BlocklyGuides to protect & grow your Shopify store
Practical playbooks on fraud prevention, checkout optimization and EU compliance — written by the team behind our apps.
CAPTCHA vs. Invisible Challenges
Traditional CAPTCHA adds friction that costs conversions, while invisible challenges verify silently in the background. Here is how to decide which belongs where on your Shopify storefront and checkout.
Detecting Fake Account Signups
Bulk signup bots and disposable-email accounts pollute your customer list, poison discount codes, and hide fraud. Learn the signals that separate real shoppers from throwaway accounts—and how to stop the bots before they register.
Disputes vs. Chargebacks: What's the Difference
Merchants use 'dispute' and 'chargeback' interchangeably, but they sit at different stages of the same lifecycle. Understanding inquiries, chargebacks, and Shopify timelines helps you respond faster and win more.
Cookie Consent (ePrivacy) for Shopify Stores
European cookie rules require prior consent before non-essential trackers fire. Here is how the ePrivacy Directive works, why banners exist, and how Shopify's Customer Privacy API helps you stay compliant.
The EU Geo-Blocking Regulation Explained
The EU Geo-Blocking Regulation limits when merchants can treat customers differently by country. Learn what you may and may not block, and how it interacts with fraud-based country filtering on Shopify.
EU-Compliant Terms & Conditions for Shopify
Selling into the EU means your Shopify Terms & Conditions must carry specific mandatory clauses. Here are the ones regulators expect, where to show them, and the gaps that trip merchants up.
Building a Fraud Dashboard in Looker Studio
A fraud dashboard turns scattered order data into a single view you actually check. Here are the metrics worth charting, where the data comes from, and a simple layout you can build in Looker Studio this week.
Fraud Prevention for Beauty & Cosmetics Stores
Beauty brands lose real money to sampler abuse, stacked promo codes, and suspicious reorder velocity. Learn how to keep first-order incentives working while shutting down the loopholes that drain your margins.
Fraud Prevention for Food & Grocery Stores
Perishable goods, cash-on-delivery abuse, and tight delivery windows make food and grocery fraud uniquely painful. Here is how to protect margins without slowing genuine hungry customers down.
Honeypot Fields to Stop Form Bots
Spam bots pound your contact and newsletter forms with fake submissions. Honeypot fields are a lightweight, invisible trap that filters most of them out—without the friction of CAPTCHAs. Here's how to add them to Shopify.
Writing a Fraud-Loss Post-Mortem
A chargeback slipped through or a bot cleaned out your best product. Before you move on, write a blameless post-mortem. This template gives you the exact sections to fill in so the same loss never happens twice.
Sealed Hygiene Goods & the Withdrawal Exception
Some products lose the right of withdrawal the moment their seal is broken — but only if you handle sealing and labeling correctly. Here's when the hygiene exception applies and how to prove it.
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