What is Shopify Horizon and should your store move to it?

News & Insights

What is Shopify Horizon and should your store move to it? Shopify

What is Shopify Horizon and should your store move to it?

By Steven Campbell 3 Min Read

If you’ve been paying attention to what Shopify is doing with its theme architecture, you’ll have noticed Horizon. It launched as part of the Summer 2025 Edition and it’s the most significant change to how Shopify themes are built since…

Shopify B2B is no longer just for Plus brands Shopify B2B

Shopify B2B is no longer just for Plus brands

By Mat O'Connor 3 Min Read

This is a meaningful change that a lot of Shopify brands haven’t heard about yet. As of April 2026, Shopify has made native B2B features available on Basic, Grow, and Advanced plans. Not just Shopify Plus. If you’ve been selling…

Why your paid traffic is converting badly. And it's not your ads. Digital Strategy

Why your paid traffic is converting badly. And it’s not your ads.

By Mat O'Connor 3 Min Read

If your paid campaigns aren’t performing the way they should, the first place most brands look is the ads themselves. The targeting. The creative. The copy. The bidding strategy. The agency managing the account. Sometimes that’s where the problem is….

Is your Shopify theme costing you conversions? Shopify

Is your Shopify theme costing you conversions?

By Steven Campbell 4 Min Read

Most Shopify store owners think about their theme in terms of how it looks. Does it feel premium? Does it match the brand? Does it look like the competitor sites we admire? Those are reasonable questions. But they’re the wrong…

The hidden cost of running Magento 2 in 2026 Magento 2

The hidden cost of running Magento 2 in 2026

By Mat O'Connor 4 Min Read

If you’re running a Magento 2 store in 2026, you’re probably aware that the platform has a reputation for being expensive to run. What most brands don’t realise is how much of that cost is invisible. The licence is free….

The CRO fixes that take one day and move the needle immediately Conversion Rate Optimisation

The CRO fixes that take one day and move the needle immediately

By Mat O'Connor 4 Min Read

CRO has a reputation for being slow Run a test, wait for statistical significance, implement the winner, move to the next one. Months pass. Results trickle in. It can feel like you’re barely moving. That’s the right way to run…

What is Hyvä and why is it the fastest thing to happen to Magento in years? Hyvä

What is Hyvä and why is it the fastest thing to happen to Magento in years?

By Mat O'Connor 4 Min Read

If you run a Magento store, you’ve probably heard the word Hyvä a few times recently. Maybe from your developer. Maybe from another agency. Maybe just floating around at an event or in a LinkedIn comment thread. Most explanations either…

The Shopify apps quietly killing your store's performance Shopify

The Shopify apps quietly killing your store’s performance

By Mat O'Connor 3 Min Read

Most Shopify store owners know app bloat is a problem. What they don’t realise is how bad it’s actually got. The average Shopify store has somewhere between 15 and 25 apps installed. Most of them were added for good reasons….

Shopify-Plus-vs-Adobe-Commerce Ecommerce

Shopify Plus vs Adobe Commerce – Choosing the right eCommerce platform

By Mat O'Connor 7 Min Read

Choosing an eCommerce platform is a big decision. The right platform frees you to focus on growth, campaigns, optimisation, customer experience, and unlocking your next nice problems. However, the wrong one turns every small change into a dependency, a ticket,…

Hyva vs Luma: Which Magento 2 Theme is Better? Magento Ecommerce

Hyva vs Luma: Which Magento 2 Theme is Better?

By Mat O'Connor 6 Min Read

Magento 2 can power almost anything you throw at it – but whether your store feels fast or feels sluggish often comes down to one thing: the theme. The theme decides how quickly pages render, how clean the frontend codebase…