# Cartsella Studio

> Cartsella Studio is a Shopify app with three tools: it clones a live Shopify store (Production) into a staging store and keeps it in sync; it's a complete Shopify metafields manager that adds field types no other metafields app offers (size charts, specification tables and rich content Shopify's own fields can't hold) and lets a merchant copy already-filled-in metafields between products or between stores instead of filling them in by hand every time; and it creates campaign links that fill a shopper's cart with products and a discount code and open the cart or checkout. Launching soon; not on the Shopify App Store yet: join the waitlist at https://cartsella.com/waitlist (50% off the first year at launch).

## Key facts

- Works with any Shopify store that can install apps; Shopify Plus is not required.
- Clone & sync: copies products and variants, collections, metafields, metaobjects, files and media, pages and blogs, navigation menus, URL redirects, discounts, markets and translations, shipping, subscriptions (selling plans not owned by another app), locations and inventory. Copies of the live theme and up to 5 other themes (unpublished) are coming once Shopify approves the app's theme access; not available yet.
- Clone & sync: a pair is either live → test (staging) store, cloned and synced, or live → expansion store (another live store, e.g. for a new market), which only receives clones and never syncs. The store that receives the copy chooses which when entering the pairing code.
- After a clone, the run's page lists the apps to install in the destination (apps the theme uses and apps that own selling plans, with App Store links) and compares store settings no app can copy (currency, taxes, express checkouts, customer accounts, time zone, units, order numbers, languages, markets, shipping countries, plan).
- Records removed from staging by a clone are backed up first; they can be restored in one click or exported as a Matrixify .xlsx file (products, pages, blog posts, redirects).
- Never copied: customers, orders and draft orders.
- Clones and syncs only read from the live store; they never write to it. Syncs show a preview and flag records edited in both stores as conflicts. When cloning, the user chooses whether records that exist only in staging are kept or removed (removal happens only after a backup).
- Metafields: a full metafields and metaobjects manager — every field on every resource (products, variants, collections, pages, blog posts, metaobjects), including other apps' data (shown read-only, with one click to make an editable copy), in one screen. No other Shopify app needs to be opened to see or edit a store's product data.
- Metafields: a Table field type (size charts, specifications, blank tables) with merged cells, header rows, images, YouTube videos, colors and alignment — a field type no other Shopify metafields app offers, since Shopify's own rich text field can't hold a table. Tables come styled and display correctly in any theme.
- Metafields: a merchant never fills in the same field twice. Copy up to 25 already-filled-in fields from one product and paste them onto another, copy a whole field setup (definitions, not just values) from one store to another to set up a new store in seconds, or move chosen fields from a test store into the live store with a preview, an opt-in write and a 30-day undo (values edited in both stores are kept unless overwritten on purpose). Copying data out of old apps into editable native fields works the same way, so a merchant can leave an old app behind without losing its data.
- Metafields: field guides with supplier share links (Pro and Agency) — a short written guide per field, shared as a link or a PDF, with a report that finds every product still missing a required field.
- Campaign links: live on the store's own domain (/apps/go/<name>), add several products and quantities (including subscriptions), apply a discount code, open the cart, checkout or a product page, can be scheduled, have QR codes and click counts, and each order shows which link it came from (a cart attribute in the order's notes; the app doesn't read orders, so it doesn't count orders or sales). "Share on" adds UTM tags per channel (QR codes are tagged qr), and "Pre-fill checkout" adds Klaviyo or Mailchimp merge tags so email and SMS recipients' email and name are filled in at checkout; nothing about a shopper is stored. Campaign links change nothing in the store. Included in Duo, Pro and Agency.
- Billing is through Shopify. Every store has one 14-day free trial from its first install; a plan chosen during it keeps the days left free, and Shopify starts billing by itself after them. Development stores are never billed and can use any plan up to Pro. Yearly billing = 12 months for the price of 10.
- Waitlist: leaving an email on the website's waitlist (https://cartsella.com/waitlist) gives 50% off any plan for the first 12 months on monthly billing (a code emailed at launch, entered on the app's Plans page).

## Pricing (USD per 30 days)

- Starter: $29 — 1 store pair, up to 1,000 products, clone & scheduled sync, metafield tables & size charts
- Duo: $49 — 2 store pairs, up to 1,000 products, everything in Starter plus campaign links (subscriptions included)
- Pro: $99 — 3 store pairs, up to 10,000 products, everything in Duo plus field guides and chat support
- Agency: $299 — 5 store pairs, no product limit (subject to Shopify's API limits), everything in Pro plus live sync

A "store pair" is one live (Production) store plus its staging store. One plan can be shared across several pairs.

