Build Your First Shopify Store - A Step By Step Guide

Learn to add products, create collections, customize pages & set up essential settings using a free Shopify theme

What you'll learn

Build a beautiful Shopify store from scratch using a free theme - step by step.

Get practical, no-fluff insights from an experienced retailer.

Learn without jargon or assumptions - perfect for beginners.

Follow simple, repeatable steps so navigating Shopify feels natural.

Understand the ‘why’ behind each lesson.

Discover must-have Shopify settings to avoid costly mistakes.

Learn how to create a product page that turns visitors into buyers.

Master simple design tweaks to make your store look polished and professional.

Set up products, payments, and shipping with ease - no tech skills needed.

Requirements

You should have physical products ready to sell - whether you're already selling on another platform or launching your first Shopify store

Description

This course is designed to help physical product businesses launch their first Shopify store, covering all of the essential Shopify settings pre-launch.It has been created by an e-commerce founder with busy business owners in mind, to help you go from blank page overwhelm to a confident e-commerce store launch, in the quickest, most efficient route possible.We'll be building a Shopify website for selling physical products using a free Shopify theme and styling unique Page Templates, Product & Collection templates to make it your own. You'll see the both the demo store we create in the course and your own beautiful Shopify store come to life, step by step.Shopify is an ideal platform for business start ups because it grows with your business.Whether you've started your business selling via a marketplace or are launching your first business from scratch, this course offers a low-cost route to building an e-commerce store without hiring a developer. All you need is a Shopify basic account and some products to sell! Already have a Shopify Store? This is also a great e-course for brand owners who already have a Shopify store set up by a third party, but who want to understand how to make changes to it.After the course you'll be familiar with Shopify store settings and how to change the appearance of your Shopify store whenever you'd like to make a change. You'll have the confidence to launch your store to the world and start selling!Let's start building your website today!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Essential Store Settings

Lecture 2 Create your Shopify account

Lecture 3 The Shopify Dashboard

Lecture 4 What can visitors see during Shopify store development?

Lecture 5 Settings: General

Lecture 6 Settings: Users & Permissions

Lecture 7 Settings: Payments

Lecture 8 Settings: Checkout

Lecture 9 Settings: Customer Accounts

Lecture 10 Settings: Locations

Lecture 11 Settings: Markets

Lecture 12 Settings: Shipping & Delivery

Lecture 13 Settings: Taxes and Duties

Lecture 14 Settings: Notifications

Lecture 15 Settings: Customer Privacy + Policies

Section 3: Building and Styling your Shopify Website

Lecture 16 Welcome to Section 3

Lecture 17 What is a Shopify Theme?

Lecture 18 Editing and Publishing Themes

Lecture 19 Creating a new Page

Lecture 20 An introduction to the Theme Editor

Lecture 21 Creating your first Page Template

Lecture 22 Assigning your Page Template to a Page

Lecture 23 Adding your Pages to the store Menu

Lecture 24 It's time to Style your Home Page!

Lecture 25 Home Page Styling Tips & Colour Schemes

Lecture 26 Choose Fonts for your Theme

Lecture 27 Add your Brand Logo and Favicon

Lecture 28 Editing your File Names and Alt Text

Lecture 29 It's starting to look like a website!

Section 4: Products and Product Settings

Lecture 30 Adding or Importing Products

Lecture 31 Where to edit your Product Settings

Lecture 32 Adding a Product Title & URL

Lecture 33 Adding a Product Description & Meta Description

Lecture 34 Adding & Editing Product Images

Lecture 35 Adding Product Categories & Meta Fields

Lecture 36 Product Organisation: Type

Lecture 37 Product Organisation: Vendor

Lecture 38 Creating a Manual Collection of Products

Lecture 39 Product Organisation: Collection + Tags

Lecture 40 Adding Product Prices + Sale Prices

Lecture 41 Adding your Product Inventory

Lecture 42 Product Delivery Settings

Lecture 43 Understanding and Adding Product Variants

Lecture 44 A summary of the remaining Product Settings

Lecture 45 Bulk Editing your Product Information

Section 5: Creating High-Converting Product pages using Templates

Lecture 46 How is your website looking?

Lecture 47 Why Create a Product Template?

Lecture 48 Selecting a preview product

Lecture 49 Editing the Product Information Area of your Template

Lecture 50 How to Preview a draft Template

Lecture 51 Adding further product information to your template

Lecture 52 Adding Theme Blocks to your Template

Lecture 53 Publishing and Assigning a Product Template

Section 6: Creating Stylish Collection Pages using Templates

Lecture 54 Creating a new Collection Template

Lecture 55 Designing a Template for a specific Collection

Lecture 56 Publishing and Assigning a Collection Template

Lecture 57 Giving your Default Collection Template a makeover

Lecture 58 Adding Collections to the store Menu

Section 7: Countdown to Launch

Lecture 59 Editing the Shopping Cart Template

Lecture 60 Changing the Add to Cart action

Lecture 61 Editing the Checkout Area

Lecture 62 Editing your default Social & Meta Text & Image

Lecture 63 Creating a discount to test your store

Lecture 64 Receiving a test order

Lecture 65 Switching on your new store!

Lecture 66 Links to Shopify Domain guidance

Business owners who make or sell their own physical products.,Anyone who started a Shopify store but feels lost in the settings.,Businesses wanting a budget-friendly store without hiring a developer.,Marketplace sellers ready to launch their own e-commerce store.,Those who want a straight-to-the-point course covering only essential settings.,Businesses with products ready to sell and needing a fast, simple store setup.,Store owners who had a Shopify store built for them but want to learn how to edit it.,Learners who prefer a clear, slowly spoken English accent.,This course does NOT cover dropshipping, digital products, or selling services as a Shopify expert.