Gather blog

Guides for pricing and selling on Shopify

Hands-on advice on tracking competitor prices, reacting to undercuts and showing supplier reviews honestly. Written by the people who build Gather's apps.

Shopify product page showing a 'Reviews from AliExpress buyers' section with photo reviews, each labeled 'Imported from AliExpress'
Gather Reviews

How to Add Reviews to Shopify: Every Option Explained

How to add reviews to Shopify: Shop product reviews, review apps and theme blocks, CSV migration and labeled supplier imports, with steps and trade-offs.

· 12 min read

Title card reading How to Get Customer Reviews for Your Shopify Store beside a product page showing photo reviews
Gather Reviews

How to Get Customer Reviews for Your Shopify Store

How to get customer reviews on Shopify: time requests to delivery, use 3 copy-ready templates, get photo reviews, and offer incentives the FTC allows.

· 14 min read

Illustration of a price chart where a competitor's price line drops below your price, with an undercut alert
PricePulse

How to Monitor Competitor Prices: A Shopify Playbook

A step-by-step competitor price monitoring playbook for Shopify stores: pick rivals, match exact variants, set a check cadence and act on real price gaps.

· 11 min read

Cover reading How to Price Dropshipping Products Against Competitors, next to a PricePulse table comparing store prices with the lowest competitor
PricePulse

How to Price Dropshipping Products Against Competitors

How to price dropshipping products: work out your true cost per order, set a margin floor, then position against stores selling the same item. Free calculator.

· 12 min read

Cover reading MAP Pricing Explained: How Brands Monitor Violations, next to a PricePulse product page listing two reseller stores with their prices, trend lines and stock status
PricePulse

MAP Pricing Explained: How Brands Monitor Violations

What MAP pricing is, how it differs from MSRP, what a MAP policy covers, and a step-by-step workflow for spotting and documenting reseller violations.

· 13 min read

Cover titled Price undercutting: what to do when a rival cuts prices, with a line chart where the competitor's price swings around the store's price before dropping below it, and a Competitor undercut you notification
PricePulse

Price Undercutting: What to Do When a Rival Cuts Prices

A price undercutting playbook for online stores: verify the rival's price, check your margin floor, pick a response and stay out of a price war.

· 11 min read

Blog cover reading Social Proof for a New Shopify Store With Zero Reviews, next to a product page showing reviews labelled as imported from AliExpress
Gather Reviews

Social Proof for a New Shopify Store With Zero Reviews

No orders yet? Here is the honest social proof a new Shopify store can show from day one, which trust signals to add first, and which fake tactics to avoid.

· 14 min read

Title card for the FTC fake reviews rule guide beside a product page review section headed 'Reviews from AliExpress buyers' with its source disclosure
Gather Reviews

The FTC Fake Reviews Rule: What Shopify Stores Must Know

What the FTC fake reviews rule bans, what it allows, and a pre-publish checklist for Shopify stores, including imported supplier reviews. Sourced to ftc.gov.

· 14 min read