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1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to
my Shopify class. We're going to get you set up on your very first
Shopify website. We're going to explain
what Shopify is. I'm going to talk you
through how to add products, add categories, add
blog posts and pages. All of the different
things you'll need to do as well as what Shopify is. Because there might be some of you have clicked on here by accident and perhaps
aren't sure what it is. And on top of that,
we're also going to talk about how to
integrate printer so that you can sell things
like t-shirts and hats and so on in a very simple way. And then we're
gonna do the final tweaks to put it all together as well as talk through how
to connect your domain name. So while that might sound like there is a lot to go through, I assure you it is quite simple
and I'm going to try and keep this as beginner,
friendly as possible. And that's the great thing
about Shopify really it is a beginner
platform and that'll allow you to get
your online store up online as quick as you can. I'm one of the things I'm
going to make sure we go through is the key concepts
as we follow through this. Because I think when it comes
to learning anything new, understanding the fundamentals
will allow you to build on those building
blocks over time. So I hope you enjoy the class. And with that being said, let's jump straight into it.
2. What is Shopify: Now, most of you probably
already know the answer to this given that you clicked
on this particular class. However, I do want to quickly
cover what is Shopify. Shopify is essentially
just a platform. You might be saying,
Jason, that's great, but what the **** is a platform
where you see back when I started building websites
in the early 2000s, you had to code
every single line, piece AND function of a website. And it was incredibly
time-intensive and therefore it was the domain of
wealth nerds like me. And then over time, people developed what was
called a framework, which basically were some
other nerd would create the base code that you can then take and build your
website on top of. Then that became even more
powerful when we got what was called a CMS or content
management platform. And WordPress is a
perfect example of that. And over time those became
more and more powerful. But the problem was
you still have to take the code and put it
on your own servers and manage the hosting side of things as well as deal with technical bugs and errors and problems that customers
would encounter, are not meant to build
an e-commerce site or an online store was still
incredibly difficult. Then came along platforms. So it started off with the
likes of Squarespace who allowed you to have
your website on their servers
managed by them with a simple drag-and-drop interface
where you didn't have to know anything technical
and you could just go about creating content,
which was amazing. And it still took a little
bit of time, but slowly, but surely there emerged platforms for building
online stores as well. Because as you can imagine, an online store needs to
deal with things like inventory as well as
credit card security. And those things are
not simple to perfect and to make sure that they
work perfect every time. So therefore, Shopify came along and created a
platform that does this and allows you to create
a sharp and deal with nothing other than
just your products. Create the styling of
it once and then put it online and it takes away
all of the headache. And since they
manage the servers, if 1 million people find
your product tomorrow, first of all, congratulations. But second of all,
the site won't crush. Whereas if you were
managing your own servers, it would either
crash or it would cost you a fortune to manage. Shopify is essentially
just a platform, a place where you
can go to build your website easily without
any technical knowledge. And it is really simple to build up your website
using Shopify. But obviously there are
still some things if you've never done this before
that could catch you out. And that is exactly what I want to go through
in this class. But before I jump
into shopify itself, we do need to talk
about one other thing, and that is domain names. So let's talk about that next.
3. Domain Names Explained: Now, first of all, let's quickly explain
what is a domain name? Well, a domain name is simply an address for a
computer and you'll know domain names as things like google.com or perhaps
skillshare.com. This is basically
just an address that the computer can take from you, the user, and go to another computer which
is miles and miles away. And it's called an icon server. And it will ask
that icon server, what is the address
for this address? So imagine it like a
postcode where you can give a postcode and then
the person can look up your full address
from that postcode. Basically it's the
same thing, e.g. the modem in your house
likely actually has an address of 192168
dot one, dot one. But can you imagine having
to give your customers an address like 192168 dot one, dot one, they'd likely
forget it very quickly. Whereas if you said My
address is google.com, it's a lot easier to remember. And that's all a domain name is. There are a few options
for getting a domain name. And there's a couple that I'm going to talk to you about right now because you need to make
a choice thread this course, and it's a very simple one. You can either buy your
domain name through Shopify. And that is the easiest way
to do it because Shopify will integrate it directly with
your site and there's absolutely no setup whatsoever. Basically, you can
purchase it from Shopify. And I do say purchase, although it is more of a
lease because you buy it for one year or two
years or whatever. But basically you can buy
it from Shopify and they'll automatically then link it
to your new Shopify website. And that will cost you
$15 per year for a.com, there are other
specialized domains that will cause
more or less e.g. your second option is to buy your domain name from a
third party website, e.g. named cheap.com or godaddy.com. Now the advantage
of doing this is basically that they will
sell it to you cheaper. E.g. on name cheap, you can get a.com domain
for as low as around $7, which is less than half of
what you'll pay from Shopify. But do keep in mind when you
renew it after year one, it will cost $14. So there's not a huge gap there. However, there are a lot of special deals with these
third-party suppliers. And if you're willing
to buy for say, five years and get
it a lot cheaper. So the reason I bring this up is because there is a bit of a compromise here that
you need to keep in mind before you start
building your website. That compromise is simply, do I want to pay less and do a little bit
more work upfront? Or do I want to pay more undo
no technical work upfront. So that's all you
have to decide on. I just wanted to put that in
your mind so that you can have a look on named
cheap right now, e.g. named cheap.com, start searching for which domain
names are available. Because obviously
like addresses, there are people already
with those addresses. So you have to decide on
one that is available. So you can go to Name
cheap.com or you can set up your domain in
shopify itself. I'm going to cover both
later in the class, but I just wanted
to make sure you knew that distinction
because you might be wondering why I
covered domain names twice. Later on in the course. I'll show you
basically how you can just buy it with Shopify. Then how you can just connect up a domain name
that you buy elsewhere. So I'll bring you through both of those later in the course. So that's what domain names are, and that is why there's
that distinction. You can have a lower price and more effort where you can have a higher price and less
effort to trade off. And I'll leave that one to you. Let's move over now to actually setting up
Shopify exciting stuff.
