Launch your own online Shopping store in less than 5 minutes

Having your own online shopping store is the most profitable business now a days and making an online shopping store is so easy and fast than it was never before. Do you wanted to setup your own online shopping store ?

Setting up an online shopping store was not that easy before the web services like Shopify and WIX were launched.  As in past you have to do each and every thing from the scratch, you should know about web development and maintenance if you wanted to setup your online store at own. BUT now its very easy and fast, you do not need to have any knowledge of web programming languages, everything is already build and all you have to do is to click few times and your online shopping store is ready to be launched in minutes.

Shopify and Wix are the two most widely used services to setup an online website, but as we are talking about launching an Online Shopping store than Shopify has an edge over Wix, as Shopify is specially build for making online Stores so it has many more features to help you manage your shopping store. so we are going to create our brand new shopping store in shopify.

How to open an online shopping store on Shopify:

Shopify is the leading platform for all the eCommerce services, it provides us the most unique and amazing eBusiness features at a very reasonable price. Specially when it comes to open an online shopping store the shopify is simply the best platform to choose. Shopify as of May 2018 hosts more than 600000 shopping stores across 170+ countries.

Shopify gives you the 14 days FREE trial of its services and than you have to choose a plan, its upto you which plan you choose depending on the number and nature of the features you want. The Basic Shopify plan at $ 29 per month is the most frequently selected plan on shopify and it best for those retailers who are just starting their online store. If someone want to expand their e business then he/she can choose from other plans including $ 79, or $ 299 per month. 

Step 1: The beginning

First of all you need to go to Shopify.Com and start your 14 days Free trial. When you click on Get Started you will be taken to the process of opening an online store. Here Shopify will ask you for the name of your store, your email address and then you have to choose a password through which you later will login to your shopping store.

After that Shopify will ask you some personal questions, answer them carefully and click Enter my Store.

Suppose that we have our store named "SaraGossip" than Shopify will give an address like SaraGossip.myshopify.com which can be replaced by a top level domain later if we wanted.

Step 2: Setting up the theme and other appearance options

Here we are, Now its up to you which kind themes you choose from the Shopify Free Themes, you can also buy themes if you do not like the free ones. But I am sure you will love Shopify Free themes as well.

You can change each and every section of your online store and can make according to your choice, and the most important thing is that you do not need to have any coding knowledge. All you need to do is to drag and drop different elements and click here and there few times and you Online shopping store is ready.  

To change or customize your theme simply click on "Customize Theme" from the admin page and do whatever you want to do with the current theme according to your brand.

Step 3:  Adding Products to the Shopping Store

Now this is the most important phase of setting up your online shopping store as without products you would not make money. 

There are two ways to sell products on Shopify which are

1. Having physical products and then selling them on your shopping store.
2. The another way is selling products without physically keeping them- Using the drop-shipping services like Doba etc. In Drop shipping you do not need to worry about the actual products everything is handled by the drop shipping companies.

Read also [Start Dropshipping with Doba at 0 Investment]

To add products to your newly created shopping store simply click on "Products" from the left side menu and then click on "Add Products". Now you can add titles, images and other details of the products here. All is done your products are added to your store. Similarly if you want to use drop shipping services then Shopify has built-in services for all major drop shippers. 

Step 4: Setting up other features and making collections

Now to give your online shopping store a better look, you can make different categories or collections like for clothes, electronics, watches, shoes, makeup etc.

Shopify also gives you the additional pages for things like Contact, about etc, so you can also set them up to give a official look to your store.

Step 5: Setting up payment options

Shopify store automatically have the payment processing methods like credit card and paypal. So you do not need to worry much about the payment processing. Your clients can pay you via Credit card, PayPal and many more payment services are also available in Shopify. All you need to do is to simply select which one you want and its done.
To set the payment processing methods simply click on "Settings" and then on "Payment Providers".

Good Luck for your Online shopping store:

So if you are really looking to launch your online shopping store and you do not know much about web development then Shopify is the best option to choose. Because it is simple, easy and the most smart eCommerce platform for creating online Store.