The Rewind Blog

Stories and ideas about data security and backups.

SPOTLIGHT

6 Reasons Why You Need to Backup Your Ecommerce Store

We compiled the six most common situations in which you’ll be glad you had a backup.

What Black Friday Downtime Cost Gymshark – and How They Fixed It

This holiday season, 3 years after Gymshark experienced their biggest Black Friday nightmare, their technology team isn’t taking any chances..

Black Friday Downtime: What it Cost Gymshark and Why Rewind is their New Backup Plan

by Rally Stanoeva | Oct 14, 2019

This holiday season, four years after Gymshark experienced their biggest Black Friday nightmare, their technology team isn’t taking any chances. To limit any risk of downtime, Gymshark is using Rewind to backup all 14 of their Shopify stores. But it was only a couple...

3 Mailchimp Disasters That Will Make You Reevaluate Data Security

by Dasha Shakov | Oct 11, 2019

For many businesses, an email list of prospects and current customers is a key asset. The number of contacts a business has may reach into the tens of thousands. And out of all the different marketing channels available today, email is a remarkably valuable one. It is...

The Top 5 Mailchimp Integrations That Email Marketers Should Be Using

by Dasha Shakov | Oct 7, 2019

If you use Mailchimp to automate your email marketing, you’ve probably noticed that the number of integrations for Mailchimp can be overwhelming. By knowing the right integrations to use, you can propel your business forward through email marketing. We’ve curated a...

The Best Shopify Security Apps – 6 Apps To Ensure Your Store Is Secure

by Krissie from Kollectify | Aug 27, 2019

Some of the most popular Shopify merchants have lost thousands of dollars, customers, and sales as a result of neglecting security. Thankfully, we’ve put together a list of the top security apps for your Shopify store so you can prevent this from happening to you. If...

Shopify Store Backup: 3 Ways to Backup Your Shopify Store

by Megan Smith | Aug 20, 2019

Having a backup for your Shopify store is a recommended best practice to ensure the security of your business-critical data. It’s like an ecommerce insurance policy for your online store. And there is no feeling that is worse than deleting something and knowing that...

How a 15-hour Cleanup of QuickBooks Online Turned This Bookkeeper Into a Backup Advocate

by Megan Smith | Aug 12, 2019

Summary Lynn Marsh, the founder of HealthyBOOKS Bookkeeping Services, experienced first hand how a QuickBooks Online app integration can create a massive disaster in a company’s books. She discovered that an app recorded $9B of inventory in a client's file, which...

Watch Rewind’s Talk at Shopify Unite with Dave North

by Megan Smith | Jul 2, 2019

Shopify Unite is an annual conference where Shopify developers and partners come together to celebrate accomplishments as a community and get a first glance at the latest Shopify product features. Our team has been attending Shopify Unite for the past four years. As...

How to Track the Source of Installs in Your Shopify App Store Listing

by Henry Brown | Jun 18, 2019

At some point after launching your app on the Shopify app store, you and every app developer will try to make sense of the traffic to your app listing. Is the Facebook campaign you’re testing out bringing merchants to your page? What about the handful of blog posts...

Ecommerce Insurance: What You Can Learn from Jeffree Star’s $2.5M Disaster

by Kaleigh Moore | Jun 13, 2019

Let’s start with a basic question: Is your ecommerce store protected from the unexpected? You may have answered with varying degrees of certainty. After all, no one can predict the future...and you can’t always plan for the unexpected. The reality, however, is that...