With over 1 million merchants running businesses on Shopify across 175 countries, Shopify is undoubtedly one of the most popular E-commerce CMS platforms, with over 20% market share. (Pagely, 2019)
Setting up an E-commerce website is easy, but making it stand out among your competitors is a lot of work. Luckily, we have curated a list of plugins to help move your website ahead of the competition.
Do you have a website but with little or no coding knowledge? Look no further! Gempages makes website development possible with a simple drag & drop website builder concept to design professional-looking and sales-boosting sites. It is an affordable page builder that enables you to create responsive home pages, product pages, landing pages and blog posts. You can choose from a wide range of ready-made templates provided by the app, or create your very own page from scratch.
Gempages also includes built-in SEO tools to improve your Google search rankings and syncing with Facebook Pixel and Google Shopping catalogue. Navigating around the app is simple and intuitive – simply pull the element you want and drop it anywhere on the page.
The app comes with a 10-day free trial, so feel free to try it out before deciding if this is the right app for you.
With the Starter plan at $15 per month, the app includes features such as – Unlimited pages, 2-page types, SEO optimization tools, High-speed CDN, and Email support.
Professional plan at $29/month includes everything in Starter plan plus, All page types, 50+ Block & Page Templates, Fastest CDN, Lazy Loading, Custom Code Editor, and Live Chat Support.
The Advanced Plan at $59.month includes Everything in Professional Plan plus: Up to 3 Store Installation, Synchronization between Stores. And Priority Support.
We recommend the Starter plan for most businesses as it the most cost-effective while providing most of the features required to build your website.
2. Instafeed – Instagram Feed by Mintt Studio
Instagram is a powerful marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their digital presence and reach out to their customers. If you have a business Instagram account, it is hugely beneficial to link it to your website.
Instafeed is a simple to use app that allows you to link your Instagram account to your E-commerce website. With this app, you can integrate, customize, and share Instagram posts with audiences on your website, allowing them to keep with your latest Instagram updates. The best part about this app – It is free! Unless, of course, if you want to upgrade it to the paid versions which include additional features such as IGTV, Product Tagging, Showing of likes, and displaying of multiple feeds.
We recommend the free version for most businesses as it includes all the features required.
Providing a minimalist and elegant Instagram feed to your website, the Instafeed app allows you to use your Instagram content to build social proof and convert your store visitors into customers.
Display your Instagram content exactly the way you want it with the different personalization options available in the app, with no coding skills required. They also have responsive customer support if you were to require assistance.
3. BEST Currency Converter app by Grizzly Apps SRL
Do you have sales traffic coming in from outside of your country? If yes, then a currency converter is a great addition to your Shopify store. Having a currency converter app allows your customers to make easier purchase decisions by browsing your products in their local currency. It also saves you the trouble of having to constantly and manually calculate the exchange rates, with fluctuations happening ever so frequently.
In short, having a currency converter app allows you to conveniently provide your customers with accurate local price rates in real-time.
We recommend BEST Currency Converter app by Grizzly Apps SRL. This user-friendly app looks and works well with any Shopify theme and allows you to personalize the design to suit the theme of your online store – all these at no cost at all! This app is free to install, with the free version being adequate to suit many online businesses.
4. Best Custom Product Options by Relentless apps
If you are selling customizable products or have product listings that require special options, Best Custom Product Options by Relentless apps is your best bet. Charging at $8.99/month, this app allows you to display buttons, checkboxes, images, colour swatches, as well as upload files, input texts, and many more to your product listings. This app allows you to create personalized simple to complex product customization, with no coding required at all!
5. Pre‑Order Manager 2.0 PreOrder by Amai
If you do not wish to miss out on any potential orders while your products are out of stock, you might want to consider installing the Pre‑Order Manager 2.0 PreOrder app by Amai.
This app allows you to set pre-order status automatically as you run out of stock. This way, customers can still place an order, while knowing that the order will be fulfilled once the product is back in stock.
The app can be installed on most of Shopify’s themes, and you can customize your shop’s buttons to change the text to however you want to show to your customer.
The Pre-Order app enables you to do pro-order settings in bulk and provides you with the option to search and filter products by collection, vendor, product type, pre-order status, or discount in the backend. You can also analyze pre-order sales directly in the app, with the option to export the data to a CSV file.
The app has a free plan available which allows you to turn on the pre-order function for one product, or paid plans which includes premium features.
More information can be found here: https://apps.shopify.com/pre-order