Sold So Many blog

How to Build a Shopify Social Proof App
At catalogue scale the metafield path has its own ceiling: writes are batched and rate limited, so 40,000 products is a job to schedule, not a loop to run.

How to Show Low Stock on Shopify Without Making It Up
Something backed by what actually happened: how many times the product has sold out, when it was last restocked, how long it stayed gone, or a plain sold count.

How to Tell Real Social Proof From Fake
Here is the one question that separates them from the ones that measure, and three ways a number can be real and still mislead.

How to Show an Add-to-Cart Count on Shopify
Here is what it takes to put a real '8 added to cart' label on a product page or a collection grid, and how to tell a measured count from a generated one.

How to Add a Live Visitor Counter to Shopify
A small endpoint that accepts a heartbeat containing a product ID and an anonymous session ID, a store that expires entries after 60 seconds, and a count query.

How to Show a Sales Counter Without a Popup
Social proof does not have to arrive as a corner toast. Here are the three places a sales counter can live on a Shopify page, and how to build each one.

How to Show Units Sold on a Shopify Product Page
Shopify has no built-in way to display units sold on a product page. Here are the three ways to do it, what each one costs, and when each one breaks.

The Best Shopify App for Social Proof (2026)
A comparison of the Shopify social proof apps worth installing in 2026, what each one shows a shopper, and where the numbers come from.

Installing Rubik Variant Images on a Store With Too Many Variants
I installed it on Birdsong Pet and paid close attention to the onboarding — because I've spent the last six months rebuilding my own.

The Best Shopify App for Social Proof (2026)
Sold So Many verified-page for a client store The link to the dedicated page is provided via a tooltip for shoppers that are interested, in a non-intrusive way.

6 Months In: Why I’m Not Giving Up on My Shopify App
Because despite the lack of paying users, there’s enough organic interest to prove that the merchants are interested. The problem isn’t demand—it’s execution.

Fixing the Onboarding Flow of "Sold So Many": Lessons from My First Shopify App
While I anticipated challenges, the initial user engagement metrics signalled that I needed to make significant improvements. The Problem In the last 30 days:

My Journey Launching a Shopify App: Lessons, Challenges, and What’s Next
This is where I encountered my first challenge: I couldn’t programmatically allow the tester store to subscribe to paid plans without processing a real payment.

Efficiently Counting App Impressions in Shopify Apps Using navigator.sendBeacon
When developing a Shopify app, tracking how often your app’s theme extension is displayed on merchants’ stores is essential.

How to Install Crisp Chat on a Shopify Remix App Template
This helps you keep track of who you're talking to and can streamline follow-up conversations. "unknown@example.com"); Crisp.user.setNickname(user.name ??

How to Install and Implement Trigger.dev on a Shopify Remix App Template
It's a tool that's well worth integrating into your development workflow. Happy coding! If you need further tweaks or additional sections, feel free to ask!

Creating a TikTok Ad
You don’t need to have a lot of experience to advertise on TikTok. Follow the steps in our guide to start advertising on TikTok today! 1.

How did TikTok grow during Covid-19 Lockdowns, and Why?
People used the app as an escape from the harshness of their real lives. As people will go back to their normal lives, TikTok’s advantage will slowly dissipate.

Best Practices for Casual Games Ad Creatives on TikTok
How casual-game advertisers use TikTok: the creative formats that work, why the first two seconds decide everything, and what to test first.

Understand How Shopify’s Product Recommendations API Work
In this blog post, we’re going to dive into the world of product recommendations and understand how they work so you can use them on your Shopify stores.

Understanding the Algorithm Behind TikTok’s For You Page
What feeds the algorithm and how does it choose which videos to surface? Much like other social media apps, TikTok’s algorithm is a secret owned by the company.

Using Conversion Sets in Google Ads
Google Ads groups conversion actions into sets so it knows which goals to prioritise when bidding. Here is how the categories work and when to use them.

What does TikTok’s first-ever UK TV ad tell about the app?
The ad aims to position TikTok as an entertainment app, where users would find joy and amusement. How well does the ad reflect the reality of the app?

What I learned advertising for small e-commerce businesses during BFCM 2020
As I am finishing up this crazy-long week and a non-stop working streak of 9 days, I managed to sit down to write down some of my learnings.

What’s different about TikTok content that makes the app so popular?
Although all of the social media channels now support video, what makes TikTok content so popular that TikTok videos make their ways to other channels?

Why are People on TikTok and What do They do?
TikTok has taken over the scene of social media apps in 2020, with the best quarter for any app ever in Q1 2020 and surpassing 2 billion downloads globally.