4. Setting Up Shopify: Okay, So obviously now we're
gonna go ahead and start the exciting process of setting
up our Shopify website. So in order to do that, we're simply going to
go over to shopify.com. So now I'm back in the computer. I'm we're here on shopify.com and you'll see that
there are a couple of buttons you can press
on this or you can type in your e-mail and
start a free trial here. But you'll notice along the top, a lot of the time there are these special offers to do look out for them now while they usually usually
will just give you whatever the special offer is as soon as you sign up
for a free trial, there are occasions where
sometimes seeing this banner at the top and clicking elsewhere
won't give you an offer. And I've seen that happened
in the past is very rare, but just keep it in mind. If you see something
like this, e.g. is start a free trial
which is great, which gives us three
days to set up the site and make it look
whatever way we want. And then enjoy the first
three months of Shopify for $1 a month,
which is fantastic. So all we're gonna do
is hit sign up now. And that's going to bring to this survey form
they go through, so I'll talk you through
this as we come through it. So you can say I'm just getting started because I assume if
you're watching this class, you probably haven't
done this before. And then there are a few
different options here in terms of where
you'd like to sell. Now, for the instance of
this course or a class, or going to just
be selling online. But basically there are
other options, e.g. they will allow you to, basically as you're
setting up your site, get the code that you can put into your existing
website or blog. So we're going to start a website today
called €1 easy steps. And I'm going to make
it about meditation, yoga, mental health,
that type of thing. Just as an example, I'm not going to actually
set up the site or maybe I will sell things on it. But if I was to have
my own blog already, then I can basically
click this here, this top right one, That one there, and get a buy button that I
can link to that. So basically, it'll bring people across the
shop afterwards. Online marketplaces is if you're going to be selling
on eBay as well, It's the kind of setup
and allow Shopify to accept payments from
their social media. Likewise, Facebook or
that type of thing. If you want to sell on those, it'll give you ways to implement your
products onto there. And one of these
is quite important if you have a physical store and you're looking to sell online
and in your physical store, and it's the same products. You can click in-person. I'm basically that
will allow you to manage inventory
through Shopify, but also allow you to
purchase a card reader undo all of the payments through
this Shopify website as well. So you can have
everything integrated. Well for the time being,
we're just going to click online store
and click Next. They can skip all of this
as well if you want, but you're better
off just doing this because it gets your
shadow in the right way. So my website is called
your easy steps. And that might be taken. No, it's not. Oh, well, they just give you an extra currently in sunny Mexico, so that is correct. But don't worry about
the location too much because we can
change that later. I can change it back
to Ireland later on. And then you can just
make an account. Shopify can't now I
already have one, so I'm going to click
to set up with Google. And of course, that's
going to allow me to login through one of
my Google accounts. So I'm just gonna do that here for us now you all have
my e-mail address. Don't email me, please. Then we go to
building your stores. You just give it a
minute there and basically watch
amplifies doing is installing it's cold on
one of their servers, on getting you prepped based on the decisions
that you've just made. So that's going to take maybe
a minute or two at most. And then we will get
to our dashboard. And once that happens, we have successfully set
up your Shopify store. Now, the good thing is
on like the likes of WordPress and those sorts
of website frameworks. There won't be any issues here because it is just
their own platform. It installs thousands
of these a day. So it will just
bring you through to your dashboard straightaway. If it doesn't, just
basically go back, log out and log back in again. But I've never had
that happen before. My Internet is being a
little bit slower though. But as you can see, we're
now in the dashboard. It's telling me that
my trial just started in the corner here
and up the top. And I'll need to pick a
plan to put this live, but we're not gonna do that yet. Won't pick a plan until we've
actually designed the site. So the next thing we're
gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and design our
Shopify website. So I'll see you in
the next portion.
5. Designing Your Store's Look : Okay, So now we're
gonna go through designing up our
new Shopify site. And the way we're going
to start this is by going back to where I left
off in the last class. So we're going to open up
your Shopify dashboard that you would have been
left out at the last time. And then you're gonna
go to online store. Now, we're going to keep
things nice and simple here, but I am going to change the way I would normally
do this because I normally would just start with this Dawn theme and
customize it quite a bit. But that's just me. There's actually no
need to do that. You can quite simply pick another theme that
works better for you. So you can click this drop
down here that says Add theme. And we can visit
the Theme Store. And I'm going to
look for something that I think would fit quite well with
health and wellness. But obviously you can pick
whatever template you want. So we're going to
hit collections at the top and explore free themes. So let's have a look
here now and see again, for some reason whenever
I'm recording the Internet seems too a problem,
but it is loading. So just bear with me. Let's have a look here and see. So we've got this
nice one aircraft. This would be lovely and
simple, nice and minimal. Dawn. I think that's the one that's
already installed as well, based on some cool ones here. So you can use any of these templates for
anything you want. But usually they set them up
in a way where they show off a particular type
of industry and they're designed
with that in mind. So I like this one here. I know it's crave one. I know it's not it's not really health and wellness
as much as it's food, but I just like the
styling of this for the health and wellness
store, the base colors. And so I think it
looks funky and cool. And you can click View Demo Store here
and then you can see what it looks like obviously
with Demo information. And if you click this
button at the top here, you can see what it
looks like our phone, very important to make sure
that whatever theme you choose you're happy with
on a phone as well. Because about 70 to 80% of
all of the traffic you get is going to be from a mobile phone instead
of a web browser. Then when you're happy
with Eigen here, try theme at the top
and select the account. Now, because I have a
couple of different stores, you might see that it will ask, you know, which store, but for you it might just
installed straight away, so it may just
skip that section. But then you can just click
Add theme either way. And that's going to take a minute to just pop
that into my store. And then it will bring
me back here so I can close that last time actually because it's just
the same thing. And now I have crave
as my new store theme. And that's going to
just, like I said, just take a little bit
of time to install. And once it's ready, we can go ahead
and click Publish. So it's installing
version 5.0, 0.1 there. And then you can click Publish, which is the button here. So that Publish button
and click Publish. And that's going to
replace my current theme. And then I can click this button here,
which is customize. And that will bring up the
design editor for my website. So there's a few things we're going to want
to change here. I'm going to talk you through
these steps as I go along. And I haven't decided what I'm going to put in
all of these places. So I may choose to just get
rid of some of these things. May choose to keep
some of these things. So let's see. So let's go to
Announcement bar on. First thing I wanna do is where it says Welcome to our
store up the top here, I want to change this
because one thing I like to do is put in the free delivery, the free delivery section. So I usually do free delivery
