Shopify Entrepreneur Weekly

Hey there, Shopify fans 👋

I've got an exciting update to share with you! We've made some awesome changes to the website's themes and apps reviews section, including a fresh redesign. Now, it's super quick and easy to leave a review for the theme or app you're using. You can even check out the leaderboards to discover the most reviewed themes and apps, and read reviews to find the perfect fit for you. We'd love to hear your thoughts, so let us know what you think! 

And, we've also shortened our form to just 5 important questions that'll take you only 5-7 minutes to breeze through. To leave a review for the theme or app you're using, simply click "Write a review" in the top-right corner. 

One of the coolest updates this week is that Shopify is introducing Shop and Shop Cash on the web, just in time for all the holiday shopping needs. Similar to the Shop app, customers can easily explore products from Shopify merchants and breeze through checkout with Shop Pay. For merchants, the web version of Shop and Shop Cash offers more ways to get discovered and connect with customers. 

👉 If you want to jazz up your homepage with seasonal creative, run some tests, and get your store ready for traffic surges, go ahead and pick from our 10, 25, or 50-hour buckets here. You can use them for design, development, performance, and optimization tasks.

Thank you and see you next week,
Lidia from HeyCarson

🧩  Quick hits

📖 What we are reading this week

Shopify now offers the ability to compare theme speeds and provides insights into the performance of themes. In this post, Shopify has aggregated real user data to showcase the performance of some of the popular themes on their platform. Dive into this article on theme benchmarking to discover a detailed data table showing how popular Shopify themes fare against Google's Core Web Vitals.

🛠 Theme version updates

★ Habitat by Fuel Themes – Version 2.3.2 [October 27, 2023]

Added an ability to enable GDPR checkbox for email signup forms from Theme Settings.

★ Yuva by Shine Dezign Infonet – Version 10.0.0 [October 31, 2023]

Added SEO heading tag settings and background image option in Announcement section. Also fixed product page sticky issue along with some minor UI issues.

🔌 App we like

Want to give your customers an extra reason to shop with you this holiday season? Give them the opportunity to earn referrals! With Referral Candy, the perfect app for this, you can reward your customers for referring their friends to your amazing products. Watch the sales roll in as you send automated emails, invite customers to join your referral program, and choose from a variety of awesome rewards. Enroll as many customers as possible, and don't forget to grab attention with post-purchase popups and landing pages. Encourage your customers to share their referral link and witness your revenue grow. Give it a try for free for 14 days using this link. Happy selling!

🚨 New theme alert!

• MULTI by Mile High Themes: Highly flexible multi-purpose theme with extensive navigation options.

🌟 Customer spotlight

Azura Jewelry offers women the chance to embark on a new story. Their in-house team crafts each piece with natural precious and semi-precious gemstones like emerald, sapphire, opal, topaz, and moonstone.

We've successfully completed over 300 projects for Angela, freeing up her time to focus on her business. By keeping design and aesthetic in mind, our experts at HeyCarson have revamped her website with stylish updates and added custom functionality to enhance Azura's customers' browsing experience.

💡 Optimization tip

CTA Tip:

• The main CTA includes what will happen next ("Proceed to a secure checkout") and is the most prominent element and duplicated at the top and bottom of the page

• The main CTA ("Proceed to a secure checkout") includes a lock icon on a distinctive (gray) background

↗️ Drop us a message here if you'd like it implemented for your store

👀 Overheard on LinkedIn & Twitter [X]

🖼 Photo of the week

In this awesome photo, check out the moon as it passes between Earth and the sun during a rare "ring of fire" solar eclipse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday, October 14 🌕