Rewind Backups

I'm in the process of building a small Shopify store.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a Facebook post that caused me to pause.

"Is there a way to run [a] backup on a Shopify store? If you have a lot of products and the site crashes, it would be [a] mess to restore it product-by-product."

The post is from another member of J.R. Fisher's "The Art Of Ecommerce Success" closed Facebook group.

I'd assumed that Shopify backed up my store! I mean, I don't back up my Google or Dropbox cloud storage. Nor do I back up my online bank accounts.

A quick check confirmed that Shopify does not backup users' stores. Wow! It could take me days to restore all the products in my store -- causing a lot of lost sales and revenue!

I then set about researching backing up my Shopify store. Shopify provides instructions on manually backing up one's store to CSV files. A time consuming and laborious task, which would get even more time consuming and laborious if one had to restore one's store from the CSV files.

But it gets worse! Images are not backed up by the CSV process. Yikes! I'd have to keep separate backup copies of all the images, then integrate them back into the store after a crash! What a nightmare!

Fortunately, there is a very simple and easy to use solution. Which, for small stores like mine, is free! Namely, Rewind Backups by Rewind.

I installed Rewind Backups a couple of weeks ago and the app has been running automatically in the background without the need for any intervention from me. What peace of mind!

And best of all, I can now devote all the time I would have spent, dickering around on CSV and image backups, to revenue-generating activities.

At the moment my store is small (less than 2,000 items & 100 orders per month) enough to qualify for the free version of the Rewind App.

Note, items are data items, not products. Each product has multiple data items associated with it, and the store itself has additional data items that are backed up.

As my store grows I can sequentially upgrade plans to the Premium ($15/month, up to 500 orders/month), Pro ($39.00/month, up to 1,000 orders/month), and Plus ($99/month, up to 2,000 orders/month). Once the store has 2,000+ orders/month, the Enterprise plan starts at $299/month. As far as I know, there are no limits on the number of items with the paid plans.

What I particularly like about the pricing structure is that I can start for free and grow my store. By the time I need to upgrade to a paid plan, the store should be generating more than enough revenue to cover the cost.

Now back to revenue generating activities!

Been using the app for a few months and have found it really useful. I've used it to restore my theme when I accidentally installed another app the broke it. And I've used it a few times to restore products. works well.

I used the app to help restore a theme back to previous version that was compromised when I made a mistake modifying some code. Customer service was top notch and responded to my request promptly.

Creating a backup with Rewind is child's play. It's even fun. I can finally make sure that all my data is always safe.

Rewind has been great as we started having external contractors working on the site. Super easy to set up and customer service is fast and friendly. Recommend!

great!

It's a pretty good app. It's nice to have a back up just in case. I don't have that much to say about it but overall 10 out of 10.

Great peace of mind. As a store owner with fairly ambitious design ambitions and talent that only barely keeps pace, it’s nice to know that I’m working with a safety net. Our site is heavily blog and organic content focused, and the thought of archiving 100 blog posts and counting manually was silly. This provides a much more realistic option. Great product.

The app and support it offers is great! They helped me the whole time on the app and by email, step by step, even after we closed the conversation!

Does what is says on the tin. Easy to use interface. Piece of mind that my site is backed up and easy to restore individual items!