on orders above $40. Now that is specifically
for the t-shirts because I know that by the time someone's
ordered around $40, my profit margin is high enough to include the
shipping for free. And you can of course
include then like a specific product as the link so that when
someone clicks this. So the reason you do
this where it has a link here is if you are e.g. doing a deal one weekend on two-for-one on pizzas
or two for one on makeup. You can put that dot up the top here and say two for one
on makeup click here. People will see this not only on the desktop but
also on the mobile. They'll see it at the top. And they can of
course, top thought or click that link as well. So that's why you have,
let's just go back here. That's why you have
the link here. And as you can see, one
of the other things you can do at any point
as you're designing your site is to click mobile
desktop or to view it on full screen to see what
it's gonna look like on your size of a computer. So we'll keep it in desktop. And I'm not going to
put a link here because this is just a piece
of information. And I'm going to hit
Save and just make sure we're happy with that. So the next thing
we're going to jump down to is the next box, which is this header here. And you can see the color scheme is
set to background one. Let's see what the
other options are. Accent to background
one was what it was on Bucher into inverse, which switches the
colors around. I kinda like the background one. I think that was nice. Let's have a look and see
what the colors are like. Hey, so we've got
accent colors here, the secondary colors,
Bucher and warm colors. Okay, so that's
where they all are and you can see that you could change this if you want it. So where I have it set
as background one, you could let me just copy and paste it so
we don't lose it. You could change it like this. And as you can see,
that will change everything that is
background one colored. So we're going to change that back because I don't want it. And now everything will go
back to its original color. But just so you're aware, any colors that you
want to change, you can go into
this theme settings on the left here and hit colors. And that is where
you'll change it. So going back to the header now, the other thing I want to do, because I have got a logo. You may not have a
logo at the moment. If you don't, you
can go to canva.com. I'll do a course on logo design, a class on Logo
Design at some point. Simplistic logo design for those of you who just want
to get up and running. But for right now, let's
just go and have a look. So here, this just
says Your easy steps, the name of your site. To be honest, if you're
just starting out, that's probably fine until
you get the branding done. But I already have a an
image that I want to put up. So I'm gonna go here to replace, sorry to select the image. And that's going to
bring this kind of area where I can drop images in. And I'm going to go and find the logo that I have
on my computer. So you're not going
to see this part, but it just me looking through my Finder and I'm going to drop
that logo in here. So you just drag and drop
an image onto that point. And there we have my logo
that I've already created. And it's a little bit small, so I'm gonna go ahead and
just increase that size. Maybe not too much, that's
a bit too much there. 190 pixels sounds okay to me. And let's just make
sure it looks okay on mobile as well. Yeah,
it looks great. Really happy with
that. And this logo, like I said, you
can make on Canva. I made this on canva.com for free for it took about 10 min, 15 min, but like I said, I'll grade the class
around that later. Now, the other things that
are here is the menu, which is just set
up as a main menu. I'm not going to
touch it off for now because we'll create
the menu a little bit later when we go back to creating our products and
collections and so on. So for now one can ignore that. For now you can work out, well, let's just run through a
couple of these options are we have show separator line, which will just put basically a line underneath the header, which you can't see
when it's hovered over, but basically just
a line along here. I think that looks
crap to be honest, we're gonna leave it off. Enable sticky header is just basically you see
the way the header kind of follows me down
as I go down the page. So I can see links at the top. You can turn that
off so that you don't see it as you scroll. But I like to have
that there because I think people enjoy being able to click to another page or
see the homepage at the top. Again, a lot of this is
just a personal preference. And the padding and
margins are just basically the amount of padding
that you'll see. So see you the way
that's moving at the top there. Bottom padding. So yeah, I think
it will make this a little bit smaller
or actually, I'll get rid of the
potting completely. I like that nice and minimal, so it's not taking
up too much space when I'm reading
through the page. Bottom margin is just
if you wanted margin underneath a little bit of
spacing, we don't need that. So let's get rid of that there. And then the rest of
this is basically your sections or your homepage. So I'm going to keep these, but let me just show
you what I could do. So basically there is the
slideshow here at the top. And what you could do for that is you could
go to Unsplash, which is a great site
for finding images. And we could type in wellness. And let's just basically fill in that slideshow
for the moment. If this intranet ever downloads. So here is a nice
photo that we can do. If someone just kinda sitting peacefully looking at Unsplash. Interestingly, and let's see what other stuff
we have here are people doing yoga on the beach. This is ideal. Then we're going to just go back now and we can click into our
first image slide. We're going to once again, just like we did with the
logo, it select images. And there are free
images as well. So we can go and type in
yoga here on the left, but there's an r on the right. Oh, and there is some stuff. Well, there we go. You know
what, That's actually great. Let's choose one of
these and then we can select on splash
for the other one. So let's see. So there we go. That's a nice image of
someone doing a handstand. And then we're going
to change this from image size to wellness. T's. So for t-shirts and
will change underneath. Volume, our latest and greatest
motivational wellness. Tease. You shirts. Are you American T's? And then we can change
the button label to shop. Now. Now we don't have a
link for this yet because we haven't set any
products or categories. So we'll come back
to that later. We can see how quick and
easy that was to set up. So I'm gonna save that and
then go to the second slide. For the second slide, I'll drop in one of the images
from Unsplash. It's too big from Unsplash. There we go. So the second
one wasn't too big. So if it is too
big from Unsplash, you can either just find
another image or go to the free Images tab and
look for something else. Then we want to select that. And finally on image slide, we'll type down yoga T's. And we'll change this. Browse our scroll this up
here so you can see it. Browse our latest yoga. Based t-shirts. Again, button label, I'm
going to change that to shop now and we'll fill in the
link a little bit later on. So there you can see
very easily and simply, we've got this nice slider. And we can also click on the
slideshow itself unchanged. A few different things like
you can have a two grid, e.g. which boxes it, but
it looks better. Full-width, slide height,
you can change too large. You can also have it
just adapt to whatever the first images and
then work from there. Medium as probably fine
auto rotate slides is where it'll change
the slides by itself. And you can have the counters down the bottom
here, see the numbers. You can have them as numbers. You can have them as
dots, which I kinda like, or a counter. I think
that's nice and simple. And then you can say, I want
to change the slide every, yeah, let's keep it at 5 s. I think that's fine. Then show content below images on mobile. So what that means is
if we go to mobile, you'll see that the
shop now is below it. So instead we could
change that to put it on the text itself. But you can see it's a little
bit difficult to read. So yeah, I think we'll pop
that back onto on mobile. And then accessibility, which is below that
is just basically if you want to describe it for
people who are visually impaired so they can
get it read to them. Now the rest of the homepage, featured collection,
