Productivity Tools

  • Learn how to use tools and increase productivity

  • Change Text Colors With the Rich Text Editor

    With Shopify, you can change text colors with the rich text editor for some special purposes. You may want to highlight a paragraph of text or some important content. Whatever you need, this simple tool will help you with ease.

  • Insert Tables With the Rich Text Editor

    Tables are useful to all of us for their simplicity. By inserting tables with the rich text editor, you can help your customers absorb a lot of information without mumbing jumbling and try to get your points.

  • Select Products to Edit in Bulk

    People often use a spreadsheet if they want to adjust a number of products or variants at the same time. However, on Shopify, this action can be completed by using bulk editing. It can also use for adjusting collections, customers, inventory, and online store blog posts and pages on Shopify. Moreover, it is recommended to use bulk editor for web browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari except for Internet Explorer (IE). Since IE limits the length of URL accessed, it may cause errors when using the bulk editor which works by including more parameters to URLs. Other browsers do not have a limitation on URL length then the similar errors will not occur and you can use them. If you still want to know how to select products to edit in bulk on Shopify, keep following this writing to dicover the process.

  • Insert Links With the Rich Text Editor

    Sometimes, your content is not enough to provide customers information they would need to find out, and you may want to insert links with the rich text editor to create a connection from your post to other posts. In this article, we will see how to do that.

  • Add Comments to Timeline

    As an ideal e-commerce platform, Shopify provides each user with a Timeline to do the internal affairs. For example, you are able to take a view of histories in Order’s Timeline and leave comments. In this post, I’ll take you through how to add comments to Timeline. Thanks to this, you can still know about the order’s information or its problems without remembering all of them. Moreover, your staffs can aware of the comments you’ve left so that you don’t have to tell them directly.

  • Use Emojis on Timeline

    You’ve known how to add comments to Timeline. However, just entering the comment by words seems to be really blase and unimpressive. So, you are looking for something to make the comment better and more creative. If you do, this article is the best one. It will show you how to use emojis on Timeline, which means you can add emojis to make your Timeline become lively and lovely.

  • Link to a File in Page Content

    With the Shopify platform, you can use the rich text editor to link to a file in page content after uploading a file.

  • Select Product Properties to Edit in Bulk

    As I have mentioned in the previous topic, bulk editor help you to change the information for multiple items on one page only and this is an example of what you can see in the Bulk editor page:

  • Mention Staff Members on Timeline

    After following the tutorial about how to add comments to Timeline, you must have known to do that successfully. Afterward, it’s highly recommended that you should learn how to mention staff members on Timeline on Shopify. When you add staff members to support you with your business on Shopify, you are required to enter their email. Their email is to receive all the information from you and Shopify. Hence, when you add a comment to your Timeline, the staffs will aware of it as Shopify will send an email notification to inform them.

  • Choose Product Images From the Rich Text Editor

    Choosing Product Images from the rich text editor to insert is another method to add images in your content. With this way, you can mobilize the picture storage once uploaded on Shopify before to be used again quickly and easily.

  • Edit Image In the Rich Text Editor

    With Shopify, you can also edit an image in the rich text editor by adjusting several specifications of the image. In previous posts, you have been shown how we can move and resize an image with our bare hands, simply drag here and there. In this article, you would know how to touch to the particular specifications of an image to edit it, specific detailed numbers.

  • Insert Audio Files With the Rich Text Editor

    With Shopify, you can also insert audio files with the rich text editor in your content. It depends on the type of the content you may have, but by doing so, you also increase another channel to interact with your customers when they search your posts.

  • Insert Videos With the Rich Text Editor

    With Shopify, you can also insert videos with the rich text editor to your posts, whether those are about products, customers, blog, etc. However, please note that you need to upload your video to a third-party video website before performing this measure.

  • Move and Resize Image in the Rich Text Editor

    When you compose the content for a post, it’s hard to make a perfect one without mistakes from the first time, even with simple tasks like adding product images in their right places. Therefore, we cannot avoid editting those parts. In this article, we will see how to move and resize an image in the rich text editor.

  • Add Profile Photo to Appear On Timeline

    You must have noticed that there is a profile picture beside the comment on Timeline. You can add a profile photo to appear on your Timeline on your own. It will make your Timeline attractive. Also, if others such as the staff members see those comments, they will know that the writer is you.

  • Attach Files to Timeline

    By following the post about how to add comments to Timeline, you would know how to do it. However, if the word comment is quite difficult to understand, which leads to a lack of information to those who read it, you are highly recommended to attach files to your Timeline. You can make the comment more clear and full information by the file attached. It can be the product’s photo before shipping to your customer or a copy of the inventory transfer receipt.

  • Link and Embed Orders, Transfers, Customers, or Products on Timeline

    The previous article has guided you to mention staff members on Timeline. Now, I will take you through the tutorial about how to link and embed orders, transfers, customers, or products on Timeline. Besides mentioning the staff members, you can do the same thing to the different subjects such as orders, transfer, customers or products by linking or embedding to them.

