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Why Ecommerce Migrations Fail (And How to Avoid It)

Most ecommerce migrations do not fail loudly — they fail quietly. Here is why migrations go wrong, what teams underestimate, and how to avoid costly mistakes before they happen. Read more
Why Ecommerce Migrations Fail (And How to Avoid It)

Visualsoft to Shopify Migration - What You Actually Need to Know

Thinking of moving from Visualsoft to Shopify? Here’s what actually goes wrong during migrations, what a proper process looks like, and the realistic timelines and costs. Read more
Visualsoft to Shopify Migration - What You Actually Need to Know

Inside Kent’s Growing DTC Scene: Ecommerce Brands That Are Smashing It

Kent’s DTC ecommerce scene is growing fast, from boutique fashion to specialist food brands. Here is what the strongest local stores are doing right and how they are scaling sustainably.

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Inside Kent’s Growing DTC Scene: Ecommerce Brands That Are Smashing It

Weekly Newsletter Friday 30th Jan 2026 - The Message That Starts With “Sorry to Bother You”

A familiar message that always starts politely and ends with an interruption. A light look at why “sorry to bother you” usually makes things worse, and how clearer messages save everyone time.

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Why we added an llms.txt to DevPartners: Building for the Agentic Web

At Dev Partners Ltd, we've always focused on building software that is clean, performant, and easy for humans to use. But the way the web is navigated is changing. Increasingly, your first interaction with our brand might not be through a browser, but through an AI agent or an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude. Read more
Why we added an llms.txt to DevPartners: Building for the Agentic Web

Weekly Newsletter Friday 23rd Jan 2026 - The Hidden Cost of Free Tools

Free tools can be brilliant, until the real cost shows up later as wasted time, awkward workarounds, and limits you did not know existed.

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Modernizing Shopify Variants: Using productVariantsBulkUpdate

Shopify has recently done one of it's trademark non backward-compatible deprecations. It's literally caused quite a few of our integrations to have a few hiccups!. productVariantUpdate ..... kaput!

We use this frequently to update/input barcode, SKU, RRP price and sale price... it's a necessary function for our majority fashion-related clients.

The update now needs to use productVariantsBulkUpdate instead... but this needs a few changes to the input payload.

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Modernizing Shopify Variants: Using productVariantsBulkUpdate

The Top Shopify Mistakes We See in Kent Stores (And How to Fix Them)

We see the same Shopify mistakes again and again in Kent stores. Learn the quick, practical fixes that improve speed, conversions, and customer trust.

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The Top Shopify Mistakes We See in Kent Stores (And How to Fix Them)

Weekly Newsletter Friday 16th Jan 2026 - The Cost of Half-Decisions

Half-decisions feel flexible, but they are usually the reason projects stall. When nobody signs off clearly, work drifts into limbo and time disappears into endless revisits and second guessing.

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The Kent Business Advantage: How Local Agencies Deliver Faster and Better

Working with a Kent-based agency means clearer communication, faster turnarounds, and fewer surprises. Local teams deliver results more efficiently.

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The Kent Business Advantage: How Local Agencies Deliver Faster and Better

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