this is just basically where you can show a collection of your products. Will come back to that once
we have our products setup, multimedia collage
is basically just, you can show all of
your collections off. So if you have yoga T's, yoga t is motivational
T's and wellness. You could have those
three setup there with a specific image on each so that it looks cool and
people can browse them. I'm gonna get rid of that because I have no
interest in it. So we just click on
this thing here. Then let me just see Can I am. Let me just see if I
can get this to show. So I'm going to
increase the size at the bottom on the right you will see this removes section and that's
what I'll click. You just couldn't see it
because it's behind my camera, but it will be on the
right-hand side at the bottom. If you're on a
widened or screen, if you're on a small tablet,
it'll be on the left. So now you can see I've removed that section on it's gone. Image with text. Yeah, let's let's fill this in real quick. We'll go back here and
we'll type in yoga again. And it will select this
image here and hit Select. And then on the right-hand
side, let's see. So we can just scroll down, click or click on
the right here. Click on the text and we're
changing this to feel better. Yes, is we think of a
catchy slogan here? Always, no. Yes, not know. This doesn't matter. We're not putting this online,
but you can come up with your home that she still fear. Then have yoga and meditation are great ways
to spell great wrong. Great ways to explore
new products or new ways of feeling
better every day. Even better. Do it in one of our T's. And then I can change the
button labeled two once again, browse or shop now. So rho is now. So now we've got that setup
subscribed to our emails. We want to keep that because basically that gives us a way to collect emails
from our customers. This image with text here, the second one, I'm not
interested in that. So again, imaged texts, I'm going to click
on them and hit Remove section on the columns
down the bottom here. Let's quickly maybe
just all header these, but I'm not going
to fill them in. So we can make this about us. We could make the
second one maybe get in touch and put some details
there or about us. Let's see our, our suppliers. Maybe you want to tell
people about your suppliers. And then you could
say environment. Talk about how it's good for
the environment and whatnot. So you can just fill
those in. I'm not gonna fill out the tax because
you get the point. You could just type that
in whatever way you want. And then finally on the left
here, we'll have footer. And to be honest, when I start off a new website, I tend to get rid of the
basic folder blocks here because they're not
necessary until later on there for like privacy
policies, auditing stuff. But when you just
have a small website, I tend to just
forget about it and just leave this kind of
thing at the bottom here, which shows the
payment gateways that people can use and just the urine least half power by Shopify because everything
else will be in the menu here. You can add that stuff back later on and
it's the exact same, adding whatever else
you want to the page. But that is our homepage
set up to a point. To go further with this, we are going to have
to start setting up our products and our categories so that we can start
bringing those in and setting up
the flow for people, as well as setting
up a couple of pages like about
us and contact us. So let's jump into setting up those
elements and then we'll round it all off
by coming back to our homepage and just
filling in those blocks. So I'll see you over there.
6. Adding your first Product: There are a couple of
different products that you can add to your
Shopify store. And we're going to cover two
of them in this because it should cover
basically everything you want to do with yours. And that is we're going to add one fake product
manually to the website. And then I'm going to
show you how you can set up a product on print defy, because a lot of people
who are setting up Shopify websites want to use it as a way to sell t-shirts and
merchants, stuff like that. So what I'll do is
I'll start with just the normal product first so that you know how that
all sets up and you can create categories
and that type of thing. And then we'll do
a separate section next on the way to set up
kind of print merchandise, automatically bring
it in and fulfill us. And the reason I'm
going to do that is because there might be a lot of you who aren't interested. So keeping them separate just seems fair to me so that you're not sitting through so that
you don't need to know. So let's jump back in
to our Shopify site and we'll head back using the exit button here
to the dashboard. And we're going to want
to go into products. Now before we set up
any sort of products, we're going to want
to hit collections because this is important to make sure that we put the products in
their correct place. And as I've already said, I'm going to create three random fake pieces
of collection. I'm going to call them yoga. And we'll come down here. You can automatically basically bring things into
that collection. So if you wanted
to, you could say anything that has a title that contains the word yoga will
automatically come in. So you can do it that way so that if you were
setting up, say, a tone of different categories
and you don't want to have to manually put stuff in the right
category every time. You can basically use this thing where you
put up that products must match all or any of
the following conditions. And you can add as many conditions and
go crazy as you want. But e.g. you could put
product title contains yoga. Now, for this specific
course or class, I don't need to do
because I'm only creating three collections. And I'm probably not going
to call everything that's wellness based fluffy
wellness t I'm just going to call it Wellness Tea or
whatever and I'm going to not put or I'm going to call it
fluffy t and output wellness. And so we're just gonna switch
just the manual for now. We're going to save that. I'm going to create
three collections here. So I can click Create
another connection at the top and make this wellness. And you'll notice if you hit
create another collection, it automatically just uses
the same as the last one. They can put a description
in if you want. For the purposes of this,
we don't really need to. That's more for search
engine optimization, which I'll cover in
a different class. A bit much to be covering in
this simple Shopify class. And then we have
wellness and meditation. Okay, so I can save those. And if by the way, just one last thing here. If you did setup any of the other places you're
going to sell, e.g. if you're going to sell
in your physical shop or you're going to sell on
Facebook, that kind of thing. You can also hit availability
here or schedule availability and decide where you want it to be available. So you might want
it to be available online only and not in
your physical shop. You might want it
only on Facebook. So you can do a lot there
for those collections. And you'll also see
that you have to do that later byproducts as well. Now, if we go to
update your menu, which it'll tell you to do after you create your
first collection, you can click on the main
menu there to the right. And we're gonna get rid of this catalog one and we're going to click
Add new menu item. And in here, we're
going to have a look at this drop-down here and we're
gonna kick collections. And I'm going to say that I want yoga and you'll see it'll already give me the
name of peritoneal, can change that to
whatever you want, but that's perfect. Just yogurt. We'll hit add. Let's add another one and select
our other collection. Didn't mean to select
all collections. Let's get rid of that
and go to collections. And we want wellness. Again. It'll automatically name it unless you just want
to change that name. And finally, meditation. Then let's just put
these in order. So I want a yoga first. Well, or no, wellness first. Meditation and yoga third, and contact is just the page. We'll get to that later. But you can basically
just save that. And if you're wondering
why I did that, is because now if you
go and click the icon over on the left-hand side and go back to your
website for a minute, you'll see that the menu
of the top has changed. And I can click into meditation. Of course there's no
products at the moment, but people can click between your collections of
products at the top. So I can go back to home.
