Shopify Information

Shopify has taken the eCommerce world by storm. Ever since it was created, Shopify has gotten over 500,000 businesses to sell with their platform and they have all sold over $40B in total. If you are looking for a good online platform that can actually help you sell your merchandise, that's a great selling point for you to think about.

Skills needed to Build an Online Store with Shopify

Being a closed platform, Shopify made it really easy to build your online store with them. There is no coding knowledge needed. You Just need to know what you want to build and start dragging and dropping until you are satisfied with the outcome. Shopify comes with many different Shopify themes available so in theory, you don't need to really build anything. Just choose a theme, add your products and start selling. It's as simple as that.

Control Your Business in One Place

Shopify has an option to add multiple sales channels so if you make house calls, have sales managers, do wholesale or whatever, you can add all those sales channels and know exactly how much revenue each channel produced in a given time. 

Shopify makes the hard parts really easy. They manage the whole checkout process, payments, shipping and much more.

Shopify Price:

Shopify offers a free trial period of 14 days with no commitment or credit card required so no worries in that department.

Basic Shopify:

$29 a month. When charging online you are charged 2.9% + 30¢ for every purchase. If you do a frontal charge, it goes down to 2.7% and no 30¢ fee. If you use an external gateway you are charged a 2% fee.

• 2 staff accounts included
• unlimited products in the store
• Print shipping labels
• 24/7 support
• Fraud analysis
• Manual order creation included
• Discount codes / coupons
• Website + blog included
• SSL certificate

Shopify:

2.6% + 30¢ for online charges and 2.5% for in person.

• 5 staff accounts
• Everything the basic plan gives you, you get here too. Plus - 
• Gift cards - great for holiday promotions etc.
• Professional sales and traffic reports
• Abandoned cart recovery - automatically email customers that didn't fulfill their purchase but filled out their email in a previous step

Advanced Shopify:

2.4% + 30¢ for online charges and the same for in person except for no 30¢ additional charge.

• 15 staff accounts
• Built-in advanced report builder
• Third party shipping rates - show calculated prices from FedEx, UPS etc. at checkout

Start a free trial and see if Shopify is the CMS for you