## Pages

- [Home](https://cartsella.com/): The Shopify app to clone your store into staging, add tables and size charts to metafields, and share links that fill the cart with a discount.
- [Campaign links](https://cartsella.com/campaign-links): Create Shopify links that fill the cart with products, subscriptions and a discount code, then open cart or checkout. On your own domain, with QR codes and click counts.
- [Clone & sync](https://cartsella.com/clone-sync): Clone your Shopify store into a staging store in one click: products, collections, product fields, images, pages and menus. Sync changes with a preview.
- [Home](https://cartsella.com/contact): Get in touch with Cartsella Studio: email support@cartsella.com with a question, a bug report or a clone/sync run you'd like us to look at.
- [Field guides](https://cartsella.com/field-guides): Write down what goes in every Shopify product field once, show it next to the field, share it as a link or a PDF, and see which products still miss a required field.
- [Metafields](https://cartsella.com/metafields): Add size charts, spec tables and rich content to every Shopify product, manage all your product fields in one place and give your team a guide for each one.
- [Pricing](https://cartsella.com/pricing): Cartsella Studio pricing: Starter $29, Duo $49, Pro $99 and Agency $299 per 30 days, billed through Shopify. Yearly plans get 2 months free. 14-day free trial.
- [Home](https://cartsella.com/referral): Refer a Shopify merchant to Cartsella Studio and earn 10% on a monthly plan, 20% on an annual plan, or 30% on an annual Agency plan, every year, for as long as they stay a customer.
- [Home](https://cartsella.com/studio): What Cartsella Studio is, why it's one app instead of three, and who it's for: staging stores, metafields and campaign links for growing Shopify stores.
- [Home](https://cartsella.com/waitlist): Join the Cartsella Studio waitlist and get 50% off any plan for your first 12 months: staging stores, metafield tables and campaign links for Shopify.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/announcement): Blog posts about announcement from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/campaign-links): Blog posts about campaign links from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/clone-and-sync): Blog posts about clone & sync from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/how-it-works): Blog posts about how it works from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/metafields): Blog posts about metafields from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/pricing): Blog posts about pricing from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/product-update): Blog posts about product update from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.
- [Blog](https://cartsella.com/blog/category/safety): Blog posts about safety from Cartsella Studio, the Shopify app for staging stores, metafields and campaign links.

## Guides

- [How to copy metafields from one Shopify store to another](https://cartsella.com/guides/copy-shopify-metafields-between-stores): Shopify has no built-in way to copy metafields between stores. How to move metafield definitions, values and metaobjects to another store, and what breaks.
- [How to create a Shopify link that fills the cart with a discount](https://cartsella.com/guides/shopify-cart-link-discount): How to create a Shopify link that adds several products to the cart, applies a discount code and opens checkout — including subscriptions, QR codes and scheduling.
- [How to add a size chart to Shopify product pages](https://cartsella.com/guides/shopify-size-chart): Three ways to add a size chart to your Shopify product pages — and how to give every product its own chart without a developer or a page builder.
- [How to create a Shopify staging store](https://cartsella.com/guides/shopify-staging-store): Shopify has no built-in staging environment. Here's how to create a staging store that matches your live store, keep it in sync, and test safely.
- [How to create a Shopify cart link for subscription products](https://cartsella.com/guides/shopify-subscription-cart-link): Shopify cart permalinks can't add subscription products. How to build a link that adds a product with its selling plan and opens the cart or checkout.