I'm going to close that tab and go back to where I was. Then we go back to products and I want to add a new product. So what we're gonna do
is we're going to add a new product for all of the people who are just
going to manually add their products just to
show you how this works. So I'm going to call this
wellness stickers or no. Let's just call them yoga
pants because we can probably find an image
for that straightaway. So let's see. So let's go to yoga stones. There we go. So let's download this
image here and come back. Let's see, Actually I meant to download it now, we can save us. So let's call this yoga stones. And in the paragraph then, this is our description. What are they for? Here I can put these
yogis stones are perfect for centering yourself
during your stretching. Meditation or stress attacks. Ladder is probably
better for me. You've got active
will then just drag and drop our new
image into here. You can add as many
images as you want. So e.g. I. Could just drop another
one in, another one in. It doesn't accept whatever
that other one wants. So it doesn't accept
Eva for whatever. But if you drag and drop to win and you want to
change the order, you can just move them
around like that. But of course, this one
here is my main image. That's the one that
people are going to see before they click
into the product, then I can set the price. So these are $15 on the
comparable price is $30. And what that means
is it'll show up as $15 mark down from 30. So obviously you don't have
to do that if you don't want to if you know the
exact amount of tax, say VAT or California
sales tax or whatever. You can charge tax
on the product and put the amount of text, sorry, you charge
talks on the products, will set up those
taxes later on. And the cost per item you
can put in if you want. So that would be
if you know, e.g. these costs me $7
and then it will automatically calculate
your margin on profit. As it says here,
customers won't see that. You can also get it to track the quantity and continued to sell when out-of-stock
if you want. So e.g. I. Can put the skew as yogurt Ws for yoga
stone zeros or one. So there's my skew for that. And I could say that
there are ten available. And if I do that and don't put continue selling
when out-of-stock. Then basically it will only allow me to sell ten and then it will come
up with sold out. So that's great if
you're setting up that sort of thing for
a physical product, not a print on demand products, e.g. which we'll get to next. Then you can put the weight in. So this is for you can get
Shopify and we'll show you this later
when we go through the backend settings of all the advanced things you can do. You can set up the weights. You could say that this
is a five kilo stone. And that way, if you have different products with
different weights, it can calculate the shipping for you and basically set up a DHL receipt or whatever country of origin you can decide where
it's coming from. These are, of course,
Albanian yoga stones. Everyone knows that
Harmonized System code. That is if you have already got some sort
of system outside of Shopify and then you can use this product has
options like size, e.g. let's say small,
medium, and large. So those are my three
different types of stone. And then I can say don't. And you can see down
the bottom here, I could maybe say
it's $18 for a medium and $20 for a large. And then you have
all the same options there like bar code, et cetera. You can go in further and
edit these if you want. So you can put in,
maybe your large one is $9 per item and
update that there. Then you can hit Save
when you're ready. But we forgot to do one
last thing didn't work. We never put it in a category, which is what you wanna do here. So we're gonna come back over to the collection
or the categories. Go to collections here, which you should
be at the center. And now it's equal
to collections. And I'm gonna put this in all three just for argument's sake so you can see what
it looks like. Now, we can click
preview and we can head over and have a look
at our actual product. It looks like if it ever
loads. There we go. Now you can see I've
got yoga stones. Obviously, I put
myself in Mexico, so it's putting it
in Mexican pesos. It's very cheap Yoga Zone. And if you click
medium enlarged, you'll see the price changes. And that basically because I didn't say there was any available of the
medium and large. It's also come up, sold out. So there you go. And you can set up
things like ingredients, nutritional information
and shipping. Or we can just hide
these later on. So if you're wondering
how you would hide these sorts of things here, let's go back to
our online store because it's the last
thing you'll need to know about the products is just setting up
the product page. Then like I said later
on in the class, we'll come back and add all
this stuff to the homepage. So we click Edit homepage. Or you can go to themes where
we started and customize. Then whenever this
Internet loads, which it will, eventually, we can click on
say Wellness here. And I can click on this product. This will bring us to
this product page. And then basically in here, you can edit
everything you want. So I'm gonna get rid of ingredients because,
well, it's a block, nutritional information
removed block, just like you did
on the homepage. You can remove all of the
different items you want here. You can change the text
title, etc. So e.g. if you are selling this from a, someone else, you can
put the vendor in, which you could also just
get rid of that completely. So that's gone. So yeah, you can come
in and customize here. So now you've added
your first product, which is really great, so you're well on your way. So like I said, I'm gonna
go and show you how to set up the printer fly product, which is where you will pull
in a print on-demand item.
7. Add Products via Printify: So for those of you
who are interested in selling print on-demand
items like T-shirts, hats, that type of thing. It's really, really simple
for you to get set up nowadays because there is just a plethora of
different ways to do it. Now, one of the ones that I like is one called print a flight. And we're going to jump
back into my computer here and I'm going to
show you how this works. Now, I've already
got a store setup. So you'll have to set up your own account
with these guys. I'm not going to run you
through all of that because it is just as simple as logging in. So I'm just going to
log into my account here and show you
how this works. So we can see up
to top right here, we've got different stores
and you will have no slower, but when you're setting
up, it'll bring you through this add
new store setup. You can just select Shopify. And in here, what you're
going to want to do is copy and paste the
URL for your Shopify. Now, before you've
set up your domain, if you've already automatically connected your name
domain while setting up, if you jumped ahead, then
you can paste that in. But if not, you just
connect it this way, then that's going to
bring me to Shopify. And you can just
click Install up. You see how this is
all very intuitive. They've set it up that
way on purpose because Shopify is supposed to make
things easier, not harder. Now we've got print
on-demand set up here. And we can actually go
through it this way as well. But we're just gonna go
back to print a phi.com. And we're gonna go to my store. And we're going to
click on the drop-down if you haven't already oh, I need to login or
go to the op here. Sorry, my bad. I forgot about this step. So you do need to
follow this along and just login with your account. And that will make the
connection between the two. Basically, it's just
authenticating on both sides to make
sure no one else can link up your merch
to their Shopify sites. And that's going to
take a minute and then it will be done. Now. So that's done there. Understood. So we can go
back over to our Shopify. Here are our printer
fly, so many fires. And now you'll see that
you've got your easy steps. So we're going to create
a very simple product. I'm going to use this
crew neck t-shirt here. And you can see there's tons of different suppliers with
different prices and so on. Let's click Swift pod. They seem to be the cheapest. And we're going to
click my device. And I'm going to select my logo. Let's just do that there
so we can select my logo. And that's going to upload. It's going to tell me that
the resolution is low. So realistically you
want to make sure that whatever designs you put
in our higher resolution, if you're creating your
designs in canva.com, just make sure you scale up
the resolution on there. But for the time being, for
the purposes of this class, it's not important,
but it's good to know that it will tell you if
