What is shopify anyways?

This is a good overview: How Shopify Outfoxed Amazon to Become the Everywhere Store and lots of discussion over at the Shopify reddit.

Useful Apps

I am sticking with mostly free apps or paid ones with a useful free tier.

Shopify Inbox for adding messages to the website.

Shopify Reviews

Shopify has a local delivery app which helps to build delivery lists, but there is no way to print out labels.

Order Printer by Shopify, allows you to add a templates for each order, so I used the following on to print shipping labels.

<strong>
<span style="font-size:25px">{{ shop_name }} AU</span><br/>
<span style="font-size:34px">Local Delivery</span>
<br><br>
</strong>
<span style="font-size:18px">Order #{{ order_number }} on {{ created_at | pubDate: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" }}.</span>
<br/><br/><br/>

<strong><span style="text-transform:uppercase;font-size:26px">{{ shipping_address.name }}</strong></span><br/>
<span style="text-transform:uppercase;font-size:20px">{{ shipping_address.company }}<br/>
{{ shipping_address.street }}<br/>
{{ shipping_address.city }}, {{ shipping_address.province_code }} {{shipping_address.zip }}<br/>
{{ shipping_address.phone }}</span>