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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.
Magento to Shopify Migration Timeline 2026: Key Factors
Magento to Shopify migration timelines vary with catalog size, integrations, and customization — see what actually controls the schedule in 2026.
Making Shopify AI Catalog Chat Safer Without Losing Merchant Visibility
Thom ZolghadrPublic AI shopping assistants need protection from automated abuse, but blunt security controls can hide useful operational signals. This architecture combines server-side risk verification, configurable tenant controls, and per-turn reporting for safer Shopify catalog chat.
How Bounded Failure Handling Keeps Ecommerce Order Middleware Moving
Willem LuijtA resilient ecommerce integration should not retry impossible order failures forever. This implementation detects persistent delivery or pickup location errors, waits for a one-day threshold, and moves affected middleware orders into an auditable terminal state.
Building a Hybrid Next.js and Plasmic Marketing Platform Without Sacrificing Control
Gabriel RichardsA hybrid Next.js architecture can give marketers visual publishing autonomy in Plasmic while preserving the engineering guardrails needed for custom routes, SEO, caching, and reliable production releases.
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.