Use Shopify to design a beautiful online store

Create a website store with all the bells and whistles

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Choose from 70+ professional themes

The Shopify Theme Store hosts a collection of over 70 premium and free ecommerce templates.

Set your store up for success with themes designed and built to the highest standards packed with the latest Shopify features by leading theme developers and agencies.

Shopify’s theme editor allows merchants to customize every aspect of the store

Customize the look of your online store

Every theme comes with its own settings so you can quickly and easily create a customized website.

Our brand-new Theme Settings editor lets you preview your storefront as you’re making changes to it.

Create your own custom theme

Shopify’s simple Liquid templating language makes it easy to customize every aspect of your store’s theme.

No HTML or CSS is off-limits

You have complete control over your store’s design. Take a look at what some of our customers have done with their themes. There’s no limit to how far you can take your store!

Need a web designer?

If you want a completely custom store design, we suggest talking to a Shopify Expert.

Shopify Experts are Shopify-approved ecommerce designers, developers and marketers who can help make your online store a huge success.
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Calling all designers

With no design constraints, a client-friendly administrative area, and no hosting hassles, thousands of web designers and developers have chosen Shopify for their client’s ecommerce projects.

It’s easy to turn your vision into a Shopify template, and then a full fledged ecommerce website.
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Build and run your store website with ease

Start accepting orders in minutes

Shopify includes everything you need to set up your business website and start selling online.

It’s quick and easy to choose a theme, add your products, and begin accepting orders. You could make your first sale the same day you sign up!

Extend the functionality of your storefront

Shopify apps are a fast, easy way to add useful extra features to your website.

Apps give your store an edge over the competition by increasing your marketing capabilities, making your shop even easier to manage, improving your SEO, helping you track sales trends, and more.

Detailed customer profiles

The Customer area in your shop admin lets you learn more about your customers and their shopping habits. You can find their contact info and order history at a glance.

Create customer groups

It’s easy to be organized with Shopify! Categorize and export customer lists based on location, purchase history, and more.

A fully-featured website CMS

With complete control over your website’s navigation, content pages and design, Shopify is a fully-featured Content Management System in addition to an online store.

Hosting your entire business website on Shopify is easy and hassle-free.

Custom Gift Cards

Shopify gift cards help you increase sales and look more professional by providing a flexible way for your customers to purchase a gift for someone from your store.

Customers can check their balance online while you can specify price denominations, personalize email notifications, and more.

Customer accounts

Encourage return shopping by enabling customer account creation at checkout.

A complete blogging platform

Shopify includes a full blogging platform to help you get involved with your customer community.

Publicize and categorize articles, create lookbooks, encourage discussion, and moderate comments on your Shopify blog.

Shopify’s admin dashboard provides detailed overviews of sales

Accept credit cards with a secure shopping cart

Shopify handles payments directly, no third party required

Accept credit cards when you launch your store. Receive alerts when you’re getting paid and even recover lost sales from chargebacks.

Already have a payment gateway? We also support 100 other payment gateways.

Online store checkout on the laptop and iPhone

Painless customer checkout

The Shopify checkout process is simple and secure. Your customers can place their orders quickly and with confidence.

Free SSL certificate

At no additional cost, your online store’s shopping cart includes an 128-bit SSL certificate to keep your information secure – the same level of encryption used by large banks around the world.

Multiple languages, taxes and currencies

Choose from a number of local currencies and we’ll automatically handle major country and state tax rates.

Our checkout comes in 50+ languages, and you can always translate your store’s theme to suit your needs.

Fixed-price or weight-based shipping rates

Shipping rates can be set up in a number of different ways, including fixed-price, tiered, weight-based and location-based rates.

Automatic carrier shipping rates

Advanced Shopify plan users can receive automatic shipping rates from major shipping carriers like UPS, USPS and FedEx.

Certified PCI compliant

Shopify is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant, which means your shop can accept Visa, Mastercard, and other credit cards as payment. It’s easier than ever for customers to buy from your store!

Unlimited web hosting, worldwide

Unlimited bandwidth

We’ll never charge you for traffic because success shouldn’t hurt.

