The ShopsWired Blog
Product news, engineering deep-dives, and guides for building bespoke storefronts on a fully managed, fully customizable commerce platform.
How to Enforce a Minimum Order Quantity at Checkout
Build a small checkout validation plugin that requires six units across the basket. Learn where native quantity discounts fit, how to reject an order, and which workflows need separate checks.
EcommerceShopsWired as a WordPress Alternative: Your Whole Website for $29/mo
ShopsWired is more than a store builder. Pages, navigation, SEO, a customer inbox, custom data and installable plugins make it a fully managed WordPress alternative — on Starter at $29/mo, with your own plugins from Pro.
DevelopersHow to Receive Third-Party Webhooks in a ShopsWired Plugin
A worked guide to public plugin routes for incoming webhooks — the manifest entry, HMAC verification with a write-only secret, resolving the order by a meta marker, idempotent updates, and when to hand off to a background task. Every snippet matches the published API.
EcommerceHow to Let AI Shopping Assistants Sell Your Products
What happens when a shopper asks their AI assistant to find a product in your store: catalog search, product details, a checkout link it cannot price, a note you write for assistants, and the limits that keep orders, customers and payments out of its reach.
DevelopersHow to Build Custom Shipping Rates With a ShopsWired Plugin
A worked guide to the shipping.calculate hook — filtering built-in methods, quoting a live carrier rate with a cached fetch, handling a blank ZIP, and enforcing the rule where it actually counts. Every snippet matches the published API.
DevelopersBuild Your First ShopsWired Plugin: A Step-by-Step Guide
Scaffold a plugin, write a real order.after_save hook, add a cron script, watch it run with live preview, then publish it. Every snippet here matches the actual ShopsWired API.
EcommerceDesign Custom Store Pages With a Drag-and-Drop Builder
How an ecommerce page builder actually works: rows, columns, and blocks, live product grids that respect customer pricing, announcement bars, and CMS pages at /page/slug - all without touching theme code.
EcommerceThe Hidden Cost of Shopify Apps (and How to Avoid It)
Shopify's base plan is the smallest line on most merchants' bills. Here is what the app stack actually costs, why it grows, and which of those capabilities are native on ShopsWired.
EcommerceHow to Run Multiple Online Stores From One Account
One ShopsWired account can own or belong to any number of stores, each with fully isolated data and its own plan. Here is how the switcher, billing accounts and per-shop pricing actually work.