Selling Online

As a store owner, you might want to build your store’s navigation. By adding a menu item, you can make it easier to the customers to find your products. With only some simple steps, you can add menu items that link to your webpages, products, collections, store policies, blogs or blog posts, email links, external websites, etc.

In this post, I’m going to talk about how to add a new webpage to your online store. We must almost know about a website. From an e-commerce platform such as Shopify, your online store is considered a website which allows you to build your own business. Your customers will find your website usually has a lot of different content such as introductory pages, contact information pages, product introduction articles, services, etc. Each content page has a URL link so that it is called a web page.

This post is about adding a webpage with your store policies. As you might not know about, you can generate or add your own policies to your online Store on Shopify. In fact, you can add a privacy policy, refund policy, and so on. Additionally, there are some available policies for your online store, which relies on your location such as legal notice or shipping policy.

Sales channels are also known as different marketplaces where your products can be sold. Adding online sales channel is a necessary task of every store owners. On Shopify, the management of orders, customers and orders will be performed in one place by connecting each sales channel to Shopify admin. Using different online sales channels can be very useful to aid in promoting your products to reach more targeted customers so that increasing a high sale revenue is just a matter of time.

In this post, we’re going to talk about how to edit a menu item on Shopify. After adding a menu item, you might want to edit your menu items it as your products or websites would change. Just by a few simple steps, you can quickly make a change to your menu item as much as you want to. As the menu item is related to your online store’s navigation, you can find every options about menu item changing in the Navigation page.

Sometimes, managing lots of different online sales channels might lead the merchant to be confused. Or in some circumstances, there are some products that you don’t want to sell on a particular online channel, then you have to know how to remove an online sales channel from your Shopify admin.

In my previous writing, I have introduced you on how to create a new blog template. However, that’s not the end, after creating a new blog template, you can actually apply that blog template to a particular blog post. The result when you apply a template to a blog is that all the post existing in the blog will be shown according to the template that you’ve set. This will aid in customizing your own blog so that you can attract more visitors to your blog as well as differ your blog from others.

Just by some really simple and easy steps, you can change the display order so that your menu items list can look more appearing. After creating a menu item, you can see its display order on the Navigation page. The menu items are displayed in the listed order and sometimes, you might want to change it in order to make your menu items easier for the customers to use.

Creating a new blog template allows a merchant to customize the layout of the posts existing on their blog. This will help to create a unique style for your blog and attract more visitor to visit your blog and then, to your online store. Creating a customized blog template is not as easy as you imagine, it requires your understanding of coding.

As you might know, you can publish lots of blog posts simultaneously instead of publishing those blog posts one by one, which takes you a lot of time. Therefore, knowing how to publish blog posts in bulk is very helpful to aid in saving time and better managing your blog. You can also make these blog posts visible on your online store or delete your blog posts on Shopify as well.

Sometimes, you might want to remove your added menu items as the menu items are no longer usable. There is an easy way to do that following these below steps. Be careful when you want to remove your menu items as they will be deleted from your store’s navigation. In a menu item that has items attached below in a drop-down typed menu’s position, the nested menu items along with the whole drop-down menu will be removed from your store’s navigation.

As you might not know, you can take advantage of Shopify tools to publish a blog post on a specific date, automatically. For instance, you are going to launch a new product and you have already prepared a blog post for this event, however, you also have an important hangout, then it’s time you need to learn how to set a specific publish date for a blog post so that your post will be published in time while you can still go out with your friends.

Interestingly, you can insert blogs into your online shop, and post all updated information about your products or business to those blogs. Adding a blog to your online shop brand on Shopify is one of the most useful ways to help drive traffic into your site, which supports the increase in your store’ SEO, and customers’ engagement. If you don’t want your blog post to be shown on your Shopify store, you can delete your blog posts as well.

Editting a blog name is one of the things that you might need to do after adding it to your store. But why add a blog to your store in the first place?

