Congratulations you are now a proud owner of a new business and can’t wait to get going! This is how you get started...
All single Startup Streams stores and the first Startup Streams store for our Lifetime Membership is made for you by our team. This is how you will take ownership of your store...
The process to take ownership of your business works like this:
Step 1. We shall make your store for you as soon as possible, within 24 hours of letting us know what you wish to call your store (you can choose by replying to the automated email sent to the email address you nominated at checkout).
Step 2. Once your store is completed, we will invite you to become a member of ‘staff’ on the Shopify store, again by email. The link is sent from your new Shopify store to become a member of the store’s team so please accept the invite so we may continue with the transfer. When you are a member of the ‘staff’, we can then allocate you as store owner. The email is from mailer@shopify.com and is titled “Create staff account”. You will need to create your own account password. There is no one single password as each party (you and us) has their own account for the store.
Please note that we do not upload or build our stores on existing Shopify stores. All store will be made brand new on new development stores. This is to guarantee that our stores will work as intended.
Step 3. When you accept the invite and let us know that you have access to your new store, we will then nominate you to become ‘store owner’. You will then need to action the 9x points below to properly launch your store.
To launch your Startup Streams Shopify store:
Chose a Shopify plan:
When you follow the invite to become store owner, Shopify will immediately ask you to complete a form to get some basic info from you; phone number, address etc… and most importantly, payment details.
You can’t make any sales until you have added your card details. Shopify will charge $29 for the basic plan to use the platform a month and once you have done this you can start to advertise your new business!
The basic plan is more than suitable when you set up and make your first sales.
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How to launch your new Startup Streams store
9x steps to open and launch your Shopify store:
There are 9 additional steps you must action in order to finalise and become owner of the business. You can see our explainer YouTube video using this link here: https://youtu.be/Fwlfg5uOX8c.
You can also refer to the text instructions below:
NOTE: THE STEPS MUST BE DONE IN ORDER
*Note that Shopify regularly changes the location of certain pages inside the store admin to make the management process easier, so the instructions below may change over time. At the time of writing:
Please log in to your website and change:
1. DOMAIN REGISTRAR: Sales Channels > Domains. Here you can buy a new domain name or connect an existing domain from another domain provider.
2. CHANGE STORE ADDRESS: Settings > General > Store Address > Change to your own (you may also want to check the date and time settings and currency of choice too).
3. CHANGE ‘SHIPPING FROM’ LOCATION: Settings > Locations > Add location > Add your details then delete the existing address
4. TAXES: Settings > Taxes (For your benefit, you may want to check over this and decide how you will collect taxes).
5. POLICIES: Settings > Legal. You may also want to read over / edit the terms and privacy policies as well as decide whether you want a refund policy too (you will need this to be able to sell on Google). You can use the Shopify generic refund policy found in the policy section and adapt accordingly.
6. PAYMENT PROVIDER:
MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO STEP 2 BEFORE THIS STEP. YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS BEFORE ADDING A PAYMENT PROVIDER.
Settings > Payment providers. Select from the choice of payment providers to get paid. I personally recommend Shopify Payments (managed by Stripe) and PayPal. This is where you add your bank details to get paid every time you make a sale.
7. TEST SALE: To test everything is working properly and that you and the buyer get the relevant messages, I always reduce one of the product prices to $0.00 and make a test purchase. It may be a good idea for you to do the same to get familiar with the customer journey. Just remember to increase the price back to the original before you start marketing the store!
8. COLLABORATOR ACCESS: As default, as the store’s developer, we still have ‘collaborator access’ whereby we can access your store. You can revoke our access to your store: Settings > Accounts.
9. PASSWORD GATE: You will need to disable the password gate so that customers do not need to enter the password to the store - the password is currently ‘1234’. You can do this after you have selected a Shopify plan and you can simply go to: Online Store > Preferences > Disable Password.
That’s it! Time to market your store
We shall send the instructions and the above list to your email after purchase to act as a reminder when you buy a store, so you know exactly what to do when.
Although there is no rush to launch your store, most customers and members launch their store within an 30-60 mins.
If you have any questions or need further clarification, you can contact us directly at success@startupstreams.com
“We are here to kickstart your ecommerce ambitions by providing you with a range of ecommerce stores in the most popular niches whilst providing you with a fully functioning business complete with products to sell saving you time, money and effort in the process."
“We are here to kickstart your ecommerce ambitions by providing you with a range of ecommerce stores in the most popular niches whilst providing you with a fully functioning business complete with products to sell saving you time, money and effort in the process."
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