Your Shopify store
Your products, your stock, your payouts. If you sell, the shop counter is the part that actually holds those records, and it belongs to you for exactly the same reason the domain does.
READ THIS FIRST · THE MISTAKES THAT COST THE MOST
Where this goes wrong
- Adding the same products in two places — once here and once on the website — is how stock counts start lying to you. Everything goes in one place, and we will tell you which.
- The trial is designed to become a paid subscription. If the screen is not clear about what happens when it ends, stop and ask us rather than finding out on a statement.
- Do not connect a domain, install apps, or run a sale from this empty store. It is an account, not a live shop.
- If somebody offers you Shopify more cheaply by moving you onto a partner's account, that is their account, not yours. The ownership promise is worth the difference.
Before you start
If one of these is missing, get it sorted first. It is faster than stalling halfway through.
- Your product list roughly written out — what you sell, what it costs, what you charge. Nothing needs to be formatted.
- Photographs, or phone photos in daylight. Rough beats no.
- A card, because a Shopify trial is set up to become a subscription. Read what happens when the trial ends before you type one in.
- Twenty minutes and a clear desk.
Do it in this order
Go to shopify.com/free-trial and work through signup. When it offers to check whether your store address is available, that becomes the shop's address and it is awkward to change later, so choose it properly.
Stop at the plan screen and do not buy a plan. The plan and the trial are a purchase decision, and it should happen once we both know what the finished store has to do.
Finish creating the store with nothing in it, so that the account exists and is empty.
When you can get in, confirm you can see the Products page. An empty products list on a store you own is the correct result of this step.
Send us the store address. We connect it behind your site, and we will tell you which plan the finished store actually needs before you pick one.