the resolution is low. And that is important
because when it prints, you obviously don't want
it to look terrible. And we're going to just
save that product. You can, of course, go back into the design, change tons of options. But this isn't a design course, this is just a Shopify course. And I'm going to select
this as my main image. So this is just the picture of the lady here
wearing said jumper. And I'm going to leave the rest because it's
already got its design here, but let's just call this
the yes official top. That's what we're calling it. This will have all
the details about this sweater and we can add the size table as well so that people know
what the sizes are. Then finally, I'm going to
change all of the prices. So select Edit price. And actually before I do, let me just see what the cost is. So the most expensive
one is $25. I don't like having different prices for
different people. I'm going to say
these are 29, 99. And I can then go down the bottom here once
I've updated that. So you'll see that
they're all 29, 99, and you have your profit
margin beside it as well. Scaling for 50% on the smallest, one to 15% on the lowest. I don't want to hide in sore
because I want to show up. And then of course, I want to put this into my categories. So I'm going to put
this into all three. And then I just hit Publish. And what is absolutely
fantastic is that we'll take a
minute to publish. But what is great about
printer is basically when someone orders one of these
that you've set up through, print a fight and
linked to Shopify. You can just top up or put your credit card
into prints a fight. When the order
comes into Shopify, you're basically just
get a notification in your email from Shopify. And it will allow you to then go ahead and fulfill that order. And I can show you as well and allow you to
fulfill that order, which is great because it
saves you all of that hustle. So let's just jump back in now. When you hit fulfill
that order, basically, the printed value guys will ship that order in a plane package to your end consumer and
basically it will come from you. So what happens is you pay them the cost price plus
whatever the shipping is. So make sure you factor that in when you're
doing your pricing. Again, I'll do a class fully on print on
demand, pay me later on. But for the time being,
this is just to show you how it integrates
with Shopify. But yeah, you just
basically then pay the cost price and you
keep the difference. So let's jump back over
because now if we go back into Shopify and we
click on our products, we'll see that the yes. Yes. Official top. Yes. The yes. Learned into Sean
Connery though. The official top is there and they've got all the
images and everything. So then you can go to Preview, which seems to be slow
on this computer. Apparently, last
year's mark isn't fast enough for Skillshare or me. So you can see here
that because I've put it into Mexican
pesos for some reason, everything is in
pesos will change that in the settings later on. But you can see there
everything is in here including all of the
stuff that we added, the description, and all
of the different sizes. And of course, you don't
need to track inventory here because they'll
always have it in stock. And if it goes out of
stock for any reason, it'll automatically
update your Shopify site so you don't need to
do anything else. So if you are going ahead
and selling merch like tops, shoes, anything like that
printed phi has them all. I am. I've been using printed
value for awhile now, which is why I recommend it. But there are many
other such as printf, full T spring, etc. So feel free to use other ones. But I cover printer for it
because it's the one I use. So now you know how
to add and pull in your print if I, tops and so on. Let's jump to the next section which is about creating a page. And once we've done that, then we can go ahead and kind of pull everything together, get the side setup, and do the final settings.
8. Post, Pages & Final Home Page Updates: Alright, so now we've added our collection and our product. Let's quickly set up a page so that you can add
in any further information, final information
that you might need. So let's jump back over
to our website here. So we go back to our dashboard. And in here we're going
to go to online store. I'm going to hit Pages. And in here we've got our contact page
already, which is cool. And you can see that's
already set up. So that's just to allow
people to contact you. You don't need to do that. Let's add another page
and call that about us. And in here, we can just talk
about how, let's see what. Just copy and paste, whatever, because you get the idea, you just basically put in
whatever the website is about, then you can hit Save. And that is literally it. Now, you can go and edit
the website SEO later on. Down here, by clicking
this button here, SEO and change
everything you want. But that is something
more advanced, so let's not worry about that. And now we've got
our lovely page with absolutely nothing on it. And of course, you can go and add images to this
as well so we can select some images
that we've already gotten here, like that there. And that will insert
that into the page. Should have. Let's see. Insert Image. There we go. So we can save that again. You can do all sorts of things. You can edit it directly from code if you know how to do
that and that sort of stuff. Pretty straightforward,
but there is our page now set up
and ready to go. And then we can go back. And of course, if we want to
go back to the navigation, so we'll leave this
page, we've already saved it, so I'm not
worried about that. And click Main Menu again. And then we can add a new item, click on this click Pages. And when that loads, it'll take a second.
For some reason. We can click About Us and we'll drop that
behind contact there. Now when we go to our page here, see that there's a
direct link to about us. And that's how you'd add pages. You can as well add posts. Difference between a post
and a page is basically, this is like a blog post. So say we do this again. Latest news, e.g. changing the visible
featured image, we can just select
whatever we want. We'll put that as our
logo blog and create a new blog called about our, you know, our products. And save that. So that's our new blog. And of course you can
view that as well. So there's a new blog post. So that's just like an article. So if you want to integrate news into your site,
you can do that. Then we can go back to
navigation, main menu. And we can of course,
add menu item, it link blogs, and
go our products. And we can change
that to Latest News. Maybe put that there as well. Now if we go back and reload our page, we've got Latest News, brings us to the
Latest News here and we click on that and
read the full article. So that's how you
kind of pad it out. We're content if you want. And now we've added
our products. Let's maybe just close
this preview and go to Edit Homepage because
we've added our products now. So let's just do
some final tweaking. Let's make sure that our
site looks nice and good. So this is featured collection. I'm going to change this. I'm going to call it yoga. We're going to say
whatever this is, we pop that in there.
Bashing on the door. You can change the collection. Then we want to change
this collection to yoga. Select that. And you can put as many
products as you want. So we're just going to,
we've only got two products. So we're going to change this to two because we only
want to products, because we only
have two products and enabled for you all
to come up underneath. So if there's more products,
they'll come up underneath. It also make them
full width so they look nice and weighty. And you can do Show
second image on hover and that basically see the way it lets me
flip between them. So they look lovely there. And you can enable
swipe on mobile. And that means that
people can swipe through if you've
got more than two, which I don't obviously, and we can enable
carousel as well. And that is as you said. So as I was just sitting there. So if I change this the
one and I've enabled carousel and see just
like on the Mobile, I can swipe between them. Accidentally clicked on it. I can swipe between them here, so I can click this button here on swipe between those two. But given we're going to
just add the two on desktop, we can enable current or
remove the enabled carousel. That's it. So your
site is nice and said, OK now, so you're actually, you're kinda good to go. The only other thing
you'll need to do is go through the
backend settings. Make this public hook the
domain of an outsider thing. So let's go through
that next where we're just gonna do the
final settings for your website so that
you can get online and start sharing this and
to everyone you want today.