## Blog

- [Beauty & skincare: an ingredient list that's actually readable](https://cartsella.com/blog/beauty-skincare-ingredient-tables) (2026-10-23): INCI ingredient lists, how-to-use steps and skin-type guides don't fit in a text field. How beauty brands put them on every product page with a Table field.
- [Halloween: sell the whole costume in one tap](https://cartsella.com/blog/halloween-costume-bundle-links) (2026-10-21): Sell the whole Halloween costume in one tap: a campaign link that fills the cart with every piece, applies the discount and switches itself off on November 1.
- [The QR code on your box is a campaign link](https://cartsella.com/blog/qr-codes-packaging-sales) (2026-10-20): A QR code on a box, a card or a label that opens a filled cart, with a discount applied and the subscription already chosen. How to set one up.
- [What "read-only" actually means for your live store](https://cartsella.com/blog/what-read-only-means) (2026-10-19): Cartsella Studio's clones and syncs only read Production. What that guarantee covers, where the one opt-in exception is, and why it's enforced in code.
- [Metaobjects: a custom data type, not just a custom field](https://cartsella.com/blog/metaobjects-custom-data-types) (2026-10-17): Metafields extend a product or collection. Metaobjects are their own data type: a brand, an author, a size guide you reuse across your catalog.
- [From inbox to checkout: campaign links for email and SMS](https://cartsella.com/blog/email-sms-campaign-links) (2026-10-16): Send email and SMS shoppers straight to a filled cart with the discount applied and checkout pre-filled through Klaviyo or Mailchimp merge tags, with UTM tags built in.
- [World Food Day: show what's in your food, on every product page](https://cartsella.com/blog/world-food-day-nutrition-tables) (2026-10-16): For World Food Day, how food and drink brands put ingredients, allergens and nutrition tables on every Shopify product page with a Table field.
- [Subscription reorders in one scan](https://cartsella.com/blog/subscription-reorder-links) (2026-10-15): Put a QR code on your packaging that opens checkout with the refill already in the cart as a subscription. How Cartsella Studio's campaign links do it.
- [Nothing lost: backups, restore and Excel export after a clone](https://cartsella.com/blog/clone-backups-restore) (2026-10-14): When a Cartsella Studio clone removes staging-only records, it backs them up first. How restore and the Matrixify .xlsx export work.
- [Rehearse your Black Friday sale in a staging store](https://cartsella.com/blog/black-friday-staging-store) (2026-10-13): Test your Black Friday theme, discounts, collections and campaign links in a Shopify staging store before the big weekend, without touching your live store.
- [New: send products and fields to your other stores](https://cartsella.com/blog/send-to-another-store) (2026-10-12): Cartsella Studio can now send a product, or its filled fields, from one of your Shopify stores to another store on the same plan. It only creates, as a draft in a live store, and never deletes anything.
- [How pairing two stores works](https://cartsella.com/blog/pairing-two-stores-handshake) (2026-10-11): Nothing connects on one store's word alone. How the two-sided handshake between your live store and its staging or expansion store works.
- [Field guides: products that go live complete](https://cartsella.com/blog/field-guides) (2026-10-10): Write a guide for each Shopify product field, share a read-only link with suppliers, and find every product missing a required field.
- [New: scan to resolve a barcode a table doesn't recognize](https://cartsella.com/blog/scan-to-resolve-unknown-barcodes) (2026-10-10): Pasting a product list into a Cartsella Studio table and hitting a barcode that doesn't match anything? Scan it with your phone to assign it or start the product, without leaving the table.
- [After the clone: the apps and settings no app can copy](https://cartsella.com/blog/after-the-clone-apps-and-settings) (2026-10-09): Apps, currency, taxes and payments can't be copied into a Shopify staging store by any app. How Cartsella Studio lists the apps to install and the settings that differ.
- [Your cart permalink ignores the selling plan. Here's why, and the fix](https://cartsella.com/blog/cart-permalink-selling-plan-not-working) (2026-10-09): Your Shopify cart permalink adds the product as a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Why selling plans never work in permalinks, and three ways to fix it.
- [Shopify influencer links: one link per creator, code built in](https://cartsella.com/blog/influencer-links-one-per-creator) (2026-10-09): Give every creator their own Shopify link with their discount code built in, opening a filled cart or checkout. Track clicks and orders per creator, no code.
- [Leave an old app without losing your product data](https://cartsella.com/blog/leave-old-apps-keep-product-data) (2026-10-09): Specs, size data or reviews stuck inside an app you want to remove? Copy them into Shopify metafields you own, then uninstall when you're ready.
- [Keep your staging store in sync, without losing what you built there](https://cartsella.com/blog/keep-staging-in-sync) (2026-10-08): How Cartsella Studio keeps a Shopify staging store matching your live store: a preview of what changed, conflicts instead of overwrites, and syncs by hand, on a schedule or live.
- [Turn your product fields into a handbook every team can read](https://cartsella.com/blog/field-guide-pdf-team-handbook) (2026-10-07): Field guides now download as a clean PDF, and the fill-in report too. How merchandising, content, suppliers and agencies share one set of product data rules.
- [One plan for all your stores: how store pairs and plan sharing work](https://cartsella.com/blog/one-plan-several-stores) (2026-10-07): How Cartsella Studio counts store pairs, how one paid plan covers your other stores, and which plan fits a staging setup across several markets.
- [Fill in product fields in staging, publish them when they're ready](https://cartsella.com/blog/staging-to-live-metafields) (2026-10-07): Prepare size charts, specs and product content in your Shopify staging store, then move the fields you choose to your live store with a preview and 30-day undo.
- [Introducing Cartsella Studio](https://cartsella.com/blog/introducing-cartsella-studio) (2026-10-04): Why we built Cartsella Studio: one Shopify app to clone your live store into staging, add the metafields Shopify lacks, and share links that fill the cart.
- [Shopify's product fields can't hold a table. So we built one.](https://cartsella.com/blog/shopify-product-fields-tables) (2026-10-03): Shopify metafields can't store a size chart or spec table. Here's the Table field we built for Cartsella Studio, and why.
- [New: copy your live store into an expansion store](https://cartsella.com/blog/expansion-stores) (2026-10-02): Opening a Shopify store for a new market? Cartsella Studio now copies your live store into another live store, once, with nothing synced afterwards.
- [How Cartsella Studio keeps your live store safe](https://cartsella.com/blog/live-store-safety) (2026-10-01): A staging app needs access to your live Shopify store. Here's how Cartsella Studio keeps clones read-only, never copies customers, and backs up before deleting.

## Optional

- [Full text of every page](https://cartsella.com/llms-full.txt)
- Support: email (support@cartsella.com) on every plan, including the free trial; chat inside the app (Help › Contact support) on Pro and Agency
- Official channels: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@cartsellastudio), [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@cartsellastudio1)