Hulk Product Options

I have been using this app for years and it is a wonderful app. Staff have always been so helpful if I have any issues which have always been issues with my own tech knowledge...not the app. In particular, today I was helped by Nitesh who sorted my problem out within minutes - would have taken me hours and hours :) Thank you Nitesh.

We moved across to shopify from woocommerce earlier this year in order to become much more flexible in meeting customers needs. As a small farmer directly marketing the whole animal, this is an increasingly complex task.

One of our goals this year was to enable a customer to buy the particular cuts they want, and in an easy 1 page order form so our wholesale customers can also buy what they wanted as fast as possible. This sounds fairly rudimentary; however, we also didn’t want another 150 “products” on our shopify store which affected our marketing in other ways. Plenty of apps could aggregate your products into a one page form easy enough, but nothing could sell “products” that weren’t products in the shopify sense.

Our only way to get a one page ordering form that could meet our retail and wholesale needs as well as our own business systems (flexibility being foremost) was to try and find a developer to code an app from scratch for us. Obviously a big expense with an unknown outcome.

During our research of the shopify app ecosystem we came across Hulk Product Options. Their of unlimited options to a single product looked promising, it was close to what we needed. We approached them to see if it could be modified to fit our needs and they seemed happy to help. We held off on our developer search and Danko from Hulk Apps got us a version 1 modification to their Hulk Product Options.

Like everything in tech, new problems appeared. We were bending their system in ways it was never intended and we responded with a thank you but here is a long list now to make it work.

Incredibly, they obliged.

We have gone back and forth over the last couple of months refining what in our opinion was already the most powerful product options app of its kind, into a customisable, feature rich, easy ordering (plus very usable in the UI/UX sense) app that allows us to have the most flexible product offerings in a single ordering page.

There is nothing like this on the internet let alone shopify.

Imagine being in a butcher shop selecting from their displays that day. A week later it might be a different offering. Translate that to the ecommerce world. Can you imagine managing some 150 products that can change weekly whilst managing other channels such as marketing, seo, google adwords etc. The shopify product system didn’t handle this robustly enough for us.

Hulk apps have been great in modifying their Product Options app to our needs. Danko from Hulk understood our needs and took initiative. In doing so Hulk have developed what we feel is a great app for others to try. There is now no longer a gap in the shopify app ecosystem for simple ordering on a single page that doesn’t simply aggregate products allowing no flexibility.

Hulk has really great customer service. Everytime I reach out (which is pretty rare) they solve the problem quickly and their support staff is always friendly. Great app and company.