https://luxia.uk/guides Eleven guides on the operational work behind a Shopify store turning over between roughly £250,000 and £1m: stock, purchasing, returns, and the messaging that depends on all three. They are written to be read once and returned to, not followed as a course. Each one states its assumptions, and says plainly where the advice stops working. en-GB Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Luxia Ltd https://luxia.uk/guides/stocky-has-shut-down-what-to-do-now https://luxia.uk/guides/stocky-has-shut-down-what-to-do-now Shopify's free inventory app stopped working on 31 August 2026. What Shopify admin now replaces natively, what it does not, and what to do about it this week. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/shopify-app-stack-for-a-250k-1m-store https://luxia.uk/guides/shopify-app-stack-for-a-250k-1m-store Which Shopify app categories earn their fee at £250k–£1m, which can wait, and the costs nobody quotes. Three reference stacks with monthly figures for 2026. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/reorder-points-lead-times-and-cover https://luxia.uk/guides/reorder-points-lead-times-and-cover How much stock to hold, calculated from your own Shopify exports: velocity, measured lead time and buffer cover, applied at variant level rather than product. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/advertising-into-out-of-stock https://luxia.uk/guides/advertising-into-out-of-stock Why your ad platform keeps spending on variants you cannot fulfil, how to measure your own exposure, and what can be fixed without custom development. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/sku-naming-and-variant-structure https://luxia.uk/guides/sku-naming-and-variant-structure A SKU convention worth copying, the option-value discipline most stores skip, and how to audit and repair your catalogue without destroying sales history. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/inventory-aware-messaging https://luxia.uk/guides/inventory-aware-messaging Five ways back-in-stock, cart and browse recovery misfire against live inventory, what you can configure away this week, and what has to be built instead. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/adding-a-second-stock-location https://luxia.uk/guides/adding-a-second-stock-location The reasons for a second stock location that hold and the ones that do not, the five things that break the moment you add one, and the drift that follows. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/supplier-ordering-without-a-planning-system https://luxia.uk/guides/supplier-ordering-without-a-planning-system Shopify has purchase orders now. What they will not do, the supplier record you need to keep alongside them, and why receiving belongs inside your lead time. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/return-to-resale https://luxia.uk/guides/return-to-resale The gap between a return arriving and the unit becoming sellable again, the UK legal baseline that governs it, and the processing discipline that closes it. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/q4-operational-readiness https://luxia.uk/guides/q4-operational-readiness Your last useful order date worked backwards from true lead time, what to freeze and when, and how advertising and messaging behave under peak-season volume. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/where-the-week-goes https://luxia.uk/guides/where-the-week-goes A two-week log that puts a defensible number on operational admin, the rate you should value it at, and the order in which to eliminate, delegate and automate. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://luxia.uk/guides/resources/shopify-flow-workflows https://luxia.uk/guides/resources/shopify-flow-workflows Six Shopify Flow workflows, free on every paid plan and none longer than fifteen minutes to build, with the trigger and condition configuration for each. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000