#shopify_support

According to the report of June 2019, Shopify reported that it had more than 1,000,000 businesses in approximately 175 countries, this platform can be used to create an eCommerce store. This platform has since resulted in a total gross merchandise volume exceeding $41.1 billion for the calendar year, 2018. 

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Create or Redesign: 

Shopify is a cloud-based online selling platform that acts as a service, online selling solution for your start-up or existing business. It requires you to pay a monthly fee that provides access to the admin panel, where stored data can be entered like adding of products and processing of orders. You can also select from a rich collection of free and paid design templates.

Numerous renowned brands like Budweiser, WaterAid, The Economist, Penguin Books, etc., have trusted the Shopify store to sell their products online.

Today multiple agencies and freelancers are available to serve you with the best Shopify store support. 

2.

Product Research:

Trying to magically think of a winning product by yourself can be a difficult task and most often a waste of time. 

Setting up a Shopify store requires appropriate market place research, product research along with supplier research. Once you have surveyed the market and taken care of the market trends and market demands the next step is product research. The first thing to do in product research is to prospect the correct product categories. Product prospecting is basically trying to find product ideas and identifying market trends and demand for those researched products. I would suggest the best way to get product ideas, is by simply looking out there, going to competitor stores within a particular niche and finding out what their best selling products are.

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Inventory Control:

From setting up and organizing your products, managing product variations, assigning barcodes, tracking stock counts, using built-in inventory management apps and plugins, Shopify’s inventory management system helps you picture exactly how your inventory is moving. Why does this matter? Well, it helps you plan future orders, creates successful marketing campaigns, forecasts sales, and also design special promotions around your inventory numbers.

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Advertising:

As a complete platform, Shopify has a great marketing edge too. The basic version offers initial SEO features along with advanced e-commerce analytics. In addition to these, it also offers more marketing tools such as custom gift cards, targeted email marketing, discount coupons, store statistics, and many more.

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Social Media and SEO:

Once your store has been set up, it is important to make it search engine friendly. SEO is important for ensuring that the website is easily accessible by shoppers who are searching for your products. Shopify improves the ability to design landing pages for campaigns, which is a big distinguishing factor from other available E-commerce platforms. It even supports SEO parameters like meta tags and custom title tags.

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Customer Support:

Shopify’s CSR support include handling both customer and supplier queries, return and refund requests, market place messaging, e-mail, chat, and voice call support along with handling special marketplace cases, everything is easily taken care of under the Shopify roof.

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Plug-ins:

Shopify comes with a variety of available plug-ins, the basic ones are free and can be used to set up an average store, but if you want to stand out, and develop an attractive store for your business, you need to purchase from among the wide range of available plug-ins. The plug-ins are very easy and simple to use and anybody can use it. 

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Multiple-channel selling: 

Shopify has made it quite easy to sell across different platforms and various channels, in particular via Facebook using the Shopify Facebook App. In addition, they also offer to sell on other platforms, like Twitter, Pinterest, Wanelo, and Houze. All of this is essential to grow sales numbers and to help online stores increase their potential audience.

I would like to end this article on a brief note by saying that Shopify is the best platform if you are up for a startup or even running an internationally established business. 

It is not only user-friendly but also pocket-friendly, it is flexible to use and guarantees high security with an efficient support system that provides a vast channel to reach out to.