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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.
Auto Parts Ecommerce Website Design: 2026 Guide
Ecommerce website design for auto parts retailers in 2026: fitment data, YMM search, platform picks, and integration steps that cut wrong-part returns.
Website Redesign for Hospitality & Resorts: 2026 Guide
Website redesign for hospitality and resorts in 2026: booking engine integration, CMS choices, mobile speed fixes, and the mistakes that stall direct bookings.
Verifiable Tenant Provisioning for AI Commerce: Beyond “Deployment Succeeded”
Gabriel RichardsA successful configuration upsert does not prove that an AI commerce tenant is truly ready. This article explains how deployment manifests, safe secret reporting, and remote verification create a trustworthy provisioning workflow for Shopify catalog chat.
Keeping Shopify–STORIS Order Sync Safe Through GraphQL API Changes
Willem LuijtA reliable Shopify–STORIS integration needs more than successful API calls. This technical deep dive explains how explicit idempotency testing, version-aware order mapping, and end-to-end regression coverage protect order synchronization as upstream and downstream APIs change.
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.