The Shopify Playbook · 2026 edition

Free playbook · 117 pages · for brands doing €5M to €30M online

The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line

How to make more money from every visitor to your store.

How to make more money from every visitor to your store.

The playbook our own team works from on every Shopify project. Every tactic, number and setting, our price bands included. Free to read, straight away.

Shopify Platinum Partner · 2× Agency of the Year

★★★★★ 4.9 out of 5 · 145 reviews

BRANDS WE HELPED

A note before you start

Most brands we meet try to grow by buying more traffic. It gets more expensive every quarter, and much of what it brings in leaks away: searches that find nothing, checkouts that do not finish, orders that come back, discounts that eat the profit.

Most brands we meet try to grow by buying more traffic. It gets more expensive every quarter, and much of what it brings in leaks away: searches that find nothing, checkouts that do not finish, orders that come back, discounts that eat the profit.

Fix those leaks and the same traffic earns you more. For a store doing €10M a year, every 1% more revenue is €100,000, without a euro more on ads.

Fix those leaks and the same traffic earns you more. For a store doing €10M a year, every 1% more revenue is €100,000, without a euro more on ads.

So we wrote down how we find it. The playbook our team works from: the settings, the timelines, our own prices, and the mistakes we made ourselves.

So we wrote down how we find it. The playbook our team works from: the settings, the timelines, our own prices, and the mistakes we made ourselves.

It is free. Leave your details and the book opens straight away, in your browser or as a PDF.

It is free. Leave your details and the book opens straight away, in your browser or as a PDF.

Robin Laseur

Managing Director, Flatline Agency

What you will find inside

What you will find inside

A selection. Page numbers as in the book.

p. 08

The one-page profit check

See what is left of every sale after returns, discounts, payment fees and apps, and which line to fix first.

p. 23

The five questions that sell

What every product page has to answer above the button before a visitor buys.

p. 27

Sales you miss in search

The free Shopify report of every search that found nothing, and three settings that fix most of it in minutes.

p. 31

A checkout more people finish

Why fewer fields beat a redesign, and what to change first.

p. 44

Discounts that keep their profit

How much more you have to sell for every point of discount just to break even.

p. 51

Revenue you do not pay for twice

The six email flows we build first, in the order we build them.

p. 54

Showing up in ChatGPT

What AI assistants say about your products, and how to fix it.

p. 64

A migration before Black Friday

The latest day to start and still sell on Shopify on Black Friday 2027.

p. 70

What a migration really costs

Our own prices, printed, for a template build, a custom build and every month after.

p. 76

When not to move to Shopify

Six situations where we would tell you to stay where you are.

p. 99

A go-live without lost sales

The plan we run from a week before to three days after.

p. 107

The 12 mistakes

What makes a migration cost more than it earns. Three of them are ours.

117

117

pages

32

32

sections

16

16

tactics

7

7

models

Part One

The Receipt

What a visitor sees, buys, sends back and costs you. In our experience, roughly 80% of your result is decided here.

Part Two

The Move

The platform under your receipt, and the other 20%. When to stay, when to move, what it costs, and how to count back from Black Friday.

Part Three

The Key Handover

Go-live, the first 90 days, and the twelve mistakes we see most often. Ours included.

Written by the team that does the work

Written by the team that does the work

Flatline is a Shopify Platinum Partner, the highest of Shopify’s five partner levels, named Digital Agency of the Year and Innovative Agency of the Year. Brands rate us 4.9 out of 5 across 145 reviews. Around fifty people in Amsterdam, Berlin, New York and Dubai work inside Shopify stores every day.

★★★★★

4.9 out of 5 · 145 reviews

4.9 out of 5 · 145 reviews

★★★★★

“They successfully managed our migration and data transition from WooCommerce to Shopify, while laying a strong foundation for our new store.”

Perro Collection

Store migration · Shopify Partner Directory

★★★★★

“Flatline Agency gave our website a beautiful redesign and guided us expertly through the move to Shopify. Clear communication, great advice, and a smooth transition from start to finish.”

JohnBeerens.com

Store build or redesign · Shopify Partner Directory

★★★★★

“They don’t just wait for instructions, but actively think along with us, challenge ideas when needed and look for solutions that make sense for the business.”

Lofty Manner

Ongoing website management · Shopify Partner Directory

 
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