BlocklyGuides to protect & grow your Shopify store
Practical playbooks on fraud prevention, checkout optimization and EU compliance — written by the team behind our apps.
The Annual E-commerce Fraud Calendar
Fraud and returns are not evenly spread across the year. Some months are quiet, others are minefields. This month-by-month calendar shows where the pressure lands and what to prepare before each spike arrives.
How to Block Proxy Traffic on Shopify (Residential & Datacenter)
Detect and block proxy traffic on Shopify — residential proxies, datacenter IPs, and rotating proxy networks. Stop scrapers and card-testers.
EU VAT & IOSS: A Shopify Setup Guide
Selling across EU borders means charging the right VAT at the right time. This guide covers the OSS and IOSS schemes, the low-value import rules, registration thresholds, and how to configure it all in Shopify.
Click Fraud on Your Shopify Store Ads
Bot clicks quietly drain ad budgets, inflate CPCs, and wreck your conversion data. Learn how to spot click fraud on your Shopify campaigns and use IP, user-agent, and network filtering to protect every dollar you spend.
The True Cost of a Chargeback Fee
The $15 chargeback fee is the smallest part of what a dispute really costs you. Between lost goods, shipping, staff time, and ratio damage, a single chargeback can wipe out the profit from a dozen good orders.
Address Manipulation Fraud Signals
Fraudsters do not always use a stolen card cleanly. They tweak the shipping address just enough to dodge AVS while routing goods to a drop. Here are the subtle edits to watch for and how to check them.
Detecting Mobile Emulators & Fake Devices
Fraud farms run hundreds of fake phones on emulators to place orders that look mobile-native. Learn the device fingerprint anomalies that expose emulators and the checkout controls that stop them.
Detecting Cart & Inventory-Hoarding Bots
During drops and restocks, bots load carts with limited stock and never check out, freezing inventory away from real buyers. Learn to spot the signals and enforce cart TTLs and rate limits that break the abuse.
Fraud Prevention for Furniture & Home (High-Ticket)
When a single order is worth $2,000 and ships by freight, one fraudulent sale can erase a month of profit. Here is how high-ticket furniture and home stores lock down big-basket risk.
Building Your Shopify Fraud-Prevention Tool Stack
No single tool stops all fraud. The stores that lose the least combine layers — gateway checks, a blocking app, alerts, and manual review — so each catches what the others miss. Here is how to assemble them.
The Consumer Rights Directive: A Merchant Overview
The EU Consumer Rights Directive sets the ground rules for selling online to European shoppers. Here's a plain-language map of your core duties — from pre-contract info to the right of withdrawal.
Slack Alerts for High-Risk Orders
Real-time Slack alerts let your team catch high-risk orders before they ship. This tutorial covers routing, what to put in each message, and how to keep the channel useful instead of noisy.
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