Short reports from live client work. What we did, what happened, and what you can use on your own store.https://innovate.partners/en-nzhttps://innovate.partners/notes/consent-banner-that-blocked-nothing/https://innovate.partners/notes/consent-banner-that-blocked-nothing/A US store had a consent banner set up and showing. Underneath it, every marketing script still loaded before anyone made a choice. We wired the actual blocking and verified it on the live page.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTfixshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/tracking-page-that-stays-on-your-store/https://innovate.partners/notes/tracking-page-that-stays-on-your-store/Liquid+ customers checking a delivery now land on a branded tracking page on the store's own domain, not a carrier page covered in someone else's branding.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/promote-would-have-deleted-live-pages/https://innovate.partners/notes/promote-would-have-deleted-live-pages/Pages built in the Shopify theme editor sync back to the live branch only. Promote a stale dev branch over it and git reads them as deletions, with no warning from anyone.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTgotchashopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-b2b-without-the-plus-upgrade/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-b2b-without-the-plus-upgrade/A client's next phase needed company accounts, wholesale pricing and payment terms. Last quarter that meant a Plus upgrade or custom build. We checked the changelog before quoting, and most of it is now native.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdecisionshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/landing-page-that-cant-break-the-store/https://innovate.partners/notes/landing-page-that-cant-break-the-store/A campaign landing page for Steadyrack's ProFlex rack, fourteen sections built from a designed comp. The architecture decision that matters is what the page is not allowed to touch.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/reviews-widget-renders-where-you-paste-it/https://innovate.partners/notes/reviews-widget-renders-where-you-paste-it/One Stop Print Shop sent through their review platform's embed code, and it was wired and verified the same day. The interesting part is how differently these widgets decide where to render.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/bundle-app-vanished-function-owned/https://innovate.partners/notes/bundle-app-vanished-function-owned/The paid app running Steadyrack's bundles was pulled from the App Store by its developer. We replaced it with a Shopify Function the store owns outright, proven on a dev store and then activated live.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/redesign-parity-measured-not-eyeballed/https://innovate.partners/notes/redesign-parity-measured-not-eyeballed/On a pre-launch redesign, the menu and cart got a parity pass against the design file. Measuring instead of eyeballing found the drifts a side-by-side look would have waved through.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/git-push-succeeded-theme-never-updated/https://innovate.partners/notes/git-push-succeeded-theme-never-updated/A GitHub-connected Shopify theme can silently refuse a change. Every local check passes, the push reports success, and the theme quietly stays frozen at the last version it liked.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgotchashopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/metaobject-product-features/https://innovate.partners/notes/metaobject-product-features/A new eyewear brand needed feature icons on every product page. We built them as metaobjects, so the team adds a feature from the Shopify admin instead of asking a developer for one.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/wordpress-multisite-replatform/https://innovate.partners/notes/wordpress-multisite-replatform/Bastion's web estate ran on Vercel, which put every content change in a developer's queue. We replatformed the group onto a single WordPress multisite network their marketing teams publish to daily.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildwordpresshttps://innovate.partners/notes/product-data-in-a-cart-drawer-app/https://innovate.partners/notes/product-data-in-a-cart-drawer-app/Steadyrack wanted each cart line to show which bikes that rack suits. The cart drawer is rendered by an app, so we fed it the store's own product data instead of rebuilding the cart.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/custom-wordpress-booking-site/https://innovate.partners/notes/custom-wordpress-booking-site/Custom WordPress for a luxury tour operator, with live availability and pricing on the page and a booking path built for high-value direct bookings.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildwordpresshttps://innovate.partners/notes/build-the-convention-not-the-feature/https://innovate.partners/notes/build-the-convention-not-the-feature/A client wanted a quote popup he could reuse anywhere later. So we built the rule, not the button. Any element that links to it opens it, no developer needed.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-bulk-pricing-engine/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-bulk-pricing-engine/Volume pricing built as a Shopify function the store owns outright, with tier-aware totals, a savings table and a quote flow, all native, no app subscriptions.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/subscription-upsell-every-login/https://innovate.partners/notes/subscription-upsell-every-login/In-portal upgrade banners that read each subscriber's real plan. The first build only reached some logins, so we rebuilt it to work for every one.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/subscription-journey-widget/https://innovate.partners/notes/subscription-journey-widget/Liquid+ wanted every subscriber to see where they are in their 90-day journey. The subscription app couldn't show it, so we built the part that could.Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-variant-sold-out-in-stock/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-variant-sold-out-in-stock/A new variant launched showing sold out despite having stock. The cause isn't inventory, it's that new variants don't inherit the product's shipping profile.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgotchashopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/steadyrack-cro-tests-into-code/https://innovate.partners/notes/steadyrack-cro-tests-into-code/Steadyrack run CRO experiments to find what lifts conversion. When one wins, we build the winner into the theme, so it becomes permanent code they own and loads faster.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-speed-work-you-can-see/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-speed-work-you-can-see/Making Cycliq's UK and US stores faster wasn't one magic fix, it was finding the specific things dragging those pages down and dealing with each.