In this writing, you will be shown how to link an external blog on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android. You can add a link in the online store navigation into a blog that is hosted on the third-party platform, including Blogger, WordPress, and Tumblr. After that, you can see the link appear in the main navigation or in the menu, relying on what you will choose.

When doing online business, you would like to create your own blog to get closer to the customers. When you have a blog, you have to manage it, that means you’ll need to know how to do things like allowing or disabling comments. If a new blog is created, its comments are all disabled by default. You can change it with these three options in the comment settings: disable your comments, allow comments with pending moderation, and allow comments with automatically publish.

If you choose to allow comments on your blog with a pending moderation, there is an action that you have to do every time there is a new comment: to approve or to remove the comments that might be spam. If you choose to publish the comment, you must approve it to be shown up on your blog. Otherwise, if you find the comment disturbing, you can delete it and it will no longer in your comments pending list.

Sometimes, in your blog, there will be some disturbing comments that you want to mark it as spam, and remove them. That’s what you’ll have to deal with if you choose to allow comments on your blog. Shopify feels the same with you and will check your blog comments on behalf of you, and will mark any comment that has any sign of spam. Those marked comments will not appear on your blog but still show up in your Shopify admin. Now, you can flag any comment that you don’t want in your blog yourself.

Adding a link to a webpage is definitely the thing that a smart shop owner should know, because you must be concerned about taking advantage of every webpage on your channel to advertise your products or show your customers some useful information about your store. In other words, it directly affects your the sales of your online store.

The text that can appear in the search engine results for your blog can be edited. You can use the descriptive title to help the visitors find the online store and persuade them to click on the link. In this article, you will be shown how to edit the search engine listing for a blog on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android.

Shopify provides you a lot of function including the files uploading function. If you want to upload a picture to your store, or a file so as to advertise your products more effectively, and to make it easier for your customers to reach your products and their information, the files uploading feature will surely help you a lot.

Logo plays an unquestionable significant role in brand recognition. Logos are signs that give the audience a brief concise statement about a brand, such as a field it’s working on. By adding a logo to your email templates, customers can identify your store in an instance and get your points in a glance without having to read the whole message.

After adding a blog, you can write the blog posts. The posts can have text as well as images. In this article, you will be shown how to add a post to your blog on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android.

If you are successful in adding a post to your blog on Shopify, then you can edit it in an easy way. In case you don’t want your posts to be shown on Shopify, you can delete your blog post in 4 simple steps.

When starting your career as a online store owner, one of the most important thing you already have to know about the business is the essential of adding information, such as uploading an image file to your online store content. It can be whatever between your products, collections, blog posts, or even your store’s customed webpage and blog. By adding soft information into your online store content, you not only can gain your store’s reputation with copious contents, but also could help the customers to know about your store and your products better as every of your store’s details are free to access.

When selling online, if you offer a large number of kinds of products to your customers, you will want to group them in categories to help you manage it as well as help the consumers to shop easier. For example, you want to divide your products into 2 types, for men and for women, you can use a drop-down menu to do that and this is also the topic of this writing. In particular, I will show you the process of how to add a drop-down menu from the main menu on Shopify.

As your uploaded files keep increasing, you might want to search for one of your files to adjust. With the file searching feature, you can easily reach out your hand for some files quickly and easily. Your uploaded files not only could be searched by its name, but also can be found by its type.

Each webpage plays an important role in your online shop. It makes your website become more complete and more professional. In order that it always maintains that indispensable function, you need to ensure it shows the customers accurate information and attractive content. Hence, you’d better know about how to edit a webpage in case your webpage should be changed.

In this writing, we are going to show you simplest steps on how to hide a blog post on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android. After adding a post, you can edit that blog post and even hide the post if you don’t want to show it on your online store. If you want to permanently hide your blog posts, you can try to delete your blog posts as well

In this post, you’ll learn how to choose colors for your email templates on Shopify. Most people will think as if colors of email templates were something trifling, unimportant so we could choose thoughtlessly. In fact, there are factors you need to put in consideration before choosing a proper accent color. Some factors we can come up such as content, color contrast, feeling of people while looking at such color, etc. Therefore, before proceeding this instruction, please reflect on those traits.