Level 1 PCI compliant

Rest easy knowing your customer data is secure.

Your own domain name

Shopify makes it easy to create and register a domain name for your store. You can buy a new domain through Shopify, use an existing domain, or use your free .myshopify.com domain.

Hassle-free set up

Your site is created within seconds of sign-up, and upgrades are always instant.

Blazing fast servers

Our global server network delivers quick access, worldwide.

Share your online store with the world

Search engine optimization

Potential customers must be able to find your store using search engines. That’s why Shopify supports SEO best practices like customizable H1, title and meta tags.

Shopify also automatically generates sitemaps.xml files so new products and site changes show up on search engines quickly.

Social network integration

All Shopify themes include social network integration, allowing your customers to spread the world and share the great products they find on your online store.

Targeted email marketing

Your customers are encouraged to sign up for updates from your store. Email marketing apps give you numerous email marketing options.

Discount code & coupon engine

You can use Shopify to create sales, discount codes, and coupons to help promote your products.

Offer coupon codes that save customers a monetary amount, a percentage amount, free shipping and more.

Advanced store statistics.

Shopify includes built-in analytics that let you keep track of your sales and progress over time.

Benchmarking your online store’s performance helps you make great choices for your business, leading to more and more sales!

Free advertising credits

We’ve partnered with Google to give you an extra $100 in advertising when you spend $25, helping you specifically target your demographic.

Reports and overview of online sales shown on a laptop

Put your store in your customer’s hands

The Shopify mobile app on the iPhone and Android smartphones

Beautiful, responsive mobile themes

With more and more shopping being done on mobile devices, it’s important to have an online store that looks just as great on a smart phone as it does on a computer monitor.

The Shopify Theme Store has tons of great free and premium mobile themes.

Put your store in your customer’s hands

Your Shopify plan includes a free, built-in mobile commerce shopping cart. This means your customers can browse and buy from your store while on the go, using any mobile phone!

Manage your store on-the-go

With the Shopify app you can view all vital information about your shop from your iOS or Android device. Check your sales statistics, view products, orders, and customer data.

Download the Shopify Mobile app on the Apple App Store Get the Shopify Mobile app on Google Play

Real people, real support – 24/7

We measure customer happiness

We ask our customers to rate their experience after every interaction with our support team, and we make these ratings public so everyone knows how we’re doing.

We hold ourselves to the highest possible standards for customer service – because you deserve the best.

Theme & API documentation

Our documentation areas cover all aspects of both our templating language, Liquid, and our app development API. With illustrative examples and quick variable reference, you can focus on coding, not learning.

Shopify guides

Here you’ll find tutorials to help you manage every aspect of your online store. Go to Shopify Guides whenever you have a question, problem, or you want to learn how to add something new to your shop.

Discussion forums

Get involved in our community discussion forums and take part in discussions on everything from marketing strategies, how to choose a payment gateway, accounting tricks and more.

Shopify Help Center

Amongst our many resources, the Shopify Help Center contains commonly asked questions and step-by-step answers.

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Learn more about creating a website

  • An ecommerce website is an online store where you can sell physical or digital products. Ecommerce means "electronic commerce"—essentially the act of selling online. On your ecommerce website (or online store), you can list products, add product descriptions, and allow customers to pay for purchases online.

  • Yes, you can migrate your website to Shopify from a number of other platforms. Shopify offers free tools to help import your products, orders, and customer data to Shopify, or you can hire an expert for more complex migrations.

  • The Basic Shopify plan is $29.00 USD/month, the Shopify plan is $79.00 USD/month, and the Advanced Shopify plan is $299.00 USD/month. All plans include complimentary website hosting and also give you the ability to sell on social channels, online marketplaces, and in person.

  • No, you don't need to know how to code to set up a Shopify store. Shopify has tons of website themes to customize your online store to your brand without design or coding expertise. The Shopify App Store offers free and paid apps to help you add custom features or functionality to your site without needing to code. For any advanced customizations, our Shopify Experts are here to help.

  • Yes, your Shopify store comes with a built-in blog publishing platform. Your blog will match the look and feel of the rest of your site. You can also use tags and add author bylines.

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