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTspeedshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-cart-wrong-price/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-cart-wrong-price/A subscription striking through a few cents, a bundle inflating toward a thousand dollars. This is how cart app price helpers go wrong, and where the real numbers live.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTfixshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/new-variant-goes-public-when-you-save-it/https://innovate.partners/notes/new-variant-goes-public-when-you-save-it/A store was adding a second flavour ahead of a launch date. Shopify has no draft state for variants, so the new one shows up in the picker straight away and every existing variant title changes with it.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgotchashopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/gallery-images-that-follow-the-variant/https://innovate.partners/notes/gallery-images-that-follow-the-variant/Shopify attaches one image to a variant. Liquid+ needed a whole set per flavour, so we built it as a naming rule the team control from the media library.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/designed-variant-picker-native-behaviour/https://innovate.partners/notes/designed-variant-picker-native-behaviour/The Liquid+ flavour choice needed to be big, illustrated tiles rather than a dropdown. We built the tiles to drive Shopify's own variant control instead of replacing it.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/reviews-not-showing-sku-mismatch/https://innovate.partners/notes/reviews-not-showing-sku-mismatch/A store's reviews stopped showing on some products. The reviews were fine. A trailing space had crept into a SKU, so the integration was matching against the wrong thing.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTgotchashopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-navigation-restructure/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-navigation-restructure/An electric bike retailer's navigation had sprawled as the range grew. We rebuilt it around broader collections and a mega-menu, driven by metaobjects the team control.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/custom-wordpress-teaching-tools/https://innovate.partners/notes/custom-wordpress-teaching-tools/Structured Maths Approach teach a specific way. We built their method into WordPress with custom fields, so the site works how they teach, and they run it themselves.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildwordpresshttps://innovate.partners/notes/style-shadow-dom-widget-shopify/https://innovate.partners/notes/style-shadow-dom-widget-shopify/A third-party widget that won't take your CSS is usually sealed inside shadow DOM. This is why your styles bounce off it, and the realistic way to make it fit your brand.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTgotchashopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-double-shipping-charge-fix/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-double-shipping-charge-fix/Fulfil from two locations and Shopify can charge a cart for shipping twice. The custom function we built keeps it to one, with no app and no monthly fee to rent.Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/block-discount-codes-during-sale/https://innovate.partners/notes/block-discount-codes-during-sale/Running a sale while codes are still live means some customers stack both. We built Cycliq a clean switch to block that during a sale, rolled out one market at a time.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/cart-count-stopped-updating/https://innovate.partners/notes/cart-count-stopped-updating/A store's cart count only refreshed on reload. The cause wasn't the cart, it was switching the cart from a drawer to a full page, which unhooked the counter.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTgotchashopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/design-tokens-before-paint/https://innovate.partners/notes/design-tokens-before-paint/Before restyling a live store, we spent a day making colours, fonts and spacing come from one place. Every change since has been cheaper because of it.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-geo-redirect-no-app/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-geo-redirect-no-app/Steadyrack runs a store per region. We replaced the third-party geo-redirect app with an in-theme system they own, consent-first, no subscription.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/dealer-hub-across-regional-stores/https://innovate.partners/notes/dealer-hub-across-regional-stores/A brand selling through dealers across several regional Shopify stores needed a logged-in dealer portal in each. We built it once and ported it, so every region runs the same thing.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-multi-region-country-switcher/https://innovate.partners/notes/shopify-multi-region-country-switcher/Cycliq run a store per region. We replaced a scattered set of native pickers with one clean country and currency switcher that behaves the same everywhere.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/stop-renting-your-checkout/https://innovate.partners/notes/stop-renting-your-checkout/Cycliq's bundles ran through a monthly app. We rebuilt them as code Cycliq owns, running on their own checkout, no subscription and nobody else on the critical path.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTdecisionshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/willies-state-restrictions-checkout-block/https://innovate.partners/notes/willies-state-restrictions-checkout-block/Some hemp products can't legally ship to some US states. We built the rule as a Shopify checkout function Willie's own, so it's enforced on every order with no app.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildshopifyhttps://innovate.partners/notes/a-site-that-sells-trust/https://innovate.partners/notes/a-site-that-sells-trust/For an IT provider, trust is the product. We designed and built a WordPress site around each service line, with real proof and a clear path to a call.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildwordpresshttps://innovate.partners/notes/trade-portal-account-pricing/https://innovate.partners/notes/trade-portal-account-pricing/Trade customers buy on negotiated pricing with quantity breaks. We built a WordPress portal that reads those tiers straight from the client's ERP, so the price is right everywhere it appears.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildwordpresshttps://innovate.partners/notes/off-wix-onto-wordpress-you-own/https://innovate.partners/notes/off-wix-onto-wordpress-you-own/A café and events venue moved off Wix onto WordPress they own outright, designed from scratch, with booking, ticketing, and a 3D venue tour built in.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTbuildwordpress