Jonathan Sorenson

Function Studio = Flow for Shopify Functions

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Function Studio crossed 10 reviews yesterday.
Only 990 left to go.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

built a tiny prototype based on Shopify's article. going that direction.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@ShopifyEng @KhalidChao Gold. Thanks for sharing! Will apply a few ideas soon

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Spent most of last week heads-down on reliability and performance.

Today shipped config versioning for Shopify Functions in FS.
Global timeline of every change. Discount created, activated, deleted - all logged with comments.
Screwed something up? Restore it. Roll back in one click.
Small feature. Huge peace of mind.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

big brand, OFC can't disclose 🙃 so naturally I spent the week shipping LCP optimizations instead

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

POV: a dev team in Thailand is migrating off Shopify Scripts and into your app..

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@TheStormDev thanks man! i’m happy with where i got in a year, even though i haven’t reached the goal. but the higher you aim, the higher you get, right? 😃

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Function Studio launched a little over a year ago.
today it'll serve 40M+ function executions.

kinda wild to type that out.
huge thanks to shopify for building such an incredible platform. and a big shoutout to the functions team - the recent observability improvements have made debugging way easier!

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@DamiDina Thanks man!

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

got my first 2-star review last week.

misconfig on their end. still stung.
reached out to the merchant directly. told them i get it, non-working discounts mid-campaign is a nightmare.

owned my part too. the app flagged the issue but not loudly enough. shipped updates so this exact mistake is hard to miss now.

wasn't expecting anything back.

today they bumped it to 4 stars!
(still uninstalled the app though)

still got stuff to action from this.

apps that buy reviews miss moments like this. and all the learnings that come with them.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

shipped a small ux thing.
cart tester now shows matched items for each line group.
sounds minor. but some merchants run 20+ groups in a single function. testing those could be painful.
now it's not.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Cloudflare outages are becoming a regular thing. Workers subrequests were failing for hours today. Looks like I need to build VPS failover.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@VrajTalati1 Yes

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Shopify shipped stackable line-item discounts. 🚀
Sounds boring. It's not. Here's how they work - and how to set them up. ▶️

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Both discounts should tag each other to stack:

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Shopify just shipped something quietly huge on april 30th.

Discount stacking for line items.

Means you can stack a seasonal sale on top of a loyalty discount. Full control. No hacks.

If you're migrating off scripts before the June deadline - this is the unlock you've been waiting for.

Live in Function Studio.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Should've listened to PJ.

The cash looks the same on the invoice. But agency work comes with a hidden tax: fires you didn't start, scope you never agreed to.

Add it up and the ROI goes negative.

Lasted two months before I saw their true face and pulled the plug.

Still haunts me. Today told them to just install another app for their discounts and offered support for transition. They weren't thrilled.

[PJ Celis @celispj]

@eComJonathanX Always go for the higher quality of earnings.

MRR > agency revenue, by a mile.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@hunkybill @benjaminsehl Checkout page block is Plus only. Everywhere else works on any plan. Still ironing out the checkout version though

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

Forgot how fun frontend work is. Cart upsells for Function Studio are shaping up nicely. Shipping soon.

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@benjaminsehl Thanks for this, Ben! been second-guessing half these UX calls

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@jarodsteffes @itschadross Shooting for end of week

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@jarodsteffes @itschadross Thanks! yes - supported

[Jonathan Sorenson @eComJonathanX]

@IconUtopia Thanks! There will be