# MerchantSkill

> The free library of tested Shopify Sidekick skills for merchants. Add a skill in one click, run it with a slash command. Skill text is CC0.

MerchantSkill is an independent resource and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shopify Inc. Shopify and Sidekick are trademarks of Shopify Inc.

## Skills

### Sales & Analytics
- [/boost-sales — Find Sales Opportunities](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/boost-sales.md): Finds the biggest sales opportunities in your own data and recommends up to five concrete actions for this week.
- [/top-products — Top and Declining Products](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/top-products.md): Ranks products by revenue and units, flags fastest growers and decliners, and checks stock on the winners.
- [/weekly-review — Weekly Sales Review](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/weekly-review.md): One-screen weekly review: revenue, orders, AOV, top and declining products, and three actions for the week.
- [/yesterday-sales — Yesterday's Sales Snapshot](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/yesterday-sales.md): Yesterday's sales, orders, AOV and top products in five lines, compared with the same weekday last week.

### Products & Catalog
- [/bulk-titles — Clean Up Product Titles](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/bulk-titles.md): Finds inconsistent product titles, proposes a naming pattern, and applies it in bulk only after you approve the list.
- [/fix-categories — Fix Product Categories and Types](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/fix-categories.md): Audits product category, product type and tags against Shopify's taxonomy and fixes mismatches after you approve.
- [/pdp-copy — Product Description in Brand Voice](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/pdp-copy.md): Writes a product description, bullets, SEO title and meta description for one product in your brand voice, then updates it on approval.
- [/alt-text — Write Alt Text for Product Images](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/alt-text.md): Finds product images with missing or poor alt text and writes descriptive, keyword-aware alt text for approval.

### SEO & Content
- [/blog-post — Blog Post from a Keyword](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/blog-post.md): Drafts a 700 to 1,000 word blog post around one keyword, links to your real products, and saves it as a draft.
- [/collection-copy — Collection Descriptions](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/collection-copy.md): Writes a short, useful description for a collection based on the products actually in it, and applies it after approval.
- [/product-faq — Product FAQ Section](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/product-faq.md): Writes 5 to 8 real questions and answers for a product using its data and your policies, ready to paste into the page.
- [/meta-tags — SEO Titles and Meta Descriptions](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/meta-tags.md): Writes SEO titles under 60 characters and meta descriptions under 155 for a product, collection or page, and applies them after approval.

### Discounts & Promotions
- [/bfcm-plan — BFCM Offer Planner](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/bfcm-offer-plan.md): Uses last year's November data and current stock to propose a Black Friday to Cyber Monday offer calendar you can run with Sidekick.
- [/discount-code — Create a Discount Code](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/discount-code.md): Creates a percentage or fixed discount code with dates, limits and eligibility in one go, after checking for clashes.
- [/flash-sale — Flash Sale in One Task](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/flash-sale.md): Builds a flash sale end to end: sale collection, automatic discount with start and end, and an email draft, with one approval.
- [/free-shipping — Free Shipping Threshold Offer](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/free-shipping.md): Recommends a free-shipping threshold from your real AOV, then creates the automatic discount after you confirm.

### Customers & Segments
- [/customer — Customer Quick Look](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/customer-lookup.md): Pulls one customer's history into a support-ready card: orders, spend, last purchase, open issues, tags.
- [/first-timers — First-Time Buyers Segment](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/first-timers.md): Builds a segment of customers with exactly one order in the last 30 days, the group most likely to buy again with a nudge.
- [/lapsed-90 — Lapsed Customers Segment](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/lapsed-90.md): Finds customers who bought before but not in the last 90 days, sizes the group, and creates a saved segment for win-back.
- [/vip-segment — VIP Customer Segment](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/vip-segment.md): Finds your top customers by spend and order count, shows the numbers, and creates a saved VIP segment after approval.

### Email & Marketing
- [/launch-kit — Product Launch Announcement Kit](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/launch-announcement.md): Writes the launch email, three social captions, an announcement-bar line and a short product-page banner for one new product.
- [/campaign-draft — Shopify Email Campaign Draft](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/campaign-draft.md): Drafts a complete Shopify Email campaign for a goal: subject, preview text, body, product picks and CTA, saved as a draft.
- [/subject-lines — Subject Line Variants](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/subject-lines.md): Writes 10 subject lines for an email in five styles, each under 45 characters, with preview text to match.
- [/winback-email — Win-Back Email](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/winback-email.md): Drafts a win-back email for lapsed customers that mentions what they used to buy and what is new since, without inventing a discount.

