Fake Shopify sale notifications that arrive on your real lock screen

A real notification, not a picture of one

Search for fake Shopify notifications and you find generators: you type an amount and download a PNG of a notification. That works as a thumbnail and nowhere else, because a phone that buzzes on camera is a phone receiving something. Pozer’s Shopify-style store dashboard sends the real thing. Turn on its alerts and order notifications arrive on your phone at random moments, the way a store’s do on a good day, and you film them landing.

Set it up

1. Build your store in the editor: its name, your logo, the day’s figures and the orders.
2. Publish and install it: on iPhone, open the link in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, use Chrome’s Install app.
3. Open it from the home screen. On iPhone the home-screen app keeps its own sign-in, so hold two fingers on the screen and sign in to get the owner’s Edit button.
4. Tap Edit, then in Alerts choose Sales, the amounts (say $24 to $129), how often (every 1 to 3 minutes) and for how long, and tap Turn on alerts. Allow notifications when the phone asks.
5. Lock the phone. The first order arrives within seconds, then at random in the rhythm you set.

What arrives

Each notification is titled with your store’s name, under your app’s icon, and reads like a new order: “New order #1285 · $84.37 · 2 items”. The order numbers carry on from the latest one on your dashboard, the amounts land anywhere in your range, to the cent, and most orders are one item, as real ones are. They stack on the lock screen and play the phone’s own notification sound.

Name and icon come from what you set. An iPhone keeps the name and icon an app had when it was added to the Home Screen, so set both before installing, or delete and add the app again after changing them.

The order is in the app too

A notification that leads nowhere gives the skit away the moment someone opens the app. These don’t: every order the notifications announce joins the dashboard. Open the app, or pull down to refresh, and #1285 is at the top of Orders, unfulfilled, with its customer and items, and counted into total sales and orders, with sessions keeping pace so the conversion rate holds. Tap it and Fulfill items works like on any other order.

Filming it

• The stacked lock screen. Set every 10 to 20 seconds for 15 minutes, lock the phone and let the notifications pile up while you film.
• The buzz in the scene. Leave the phone on a table with every 1 to 3 minutes and shoot the conversation; the sale lands when it lands, which reads as real because it is.
• The reveal. Tap a notification and the app opens on the dashboard; pull down to refresh and the order is at the top of the list.
• Before you roll. Turn off Focus and Do Not Disturb, and check notifications are allowed for the app in the phone’s settings.

What it won’t do

An order never appears on an open screen by itself: it joins the list when the app is opened or pulled to refresh. The sound is your phone’s, not a cash register’s. Alerts go only to the phone that turned them on, and stop the moment you turn them off. And nothing about them is a record of real sales: they’re a prop, and posting them as your own store’s results is against Pozer’s rules.