Starting Your Shopify Store

Starting Your Shopify Store
E-commerce & Online Selling

Starting Your Shopify Store

Opening an online store involves more than choosing a theme. This e-learning material walks through planning and setting up a Shopify store, from defining your products and customers to configuring pages, payments, shipping settings and basic policies. It suits new sellers and small businesses moving online who want to launch a clear, trustworthy store with a sensible plan for its first months.

Levels
4
Starting from
190 credits
Category
E-commerce & Online Selling
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Beginner

  • What this level covers

    It covers how Shopify works, choosing a plan and theme, adding products with photos and prices, setting up payments, shipping and taxes at a basic level, and writing essential pages. You also look at a simple pre-launch checklist.

  • Who it suits

    This level suits people who want to sell online for the first time and are considering Shopify. It fits makers, small retailers and new founders who have a product idea but no experience of setting up an online store.

  • What you can apply afterwards

    You should be able to set up a basic Shopify store with products, payments and shipping in place. You can then check the essentials before launch and understand which settings to revisit as your store grows.

Level 1

190 credits

Inside this material

A successful store starts with decisions made before any setup screen is opened. This e-learning material begins with clarifying what you sell, who you are selling to and how your prices, margins and shipping costs fit together, so the store you build reflects a workable business plan.

The levels then move through setting up a Shopify store step by step: choosing and customising a theme, adding products with clear descriptions and images, organising collections, and configuring payments, taxes, shipping options and essential policy pages. You also look at apps, domain settings and checking the store as a customer would before launch.

Later material covers the first steps after opening, such as simple marketing, reviewing store data and improving pages over time. Shopify's features and plans change, so you are encouraged to check current options as you apply each step to your own store.