9. Settings Overview & Key Changes: So one of the last things
we'll need to do now is go through the basic
settings of the site. And this will allow us
to just get it online as well as make sure that you're shipping is set up correctly, your taxes are set up correctly. And just those sort of final
tweaks that thankfully, you'll generally only
need to do once. So let's jump back into the computer and go
through all of that. Okay, so now we're in the backend here and the
first thing we're going to want to do is just make sure that we can get this online. We're gonna do that by
clicking pick a plan which will either
be at the top or it was in the bottom
corner from me. And this basically
just allows us to decide on the plan We
want going forward. And of course it's slow today, but the basic, we'll
cover most things. Essentially, once you start
selling a lot of stuff, I mean, a lot of stuff, then obviously things like
a lower transaction fee for payments and currency
conversion fees being lower and so
on, will make sense. But having a worn or 1.5%, less conversion rate or
less current or less. But having a 1% or 1.5%
less transaction fee, it's probably not gonna be worth 200 plus dollars to you today. So let's just go
with the basic plan, which is $1 per month
or $13 after that, then we can decide on our staff memberships
and that kind of thing. But for everything, what I
would say for most of us here, but for most of us here, we could go ahead and
just choose Basic. There is also starter as well, which is only $5 a month
instead of 13 after the $1 trial period
of three months. But a 5% transaction
fee is quite a lot. I'm not going to hit
into your margin. So I will just go ahead
and click choose Basic. And obviously then that
is going to ask you for your payment information so you can confirm whether
it's monthly or whatever. Now, I'm going to go ahead
and not sit this up on this particular costs
because obviously I'll have to put in
my business address payment information and so on. What basically all you do here is confirm
your billing cycle, agribusiness address,
add your payment. It's not going to charge
you anything today. It will charge you $1 after your trial is up and it'll
tell you when that is here. So for this course and
setting it up today, it would be the 26th. But obviously we're not
gonna go ahead and do this. So I'm going to
leave this as is, because obviously I'm not
going to fill that in and we're going to jump
over to the next part. The next thing you're
going to want to do is go to Settings, which is in the bottom left. I'll just go back to that here. It's settings here
on the bottom left, and now you've got the base
settings for your website. Now the first thing I
wanna do is I want to change this back to Ireland because basically I don't
want to sell in Mexico. So we're just going to
change this to Ireland. Dublin. And I'm going to
leave that as is. The rest is fine. The main thing we wanna do here as well as you come down is, and this is the reason
I want to change it, is because I need to change this to US dollars instead of m x n. And then I can just go
ahead and save that. So it's probably going to
tell me an error because I haven't filled in yet. It is. So I'm going to fill in my address and I'll
see you in a second. So now I've filled in
my address and I'm set up so that my prices are
now change to US dollars. It's just important to point out because there are
probably some of you who might be in
certain countries but wants to sell
to other countries. A lot of the time when
you're setting up these sites, you want to sell. Maybe you're in Europe
and you want to sell to America or vice versa. So it's just important
to know you can change that currency there. Then obviously there are
other things like users and permissions if you want
to add anyone else. So if you have a friend helping
you, you can add up to, to start off with the
basic plan or one with the solder obviously gets
bigger as you add that in. You can also have collaborators, which is if you have someone helping you with the
design of setting this up, you can add a collaborator, and that means that
they're not staffed. So they can't basically deal with fulfillment or
anything like that. They're essentially
just there to deal with marketing and undesired
and that sort of thing. Then you can go to payments. And obviously in here we have our payment method,
which is PayPal, but you can add a tone of payment methods including
Shopify payments. And if you want to manually add a payment method like a bank
deposit or cash on delivery. You can add that down here. There's odd payment
methods where you can basically search for
whatever you want. So you could search
for say, stripe. That will then search for all of the different
payment providers. Again, it's coming up. Null results is probably because I'm in Mexico
at the moment. But yeah, you can see
here there's tons of payment providers that you can decide from whatever
country you're in. Or if you want to add, say, finance or XOR P, you can add Bitcoin,
that kind of thing. All of those are in
here, so you can go ahead and set those up. And they're fairly
straightforward. They'll just basically go and connect to that
payment provider. Paypal is probably the best one to use when
you're starting out. As you get bigger, you may
want to move away from it. But honestly, one
of the other ones, a Shopify payments is
fantastic because not only will it be fully integrated and they'll deal with
most of the so for you, it also can then just take
any type of card payments. And if you have
that retail store, you can basically order the device to take card
payments in your shop. Checkout. This is just
the flow of checkout. So you can have it where
you can basically say, customers can create accounts if they want, but
they don't have to. Or you can say they
need to have accounts. So if you're selling something maybe high-margin
or high priced. So if you're selling something that's five-six
thousand dollars, you might want to say, look, you have to create an
account because I want your details before
I ship anything. Not that that makes a lot
big of a difference because the payment provider
tends to fix that. You can also say you
want them to provide a phone number or
e-mail or just email. And you can tell them
to get the Shop op, which is where they can
get shipping updates. If you're using printf,
they'll deal with the shipping updates,
customer information. This is fairly
standard stuff kind of information you
want them to have to give knock if
that kind of thing, you can change up per store
**** tipping options. So you can say I add
a tip if you want to. That's more for
maybe restaurants stuff than it would
be for t-shirts. Use same shipping and
billing address as default. Or you can say they have
to enter or review there. Are they have to add
those separately. You can also say
you want them to require a confirmation step, which is basically after
they put everything in, but they confirm that
these details are correct. And if anyone's running
a store for a while, you may want to add
up because it does basically filling that point where if they come back
to you and say you shift this to the wrong address. Well, this is where we shipped it and this is
what you confirmed. So it's a great way to
kind of make up for that. Probably not great
customer service, but great from a
legal standpoint to allow you to have that little
extra leg to stand on. And then auto-completion is when a customer types in the
start of their address, it will use Google to try
and fill out the rest of it. So this is fairly standard
stuff you can see here. You've got marketing
options like e-mail, scripts and so on, and of
course, checkout language. So if you want to
change the language from English to whatever,
that's fairly standard stuff. Shipping and delivery. As you can see here,
you've got this kind of currently is like general, just it'll shift to these two different zones or
whatever it is. So one of the things you're
going to want to do is have a look at local
delivery and local pickup. Now, we're not doing
that for this, but if you're a pizza
shop and deliver locally, or if you allow people to
pick up from your pizza shop, then you're going to
want to turn these on. But for the purposes of
this, we don't need to. This is like packaging
for fulfillment. Probably don't need Shopify to do this stuff for you if
you're using printf flight, they'll do the shipping
calculation for you. This is just more if
you have an account with DHL and and you
want to link it in, then Shopify and DHL can
talk and set that up, but it's a little bit
complicated for now. So let's just go into shipping
details for the moment. And this is where
basically you can say standard domestic shipping to Mexico because
