Episode #106
Why Size Matters on the Shopify Platform
Accurate sizing can be a game-changer for online fashion and apparel brands. Lauralynn Drury of Kiwi Sizing shares the power and return from a simple Shopify app.
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Shopify Plus.
Shopify Plus is the enterprise tier of Shopify — built for merchants doing serious volume who have outgrown the standard plan's limits. It unlocks higher API rate limits, dedicated Merchant Success management, Shopify Launchpad for sale events, Shopify Flow for automation, Shopify Markets for multi-currency and multi-language selling, and full access to checkout extensibility via Checkout Extensions. It also includes Shopify Audiences for ad targeting and Shopify POS Pro for omnichannel retail.
The decision to move to Plus isn't just about price. It's about whether your operation genuinely needs what Plus unlocks: unlimited staff accounts without per-user fees, a variable platform fee model instead of fixed subscription tiers, Shopify Payments at reduced rates, and direct engineering support from Shopify's team when you need it most.
On this podcast, we've spoken with Shopify's own people and the agency founders who build on Plus every day. The recurring theme is that Plus is a business transformation trigger, not just a hosting upgrade. Merchants who get the most from it have already mapped their operational complexity — the ERP integrations, the custom checkout logic, the wholesale and B2B flows — to what Plus actually makes possible.
For growing Irish and European ecommerce businesses, Plus also opens up Shopify Markets in a meaningful way: selling in Euros, Pounds and Dollars from a single store, with market-specific pricing, currency conversion and translated storefronts. That's a capability that previously required headless builds or third-party middleware.
The episodes in this hub cover: what Shopify Plus actually includes, how to evaluate the jump from standard Shopify, real merchant and agency stories from Plus implementations, and the features that make the biggest operational difference.
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Every episode on shopify plus.
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Episode #54
Shopify Online Store 2.0 with Default HQ
This summer Shopify announced their most progressive feature release Shopify Online 2.0, thus revolutionising the platform. And who better to explain it than Shopify guru Keir Whitaker from Default HQ.
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Episode #32
Reunite with Keir Whitaker
At the end of May, Reunite was streamed into people's homes where Shopify made it's latest announcements for new releases in the pipeline. In this episode Keith and Keir discuss the announcements and what they could mean for Shopify users.
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Episode #30
John Riordan from Shopify
John is Director of Support for Shopify, managing customer support teams worldwide. All of which work remotely. An interesting and free-flowing conversation about the impact of Covid-19 on the airline industry, building communities in rural areas through remote working, and the death of desktop.
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Episode #27
Headless e-Commerce on Shopify with Kelly Vaughn
Kelly Vaughn is the founder of The Taproom Shopify agency. She's also a Twitter star in the developer world. Kelly chats about Atlanta, Shopify, DTC, Headless e-Commerce and how she taught herself how to code aged 11.
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Episode #14
Podcast #14: Profile of Shopify Plus Senior Launch Engineer
Albert Quigley, a Senior Launch Engineer with Shopify Plus, works closely with Shopify Plus merchants making the transition to Plus a fruitful experience. We chat about the opportunities using automations on the Plus platform.
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Podcast #11: Keir Whitaker De:brief on Shopify Unite 2019
Post Shopify Unite, we caught up with Keir Whitaker again to discuss the announcements made by Shopify at Shopify Unite 2019 in June. Keir recaps on what they mean for merchants and developers.
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Podcast #9: Keir Whitaker and Shopify Unite De:brief 2019
In episode 9, Keith chats with Keir Whitaker who helps Shopify developers and agencies build their brand and grow their business across the world. Keir is also hosting De:brief 2019 after Unite 2019 in Toronto this June.
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