Shabbify blog
What's new in the app, and guides to closing a Shopify store for Shabbat and Yom Tov. RSS feed.
· 3 min read
How Shabbify works out when to close your store
Sunset, candle lighting, nightfall, chatzot, Israel versus the diaspora: how Shabbify turns your location and your minhag into the exact minutes your Shopify store closes and reopens.
- Shabbat times
- holidays
- guide
· 2 min read
Preview your closed store before Friday
The Theme setup page now shows whether each Shabbify block is in your theme, and previews your banner, popups and closed screen with your own colours and text, on desktop and mobile, any day of the week.
- theme
- setup
- what's new
· 3 min read
Why blocking checkout has to happen at Shopify, not in your theme
Hiding the checkout button closes the front door and leaves the back door open. Here's how Shabbify uses a Shopify checkout rule to stop orders on Shabbat for every shopper, on every device, and what each blocking option actually does.
- checkout
- guide
· 1 min read
Choose which store status emails you get
Shabbify emails you when your store closes and reopens. You can now turn those emails off in Settings or from any email, and every automatic close and reopen is recorded in the activity log either way.
- emails
- activity log
- what's new
· 3 min read
Setup that checks itself
Shabbify now looks at your live theme and your Shopify checkout settings and ticks the setup steps off for you. One click turns on the checkout rule, and the activity log tells you plainly what happened and when.
- setup
- checkout
- what's new
· 2 min read
Ask Shopify Sidekick about your Shabbat closures
Shabbify now answers Sidekick questions like "Is my store closed?", "When do we close this Friday?" and "Why can customers still check out?", straight from your Shopify admin.
- Sidekick
- what's new