Shopify is an all-in-one commerce platform built for independent business owners to start, run, and grow their businesses online, in-store, and everywhere in between.
Here are just few things you can do with Shopify:
- Create and customize an online store
- Sell in multiple places, including web, mobile, social media, and brick-and-mortar
- Manage products, inventory, payments, and shipping
- Create, execute, and analyze online marketing campaigns
You can try Shopify free for 3 days, no credit card required. After your trial expires, choose a plan that suits the size and stage of your business.
Most Shopify plans are month to month unless you sign up for a yearly plan. Shopify Plus is available on 1- or 3-year terms.
Yes, if you ever decide that Shopify isn't the best ecommerce platform for your business, simply cancel your account. If you choose a 1- or 3-year Shopify Plus subscription, you can cancel when your term commitment expires.
On most Shopify plans, you can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time. If you choose a 1-year Shopify Plus subscription, you can upgrade to a 3-year subscription at any time. For both 1- and 3-year subscriptions to Shopify Plus, you can downgrade when your term commitment expires.
We offer a 25% discount for yearly subscriptions if you choose the Basic, Grow, or Advanced plans. If you choose a 3-year Shopify Plus plan, we offer a monthly discount and lower online variable platform fees.
You can use Shopify in nearly every country in the world.
Yes, Shopify is certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant. This means all your data and customer information is ultra secure.
Payment questions
Third-party transaction fees apply if you use a third-party payment provider:
2% for the Basic plan, 1% for the Grow plan, and 0.6% for the Advanced plan
A third-party payment provider (also called a payment processor or payment gateway) allows you to accept payments online. Learn more about supported third-party payment providers.
Shopify charges a small fee to allow you to accept major credit cards, such as Visa and Mastercard, as payment in your store. These fees vary depending on the plan that you choose.
Store setup questions
No, there are no setup fees on any of our plans.
If you already have an ecommerce website or are using a different ecommerce platform for your business, you can use the Store Importer app to import your products, customers, and orders data to Shopify.
Yes, you can purchase a domain name within Shopify, or use an existing one that you own. We also provide a forever free myshopify.com domain name to all stores when they sign up.
Yes, Shopify includes secure, unlimited ecommerce hosting on all plans. You can also use the Buy Button to add ecommerce to any existing website.
There are none. All Shopify plans include unlimited bandwidth for free.
POS
Shopify POS is a point of sale app that you can use to sell your products in person. Process orders, accept payments, produce receipts, and control it all from your mobile device.
Shopify's point of sale is flexible enough to support a variety of businesses at any stage of growth. The retailers that find the most value from Shopify POS are those that sell (or want to sell) products both online and in person.
Yes, your Shopify online store automatically synchronizes with Shopify POS, and you manage your entire business from one dashboard. Inventory, product, and payment updates that you make in your Shopify admin will instantly take effect in Shopify POS
Everything you need to sell online, all in one place
Whether you’re building a website, managing inventory, or responding to customers, you can do it all with Shopify.