As you might already know, adding images to the blog post can make your post more attractive. There are lots of images you can add to your post on Shopify, such as product images. Take note that only JPG is accepted as the best type for the images of your blog post. Hence, in this article, you will be shown how to add an image to a blog post on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android.

You can delete any of your blog posts if you don’t want them to be shown on your online store. Removing a blog post on Shopify does not take you much time. You can follow the instruction below without having difficulties. Hence, in this writing, you will be shown how to delete a blog post on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android.

Once you’ve added a webpage, it will automatically have its own search engine listing. The customers can look for it in the search engine results. However, if you are not satisfied with which your webpage shows, you can totally make changes to it. I’ve prepared for you a detailed tutorial about how to edit the search engine listing for a webpage so that you can follow easily. This also brings you convenient because these simple steps can take actions on a desktop, iPhone, and Android.

In managing your online store’s uploaded files, you can make your files searching and rearranging process easier just by filtering them. By filtering your files by size, you will be able to shorten your searching domain and it will make it quicker for you to choose what you want to work with. In Shopify, we provide you a function that can filter your files by size, which is really effective in files managing.

This post will teach you how to select a new checkout language on Shopify. If your products are sold via an online store, you can get your checkout translated to whichever language you prefer by editing your theme. You can also translate checkout fields individually if you want to.

Did you know that almost everything on your Shopify store could be customized to maximize your customers shopping experience? This includes things like adding logo to the checkout page or editing the small texts set as default that are displayed in textboxes on your checkout page to whatever content you want. This would help you personalize your customers’ experience when doing checkout with your brand. Wondering how to do that? Take a look at the few steps below on how to translate checkout fields individually on Shopify.

Email templates are the basic feature on Shopify. With email templates, communicating with a large number of customers in a short amount of time is in your grasp. However, before sending those to customers, you also need to learn how to customize specific email templates first.

As an ideal e-commerce platform, Shopify gives you a helpful feature to customize the publish many web pages in bulk at once. Moreover, just by taking some simple steps in about five minutes, you’ve done with this. Thanks to this, you can save lots of time, especially when you move from another website to Shopify.

On Shopify, you can translate your store checkout page to any languages of your choice. You could select a new checkout language from the list. However, if your language is not available on the checkout languages default list, you could always create your own new checkout language to translate your checkout.

When you change any URL in your Shopify store, the customers will not know unless you inform them. However, you cannot inform all of your customers, which includes of loyal individuals and potential consumers. Hence, you can use URL redirects to move the direction from one page to another so that the customers can still look for what they want. If you are curious about these links, follow the instructions in this writing to know how to create a URL redirect on Shopify.

Sometimes, you will need to edit URL redirects. There are cases that you have already created a URL redirect but later you find some mistakes in the input information process. It is also possible that you change the link for redirecting and then you need to edit it in the settings page to help your customers find your products or your content. If you are looking for an instruction on how to edit URL redirects on Shopify, do not miss out this writing because that is the subject of this post.

You can manage your URL redirects for your store in the Navigation section on Shopify. However, there are cases that you cannot access to the internet or you have something to do with the paperwork then you need to save these data for further uses. This kind of action refers to export URL redirects on Shopify and this is also the subject of this writing. Hence, if you want to discover the process to complete this action, check out the following steps.

URL redirectshelp users to adjust the traffic from one page to another one and Shopify also allows shop owners to use these links in their stores. However, when you have a large number of redirects and you want to make changes for some of them, it’s hard for you to find them in a long list. Hence, you can use filters to shorten the list and everything will be easier. To know more about the process of how to filter URL redirects by date on Shopify, just check this post.

On Shopify, these are the policies that can be added or generated for your store:

If you have an online store, surely will you want to be informed whenever new orders come. Therefore, we have a tool on the Shopify platform that will help us add a notification for new orders and send it to you or your staffs.

