ecommerce
4 free lessons tagged ecommerce across Business. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
Shopify Functions: Custom Logic Inside Checkout
Flow reacts after events; Functions participate during them. This lesson covers how Shopify Functions let you change discounts, shipping, payment options, and cart validation from inside checkout, why they run as WebAssembly compiled from JavaScript or Rust, and why that architecture replaced the old sandboxed Scripts.
APIs, Webhooks, and Choosing the Right Tool
When Flow and Functions run out, you reach for the API. This lesson covers the Admin GraphQL API and its calculated-cost rate limiting, webhooks and why at-least-once delivery forces you to build for duplicates, bulk operations for large datasets, and a decision framework for choosing among all four approaches.
Automating a Store with Shopify Flow
Most store work is repetitive reaction: tag this order, email that customer, reorder when stock drops. Shopify Flow turns that into automation with a trigger-condition-action model. This lesson covers how Flow works, over 100 event triggers, worked workflows, and the important part, where Flow stops and you need something else.
How shopping ate social media in China
More than half of China's internet users buy things through live broadcasts, a habit the West has never come close to. Learn why livestream selling worked there and stalled elsewhere, the mechanics of a selling stream, why conversion runs far above normal e-commerce, the difference between renting reach and owning an audience, and the costs the model carries.