### Orders & Fulfillment
- [/orders-today — Daily Orders Brief](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/daily-orders.md): A morning brief of what needs doing in orders: new, to fulfil, on hold, returns pending, and anything odd.
- [/risky-orders — High-Risk Orders Check](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/risky-orders.md): Lists unfulfilled orders with medium or high fraud risk and the reasons, with a suggested action per order.
- [/tag-orders — Tag Orders by Rule](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/tag-orders.md): Finds orders matching a rule you describe and applies a tag in bulk after showing you the list.
- [/unfulfilled — Unfulfilled Orders Older Than 3 Days](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/unfulfilled-3d.md): Lists paid orders still unfulfilled after 3 days, grouped by likely cause, so nothing slips.

### Inventory & Restock
- [/cover — Days of Cover by Product](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/days-of-cover.md): Shows days of stock cover for every active product, sorted from shortest to longest, with sales rate and stock value.
- [/dead-stock — Dead Stock and Clearance Plan](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/dead-stock.md): Finds products with stock but no sales in 90 days and proposes a clearance plan: bundle, discount, or remove.
- [/low-stock — Low Stock Report](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/low-stock.md): Lists products that will run out within a number of days at the current sales rate, with units left and units sold.
- [/restock — Restock Priority List](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/restock-list.md): Turns low-stock data into a supplier order list with suggested quantities and a draft email to the supplier.

### Automations (Flow)
- [/flow-followup — Flow: Follow-Up After Delivery](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/flow-delivery-followup.md): Builds a Flow that waits a few days after delivery, then tags the order so your email tool or Shopify Email can send a review or reorder nudge.
- [/flow-fraud-hold — Flow: Hold High-Risk Orders](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/flow-fraud-hold.md): Builds a Flow that puts high-risk orders on hold, tags them, and emails you, so nothing risky ships automatically.
- [/flow-low-stock — Flow: Low Stock Alert](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/flow-low-stock.md): Builds a Flow that emails you when any tracked variant drops below a threshold, once per variant.
- [/flow-vip-tag — Flow: Tag VIPs at a Spend Threshold](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/flow-vip-tag.md): Builds a Shopify Flow that tags a customer 'vip' the moment their lifetime spend passes your threshold.

### Store Design & Images
- [/announce — Announcement Bar Copy](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/announcement-bar.md): Writes three announcement-bar lines under 60 characters from your real offers and shipping policy, and updates the bar on approval.
- [/home-audit — Homepage Conversion Audit](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/homepage-audit.md): Reviews your homepage sections against your best sellers and traffic, and lists the five changes most likely to lift conversion.
- [/image — On-Brand Product Image](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/product-image.md): Generates a product image in a consistent brand style you define once: setting, lighting, mood, colours.
- [/theme-block — Theme Block for a Horizon Theme](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/theme-block.md): Describes a theme block you want on a Horizon-based theme and has Sidekick generate it, with settings, for you to place in the editor.

### B2B & Wholesale
- [/b2b-orders — B2B Orders Review](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/b2b-orders.md): Summarizes wholesale orders for a period by company: revenue, order count, unpaid invoices and overdue terms.
- [/new-company — Create a B2B Company](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/new-company.md): Creates a B2B company record with location, payment terms and a main contact, then assigns the right catalog.
- [/wholesale-catalog — Wholesale Catalog Setup](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/wholesale-catalog.md): Creates a B2B catalog with a percentage-off price list and quantity rules for a set of products, after showing the plan.
- [/quote — Wholesale Quote Email](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/b2b-quote-email.md): Drafts a wholesale quote email with a priced product table from your catalog, terms and next steps.

### Support & Policies
- [/inbox-faq — Inbox FAQ Answers](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/inbox-faq.md): Writes instant answers for the 8 most common customer questions using your real policies, ready for Shopify Inbox.
- [/returns-policy — Returns Policy Draft](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/returns-policy.md): Drafts a plain-language returns and refund policy from your settings and the rules you set, ready to publish in Settings › Policies.
- [/shipping-policy — Shipping Policy Draft](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/shipping-policy.md): Turns your real shipping zones, rates and processing time into a shipping policy page customers can actually understand.
- [/wismo — Where Is My Order Reply](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/wismo-reply.md): Looks up an order's real status and tracking, then drafts a short, honest reply to the customer.

### Setup & Brand Voice
- [/brand-voice — Brand Voice](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/brand-voice.md): Teaches Sidekick your tone, vocabulary, customer and no-go words once, so every other skill writes like your store.
- [/store-context — Store Context Card](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/store-context.md): Builds a one-page summary of your store from its own data: catalog, best sellers, customers, policies, apps and gaps.
- [/audit-store — Store Health Audit](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/audit-store.md): Checks the 20 things that quietly hurt sales, from missing meta descriptions to untracked inventory, and ranks the fixes.
- [/new-skill — Write Me a Sidekick Skill](https://www.merchantskills.com/skills/skill-writer.md): Turns a task you describe into a well-structured Sidekick skill: description, steps, output format and guardrails, ready to save.

