Used WorkBuddy to Merge Multi-Platform Shopify Orders, Saving $800/Month in Outsourcing Costs

A few days ago, I saw Xiao Li promoting Shopify store setup, talking about all sorts of things like cross-channel marketing, agent-based marketing, and B2B commerce. Honestly, my own store is on Shopify too, but those fancy tools often cost hundreds of dollars a month—way out of reach for a solo shop like mine. What really gives me a headache is manually copying and pasting orders from Shopify, WeChat Mini Programs, and Xianyu (Idle Fish) into Excel every day, then checking inventory and calculating shipping costs. It takes two or three days just to organize the data each month. Outsourcing it to a part-timer costs 800 RMB a month, and they still make mistakes frequently.