The Ultimate Shopify Hack

How to spy on your competition with PPSPY

The ultimate Shopify hack is part of this Shopify tutorial and is about a tool you can use to spy on the competition. Whether it’s live sales, best sellers or installed apps, this extension allows you to look behind the scenes and perform a competitor analysis.

The Ultimate Shopify Hack - The Competitor Analysis

One of the first steps you should definitely take if you plan to run your own online store is the competitor analysis. Because without knowing how strong the market is, who you’re up against, and how you’re priced, it’s more like trying, rather than excelling. That’s why this should be at the very beginning of your online store journey. To make your life easier, in this episode we’ll introduce you to a Shopify tool that lets you look behind the scenes of your competition. What PPSPY can do and how it helps you with the analysis, you will learn now.

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But first, let me tell you that there is more to a successful Shopify business than just analyzing the competition. Should you want to be advised accordingly or already have your store, but it still seems to hang on the marketing, then we from eBakery support you as a Shopify agency holistically. Whether general consulting, creation, optimization or SEO, we are here for you. You can get all further info on the site.

The Ultimate Shopify Hack - What is PPSPY?

But now back to our Shopify analysis tool. PPSPY is a browser extension, which can be used for example to create a new browser. can be used for Chrome. This allows you to view in real time any sales from other Shopify stores. To use this extension, you need to enter PPSPY in the Chrome Web Store and then you can add it for free afterwards. That’s all you need to do. Now make sure that the site read access is set to “All sites”. Then go to your competitor’s store. Already you will see that the PPSPY appears down here and now provides you with some options. A helpful feature, are the Live Sales. You can see when a product was last purchased and track in real time which product is being purchased at that moment. With this you can estimate which products are popular with the competition and how high the price is set.

The extension offers you these options

Furthermore, you have an overview of newly added products and the best sellers.
In the store area you can see how long the store has been active, when a new product was last launched, which theme is used and which social media links your competitors use.
What’s also exciting – that you can use PPSPY to determine which apps have been installed in the Shopify store, to be able to assess for yourself whether they make sense for you too, or to see what apps are available in the first place.

The Ultimate Shopify Hack - Summary

So let’s summarize again. PPSPY can be integrated into your browser in less than 1 minute. It does not incur any costs. You can use it to view any sales, app, product launch and theme data of your competitors and use it for competitor analysis. If you are not convinced yet, just try it out on your own store and check the output data of PPSPY with the data from your backend.

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