In the interest of improving the way we communicate with our users, we’ve started a little something called the Shopify Advisory Council. The Council is made up of a handful of Shopify users who are particularly passionate and active in the forums, and we will be bouncing ideas off of them concerning both how we communicate changes to our users and specific strategies for improving Shopify in general. This means that the Shopify team will be able to get user feedback on things before they are quite ready to be announced publicly, and we’ll then be able to balance our priorities and adjust our efforts accordingly.

Right now we have seven people on the Council and each of them can be identified in the forums by the title of “Shopify Advisor”¹ under their name. They aren’t getting paid for their help, they will have to construct their own lightsabers, and we are counting on them to be as uncompromisingly honest as ever, so we give them our deep thanks.

1. Or “Miss Manners” in the case of one of our advisors, at her request :)