When operating your online store, sometimes, you might want to change the sort order of your file list into an easier-to-find order so that your files management will go on smoother. However, the default order of your file list is based on the timelines of the files, as the most recently created files will go first, and the oldest files will show up later. The great news is that you can change that sort order into alphabetical or size with some really easy steps.

Alongside with email templates, there are also SMS templates. SMS notification is a quick-respond communication channel for some tasks that need an immediate announce to/reply from your customers. Not every template on Shopify has an SMS version. In this article, we will find out how to customize specific SMS templates.

Sometimes, in your Shopify shop owner account, you might want to delete unwanted or unused files that were in your file list for so long so that you can make more rooms to the new ones and manage your owned files easier. With Shopify, you can delete your files and upgrade your files management session easier than ever just by using our files deleting function.

If you want to change the information of a URL redirect that you created, you can edit it by following the steps in this article. However, there are cases that the redirects are no longer correct or cannot be used anymore then you will want to exclude it from your URLs list. If you are finding the guideline for this process, keep reading this writing because I will show you how to delete URL redirects individually on Shopify.

This post is about enabling option to enter a phone number at checkout on Shopify. When running the business, you always have to receive your customer’s information to accept their order placement. By default, when a customer orders something from your store using your store’s checkout, they have to provide their email address so that the order confirmation and shipping updates will be sent into their mail box.

You may know how to create URL redirects on Shopify but it will be time-consuming if you do it step-by-step for each link for total hundred redirects for example. You can make a CSV file to summarize all the URL you want to add in the URL redirects and import it on Shopify. For more information, follow this article and you will know how to import your URL redirects on Shopify.

As discussed in the previous article about adding an order notification, in order to make the store management easier and more convenient, you can include a link to the order page in the order notification to check details of the order and customer’s information with ease.

You will learn how to unpublish web pages in bulk on Shopify in this post. Some of your web pages give you plenty of benefits to having an attractive website. On the other hand, some of them don’t. Hence, you are looking for the way to hide the unnecessary ones from the menu and the search engine also. This post is prepared for you to follow.

As a Shopify store owner, you’ll need to know how to edit the templates for SMS notifications on Shopify. Why? Because when sending a SMS notification for customers, it will be considered more professional of you if you keep the notification in a united form for every one of them. But sometimes, when it comes to a different product or another order that requires more information, you might want to change your SMS notification that you are going to send to the customers so that the needed information will be fully sent. Shopify allows you to do that to customize the content for each of your notifications.

Special instructions on Shopify can be considered as an additional material in new order notifications. You can decide whether to add some of these or not. It depends on each particular order. In order to give the order notification subscribers a special note about the order, you can include special instructions to help them catch the situation and be well-prepared.

Today, we’re going to talk about viewing and resending SMS notification for order on Shopify. In your online business on Shopify, contacting to your customers is an especially important part for you to keep trace with the orders and to take care of your customers better. By default, if the customers want to buy a product from your Shopify online store, they have to provide their private email address to receive notifications about the order such as the confirmation of the order, or the shipping condition.

With Shopify, you can easily turn off sending a notification to the customer after you cancel an order for any reason. By disabling the order canceled notification, your customer who makes the order will not receive the notification email about this sequence.

In this article, you can learn how to add tags to a blog post on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android. Tags play a critical role in organizing the blog posts into different categories. The visitors and customers can easily find out your blogs thanks to the same category. As they seek any tags in the online store, matching blog posts can be present in the search results.

After creating a blog post, you can get it displayed on the landing pages of the blog. The excerpts can load with text formatting, links, and images. In case you do not want to insert an excerpt for your blogs, the content will be shown instead without including formatting, links, and images. In this writing, you will be shown how to display an excerpt from a blog post on Shopify on Desktop, iPhone, and Android.

