Free Shopify app
Show what is actually happening in your store
Social Proof Live shows what is actually happening in your store - recent orders, products being viewed, items going into carts - as small notifications on your storefront. A new store with no reviews yet can start with static trust messages and switch to live activity once there is activity to show.
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Shopify
- Setup
- No theme code
- Types
- 7 notifications
The problem
A new store has nothing to point at
A visitor deciding whether to trust an unfamiliar shop looks for evidence that other people already have. A store with no reviews and little traffic has none to show, which is exactly when it is needed most.
This app does not manufacture that evidence. It shows what your store can honestly show - and where there is nothing yet, it lets you write a plain trust message instead of inventing activity. What it can display is listed in full below, so you can decide before installing whether your store has anything worth displaying.
What it can show
Seven notification types
- Recent orders
- A named recent purchase, drawn from your Shopify order data.
- Top selling
- Products that are selling well, drawn from your sales data.
- Viewing now
- How many people are looking at a product at this moment.
- Views today
- A cumulative count of views on a product.
- Recent add to cart
- Someone has just added this product to their cart.
- Total add to cart
- A cumulative count of add-to-cart events.
- Static or custom
- A message you write yourself, which needs no store data at all.
Capabilities
How it behaves
Works before you have reviews or traffic
A store with nothing to show yet can run static trust messages that say something true about the business, then move to live activity once orders start arriving. You are not stuck waiting for numbers before the app does anything.
Seven notification types
Recent orders, top selling products, people viewing a product right now, total views today, recent add-to-cart activity, total add-to-carts, and custom static messages. Pick the ones that match what your store can honestly show.
Messages you write yourself
Every notification's wording, colours, corner radius and position are yours to set. Four layouts are available: text, text with an image, text with a button, and all three together.
Targeting by page, product and device
Choose which pages a campaign runs on, which products it covers, and whether it shows on desktop, mobile or both. Run several campaigns at once with a priority order between them.
No theme code to edit
Install from the Shopify App Store and configure it in your Shopify admin. There is no snippet to paste into your theme and no developer step.
At a glance
- Platform
- Shopify
- Price
- Free
- Theme code
- None. Configured entirely in your Shopify admin.
- Layouts
- Text, text with an image, text with a button, or all three together.
- Positions
- Bottom left, bottom right.
- Targeting
- By page, by product, and by device.
- Campaigns
- Several at once, with a priority order between them.
Questions
Do I need to edit my theme code?
No. The app installs from the Shopify App Store and is configured entirely in your Shopify admin.
What can it show if my store is brand new?
Static trust messages, which you write yourself and which do not depend on order or visitor data. Once your store has orders and traffic, you can switch a campaign over to live activity.
Can I run more than one campaign?
Yes. Campaigns have a priority order, so you control which one a visitor sees when more than one could apply.
What happens to my data if I uninstall?
Shopify revokes the app's access to your store automatically at uninstall. See the privacy policy for what is collected and how long it is kept.
How much does it cost?
Social Proof Live is free.
Protecting a discount code rather than showing activity? Coupon Shield caps what a percentage code can take off a single order.
It is free, so the only cost is your time
Install it, run one static message, and see whether it changes anything for your store. Uninstalling leaves nothing behind in your theme.