BlocklyGuides to protect & grow your Shopify store
Practical playbooks on fraud prevention, checkout optimization and EU compliance — written by the team behind our apps.
Revenue Protected vs Conversion Loss — The Fraud ROI Metric That Matters
"Revenue protected" reports tell you only half the story. The other half — conversion loss to false positives — is what separates real fraud ROI from vanity metrics.
Why Shopify Analytics Still Shows Sessions From Blocked Countries
You blocked a country, but Shopify Analytics still shows visits from there. Here's what's actually happening, why it's not a bug, and how to verify the block is working.
How Shopify's Built-In Fraud Analysis Works (And Where It Stops)
Shopify's native fraud filter is useful — but it scores post-checkout, can't see across orders, and never acts. Here's where it plateaus and what to layer on top.
10 Shopify Flow Workflows That Automate Fraud Response
Manual fraud review doesn't scale past 200 orders/day. Here are 10 Shopify Flow workflows that automate the routine cases and route edge cases to your team.
Fraud Risk Score Explained — How It's Calculated and What to Do With It
A fraud risk score is a probability estimate, not a verdict. Here's what goes into it, why two systems disagree on the same order, and how to operationalize it.
The True Cost of Shopify Fraud (And Why It's a Margin Problem, Not a Security One)
One $120 fraud order costs you $233 — almost 2x order value. Here's the full P&L of fraud on Shopify and why it's eating your margin invisibly.
Shopify Plus Checkout Validation — Block Bad Orders Before They're Created
Shopify Plus unlocks native checkout-time validation that prevents bad orders from being created at all. Different mechanic, different operational shape than cancellation.
State and City-Level Blocking on Shopify — Precision Beats Country Blocks
Country blocks are too blunt. IP blocks are too granular. State and city-level filtering is the precision tool most Shopify merchants underuse.
Tag and Block Repeat Fraud Customers on Shopify — Cross-Identifier Workflow
Confirmed fraudsters come back. The system to prevent that across email, phone, address, device, and IP is usually under-built. Here's how to do it right.
Automating Fraud Workflows with Zapier
Zapier can turn fraud signals into instant actions: tag, hold, and notify without manual work. Here are practical trigger-to-action recipes for Shopify, plus the guardrails that keep automation from backfiring.
Stop $0 Cart Fraud and Matching-Name Scams on Shopify
Some fraud has a fingerprint so distinctive that simple pattern-matching catches almost all of it. $0 cart and matching-name scams are the textbook examples.
Blocking Repeat Chargeback Customers
A customer who charged back once often comes back under a new name. Learn how to build a durable chargeback blocklist keyed on email, phone, address, and device, without punishing honest repeat buyers.
Put these guides
into practice.
Block fraud, customize checkout and stay EU-compliant with apps built by the team behind this blog.
- Free plans
- No code
- Built for Shopify