Are you wondering how to edit the search engine listing for a blog post on Shopify? If yes, you are in right place. You are able to edit the text appearing in the results of the search engine for your blog posts. In fact, descriptive title along with descriptions can support the customers to find your store brand and persuade them to select the link.

Sometimes, you may need to allow your customers to return some products they purchased. It depends on your store policies that you may need to refund some orders. If you do, you’d better do it in the proper and professional way. You can decide whether you want to use the notification system to inform your clients or not. If you choose not to, then you can disable the Order refund notification.

When you finish the order fulfillment, you can skip sending email to your customers to confirm their shipment has been set by disabling the shipping confirmation notification.

To the orders that include shipping service, sometimes you will need to update the addresses of shipment or new tracking numbers. After updating these information, normally the Shopify system will send a notification email to the customer. However, in case you and your customers realize this process is unneccessary, it’s okay to disable the shipping update notification as well.

With Shopify, you can easily create communication measures with your customers via notification systems. To get the best out of it, apparently, you shouldn’t keep your own notifications remain the same as it was from the beginning. You will have to update, edit, or fix. Sometimes, you may also need to delete an order notification for being unused or being obsolete.

It is possible for you to add a background image or color to the main content area of the checkout page. However, remember that you can not add both of them together since it will block the view of your customers because it is the area where your customers enter their shipping information. So make sure that you only add one of them.

Another choice to decorate your Shopify store apart from adding logo to the checkout page, you can also add a background image or color to the order summary. You should see the preview of your adjustment to make sure that you are satisfied with it. To do this, click the Show order summary button in the editor.

Similar to the background image, the logo also appears at the checkout page of Shopify. You can add a logo to your check out page and place it to the position you want in the banner. For example, at the top of the banner, in the middle or on the left or right-hand side.

This post is about how to change button and accent colors on the checkout page on Shopify. It is another writing that will show you a different method of making changes to the checkout page. In particular, to change button and accent colors on the checkout page. Every shop owner knows that the checkout page is very important and will directly affect how you sell online. Therefore, when you change the color, make sure that you choose a color that clearly enough to read the text.

In Shopify, you can adjust the color of the form fields into white or transparent to see the image clearer. Remember to adjust it to the extent which you still can read the text inside the fields clearly.

As you may know, there are a lot of options you can choose when you want to adjust the appearance of the checkout page. For example, adding a background image or color and add logo. Now, this writing will introduce another method of adjusting the appearance of the checkout page which is changing the font of the checkout page.

As you may have known that we can add logo to the checkout page. However, there comes the time when you that the image you are now having is not suitable for your shop anymore and you want to remove or change that image from checkout page. If this is the problem you are facing with, this writing must be for you.

Another adjustment can be made to the checkout is to edit the checkout form options. You can adjust so that some of the fields in the checkout form are optional or required. For example, some customers do not want to leave their private phone number, to solve this, you can make that field optional.

There’s this problem that makes many store owners consider setting customer account preferences on Shopify. When a customer buys something from your store, you can choose either to ask the customer for his or her account or not. If the customers want to create an account, they will be taken to another page, this might lead to the customer dissatisfaction and they do not want to buy from your store anymore. This will lead to a decrease in sales.

At the checkout page of Shopify, there is always a banner that displays your shop name. The image of that banner can be changed base on what you think is suitable for your store. You can upload any background image for banner that you want. For instance, if what you sell online are clothes from a well-known brand, it is a good idea to choose an image which has that brand logo.

After creating a blog and setting specific publish date for blog posts, you sure want it to be easily reached by your customers. By inviting customers to subscribe to your blog, the subscribers will receive the up-to-date information from your blog easier. It not only will give your store a chance to raise the selling rates, but can also be a better tool for the customers to stay informed by your blog.

There are occasions when you’ll want to unpublish blog posts in bulk. For instance, when running a blog of your store, you sometimes want some blog posts to be hidden at a period of time without them being deleted permanently. Now with the Shopify provided bulk action, you not only can hide a blog post, but can also hide several blog posts from the online store without actually deleting those blog posts.

