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Shopify Plus Referral Rejected After Approval – How Is This Fair?

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 4:50pm

We did a complete Shopify CRO audit for a client, including deep recommendations on how to improve their checkout experience. As part of the findings, we suggested they upgrade to Shopify Plus, which they agreed to.

Here’s how it went down:

1. We submitted a Sales Assisted Plus Lead (no response from Shopify for 4 days). 2. To avoid delays, we submitted the lead again directly and made it crystal clear that the client was upgrading based on our recommendation. 3. The client immediately upgraded to Plus. 4. Shopify support confirmed our eligibility and even mentioned backpay for the lead. Great! 5. 30 minutes later, we received another message saying the referral was being denied because the client had previously engaged with Shopify.

Apparently, any prior interaction between a merchant and anyone at Shopify (even if not sales-related) voids the partner referral.

Never mind the full audit we performed. Never mind the email trail with the client. Never mind the fact that it was our recommendation that led to the Plus upgrade.

Even the client was surprised to hear that the referral was not approved.

This system doesn’t feel like a partnership. It feels like a gotcha clause waiting to happen. How are we supposed to promote Plus when the reward system is this fragile?

What’s worse is that initially we were told we were eligible. That message was reversed almost immediately. The lack of clarity is exhausting.

We’ve done similar work with other SaaS platforms where leads and partnerships are tracked more fairly. This kind of inconsistency is not what we expected.

Would love to know—has anyone else had a similar experience with Shopify Plus referrals?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43637804

Points: 1

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Show HN: Vibe Coded Python Library

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 4:46pm
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Show HN: LLM Based Spark Profiler

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 4:42pm

Hey HN,

Spark event logs run into 100s of MBs and offer a wealth of insight into your workloads but making sense of them has always been quite a bit prohibitive. We’ve recently built a lightweight tool that automatically parses Spark event logs and surfaces targeted insights to help you optimize your data jobs.

Whether you’re chasing down a bottleneck or balancing performance vs. cost, the profiler got you covered with real-time configuration recommendations, data skew analysis, and more.

Curious how it works in action? Check out this quick Loom video for a walk-through: https://www.loom.com/share/07348eb54f6b440da93f96753937792a?...

We’d love your feedback — check it out at https://app.datasre.ai and let us know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43637721

Points: 8

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How to buy Monero with no KYC Legally

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 4:09pm
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Ask HN: Do you use any tools to manage your professional network?

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 4:04pm

I've built a large professional network, but I don't have a good way to manage my network or search across my network for finding the right person for the right question or opportunity. I only think of the top 5% I regularly talk to anyways. My ideal tool would be chatGPT for my network, but I haven't seen a good version of that.

What do you do or use?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43637180

Points: 2

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She's flying to SF to test if love is real. One nerd needed

Wed, 04/09/2025 - 4:04pm

Hello HN friends,

It’s me again—the philosopher from this morning. I’m just bringing this back up, in case you forgot!

I want to experiment with love. Are you curious about love?!! I can show you. I have a paper to write. Please help me!!!

If you’re seeing this for the first time: I’m flying to San Francisco from Wednesday to Friday (April 24–26), and I need a nerd to help me with this very emotional experiment!!!

I’m not a weirdo—I’m just a gentle philosopher. If you’re interested, please reach out.

I’m waiting for you. Still.

♥ https://github.com/mmmmyehe4/object-centered-love-lab/discussions/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43637179

Points: 2

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Ender's Game Book Review

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