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Shopify: enable access to webhook creation for staff

By Maximilian Batz | 2023-10-02

Unfortunately this is not documented on Shopify’s own help. To give staff members (e.g. developers) permission to add webhooks on Shopify, they need the Store Settings / Manage settings permission, possibly also “View customer events” and “Manage and add custom pixels” and “Store policies” permissions: setting these up in addition to App development helped my…

How to restore images for a Shopify product you’ve overwritten accidentally by CSV file

By Maximilian Batz | 2021-08-06

Problem: (wrong handling of CSV files) Yesterday I wanted to bulk-edit products in Shopify, and to change the vendor. I used LibreOffice to select just the rows with the vendor in it, updated it, and uploaded only these updated rows as a new CSV to Shopify. The result was that Shopify dropped many variants, and…

Optimizing page size for Shopify–uncomfortable truths

By Maximilian Batz | 2018-08-29

The uncomfortable truth in my case is that our main page currently weighs in at 3,4 MB – and this is just the HTML. I had been trusting the developers of the theme too much – we are using a theme called “Fastor” by Roarthemes. Unfortunately a poor design choice was made in this theme;…