If you want to check whether your checkout process and settings for order processing, inventory, shipping, and taxes are properly working, you can place a test order by simulating a transaction on Shopify.

The thought of which is the best seller on the Shopify platform for sure has crossed the store owner’s mind. You-as in the role of a business administrator might sometimes be curious about the best sellers on the best platform for eCommerce. Then, you might want to figure out how to find the best sellers on Shopify.

Search Engine Optimization, which is also known as SEO, is the designing web content process that maximizes its visibility in the organic search results of popular search engines. As a result, it will make a helpful contribution to most businesses’ marketing strategies.

Nowadays, the world is going digital, which also affects the shopping habits of people all over the world and the way businesses are working. Therefore, integrate your Shopify store with an app packed with intelligent marketing tools will certainly help you to boost your sales. Some apps or sale channels you can integrate your Shopify are Facebook, Instagram, etc. In this guide, we will show you the way to add the Instagram sale channel to Shopify

With the development of Google, Search Engine Optimization or SEO plays a more important role in the success of online stores. Especially in the competitive market as the Shopify marketplace, optimizing the search engine with multiple methods will increase the number of customers as well as boost the sales effectively. Besides, optimize the content of online shops, one of the ways to increase the effectiveness of SEO is optimizing Product Image which ensures that your Shopify stores will appear on the top of Google.

SEO or search engine optimization is a process of getting traffic from the free and organic search results on search engines. Hence, if you want to improve the number of visitors on your site, SEO is important. SEO needs to be done step by step, and adding meta info for SEO is the first step.

If you are selling goods on the Shopify platform, the thought of what would happen if you close your Shopify store will, for sure, occasionally cross your mind.

The homepage is the face of any online store with a detail introduction about the products and brand to boost the business. SEO plays an important role in increasing traffic and sales because of the relevance to the search query.

Shopify Blog is also a content on the page that Shopify store owners can customize and update to attract more customers coming to their shops. Different from other public articles, Shopify Blog shares the writer’s thoughts and experiences so that it can easily connect to their audiences as well as customers. Especially for new online sellers, Shopify Blog will be the best choice to motivate their customers. By daily, weekly, etc consistent and quality content, the SEO also can be improved; therefore, Shopify store owners can easily attract more customers coming to their shops. Find out Best Shopify Blog Apps

If you want to launch and sell a new product in the Shopify store market, SEO is the best choice to approach more to customers. By simple and default Shopify SEO functionality, it is easy for store owners to create more presence in the search engine.

Not so many people might want to complain about any eCommerce store that is easy to navigate and user-friendly. But as an online shop owner, you had better stay aware of how those design elements on a website can affect SEO on Shopify, followed by your store’s rankings. Let’s look straight into common problems of getting collections filtered as using Shopify product tags, which lead to duplicate content issues.

As you might have already known, Shopify is one of the biggest and most robust eCommerce platforms for users to create a successful online store. However, there is always a dark side that business owners are very likely to be a target for tricky customers.

Shopify is not so popular for any online merchants as the most effective eCommerce software to sell everything. Shopify is effective for all multiple-purposes shops with the custom design. The Shopify store can be your own by customizing all the features in the shops.

You have already had an online store on Shopify; however, your next question is that what you should do to find Shopify stores on Google. When your store is visible, it is highly likely for searchers to click and visit your store. So how to make Shopify stores visible on Google?

With the development of the Internet, social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest are more and more popular for online merchants to launch their products. Although all of them are effective for online sellers to boost their sales, there are the main differences between them that the Shopify store owners should understand to take the best advantages for their business.

This article gives you a protip to become superior to the competitors on Google Shopping and save product advertising costs. To make it clear, it is about leveraging Google product categories. Google product category is indeed a basic and essential element of all Google Shopping campaigns. It helps Google confirm faster if your product matches the buyer’s query. This means that when customers search for products they want to buy on Google, your products can display quickly.