December is here, and the busiest shopping weeks of the year are fully underway. Even if your store is already prepared, this is the perfect moment to apply small, strategic adjustments that can make a major difference in your final sales figures for the year.

Maximize your holiday conversions

Here are five quick ways to optimize your store for the final holiday rush:

• 🎁 Optimize your Recommendations: Ensure your bundles and cross-sells are holiday-ready. Review your setups in Frequently Bought Together and Also Bought to guarantee shoppers see the most relevant gift pairings.

• 🚚 Clear Delivery Expectations: Shipping transparency builds trust. Use Shipping Rates Calculator Plus to show real-time rates and adjust estimates to account for holiday processing times.

• ✨ Add Festive Touches: Create an immersive atmosphere. Use Video Background to add high-impact seasonal videos, and ensure Add To Cart Anywhere is active to help shoppers convert the moment they find a must-have item.

• 🌍 Support International Shoppers: Maximize global sales by verifying that Currency Converter Plus is correctly displaying local prices for your worldwide audience.

• 🛒 Simplify Cart Sharing: Help busy gift-buyers with Keep & Share Your Cart. Customers can save or share their carts in a single click, making group shopping effortless and reducing abandonment.

Looking for more tips? For more information, read this article on holiday store prep.

New Features & Updates

Stay informed with the ‘What’s New’ section

Check out the new “What’s New” section, now available directly within the dashboard of all our apps! You’ll find a curated space featuring:

✅ The latest feature releases and essential improvements.

✅ Useful tips to maximize app performance.

✅ Direct links to help articles and configuration pages.

It’s the fastest way to ensure you're getting the most out of your Code Black Belt tools without leaving your Shopify admin.

Save time with Reverse Bundles and Recommendations

You can now mirror your manual setups in both of our recommendation apps with just a couple of clicks, saving you hours of manual labor.

• In Frequently Bought Together: Reverse Bundles replicate a bundle across all its related products automatically.

• In Also Bought: Reverse Recommendations copy a product’s manual recommendations into each of the recommended products.

This ensures your cross-sell logic stays consistent across your entire catalog with much less manual work.

👉 For additional information, click here!

Support for Shopify’s ‘Unlisted’ product status

Shopify recently introduced the Unlisted product status, ideal for private offers, warranty items, or gifts with purchase. We have updated Frequently Bought Together and Also Bought to fully support this.

Products marked as Unlisted are now automatically excluded from recommendation widgets, giving you total control over what is visible to the public.

Meet the app: Order Printer Pro

Looking for a faster way to manage your store's paperwork? Order Printer Pro makes it effortless to automate your essential Shopify documents.

With Order PrinteThr Pro, you can:

🔹 Automate PDFs: Automatically send invoices, receipts, or packing slips to customers.

🔹 Bulk Generation: Process documents in large batches for smoother fulfillment.

🔹 Custom Branding: Tailor templates to match your store's unique look.

🔹 Accounting Ready: Easily export PDFs for tax compliance and reporting.

🔗 Explore Order Printer Pro App

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