as vendor lead time which in turn allows Inventory Planner to automatically produce your forecast. All in all this all will help to optimise your cash flow, allow you to stop losing revenue in out of stock items and having cashed tied up in safety stock/poor performing products.
VEEQO SHIPPING
Veeqo Shipping cuts the cost of shipping your multichannel orders with low shipping rates, automation and inventory control and picking features. You can immediately access shipping rates from the following four major carriers, UPS, USPS, DHL and FedEx. You can save time with rate shopping, clever automated rules, and bulk shipping and get stay ahead with the free features for your inventory control, picking and reporting.
DISCOUNT: STACK & COMBINE CART
Having a discount code that your customers can use is crucial to boosting your sales rate and providing a good customer service. With Discount: Stack & Combine, users can enter several codes and apply them all to one cart. The amount is then summed up and the user does not even need to go to the checkout to apply the code. This app does not store any personal data and you can apply custom CSS and JS to further enhance it.
SHOPIFY SEARCH & DISCOVERY
The best online shopping experience starts with simple search flawless discovery and that's where Shopify Search & Discovery comes in. With this app you can customise your search, filtering and product recommendations to enable you to enhance your products relevance and in turn sell more. You can create synonym groups, so product descriptions match the terms that your customers use and use product boosts to feature products that you want highlighted in search results. Also use analytics to help you understand how your customers are navigating your site and help your them find what they're looking for with the insights you receive.
SHOPIFY TRANSLATE & ADAPT
With Shopify Translate & Adapt it's easy to translate and change your store content to any market which will boost traffic, improve your SEO and enable you to build trust with different audiences around the world. You can auto translate up to two languages for free, and manually add as many translations as you would like. With the side by side editor that the app has, it makes it easy to compare your translations and it can also be used to adjust content between different markets that speak the same language which will ensure cultural, seasonal and regional relevance.
DATAFEED WATCH
DataFeed Watch lets you easily optimise your manage your product feeds to help boost sales across across multiple channels and marketplaces such as Google Shopping, Facebook, Amazon and more all in one central place. You can set automated rules, exclude products temporarily, group products using custom labels and merge product variants. There is also 24/7 support available should you ever need a helping hand or some guidance.
