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Building a Multi-Tenant Shopify POS Product Without Forking the Storefront
Gabriel RichardsA look at the architecture behind Rapora: a publicly installable Shopify retail platform that pairs centralized app operations with dedicated merchant Hydrogen runtimes, avoiding the cost and complexity of storefront forks.
Privacy-Grade Customer Redaction Without Webhook Storms
Gabriel RichardsBulk customer deletes—demo resets, closed stores, mass cleanups—can avalanche customers/redact webhooks. Here’s how Rapora kept compliance quiet under load.
Making “Available to Try” Accurate for Product Kits
For kits on Shopify + STORIS, “Available to try” should only light up when every component has stock at that store—and fail closed when inventory data is missing.
How to Protect a Public AI Chat Interface Without Slowing Down Legitimate Shoppers
Thom ZolghadrPublic AI chat can be a powerful shopping tool—and an expensive target for automated abuse. This walkthrough shows how a layered security model blocks bad traffic early, applies tenant-specific risk scoring, and gives merchants the visibility needed to tune protection without adding friction for real shoppers.
From Floor Conversations to Customers: Guided Selling, Showroom Apps, and Rapora
Gabriel RichardsHow Endertech’s custom showroom systems for large retailers shaped Rapora—a Shopify-native product for smaller multi-location chains that need guided selling, CRM, and Shopify POS. Live at rapora.shop; App Store listing pending.
We Run Our Agency on MCP
Gabriel RichardsMost AI demos stop at chat. We wired Model Context Protocol into the portal we use to run the agency—originally so OpenAI / ChatGPT and our own in-portal assistant could take real actions—then hardened it for day-to-day use.
Best API Integration Platforms for Ecommerce 2026
Celigo, MuleSoft, Workato, Boomi, Zapier and Tray.io ranked for ecommerce in 2026 — best-for use cases, pros, cons and which platform fits your stack.
Ecommerce Platforms Ranked by Scalability (2026)
Ecommerce platforms ranked by scalability in 2026: Adobe Commerce wins overall, commercetools leads composable builds, BigCommerce fits mid-market catalogs.
Designing Doctrine Indexes Around Real Ecommerce Middleware Lookup Paths
Willem LuijtA practical look at using Doctrine’s metadata event system to manage a consistent, query-driven index policy for ecommerce middleware—without scattering database decisions across individual entities and migrations.
Best CMS Platforms for Developer Flexibility (2026)
Craft CMS leads the 2026 ranking of the best CMS platforms for developer flexibility, ahead of WordPress, Drupal, headless CMS, Adobe Commerce, and Shopify.
Best PIM Software for Furniture Retailers in 2026
Akeneo, Salsify, Pimcore, Plytix, and inRiver compared for furniture retailers in 2026 - attribute depth, syndication, ERP fit, and cost tradeoffs explained.
Cost to Fix a Slow Shopify Store in 2026: Real Answer
Cost to fix a slow Shopify store in 2026 depends on the cause — app cleanup is cheapest, theme rebuilds and migrations cost the most. See the breakdown.