The 10 Best Shopify Apps to Help Grow Your Ecommerce Store

The Shopify App Store is full of apps that will help your store to be the best it can be. Start using some of these apps immediately, and you'll soon see a difference in how your store performs.

The 10 Best Shopify Apps to Help Grow Your Ecommerce Store
Published on
11/10/2022
Written by
David Casey

Ecommerce can be a tricky time-consuming business to grow. The most important thing you need is the right tools, and it can be challenging to know what those are. Many apps in Shopify can easily be overlooked, so we're here to help! We'll look at 10 must-have Shopify apps that'll help your eCommerce store grow more effectively by adding valuable features and functionality.

1. Heyday

Heyday is a premium app designed for the needs of small businesses and entrepreneurs. It lets you send customers chats, control your live chat settings and see tickets in a single place. With its robust features, it's the perfect app for helping you manage your customer service. Heyday makes everything easy to manage and lets you do so from one place. This app will allow you to make live chat an easy option for your customers by allowing them to chat with one of your employees or send them an email through the app. You can even have Heyday email you if a customer is waiting for help.

Shopify business startup screen on smartphone

2. Route

Route is a premium plugin from The Shopify Store which allows you to track orders, inventory, and shipments. This app gives you the option to be able to control each stage of your order and delivery process with ease. It's available for all platforms and is a must for any eCommerce business that wants to keep track of its stock. You can even build your custom tracking links, allowing you to send links straight to customers that they can use immediately. Alongside tracking orders, Route also enables you to manage stocklists.

3. Loox

Give your customers a reason to leave you a review with Loox. Loox is a multi-purpose app that makes leaving reviews easy for you and your customers by adding reviews to your products in real-time. Not only will this give you more reviews, but it'll make them more meaningful too. Your customers can leave feedback on each product they purchase from your store, allowing them to see honest and unbiased feedback from other customers who have previously purchased that product from you.

4. Joy

The Joy app is the perfect way to motivate your customers to keep coming back. It's a modern and beautiful app that allows you to create a loyalty program for your online store. With the Joy App, customers can get rewards automatically when they purchase from you, encouraging them to keep buying more products. This comes with an easy-to-use interface that looks great on any screen size.

5. Instafeed

Instagram has over one billion users who use the platform regularly to post and browse pictures. This makes it a fantastic tool for growing your eCommerce store. This app from The Shopify Store allows you to display your Instagram feed on your online store to use Instagram's massive user base. This app is the perfect way to interact with new customers and provide them with an easy way to follow you on Instagram. You can even link straight through to your Instagram profile from your online store if you want customers to be able to find you easily there too.

6. Apostle

Apostle is a way to create and manage subscriptions for your products easily. This app lets you control everything - making the subscription process straightforward. You can even add subscribers to your online store straight from the app without needing to enter payment details or anything else that may be tricky to create a sale. You can also personalize the emails each of your subscribers receives, allowing you to provide them with relevant information they'll love while purchasing from you online. Apostle is one of those apps that every Shopify store needs if they want to continue making sales by providing a service that customers will love using again and again.

7. Plug In SEO

This app from The Shopify Store is a must-have for eCommerce stores. It allows you to let search engines know about your products and lets customers know more about them too. Plug-in SEO will enable you to easily optimize your product pages for search engines and make it easy for customers to find exactly what they're looking for in your store. All of this comes with an easy-to-use interface that makes managing SEO simple.

8. Shopify Email

Shopify Email is the perfect app if you want to be able to send beautiful emails straight from your online store with ease. This app allows you to create beautiful emails with a focus on design so that you can send emails in the same high-quality format your customers are used to seeing. Creating an email campaign is easy as 1,2,3 with this tool, and you can even easily send emails straight from within the app. This app is perfect for those wanting more activity on their sales and creating more sales opportunities by creating beautiful emails they know customers will like to receive.

Person browsing Shopify online store setup page

9. Buy Button

Buy Button was designed by The Shopify Store specifically for stores selling premium products or services. This is the perfect tool for you if you're selling something that costs a few hundred dollars or more. Buy Button allows you to sell something without needing to take any payment details from the customer. If a customer clicks 'Buy Now, you can send them an invoice with all the necessary information.

Buy Button is one of those apps that will make it easier for buyers to purchase your products while also providing control over things like delivery and customization options. This saves customers time and makes it easy for them to purchase something quickly and easily. You can even link directly to your online store if they purchase while on your website.

10. Pinterest

Pinterest is all about content curation, so why not use it to your advantage in your Shopify store? Pinterest's Best in Stores section contains fantastic craft, fashion, and design products. Pin the products from your store directly onto these boards to reach a new audience who love browsing through this content. By placing links directly from Pinterest's website into your store, you can attract new customers without even leaving Pinterest in the first place.

Written by David Casey
Founding Partner
Disclaimer: The information in these resources may lead to unprecedented online growth, massive engagement, and an overwhelming surge in your business success. Proceed with caution, as we cannot be held responsible for any sudden increase in sales, followers, or popularity. Read at your own risk of becoming wildly successful.

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