Guides
Notes from real store and web projects: what to check, what breaks, and how to do it properly.
Typesense for Ecommerce Search: Intent, Open Source, Guardrails
How open-source Typesense helps online stores match shopper intent with typo-tolerant hybrid search, how it compares on cost, and the guardrails that keep it reliable.
Read the guideWhy Your Shopify Store Is Slow, and How to Fix It
A developer’s guide to Shopify speed: how to measure it properly, the apps, images, fonts and theme code that slow stores down, and the fixes that cut a real page load from 11.6 seconds to about 1 second.
Read the guideShopify VAT and OSS for Irish Stores: How to Set It Up
How to set up VAT on Shopify for an Irish online store: 23% and reduced rates, VAT-inclusive prices, the €10,000 EU distance-selling threshold, One Stop Shop (OSS) registration and selling to the UK.
Read the guideShopify vs WooCommerce for Irish Businesses: The Real Costs
Shopify or WooCommerce for an Irish online store? A plain comparison of the real running costs: hosting, plugins and apps, payment fees, security, maintenance time and what each costs to build.
Read the guideGDPR Cookie Consent on Shopify: What EU Stores Need
What GDPR and the ePrivacy rules mean for a Shopify store in Ireland and the EU: a compliant cookie banner, Google Consent Mode v2, the Meta pixel, email marketing consent and the most common mistakes.
Read the guideSetting Up Shipping on Shopify for Ireland, the UK and the EU
How to set up Shopify shipping for an Irish store: zones for Ireland, Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the EU, An Post and DPD rates, Eircodes, free-shipping thresholds, local pickup and returns.
Read the guideMoving from WooCommerce to Shopify: A Checklist for Irish Online Stores
A step-by-step WooCommerce to Shopify migration checklist for Irish stores: what moves and what does not, URL redirects that protect Google rankings, 23% VAT and OSS, An Post and DPD shipping, GDPR consent and launch day.
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