  • Upload Images With the Rich Text Editor

    When you compose content with the rich text editor, there is no doubt the need of images to visualize the content. Images also make your articles more colorful and less boring, like all articles I have been composing. On Shopify, there are many methods to add images to your content, using image URL is one example. In this article, we will find out about the first method, upload images with the rich text editor.

  • Use Image URL With the Rich Text Editor

    In this post, I will show you how to use an image URL with the rich text editor. If you know how to do this, you won’t need to upload image with the rich text editor(but be careful with copyright though).

  • Change Image's Orientation

    You may be familiar with the term editing image, which allows you to change some properties of the original file. There are programs and applications that let the users change the photo totally, can be named as Photoshop, or Illustration. However, it is the professional level, for amateur, they can still make some simple adjustment, like enhancing or cropping for example, by using basic tools. For Shopify shop owners, the system provides them will this feature that you can take advantages from it. In previous articles, I have already mentioned some kinds, I will show you how to change an image’s orientation on Shopify in this writing.

  • Crop Image

    There are cases that you do not want to show the full photo but only a part of it, to show the focus on an object for example. Another possible situation is that there are unexpected things included in your picture then you may want to crop it out. You can complete this by using other apps on your computer or on the internet. However, it will be more convenient to do it directly on Shopify. If you wonder how to crop an image on Shopify, follow this post to discover it.

  • Enhance Image

    Editing photos are very familiar to you due to the exposure to social media and the development of technology. There are programs and apps that help users to do things like adjust image’s color or contrast and brightness, however, you have to upload your file to the app then make changes. It is quite inconvenient and time-consuming because you have to complete a number of steps to edit then post it again to your website. If you are struggling with the same problem, don’t worry since Shopify allows users to edit the image online then follow this writing to know how to enhance an image on Shopify.

  • Resize Image

    Sometimes, it may be confused for the non-native speaker to distinguish Crop and Resize. Both of them change the original size of the picture, however, Crop is about removing the part that you don’t want to present in your photo while Resize maintains all content of the image except for its size. If you are interested in the latter, follow this writing to get the instructions of how to resize an image on Shopify.

  • Add Tag

    Adding product tags will enable your work with your product list becomes easier. A tag is very useful when you want to manage your products because you can do things like filter by tag, search by tag, etc.

  • Add Text to Image

    There are a lot of occasions that the option to add text to your image is useful. For example, there is a sale season and you want your customers to know about that, you can add the text to your product images.

  • Adjust the Contrast, Brightness and White Balance of Image

    One of the cool things that you can do with your image is to adjust the contrast, brightness, and white balance, alongside with crop, resize, enhance or even draw on it. It will help you to adjust the brightness of any part of the image.

  • Adjust Image Colors

    There are a lot of actions that you can do to edit the image from Shopify library, one of those is adjusting the image’s color. The tool to use is placed in the File settings so you should go to the Settings section > Files to find the tool.

  • Draw on Image

    The option to draw on the image will be helpful if you are planning to add a highlight part to the image. This is another option from the Files setting page for you to use in order to edit the image, other than croping, enhancing, resizing image, etc.

  • How To Filter By Tag on Shopify

    Filtering your products by tag will help you narrow down the product satisfied your search in the case you have a long product list. There are some pages that you can add filters to like Products, Transfers, Orders, Draft orders, Customers, and Blog posts.

  • Remove Tag

    As you know, tag is very helpful when it comes to managing your store. However, sometimes you may accidentally add a tag in the wrong place or the tag is no longer suitable. In those cases, you need to remove that tag or it will cause troubles when you search by tag or filter by tag. If you are in this situation, this writing is just right for you.

  • Search by Tag

    A tag will help you a lot if you want to find something really quick. Searching by tag would help you in tracking the tagged product better and show all the related results to you. Of course, you need to add tags before getting into all this.

  • Arrange Products in Shopify

    Running a Shopify store requires that you may have to deal with many tasks, and one of them is arranging products in Shopify. It occurs when you have already created the Shopify collections in the shop, so arranging and adjusting them is the next important step so that the user can browse and have access to your collections.

  • Upload Google Verification File to Shopify

    Running an online store on the Shopify platform requires that you have to deal with a lot of tasks. One of them is to figure out how to upload Google verification file to Shopify.

  • Create a Popup for your Shopify store

    For the past several years, Shopify popups have been a standard for stores when they try to use the platform to grow the email list, reduce cart abandonment, deliver coupon codes, free gifts or offer customer support, among other benefits and so on. In the marketing field, people consider popups as an effective part of your Shopify marketing playbook.

  • Sort products in Shopify

    Online shoppers today always want to go shopping with the best convenient ways. They do not want to waste their time searching their items on the millions of products. Therefore, filterable and sortable options will make them feel more satisfied. Thanks to the product sorting functionality, customers can now look for their expected products depending on colors, sizes or styles, etc. It is easier and faster for them to sort a product; therefore, online merchants can boost their sales effectively.