Create your Shopify store
How to create a new store
First step to kickstart your Smootify journey is creating a Shopify store. There are 2 ways to create a Shopify store.
If you are creating a store for your own business you can create a normal Shopify store, that will give you 15 days of free trial of Shopify and most of the times a big offer for the first 3 months of plan, while if you are a freelancer or an agency delevoper you should create a development store. If you know that your development time will require way more than 15 days, you should still create a development store, that will give you unlimited time to develop and design your store.
Shopify Store
Creating a Shopify store for your own business involves a few key steps. Here's a basic guide:
Sign Up for Shopify
Go to the Shopify website.
Start a free trial
Click "Start free trial" and enter your email address, password, and store name.
Complete the Store Setup
Follow the prompts to provide information about your business.
Development Store
Creating a Shopify store through a partner account involves using "development stores." Here's a breakdown of the process:
Signup for a Partner Account
To create development stores you need to have a Shopify Partner account. You can sign up for free on the Shopify Partners website. After that, you will have access to your Partner Dashboard is your central hub for managing your development stores and other partner activities.
Create a Development Store
- Access the "Stores" section:
- In your Partner Dashboard, navigate to the "Stores" section.
- Create a new development store:
- Click on "Add store" and then "Create development store."
- Choose the purpose:
- You'll be asked to specify the purpose of the store:
- "Create a store for a client": This is the option you'll choose when building a store for a client.
- "Create a store to test and build": This is for testing apps or themes.
- Select create a store for a client
- You'll be asked to specify the purpose of the store:
- Enter store details:
- Provide a name for the store. This name will be used to create the
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- Provide a name for the store. This name will be used to create the
- Create the store:
- Click "Create development store."
Development and Transfer:
- Build the store:
- You can now build and customize the store as needed.
- Limitations of development stores:
- Be aware that development stores have some limitations, such as restrictions on using real payment gateways for transactions.
- Transferring ownership:
- Once the store is complete, you can transfer ownership to your client
Note on ownership transfer
Be carefull when you transfer the ownership of your development store. As soon as you enter the email and send the invite the whole Shop will be freezed and will require a Shopify plan purchase, that must be done exactly at the time of the ownership transfer. Double check the email of the store owner, you can't retire the transfer and you can't change that email anymore. If the transfer fails, your development store will be deleted and you will not be able to regain access to it anymore.