When the lockdown forced the Pizza Pilgrims chain to close, the company came up with an unusual solution to stay in business.
The company, with restaurants in London and Oxford and run by brothers Thom and James Elliot – who started out selling Neapolitan pizza from the back of a converted Piaggio Ape van – hit on the novel idea of posting pizza kits to customers.
Pizza Pilgrims pivoted online almost overnight via Shopify, the Canadian e-commerce platform that sells the digital kit that companies need to build and run a website.
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Pinterest Launches Updated Shopify Integration to Streamline the Creation of Shoppable Product
Pinterest has announced that it's updated its Shopify app , adding a new option that will enable Shopify merchants to quickly and easily feed their entire product catalog directly into shoppable Pins.
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"The app automatically creates a connection between the individual store and Pinterest, so the merchant doesn't need to edit code or add development resources, making it seamless for businesses of all sizes. Once installed, the app will allow a merchant to deploy a tag on their website [for Pin analytics], upload their product catalog and quickly publish in-stock Product Pins."
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Group of Shopify volunteers create free COVID-19 contact tracing app | BetaKit
A group of Shopify volunteers have created COVID Shield , an app that offers COVID-19 exposure notifications, aimed at helping support contact tracing efforts.
The Shopify employees built the app to be free to use, with CEO Tobi Lütke tweeting on Friday that COVID Shield “can be deployed in any country, translated, and modified to local requirements.” He added that the app is audited and open source.”
The Chief Product Officer of Shopify is Exercising Options
Today it was reported that the Chief Product Officer of Shopify ( SHOP ), Craig Miller , exercised options to sell 2,916 SHOP shares for a total transaction value of $2.24M.
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Based on Shopify’s latest earnings report for the quarter ending March 31, the company posted quarterly revenue of $470 million and GAAP net loss of -$31,429,000. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $320 million and had a GAAP net loss of $24.15 million. The company has a one-year high of $826.38 and a one-year low of $262.17. The Company has a Price to Book ratio of 38.06.
Shopify revenue surges as more businesses sell more goods online | Ad Age
Shopify reported first-quarter revenue that topped analysts' estimates as businesses moved swiftly online during the coronavirus pandemic.
Sales grew by 47 percent to $470 million from the same quarter a year ago, Ottawa-based Shopify said in a statement Wednesday. Analysts had expected about $443 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"We are working as fast as we can to support our merchants by re-tooling our products to help them adapt to this new reality," CEO Tobi Lutke said in the quarterly release.
OneSignal Launches Free Shopify App To Bring Powerful Engagement
To reduce cart abandonment, OneSignal automatically tracks store visitors who have added items to their cart, and then notifies them an hour later to complete these purchases. OneSignal ultimately helps Shopify users to optimize their messages and drive sales-based results.
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OneSignal enables more than 900,000 developers and 500,000 apps and websites to intelligently deliver and segment high-volume transactional messages, and OneSignal powers the delivery of 6 billion daily messages across the globe. With 72% market share among websites that implement push notifications, OneSignal’s reliability, speed, and versatility makes it the most popular push notification software in the world.
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