Shopify Getting Started: From Admin Setup to Your First Test Order

This lesson helps you: Set the owner account, store identity, business entity, target market, and setup order before changing settings. Finish with a Shopify launch worksheet that keeps the admin work in sequence.

Start here if you're new to this series. Then read: "General Settings: Store Details, Address, Timezone, and Currency".

This lesson helps you: Complete Settings > General field by field, separating storefront details, legal details, billing address, timezone, units, and store currency before orders and reports depend on them.

Best after "Before You Start: Account, Store Identity, and the Admin Map". Then continue with "Users, Roles, and Security: Give Each Person Only What They Need".

This lesson helps you: Create individual accounts and least-privilege roles for owners, operators, support, developers, and collaborators, then complete 2FA, recovery codes, and offboarding controls.

Best after "General Settings: Store Details, Address, Timezone, and Currency". Then continue with "Plan and Billing: Know the Cost Boundary Before Installing Apps".

This lesson helps you: Understand Shopify plans, billing cycles, payment methods, billing profile, app charges, and invoices, then build the store's first monthly technology budget.

Best after "Users, Roles, and Security: Give Each Person Only What They Need". Then continue with "Domains and Sender Email: Primary Domain, DNS, TLS, and Authentication".

This lesson helps you: Connect the brand domain, set the primary domain and redirects, separate email hosting from forwarding and Shopify sender email, then verify SPF and DKIM-related authentication.

Best after "Plan and Billing: Know the Cost Boundary Before Installing Apps". Then continue with "Products, Variants, and Inventory: Publish the First Sellable SKU".

This lesson helps you: Build the first product that can be purchased and fulfilled, covering title, description, media, price, cost, SKU, barcode, variants, inventory, weight, category, publishing, and SEO.

Best after "Domains and Sender Email: Primary Domain, DNS, TLS, and Authentication". Then continue with "Collections and Catalog Structure: Make Products Findable and Scalable".

This lesson helps you: Build manual and automated collections, assign clear jobs to category, product type, vendor, and tags, and create a stable structure for navigation, filtering, feeds, and future assortment growth.

Best after "Products, Variants, and Inventory: Publish the First Sellable SKU". Then continue with "Theme Backup and Customization: Duplicate Before Editing Sections, Blocks, and Templates".

This lesson helps you: Choose and preview a theme, create a pre-edit backup, understand Sections, Blocks, Theme settings, and Templates, then accept home, collection, and product pages on mobile.

Best after "Collections and Catalog Structure: Make Products Findable and Scalable". Then continue with "Pages, Menus, and Navigation: Connect Home to Checkout".

This lesson helps you: Create About, Contact, and FAQ pages, build main, footer, and customer menus under Content > Menus, and handle links, hierarchy, mobile behavior, and URL redirects correctly.

Best after "Theme Backup and Customization: Duplicate Before Editing Sections, Blocks, and Templates". Then continue with "Policies, Brand, and Contact: Turn Promises into Operable Pages".

This lesson helps you: Complete refund, privacy, terms, shipping, contact, About, and FAQ pages, set brand assets, and align every promise with payment, fulfillment, support, and real operations.

Best after "Pages, Menus, and Navigation: Connect Home to Checkout". Then continue with "Payments and Payouts: Eligibility, Verification, and Settlement Acceptance".

This lesson helps you: Check Shopify Payments eligibility, submit entity and beneficial-owner details, connect the payout account, configure PayPal or alternatives, and use test mode to verify payment, refund, and reconciliation boundaries.

Best after "Policies, Brand, and Contact: Turn Promises into Operable Pages". Then continue with "Checkout and Customer Accounts: Reduce Friction Without Losing Required Information".

This lesson helps you: Configure contact method, name and address fields, marketing consent, checkout branding, order processing, and current passwordless customer accounts, then test guest and signed-in paths.

Best after "Payments and Payouts: Eligibility, Verification, and Settlement Acceptance". Then continue with "Locations, Inventory, and Fulfillment: Route Orders to the Right Place".

This lesson helps you: Create and activate Locations, assign product inventory, configure online fulfillment and order routing, and verify out-of-stock, transfer, and multi-location boundaries.

Best after "Checkout and Customer Accounts: Reduce Friction Without Losing Required Information". Then continue with "Shipping and Delivery: Zones, Rates, Packages, and Free-Shipping Thresholds".

This lesson helps you: Configure fulfillment origin, Shipping zones, flat or carrier rates, free-shipping thresholds, packages, and weights from the General shipping profile, then test checkout with multiple addresses.

Best after "Locations, Inventory, and Fulfillment: Route Orders to the Right Place". Then continue with "Taxes and Duties: Register First, Then Configure Rates and Product Categories".

This lesson helps you: Confirm tax responsibility and registrations, then configure collection regions, product categories, tax-inclusive or exclusive pricing, coverage, and duties boundaries in Shopify Taxes and duties.

Best after "Shipping and Delivery: Zones, Rates, Packages, and Free-Shipping Thresholds". Then continue with "Markets, Languages, and Currencies: Prove One Market Before Expanding".

This lesson helps you: Configure the Primary market, active markets, currency, language, domain, and Catalog, distinguish store currency from customer display currency, and test storefront and checkout for the target country.

Best after "Taxes and Duties: Register First, Then Configure Rates and Product Categories". Then continue with "Notifications and Email: Test Order, Shipping, and Refund Messages One by One".

This lesson helps you: Review customer and staff notifications, sender email, branding, template variables, recipients, and language, send tests, and verify order, fulfillment, cancellation, and refund triggers.

Best after "Markets, Languages, and Currencies: Prove One Market Before Expanding". Then continue with "Customer Privacy and Events: Consent, Cookie Banner, and Pixel Deduplication".

This lesson helps you: Configure privacy policy, cookie banner, data-sharing opt-out, and customer requests, audit app and custom pixels in Customer events, and validate events before and after consent without duplication.

Best after "Notifications and Email: Test Order, Shipping, and Refund Messages One by One". Then continue with "Apps and Sales Channels: Review Permissions Before Install and Cleanup After Removal".

This lesson helps you: Create app approval, permission, and cost records, audit sales-channel product availability and data sharing, and handle uninstall cleanup for code, webhooks, pixels, and custom apps.

Best after "Customer Privacy and Events: Consent, Cookie Banner, and Pixel Deduplication". Then continue with "Test Orders and Launch QA: Run Payment, Fulfillment, Cancellation, and Refund End to End".

This lesson helps you: While password protected, validate success, failure, discounts, free shipping, tax, notifications, inventory, fulfillment, tracking, cancellation, refunds, and events, then remove the password with a rollback plan.

Best used as the closing lesson after "Apps and Sales Channels: Review Permissions Before Install and Cleanup After Removal".