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What's new in the app, why we built it, and how merchants use it. Search posts or browse by category below. Looking for step-by-step how-tos? See the guides. Follow along with RSS.

Metafields

Field guides: products that go live complete

Half-filled products happen when nobody knows what goes in each field. Field guides put the answer next to the field, and share it with suppliers.

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Product update

New: scan to resolve a barcode a table doesn't recognize

Pasted a product list into a size chart or spec table and one barcode doesn't match anything in your store? Scan it with your phone instead of hunting for the right row.

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Clone & sync

After the clone: the apps and settings no app can copy

A clone copies your catalog and content. Apps and a few store settings are yours to finish, and the app tells you exactly which ones.

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Campaign links

Your cart permalink ignores the selling plan. Here's why, and the fix

You added the selling plan to the link and the cart still shows a one-time purchase. It's not a typo: permalinks can't carry a plan. Three ways to get the subscription into the cart.

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Campaign links

Shopify influencer links: one link per creator, code built in

A creator's audience should land at checkout with the right products and their code already applied. Here's how to give every creator their own link, and see what each one brings.

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Metafields

Leave an old app without losing your product data

Your specs or size data live inside an app you want to remove, and your product pages depend on it. Here's how to bring it home first.

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How it works

Keep your staging store in sync, without losing what you built there

A staging store drifts the day after you clone it. Here's how a sync brings it up to date without overwriting the work your team did in staging.

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Product update

Turn your product fields into a handbook every team can read

Field guides now download as a clean PDF, and so does the fill-in report. One document for merchandising, content, suppliers and agencies, written once in the app.

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Pricing

One plan for all your stores: how store pairs and plan sharing work

Running stores for several markets? Here's what a store pair is, and how one plan covers all of them so you pay once.

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Metafields

Fill in product fields in staging, publish them when they're ready

Prepare size charts, specs and product content in staging, then move the fields you pick into your live store with a preview first and an undo afterwards.

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Announcement

Introducing Cartsella Studio

One Shopify app for three jobs merchants kept doing by hand: a staging store that matches the live one, product fields Shopify doesn't have, and links that go straight to a ready cart.

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Metafields

Shopify's product fields can't hold a table. So we built one.

Size charts and spec tables are some of the most-read content on a product page, and Shopify's own fields have nowhere to put them.

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