## Guides

- [How to create, save and share a Sidekick skill](https://www.merchantskills.com/guides/create-save-share-sidekick-skill/): The three ways to save a skill in Shopify Sidekick, how to run it with a slash shortcut, and how sharing by link works.
- [What Sidekick can and can't do in 2026](https://www.merchantskills.com/guides/what-sidekick-can-and-cant-do/): A plain list of what Shopify Sidekick does today, what it will not do, and what to use instead. Updated after every Shopify Edition.
- [Sidekick's 25-skill limit: how to choose your 25](https://www.merchantskills.com/guides/choose-your-25/): A method for picking the 25 skills that earn their slot, with a suggested split by frequency and a naming scheme that avoids clashes.
- [Writing a Sidekick skill that works first time](https://www.merchantskills.com/guides/write-a-skill-that-works/): The five-part structure every skill on this site uses, why each part matters, and the mistakes that make Sidekick guess.
- [Sidekick vs the ChatGPT and Claude connectors: which to use for which task](https://www.merchantskills.com/guides/sidekick-vs-chatgpt-vs-claude/): Since May 2026 merchants can manage a store from ChatGPT or Claude too. A task-by-task comparison with Sidekick.
- [BFCM 2026 with Sidekick: the 12-skill playbook](https://www.merchantskills.com/guides/bfcm-2026-playbook/): A week-by-week plan from early October to Cyber Monday using twelve Sidekick skills, with what to run when.

## Blog

- [The Complete Guide to Shopify Sidekick in 2026: What It Does, What It Doesn't, and the 25 Skills Worth Saving](https://www.merchantskills.com/blog/complete-guide-to-shopify-sidekick/): Everything a merchant needs to know about Shopify Sidekick: how it works, what changed in the 2026 Editions, its real limits, how to prompt it, how skills work, and a week-by-week routine built on 25 saved skills.
- [50 Shopify Sidekick Prompts That Actually Work, Organized by Job](https://www.merchantskills.com/blog/50-shopify-sidekick-prompts-that-work/): Fifty copy-and-paste Sidekick prompts across analytics, products, SEO, discounts, customers, email, orders, inventory, Flow, design, B2B, support and setup, with the reason each one works and the skill to save if you run it often.
- [BFCM 2026: The Week-by-Week Plan from Now to Cyber Monday](https://www.merchantskills.com/blog/bfcm-2026-week-by-week-plan/): Black Friday is 27 November and Cyber Monday is 30 November 2026. A week-by-week plan for a small Shopify store starting late September: offers, stock, automations, email, the sale weekend itself, and what to do on 1 December.
- [How to Read Your Shopify Analytics Every Monday in 15 Minutes](https://www.merchantskills.com/blog/how-to-read-shopify-analytics-every-monday/): A weekly review that fits on one screen: which numbers to compare, what a real change looks like versus noise, how to turn the review into three actions, and the Sidekick prompt that produces it.
- [Product Descriptions That Sound Like Your Store, Not Like Every Store](https://www.merchantskills.com/blog/product-descriptions-that-sound-like-your-store/): Why AI product copy sounds generic, the one setup step that fixes it, a description structure that converts, and how to rewrite a whole catalog consistently with Sidekick without losing your voice.
- [Shopify Flow Automations Every Store Should Have (and How Sidekick Builds Them)](https://www.merchantskills.com/blog/shopify-flow-automations-every-store-should-have/): Six Shopify Flow workflows that remove daily admin: VIP tagging, low-stock alerts, fraud holds, post-delivery follow-ups, chargeback flags and pre-order tagging. What each does, when it fires, and the Sidekick prompt that builds it inactive for review.
- [The 10-Minute Morning Routine for a Shopify Store](https://www.merchantskills.com/blog/10-minute-morning-routine-shopify-store/): Four checks, in order, that catch late orders, risky orders, stockouts and yesterday's surprises before they cost you, with the Sidekick prompt for each and how to make the whole routine a handful of slash commands.

## Comparisons

- [Shopify Sidekick vs ChatGPT vs Claude for Running Your Store (2026)](https://www.merchantskills.com/compare/sidekick-vs-chatgpt-vs-claude/): Since May 2026 merchants can manage a Shopify store from ChatGPT or Claude as well as Sidekick. A task-by-task comparison of what each can read, change and automate, what it costs, and which to use for which job.
- [Shopify Sidekick vs Shopify Magic: Which One Do You Actually Need? (2026)](https://www.merchantskills.com/compare/shopify-sidekick-vs-shopify-magic/): Shopify Magic and Sidekick are both free, both built in, and often confused. Magic generates text and images inside specific fields; Sidekick is an assistant that reads your data and takes multi-step actions. Here is exactly what each does.
- [6 Best Shopify Sidekick Prompt and Skill Libraries in 2026, Compared](https://www.merchantskills.com/compare/best-shopify-sidekick-prompt-libraries/): Six free places to find ready-made Sidekick prompts and skills, compared on size, format, one-click adding, verification, personalization and who runs them. Includes our own library, with the trade-offs stated.