Running a Shopify store means changing it all the time: a new theme, a new product line, a sale, a new market. Most of those changes are tested on the live store, because Shopify has no staging copy of your data. Product pages need size charts and spec tables that Shopify's own fields can't hold. And every campaign ends with a link that drops shoppers on a product page and hopes they find their way to checkout.
We built Cartsella Studio to fix those three things, with one rule above everything else: your live store is yours. We only read from it when we copy it.
1. Clone & sync: create once, copy to your other stores
Install the app on your live store and on a second store, confirm the pairing on both sides, and clone. Products and variants, collections, metafields and metaobjects, files, pages and blogs, menus, redirects, discounts, markets and translations all come across, still connected to each other. Theme copies (unpublished) are coming soon, once Shopify approves theme access.
After that, syncs keep staging up to date. You see a preview first, and anything edited in both stores is flagged as a conflict instead of being overwritten. Opening a store for a new market? Pair it as an expansion store and it gets a one-off copy that never syncs.
Customers, orders and draft orders are never copied. Records a clone removes from staging are backed up first and can be restored in one click.
2. Metafields: the fields Shopify doesn't have
Shopify's fields can't store a table, or content with images, videos and colours. Cartsella Studio adds a Table field type — merged cells, header rows, images, YouTube videos, colours and alignment — with ready-made Size chart and Specifications templates. Tables come styled and display in any theme.
Around it: one editor for every product field, a way to copy data out of old apps into editable fields, and copy & paste of fields between stores.
3. Campaign links: straight to a ready checkout
A campaign link lives on your own domain, fills the cart with the products and quantities you choose — subscriptions included — applies a discount code, and opens the cart, checkout or a product page. Schedule them, print them as QR codes, tag them for each channel, see the clicks each link gets, and see on each order which link it came from. Campaign links are included on Duo, Pro and Agency.
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