The Rewind Blog

A blog about backups, automation, ecommerce and how to protect your online data with less work.

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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.

How to Duplicate a Shopify Store in Minutes

Our complete guide to copying a Shopify store to help you manage multiple stores, open a test store, or create a wholesale account.

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CSV Files and Your Ecommerce Store: Everything You Need to Know

by Mike Potter | Sep 10, 2018

A Comma Separated Values file, also known as a CSV file, is a plain text file that contains tabular data and spreadsheets. They are easy to create, can be manipulated by using any text editor, and can be imported and exported seamlessly onto other platforms. Because...

Meet the Team: James Ciesielski, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rewind

by Sarah Seguin | Sep 5, 2018

Before there can even be a concept, there needs to be someone with the initial idea: “Let’s start a business.” For Rewind, this crucial puzzle piece was its co-founder, James Ciesielski. Having known his business partner and friend, Mike Potter, since 2012, the two...

5 Ecommerce Automation Tools To Optimize Your Time

by Robert Woo | Aug 16, 2018

If you work in eCommerce for giant corporations like Amazon or Pepsi that can throw an unlimited amount of workers at any time-consuming problem, then this article isn’t for you. Rather, if you’re like 99% of most businesses that have a growing internet...

Meet the Team: Mike Potter, Co-founder and CEO of Rewind

by Sarah Seguin | Aug 14, 2018

If the concept for Rewind was the lightbulb going off, then Mike Potter’s was the head that lightbulb first flashed over. As the CEO and co-owner of this fast flourishing start-up company, his insight into the importance of backups within the ecommerce industry, and...

5 Trust Signals to Boost Conversions for Your eCommerce Business

by Anthony Capetola | Aug 8, 2018

People don't put their trust to just anyone. If you want to earn someone's trust, you need to deem yourself worthy. You need to prove that you're reliable and dependable as a person during their time of need, while also being unafraid to tell them the truth—no matter...

Rewind & ShipStation: Helping Ecommerce Brands Automate and Scale

by Rally Stanoeva | May 16, 2018

We’re really happy to announce that Rewind is now a partner with ShipStation, the leading web-based shipping software for online retailers. If you’re like most ecommerce entrepreneurs, shipping and order fulfillment is not your favourite part of running an...

Why We Started Rewind: Cloud Backups for SaaS Apps

by Mike Potter | Apr 30, 2018

I’m a data backup fanatic, with backups to my backups - and backups to those backups. But this wasn’t always the case. While working at Adobe as a Technical Evangelist a few years ago, I was giving a presentation at a PHP conference to a few hundred developers and my...

Two Mistakes That Are Losing Your eCommerce Store Thousands (and How to Fix Them)

by Pete Boyle | Apr 24, 2018

What’s the most important action you can take to improve the revenue of your ecommerce store? Difficult question to answer, right? I mean, there’s no definitive answer to this question. Spend even five minutes searching online and you’ll find all sorts of answers....

Is Your Canadian E-Commerce Business Ready for the EU’s GDPR?

by John Wires | Apr 18, 2018

By John Wires, Wires Law (@JohnWires) Summary The European Union’s (“EU”) new privacy regulations impact companies in Canada that collect or use personal information from people in the EU. If your Canadian e-commerce business collects or uses EU personal...