Creating stores
You can create a new store in your organization from the Organization page of your Shopify admin settings.
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Considerations for creating a new store
Review the following considerations for creating a new store in your organization.
User permission requirements
The following users can create stores in an organization:
- The organization owner.
- Users with the Organization administrator organization role.
- Users with the Stores organization permission.
Shopify Plus plan considerations
If your organization is on the Shopify Plus plan, then review the following considerations for creating a new store:
- When you create a new store, ensure that it maintains the same brand identity as your main store. Your new store should feel like an expansion of your main store, using similar branding elements and products to reach different markets or locations.
- During the process of creating a store, you're asked to provide a purpose for your new store. If your organization is on the Shopify Plus plan, then the purpose that you select might affect the billing or setup of your store, but won't restrict its features or capabilities. If you're not sure which option to choose, then contact Shopify Plus Support.
- When you create a store, it's usually added to your organization right away. However, if the requested store exceeds your contract limits, then a trial store is created instead. A request is sent to Shopify Plus to add the additional store, and you'll be prompted to approve an extra fee. Within a few days, your request will be processed and your trial store is upgraded. You'll be sent an email confirming the change.
- When you import a theme into a new store, any references to files that are hard-coded in that theme continue to point to the files in the original existing store. If a file in the original store is deleted, then the link to that file is broken in the theme in your new store. To prevent links from being broken, make sure that you import files when you import themes, and that you update any URLs in your theme so that they point to the files in your new store.
Importing data from an existing store
When you create a store, you can import the following data from a store that already exists in your organization:
- Themes: include themes from your selected store.
- Products and collections: includes all products, variants, collections, and their metafields (excluding reference types and category metafields) that you have on your selected store.
- Files: includes all images, videos, and files you've uploaded to your selected store.
You can only import data from another store in your organization when you create the store. After you create the store, you can no longer import data. You'll need to manually manage your store data.
Create a new store
To create a new store in an organization, you need to have the required user permissions. When you create a store in an organization, you become the new store's owner. You can change the store owner after you create the new store.
Steps:
Plus plan
From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Organization.
Click Create store.
In the Store type section, select whether the store is for Development or Production.
In the Profile section, enter a name and a store URL.
Optional: In the Internal name and icon section, enter a name and a two-letter or three-letter initial for the store. The name and initials that you enter in this section display within the Shopify admin only, and don't display to customers.
Optional: To import data, in the Import data from an existing store section, click Select store, and then select the store.
Optional: Select the data that you want to copy to your new store by completing any of the following steps:
- To select a theme, do either of the following:
- If there is more than one theme in the store that you selected, then click Select themes to select the themes that you want to copy.
- If there is only one theme in the store that you selected, then select Themes to copy the theme.
- Select Products and Collections to copy all the products, variants, and their metafields (excluding reference types).
- Select Files to copy all files, including all images and videos.
- To select a theme, do either of the following:
Click Create Store.
non-Plus plans
From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Organization.
Click Create store.
Fill out the set up form questions. You can also click I don't want help setting up to skip this step.
Select a plan, or click Skip, I'll decide later.
You can now log in to the store and start adding details.
Configuring store-specific settings and information
To configure settings for a specific store, such as its payment providers or shipping settings, use that store's Shopify admin.
If your organization is on the Shopify Plus plan, then contact Shopify Plus Support to make any of the following changes:
- Change a store from development to production.
- Deactivate or close a store.
- Downgrade your store's Shopify subscription plan.
Accessing a store
If you're the organization owner or a user with the Organization administrator role, and someone other than you creates a store in that organization, then you won't be able to access that store directly after it's created. In order to gain access to a specific store, you'll need to first go to the Organization page of a store in the organization that you do have access to, and then select the new store.
After you have accessed the new store from your the Organization page of your Shopify admin settings, you can access the store as usual.
Steps:
- Log in to the Shopify admin of one of the stores in the organization that you already have access to.
- From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Organization.
- In the Stores section, click the name of the store that you want to access.