I didn't change the location after all is free. What I'm going to say,
I'm going to create a new shipping zone, right? I'm going to say United States. And what we're gonna
wanna do here is go, United States, Emirates,
United States. It's in another zone. Alright. Okay, It's in international. So let's delete this ONE here from Reading Zone,
United States. So usually what I do
is I create 21 for United States and one for
rest of world or whatever. You've created that now
so you've got his own. This means you can
specifically set up shipping to that country. Now you can do this as
many times as you want, or you can just put worldwide
and add everywhere. But for this, we're just
going to put outbreak. And we're going to
set up our own rates because you can
use a courier up. And that's where
if you add a DHL, you can just say, let
them do it for you. But this is our free one. So we're going to add
free, and this is free completely and we're going
to add some conditions. So we're going to add
some conditions here. And this is where at the start
you saw I did the thing. Whereas if you order
more than $40, so I can say that there's
no limit on maximum price, but if they order more than $40, they get shipping free, then
I can add another rate. I can call the standard. I can say this is I don't know, $10 e.g. and add conditions. No. I don't need to
do that because yeah. There we go. So $40
on up, it'll be free. Standard, $40 on
below, it'll be $10. So I can just save that then that's my shipping rate setup. And then the other thing
we're going to want to do is go to taxes and Judy's I'm
not going to setup tax here, but this is basically
you can set up all of the different sales
taxes that you want. Include the taxes on prices. You can basically set
up all your tax here to automatically do
the tax for you. But we're not going
to set that here. I can go to shop location. And this basically says, Okay, I'm fulfilling from
here, that's fine. So everyone just knows where
I'm shipping from. Markets. This is important because you want to make
sure that you've got international
and United States. And make sure you don't have any countries or regions
that you don't sell too. Because unless you don't want to specifically
sell somewhere, the reason for that
is if you only have United States here and someone tries to order from the UK, it won't actually let
them put in a UK address. So it's important to make
sure you put that in there. Then we can go to domains. But I'm going to cover
that in a moment because we talked about
that at the start. But those are the simple
things you can do. And if you've already bought
your domain from Shopify, then you don't need to follow the next step because
you're already set up and you're ready to share your site with other
people, which is exciting. But for those of you who
have got a domain from name, cheap, GoDaddy, et cetera,
and you want to connect. Then you can follow
me through to the next section where we're just going to
link the domain. And then you're done.
10. Manually Connecting Your Domain: So remember at the start, I talked about how you can buy your domain name from
Shopify or you can buy your domain name from a
third-party domain name provider. Well, in this quick section, I'm going to talk
about how to set up, I didn't connect that third
party domain name provider. But if you've already bought it from Shopify, you can skip this. Go to the next section. Though. If I jump into the computer, you can see that I'm
in domains here, which is in settings. So you click on
settings bottom-left, remember, and then
come to domains. And I want to connect
an existing domain. And that domain that I bought
is your easy steps.com. And click Next. So where it says follow
settings on instructions is what you would normally follow and that will bring
you to this page here. And there's a nice video
on how to do it depending on who you're setup with. So you can click connect your third-party
domain manually. And this is going to give
you a few different options, including this one here. So this is the IP address. Remember I talked at
the very start about the address for Shopify
as well as the CNAME. So you're going to
want to set these up and then Verify connection. So you might be wondering,
well, how do I do that? Well, let's go over
to our third party, where let's go over to our third-party where we
bought the domain from, in our case named Chip. So there's a couple of things that you'll need to
do in order to set this up. Now, unnamed cheap,
what it'll have is basic DNS or web
hosting, DNS, et cetera. And we would normally
click basic DNS and then allow us to pop in
what we want, right? So what you then do is you go to Advanced DNS up the top here. And in Advanced DNS, it will allow you to
enter different values. Now because I already have an e-mail address and
everything set up on mine. I don't use this one
and I'm going to show you where you will use it if you have already set up the domain to do other
things as well as Shopify. Because basically
what I'm about to do, you will just do on this page
or on your hosting page. And it may look different, but the steps are
the same, okay? So if you have hosting already, then you're going to
go to your C panel. If you don't. Like I said, you'll just do at
back at that page. So in here, we're going
to look for something called the Zone editor
or DNS settings. It's different on
different hosts. And if you get a bit lost, just contact your host and they'll
tell you where it is. And you can see here I've
got your easy steps and I can just go to Manage. In here, all you're gonna
do is hit add a record. And we go back to connect your third-party site,
which is this here. We're going to copy this
address and we're going to put it into here twice. And the valid zone name is
just your domain name address. And then you hit Save record. Then what you're gonna
wanna do is hit Add CNAME. Let me just get rid
of that first one because I'm not going to update
this right now because I don't want to move the domain just to show you where it is. And then you go to see name. And you're going to want to
just do the exact same thing. But in here, you're going to put in www.youreasysteps.com. And then in CNAME
that they're on Save record once
you've updated that. And again, if you get a
bit lost because this, you should see basically some version of exactly
this where you can add records and you just add an a and add a C name, hit Save. And that's it. If you said, if you go to this either here or on
the hosting panel itself before coming
to what's called the cPanel and it's not there
or it looks a bit off, you can just email
your hosting provider and they will actually
do this for you. So all you do is basically
send them an email to say, Hey, I'm looking copy
and paste this and say, Hey, I'm looking to do this. Where do I set this up
or can you help me? 99% of the time, they'll
just do it for you. Once you've done that, then
you can go back here and even click on Verify connection. So let's go back. If you
click on Connect domain name, type in the domain name again, if you've, if you've
left if page, maybe you've left
it open like I did. And then you're going to hit
on whenever it shows up. Then you're going to
click Verify connection. It's going to check
the records for you. And you can see
that it's saying, well, they're not updated yet. Now, even if I hadn't saved the records that you
saw a moment ago, it will take between an
hour to 6 h to update. And you can actually check
by going to DNS checker.com, DNS checker.org and
actually check in there. And it will have, you can type in real steps
and you can click on a record and it will show the whole world then of
what updated and whatnot. So you can follow along and see. So basically if I
click on that there you can see because I
haven't updated it, it's on the old address. But as that update,
you can see it there. Once that updates, then
basically you come back in here. And once it finishes, it'll give two green
ones for that. And then you can
click Add Domain and you're done. It's
all connected up.
11. Thanks & Project: So congratulations, that's
everything you needed to do to set up your
own Shopify website. And now you're ready to accept
payments and sell online. And now that the easy
parts don't urinal going onto the hard part
which is finding customers, but that is unfortunately
not covered on this class. I'm sure there's tons
of other classes here on Shopify to do it
or perhaps there I'm like my own one in the future as my child laughs at the
door of my office. Thank you so much. Don't
forget to submit your project. And I hope you
enjoyed every moment of this as much as
I did creating it. Thanks, and I'll see you soon for another Skillshare class.
Jason Hassett, Entrepreneur, Author & Developer
