
Sign up for the 14-day free trial to create your Shopify account, enter your email, set a store name, and explore the dashboard.
Compare Shopify's basic, standard, and advanced plans during a 14-day free trial, noting staff accounts, shipping discounts, and monthly or yearly payment.
Navigate the dashboard to manage orders, products, customers, analytics, marketing, discounts, apps, and sales channels. Explore switching stores, adjusting settings, and accessing help resources for running your Shopify store.
Explore the Shopify orders tab, including orders, drafts, and abandoned checkouts, to manage paid and fulfilled statuses, track shipments with Zend Drop, and create drafts.
Explore the Shopify products tab: add and customize products, manage variants, pricing, and inventory; organize with collections and tags, set SEO previews, and control sales channels and gift cards.
Explore the customers tab to view each customer's history, orders, and total spend, apply filters like email subscribers or location, and manage optional, guest, or forced account settings.
Explore the analytics section to view today and last 30 days sales, visitors, and top products. Track conversion rate, average order value, traffic sources, devices, and live orders.
Explore Shopify's marketing tab, including setting up campaigns and automations, with a focus on abandoned cart emails that drive sales, plus campaign templates for promoting, growing audiences, and showcasing products.
Learn to create discount codes and automatic discounts, applying percent off, fixed amounts, or buy X get Y, with storewide or product-specific applications, and set limits and dates.
Explore how to browse the Shopify App Store, compare free and paid apps, install and manage drop shipping and marketing apps, and understand app billing, permissions, and reviews.
Configure your Shopify store's general settings by updating the store name, contact and sender emails, industry, address, time zone, unit system, and currency, with optional order prefix or suffix.
Learn to configure payment settings in Shopify, including Shopify payments, PayPal, third-party providers, and manual and alternative methods, and connect at least one payment source with complete account setup.
Configure checkout settings in Shopify, selecting account options, contact methods, shipping updates, tipping, auto fulfillment, and marketing newsletters on checkout, and set language.
Configure shipping and delivery in Shopify by creating shipping zones for United States and rest of world, setting rates (free, price-based, weight-based), and enabling labels and carrier integrations.
Configure taxes in Shopify by collecting sales tax on orders shipped within your state, using Tennessee as an example, and consider TaxJar to automate rates.
Use the locations tab to manage your stock and inventory across up to eight locations, while drop shipping inventories are tracked automatically by the app.
Explore Shopify's notification settings in the admin area, customize email templates for orders, refunds, and shipping, and learn to disable double opt-in and enable open tracking for marketing emails.
Configure gift card settings in Shopify, including expiration options and enabling Apple Wallet passes for easy card access.
Discover how to manage your files in the Shopify for beginners blueprint: upload and organize images, videos, and documents, access direct URLs, and delete unwanted items.
Discover how to manage sales channels in Shopify, add and remove channels like point of sale, eBay, buy button, Facebook and Google ads, and track orders, inventory, and customers.
Learn to manage plans and permissions, customize upgrades, add staff accounts with granular access, use collaborator accounts, and control store status from pause to sale.
Learn to manage store languages in Shopify settings, set a default language, add new languages like Spanish, and install translation apps to translate product pages, themes, and dashboards.
Learn to manage billing settings in Shopify, view and download invoices, switch payment methods, and optionally pay bills with Shopify balance or a credit card on a development store.
Access settings, legal to apply Shopify's policy templates (refund, privacy, terms) and customize with your store details, emails, durations, and shipping policy; then save and add to navigation.
Learn to manage Shopify themes, set the live theme, explore the theme library with free and paid options, duplicate for safe customization, upload new themes, and preview changes.
Create and manage blog posts in Shopify, assign posts to blogs like sneaker heads or product updates, add tags and featured images, and moderate comments for evergreen SEO friendly content.
Create and customize static pages in the Shopify store, using built-in templates like contact, FAQ, and about us; you can create pages for anything, tailored by themes.
Learn to create and organize navigation menus in a Shopify store, including main menus, dropdowns, nesting, and linking pages, products, and collections.
Learn how to set up a professional domain for your Shopify store by buying a domain within Shopify or connecting an existing one, and creating professional email addresses.
Configure Shopify preferences by updating the home page title and meta description, set a social sharing image, and connect Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel, with privacy and password protection.
Install and upgrade the kick start theme in your Shopify store, and compare its advanced customization options with the free debut theme to optimize headers, sections, and checkout settings.
Learn to customize your theme by configuring the header, top bar, logo, and banners, then craft a homepage with image overlays, a single product highlight, and a product carousel.
Learn how to fulfill orders in Shopify, whether you ship yourself or use apps like Lobolo or Abelow, including labels, tracking numbers, and marking fulfilled.
Learn to process customer refunds in Shopify by filtering orders, selecting items, and issuing partial or full refunds with an internal reason for tracking.
Learn how to connect an existing domain from GoDaddy or Namecheap to your Shopify store, or buy a new domain on Shopify, using registrar-specific CNAME instructions.
Organize products into collections using manual or automated rules, such as price under 100 dollars, brand-based groups like Nike or Jordan, and bulk or manual additions.
Learn how to build a nested menu in Shopify, including mega menus with collections and products, using drag-and-drop nesting to create multi-level drop-down navigation.
Create a legal pages menu and add privacy policy, refund policy, terms of service, and shipping policy. Then attach this menu to the footer via your theme’s footer settings.
Learn to remove password protection in Shopify by navigating to online store preferences, turning off password protection, and saving so visitors can access your store.
The Complete Shopify For Beginners Blueprint!
During this course, you can expect to learn the ins and outs of Shopify.
Shopify is the #1 tool for e-commerce stores and during this rough time, many people are looking to start their own e-commerce store and are funneling into Shopify.
While on the surface, Shopify may look complex with hundreds of different settings and configurations, we've simplified the entire platform in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step course that allows you to fully understand each setting and how it affects your store.
So to recap, this will be the progress we are making throughout the course:
We're going to cover the entire admin dashboard of Shopify and go through each setting, 1 video at a time.
I'll show you how to add, edit, and manage your products.
You'll have a full understanding of how to successfully accept payments from your customer.
We'll set up our shipping rates, tax rates, and legal pages too!
We'll talk about customer profiles, how to ship your products, and mark your orders as fulfilled.
You'll know how to track your analytics, see your conversion rates and where your traffic is coming from.
And so much more - please see the entire curriculum below.
From there, it's all about configuring your store the way you'd like and going live!
I hope to see you inside the course!