Uptime

Automated Shopify store QA testing & platform status alerts

Thanks for posting @robjama! Hey everyone, my name is Corey and I’m one of the co-founders of Uptime 👋

We built Uptime to give Shopify merchants peace of mind knowing someone is always watching their online store, and that they’ll be notified the moment there’s an issue.

Uptime is essentially a robotic QA team a merchant or agency can deploy to their stores to monitor the Shopify status page, the status pages of third-party apps (like Klaviyo, Recharge, etc.), and create automated tests that simulate real user clicks to test things like add to cart, upsells and proceeding to checkout.

@richgilbank , @taylorsicard , and I are all ex-Shopify employees, and throughout our combined 10+ years in eCommerce we’ve seen how often online stores can break, with merchants finding out hours/days too late via Twitter, support emails, or looking at their plummeted conversion rate.

So far Uptime has saved merchants thousands of dollars in potential lost revenue by catching issues immediately, so merchants can take action and resolve things quickly. For example, here’s a quote from one of our customers:

“We had a problem Uptime caught on our collections page where customers couldn't add to cart. I immediately set up a redirect to a different landing page and saved thousands of dollars in lost revenue. I wouldn't have known about it without Uptime emailing me!“

As we approach the Black Friday/Cyber Monday holiday season, any downtime or bugs can make or break a merchant's business, and cost a lot of money.

Black Friday and the holiday season are the busiest time of the year for Shopify merchants, where any downtime could mean losing thousands of dollars per hour in revenue. We want to help merchants avoid that this year, and gain back some peace of mind!

Pretty much the best app for Shopify stores to ensure nothing's down when sales is up! 😉

Every store MUST have this configured ASAP 👌

Every once in a while when you ask “there’s an app for that, right?” the answer is no. If you were looking for an app that told you when Shopify or the apps that make your website work were down, that answer was surprisingly no… until now.

Awesome work getting this “up” and running, Uptime team! Adding this to my list of must-have apps that new ecommerce stores should have when they launch 🚀