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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.
The 2026 archive
Every post published in 2026.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
6 min read
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.
