Shopify merchant built $1M app to simplify Shopify's international shipping

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An entrepreneur who has used Shopify since it was in beta shares how he built an app to solve the biggest problem he faced on the platform while scaling to $1 million in sales

His app aims to help merchants simplify international shipping. Thomas Bertrand is a Shopify entrepreneur in more ways than one.

is home to more than 7,000 apps to help merchants with tasks like store design, product sourcing, SEO, marketing, and shipping. key part of Shopify's strategy The Kyoto, Japan-based entrepreneur told Insider in a recent interview that he faced increasingly complex shipping challenges as his online store grew over the years. Bento&co currently ships its products to about 200 countries.

Though he doesn't have a technical background, Bertrand believes his time as a merchant makes him uniquely qualified to work on an app that could help other merchants. The API documentation for carriers like FedEx and UPS can often be dense and hard to understand, but he had years of experience shipping goods to countries around the world.

 

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